Walk Putney from Putney Bridge and the Boat Race start outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 72% of the 20,613 households in SW15 live in flats, 28% in houses.
Private renting sits at 38% and owner-occupation at 47%; the first group books construction site clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Putney, with metal stud partitions between rooms — and with 31% one-person households in Putney, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in SW15. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — the pattern behind 20,613 households inside the SW15 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Putney knows the pattern near Putney Bridge and the Boat Race start: the Boat Race start, the embankment rowing clubs and the high street shops. We plan the SW15 visit around it. Putney is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: boat Race day closures, Putney High Street bus gate and mansion blocks with small lifts. Putney (South Western) is the nearest station, and two operatives with a 3.5t tipper as standard, scaling to four operatives and a 7.5t vehicle on strip-outs or where the waste has to be barrowed a long way to the frontage.