Walk Monument and Eastcheap from The Monument to the Great Fire outwards and the recent new-build pattern is obvious: 98% of the 4,914 households in EC3 live in flats, 2% in houses.
48% of households rent privately and 37% own, which is why school clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in EC3, with metal stud partitions between rooms — and with 48% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does, so the fixing that matters in Monument and Eastcheap is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in EC3, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — which is why City of London Corporation kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Two streets can behave very differently in Monument and Eastcheap: riverside City streets between London Bridge and the Tower, dense with narrow lanes. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Monument and Eastcheap sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, lower Thames Street is a red route; the lanes behind take a small van only — one reason two to four operatives for a single-building clear, scaling to two teams working in parallel where a full primary site has to be finished inside a two-week holiday window. Fitters travelling in use Monument (Circle, District).
