The EC3 stock around The Royal Exchange is period conversion. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,914 households in Bank and Cornhill.
Private renting sits at 48% and owner-occupation at 37%; the first group books warehouse clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect 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 behind the plaster in EC3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why 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 is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Bank and Cornhill: the historic financial heart — Royal Exchange, Mansion House and the alleyways behind Leadenhall. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Bank and Cornhill 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, bank junction is closed to most traffic on weekdays — early-morning or weekend access only — one reason four operatives with a 7.5t tail-lift vehicle on a standard unit, scaling to six with a second vehicle where the handover date is tight. Fitters travelling in use Bank (Central, Northern, Waterloo & City, DLR).