In Shoreditch (E1) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 3,361 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 37% of Shoreditch is privately rented and 43% socially rented, a lot of E1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Shoreditch, often with surface conduit, and with 41% one-person households in Shoreditch, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in E1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Shoreditch gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 20% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Shoreditch is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — warehouse offices, rooftop bars and Boxpark on the City fringe — which is why a E1 quote is not a Hackney average.
Night-economy congestion, narrow one-way streets and loft buildings with shared goods lifts. Nearest station is Shoreditch High Street (Overground), and two crew and a Luton for a studio or one-bed; three crew and a second van on two- and three-bedroom apartments or any duplex.