Walk Soho from Carnaby Street and Golden Square outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 98% of the 4,257 households in W1 live in flats, 2% in houses.
52% of households rent privately and 20% own, which is why clearance services demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Soho substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — where 20% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in W1, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — measured on the walk in from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a W1 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Soho: post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Soho 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, pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default — one reason standard crews are two people with a 3.5-tonne Luton; bigger clears run two vans or return the same day rather than overfilling. Fitters travelling in use Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line).
