In Stoke Newington (N16) the split is 73% flats to 27% houses over 11,669 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
With 37% private renting against 34% owner-occupied, most N16 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Stoke Newington substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, measured on the walk in from Stoke Newington (Overground) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Stoke Newington gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, and with 37% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a N16 customer twice.
Stoke Newington 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 — church Street's independents, Clissold Park and Georgian terraces — which is why a N16 quote is not a Hackney average.
On access, church Street loading windows, LTN filters and steep front steps on Georgian houses — one reason two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift. Fitters travelling in use Stoke Newington (Overground).