In Tulse Hill (SW2) the split is 80% flats to 20% houses over 3,391 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 19% of Tulse Hill is privately rented and 57% socially rented, a lot of SW2 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, the pattern behind 3,391 households inside the SW2 neighbourhood, so the fixing that matters in Tulse Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Tulse Hill stock goes, where 25% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Tulse Hill sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — hillside streets between Brixton and West Norwood with big Victorian houses — which is why a SW2 quote is not a Lambeth average.
On access, steep gradients, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station — 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 Tulse Hill (Thameslink).