In Wandsworth Town (SW18) the split is 84% flats to 16% houses over 4,214 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (39% owned, 38% privately rented) means a SW18 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Wandsworth Town substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, which is why London Borough of Wandsworth kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Wandsworth Town stock goes, the reality on the streets around The Ram Quarter and Wandsworth Park is the mistake that costs a SW18 customer twice.
Wandsworth Town 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 — the Southside centre, the brewery site and riverside flats along the Wandle — which is why a SW18 quote is not a Wandsworth average.
On access, one-way gyratory, riverside estate permits and narrow Tonsleys lanes — one reason two operatives with a transit-sized van as standard, upsized to a Luton for a double garage or a lock-up with heavy workshop contents. Fitters travelling in use Wandsworth Town (South Western).