The EC3 stock around The Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe is post-war. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,914 households in Aldgate.
Private renting sits at 48% and owner-occupation at 37%; the first group books garden clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in EC3, with metal stud partitions between rooms — the reality on the streets around The Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe behind the plaster in EC3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in EC3, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 51% one-person households in Aldgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Aldgate: eastern edge of the Square Mile where office towers meet Whitechapel's high street. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Aldgate sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: aldgate gyratory red routes, tower-block concierge sign-in and lift booking. Aldgate (Circle, Metropolitan) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton or tipper; three where everything has to be carried through a hallway.
