The SE18 stock around The Royal Arsenal and Woolwich Ferry is post-war. ONS records 63% flats, 37% houses and 13,241 households in Woolwich.
Private renting sits at 25% and owner-occupation at 28%; the first group books loft and attic clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE18, often with surface conduit — and with 25% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SE18. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE18, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Woolwich: the Arsenal's converted barracks, a market town centre and the ferry across the river. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Woolwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, royal Arsenal estate permits, town-centre one-way loading and booked lifts in the towers — one reason two operatives as standard, one in the loft and one on the ladder and ground floor, which is how a loft clear stays safe rather than a one-person job with a rope and a prayer. Fitters travelling in use Woolwich (Elizabeth line, DLR).
