3,361 households sit inside the E1 neighbourhood covering Shoreditch. The build is Georgian and early Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 98% of those homes are flats.
Because 37% of Shoreditch is privately rented and 43% socially rented, a lot of E1 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, which is why London Borough of Hackney kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Shoreditch is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Shoreditch gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, the reality on the streets around Boxpark Shoreditch and Redchurch Street.
Shoreditch 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 — warehouse offices, rooftop bars and Boxpark on the City fringe — which is why a E1 quote is not a Hackney average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: night-economy congestion, narrow one-way streets and loft buildings with shared goods lifts. Shoreditch High Street (Overground) is the nearest station, and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.