The EC3 stock around The Monument to the Great Fire is recent new-build. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,914 households in Monument and Eastcheap.
Private renting sits at 48% and owner-occupation at 37%; the first group books probate and bereavement clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Monument and Eastcheap substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — where 37% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — which is why City of London Corporation kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is the mistake that costs a EC3 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Monument and Eastcheap: riverside City streets between London Bridge and the Tower, dense with narrow lanes. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Monument and Eastcheap sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, lower Thames Street is a red route; the lanes behind take a small van only — one reason two to three operatives as standard, scaling up for a full house with a tight sale deadline. A single point of contact is assigned for the duration of the instruction. Fitters travelling in use Monument (Circle, District).
