Walk Earlsfield from King George's Park outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 61% of the 7,243 households in SW18 live in flats, 39% in houses.
Private renting sits at 32% and owner-occupation at 51%; the first group books bulky waste collection at short notice, the second plans it.
Earlsfield substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. 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 — and with 26% one-person households in Earlsfield, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a SW18 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Earlsfield: garratt Lane's independents and quiet grids of Victorian terraces. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Earlsfield is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway-bridge height limits — one reason one or two crew depending on the item — a sofa or mattress needs two people on a London staircase regardless of how light the piece is. Fitters travelling in use Earlsfield (South Western).
