Walk Bow from Bow Quarter, the former Bryant and May match factory outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 85% of the 22,995 households in E3 live in flats, 15% in houses.
Private renting sits at 31% and owner-occupation at 29%; the first group books rubbish removal at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Bow, often with surface conduit — where 29% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Bow is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in E3, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — measured on the walk in from Bow Road (District, Hammersmith & City) rather than assumed from a map.
Two streets can behave very differently in Bow: roman Road market, Bow Quarter's match-factory lofts and canal-side streets. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Bow 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, bow flyover red routes, market-day restrictions and gated conversion estates — one reason two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton as standard; heavy rubble loads run below the legal weight limit rather than filling the space. Fitters travelling in use Bow Road (District, Hammersmith & City).
