Walk Sands End from Imperial Wharf and Chelsea Harbour outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 89% of the 4,346 households in SW6 live in flats, 11% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 37% in Sands End, so alongside the 36% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — which is why London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded behind the plaster in SW6. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SW6, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — where 37% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Sands End: riverside Fulham — old gasworks land rebuilt as apartment quarters beside Victorian terraces. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Sands End is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, concierge sign-in, booked goods lifts and estate loading bays on the riverside blocks — one reason one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Fitters travelling in use Imperial Wharf (Overground).
