Walk Aldgate from The Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 98% of the 4,914 households in EC3 live in flats, 2% in houses.
Private renting sits at 48% and owner-occupation at 37%; the first group books blinds and curtain fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here behind the plaster in EC3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in EC3, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 51% one-person households in Aldgate, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Aldgate: eastern edge of the Square Mile where office towers meet Whitechapel's high street. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Aldgate 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, aldgate gyratory red routes, tower-block concierge sign-in and lift booking — one reason one fitter for standard windows; two for bent bay tracks or full-height stairwell blinds. Fitters travelling in use Aldgate (Circle, Metropolitan).
