Walk Rotherhithe from The Brunel Museum and the Mayflower outwards and the recent new-build pattern is obvious: 66% of the 3,735 households in SE16 live in flats, 34% in houses.
Private renting sits at 41% and owner-occupation at 40%; the first group books blinds and curtain fitting at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — where 40% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Rotherhithe is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in SE16, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 31% one-person households in Rotherhithe, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Two streets can behave very differently in Rotherhithe: river peninsula of dock basins, the Mayflower pub and 1980s dockland housing. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Rotherhithe sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: peninsula road loops, tunnel approach restrictions and gated riverside estates. Rotherhithe (Overground) is the nearest station, and one fitter for standard windows; two for bent bay tracks or full-height stairwell blinds.
