Walk South Kensington from The Victoria and Albert Museum outwards and the period conversion pattern is obvious: 86% of the 2,840 households in SW7 live in flats, 14% in houses.
Private renting sits at 54% and owner-occupation at 38%; the first group books TV mounting at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs in South Kensington, with solid brick on the party and external walls — the reality on the streets around The Victoria and Albert Museum, so the fixing that matters in South Kensington is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
Two streets can behave very differently in South Kensington: museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. South Kensington 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, museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions — one reason one fitter up to 43 inches, two for anything larger or where the screen has to go up a stairwell. Fitters travelling in use South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly).
