The W1 stock around Carnaby Street and Golden Square is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,257 households in Soho.
Private renting sits at 52% and owner-occupation at 20%; the first group books wood flooring at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — and with 52% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in W1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in W1, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — with 28% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Soho: post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Soho 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: pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default. Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, and one fitter for a floating fit in a single room; two for glued or secret-nailed floors and any job over 25m² in a day.
