In Archway (N19) the split is 80% flats to 20% houses over 8,171 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The social-housing-led mix here (30% owned, 29% privately rented) means a N19 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is why London Borough of Islington kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Archway is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Archway gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, which is what a 80% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Archway actually produces.
Archway sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — junction town beneath Highgate Hill with the Whittington Hospital and new public square — which is why a N19 quote is not a Islington average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: gyratory red routes, steep hill streets and estate blocks with booked lifts. Archway (Northern) is the nearest station, and two movers as standard, three where a Victorian stair turn, a heavy item or a tight completion-day schedule makes the extra pair of hands worth the hourly cost.