In Tulse Hill (SW2) the split is 80% flats to 20% houses over 3,391 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The social-housing-led mix here (25% owned, 19% privately rented) means a SW2 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, a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in Tulse Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Tulse Hill stock goes, with 57% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Tulse Hill 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 — hillside streets between Brixton and West Norwood with big Victorian houses — which is why a SW2 quote is not a Lambeth average.
On access, steep gradients, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Tulse Hill (Thameslink).