In St John's Wood (NW8) the split is 90% flats to 10% houses over 6,641 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 49% of St John's Wood is privately rented and 17% socially rented, a lot of NW8 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
St John's Wood substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in St John's Wood, with metal stud partitions between rooms, with 17% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because St John's Wood gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, and with 49% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a NW8 customer twice.
St John's Wood 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 — detached villas, embassies and cricket — the quietest of the central postcodes — which is why a NW8 quote is not a Westminster average.
Driveways in the villa streets; gated developments need advance access codes and lift booking. Nearest station is St John's Wood (Jubilee), 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.