In Belgravia (SW1) the split is 92% flats to 8% houses over 3,844 households, and the stock is post-war.
Because 30% of Belgravia is privately rented and 48% socially rented, a lot of SW1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Belgravia, often with surface conduit, the pattern behind 3,844 households inside the SW1 neighbourhood, so the fixing that matters in Belgravia is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Belgravia stock goes, the reality on the streets around Eaton Square.
Belgravia 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 — grosvenor estate stucco, embassies and cobbled mews behind Eaton Square — which is why a SW1 quote is not a Westminster average.
On access, estate parking rules, mews arches with height limits and listed staircases requiring protection — one reason two crew travel with the load for a dedicated van; part loads are consolidated at our depot and delivered by the driver running that route. Fitters travelling in use Sloane Square (Circle, District).