The vanity tops we quote in Fitzrovia are priced off what is actually behind the units rather than off a floor plan. Mostly apartments, many carved out of former commercial floors, which gives an open-plan kitchen along one wall of a large room at 3-4m and sometimes a genuine island where the floorplate allows. The older above-shop flats are the opposite, tiny and tucked behind a hall with services in the worst possible corner. You do not have to work out which of those you have. We will look at it with you when we come to Fitzrovia.
Floors have usually settled towards the rear, so levelling means packing the units before the stone beds down. None of it changes the material, but it does decide whether the top comes out of offcut stock or wants a slab bought for it alone. We seat the basin. Your plumber connects it.
Working hours are constrained by the business underneath, so noisy work has a window rather than a day. The bathroom is the small room over the kitchen, and the waste already runs where it needs to, so the basin position is more or less settled before anyone draws it. A pod bathroom inside a shell has walls built last week.
What we find behind the front doors here is Georgian terrace above retail, warehouse and office conversion, 1930s block and modern apartment. What is behind the plaster is different in each, and it matters at fixing.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) that contains Fitzrovia| Figure | Fitzrovia | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| flats and maisonettes | 96% | flat share higher than 95% of the 723 areas we cover | The lift car is part of the specification here. |
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| households owning their home | 24% | home-ownership share lower than 87% of the 723 areas we cover | Let property is specified for durability and turnaround. |
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| households with no car or van | 81% | no-car share higher than 100% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000191. Open Government Licence v3.0.