Downtown's appliance stock spans a century and three price classes, which makes flat-rate thinking useless and worth-based thinking essential. A compact European washer in a Holly Street loft carries a different replacement reality than a bungalow's thirty-year top-loader, and both differ from a condo's builder suite. The Half-Rule prices each verdict against the actual machine's actual worth — the only honest way to serve a neighborhood this varied.
Building logistics get solved at booking: freight elevators, alley access, strata hours. And the Lettered Streets' bungalows contribute the district's classic acquittal — century wiring framing innocent machines. The house gets ruled out before the machine gets priced, and when the finding belongs to an electrician, the verdict says so in writing at the visit fee, never dressed as an appliance repair.
Compact stock, compact-stock worthLoft machines cost more per cubic foot than anything in a suburban kitchen, and their verdicts respect that math. European compacts get European-informed arithmetic.
Building rules ride in the bookingElevators and quiet hours are logistics, not billables. Collected at intake, planned around, absent from figures — permanently.
Bungalow wiring testifies firstThe grid's houses frame machines weekly. Supply gets checked before any Lettered Streets appliance stands trial — the district's cheapest verdicts start there.
