Walk Ealing from Ealing Studios and Walpole Park outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 63% of the 18,588 households in W5 live in flats, 37% in houses.
Private renting sits at 41% and owner-occupation at 45%; the first group books cooker cleaning at short notice, the second plans it.
Ealing substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — where 45% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in W5, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — and with 32% one-person households in Ealing, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a W5 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Ealing: the Queen of the Suburbs — Walpole Park, the studios and a busy Broadway. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Ealing is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, broadway loading windows, permit bays on the villa streets and booked lifts in new blocks — one reason one technician for a freestanding cooker; two for 110cm ranges, where the doors alone are a two-person lift. Fitters travelling in use Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District).
