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.
Owner-occupation runs at 45% in Ealing, so alongside the 41% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Ealing substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. 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 — the pattern behind 18,588 households inside the W5 neighbourhood 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 with a portable extraction machine — the standard kit for London flats, where a truck-mount hose cannot reach a fourth floor. Fitters travelling in use Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District).