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 end of tenancy clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Ealing substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — which is why London Borough of Ealing kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — 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.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: broadway loading windows, permit bays on the villa streets and booked lifts in new blocks. Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District) is the nearest station, and two operatives with a Luton van as standard, scaling to a second vehicle for a full three-bed or a property with no lift.
