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Fitters carry £5m public liability cover and every heavy mirror is photographed on its fixing for the job record.
Ealing · W5 · Mirror and artwork hanging
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Ealing fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for mirror and artwork hanging in Ealing W5? We work in Ealing most weeks — the Queen of the Suburbs — Walpole Park, the studios and a busy Broadway — and price mirror and artwork hanging against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £45, insured fitters, fixings rated above the weight and old holes made good.


Overview
Mirror and artwork hanging in Ealing W5 is a fixed-price visit for renter-heavy homes in Ealing, most of them mainly Victorian. 18,588 households sit inside this W5 patch, 63% of them flats, so we quote on access near Ealing Studios and Walpole Park rather than a London average.
How it works
Step 1
The piece is weighed and the wall sounded — solid, stud, dot-and-dab or lath — because that decides the fixing.
Step 2
Cables and pipes traced before drilling; shallow chases behind switches are the usual London hazard.
Step 3
Centre set at eye line, lower over a mantel or headboard, marked with a laser rather than a guess.
Step 4
Cleat, D-rings or a track fitted, the piece lifted on and checked level end to end.
Step 5
Old holes filled, dust vacuumed, packaging taken away.
Why choose us
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover and every heavy mirror is photographed on its fixing for the job record.
One fitter for pictures and mirrors up to about 25kg; two for overmantels, full-length glass and anything carried up a communal stairwell. Broadway loading windows, permit bays on the villa streets and booked lifts in new blocks.
Most slots are within 48 hours, with evenings and Saturdays for restricted buildings. Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District) is the nearest station, so a W5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District) rather than assumed from a map in W5, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Ealing gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around Ealing Studios and Walpole Park.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Framed picture up to 10kg | £45 | 15–30 min | One fixing, but the wall is scanned first — London plaster hides shallow pipes and cables. |
| Additional piece, same visit | £20 | 10–20 min | Call-out, sweep and dust sheets are already paid for on the first item. |
| Mirror 10–30kg | £65 | 30–50 min | Two-point fixing into something structural, then a laser check across the width. |
| Overmantel or full-length mirror above 30kg | £95 | 45–90 min | Plate glass needs a cleat rated well above the weight and two people to lift it. |
| Gallery wall, 5–9 pieces | £140 | 1.5–2.5 hrs | Set out on the floor and templated on the wall before a hole goes in. |
| Rail or track hanging system, per 2m | £110 | 1–1.5 hrs | A track spreads the load and lets tenants rehang without new holes. |
Framed picture up to 10kg
£45 · 15–30 min
One fixing, but the wall is scanned first — London plaster hides shallow pipes and cables.
Additional piece, same visit
£20 · 10–20 min
Call-out, sweep and dust sheets are already paid for on the first item.
Mirror 10–30kg
£65 · 30–50 min
Two-point fixing into something structural, then a laser check across the width.
Overmantel or full-length mirror above 30kg
£95 · 45–90 min
Plate glass needs a cleat rated well above the weight and two people to lift it.
Gallery wall, 5–9 pieces
£140 · 1.5–2.5 hrs
Set out on the floor and templated on the wall before a hole goes in.
Rail or track hanging system, per 2m
£110 · 1–1.5 hrs
A track spreads the load and lets tenants rehang without new holes.
Prices include the fixings, a cable and pipe detector sweep and a laser level check. Made-good filling of old holes is included; full redecoration is not. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised in the written quote.
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Anything that needs to go on a wall — fixed into the right substrate and levelled.
Working in Ealing
In Ealing (W5) the split is 63% flats to 37% houses over 18,588 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (45% owned, 41% privately rented) means a W5 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Ealing substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Ealing gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around Ealing Studios and Walpole Park is the mistake that costs a W5 customer twice.
The Queen of the Suburbs — Walpole Park, the studios and a busy Broadway. That character decides the practical detail of mirror and artwork hanging here far more than the borough boundary does. 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 one fitter for pictures and mirrors up to about 25kg; two for overmantels, full-length glass and anything carried up a communal stairwell.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Ealing and what they live in decides how mirror and artwork hanging is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Ealing Broadway East and Ealing Broadway West and Ealing Common & Twyford Ave and South Ealing and West Ealing neighbourhood itself — not Ealing-wide averages, and not estimates.
44,021
Residents
Ealing Broadway East and Ealing Broadway West and Ealing Common & Twyford Ave and South Ealing and West Ealing neighbourhood, Census 2021
18,588
Households
Median age 37.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
31.6%
Privately rented
40.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Ealing Broadway East, Ealing Broadway West, Ealing Common & Twyford Ave, South Ealing, West Ealing (E02000256, E02000264, E02000265, E02000276, E02006968) — the published geography that covers Ealing, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W5 district: 51.5134, -0.3022 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Framed picture up to 10kg starts at £45 in Ealing on W5 jobs, with 14% social-rented stock nearby, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Weight and wall type set the price: dot-and-dab, lath and steel lintels each need a different anchor around Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District), with 37% of Ealing homes being houses.
Yes. In Ealing we meet dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District) rather than assumed from a map — and 37% of Ealing homes being houses, so the mirror goes onto a French cleat spanning two studs on the streets near Ealing Studios and Walpole Park, with 63% of homes here being flats, or through-fixes to the masonry behind. The board never carries the weight. The failure we undo most here is Ealing gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around Ealing Studios and Walpole Park on the Ealing rounds — and Ealing Studios and Walpole Park a few streets away, with 37% of Ealing homes being houses.
Often — with 63% of Ealing homes being flats, smaller frames are the usual way to fill a wall on the streets near Ealing Studios and Walpole Park, with this being a short walk from Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District). 5 hours from £140, templated before drilling.
41% of homes here are privately rented, so this comes up weekly in this 63% flats neighbourhood. We fit a picture rail or track — two fixings, not twenty — and can return at check-out to remove it and fill the holes on this side of Ealing, with 41% of W5 homes being privately rented.
Replacing broken glass or reframing — that is a framer's job; Structural work, new lintels or plastering beyond making good the holes; Hanging into asbestos insulating board across W5 — and Ealing Studios and Walpole Park a few streets away, with 37% of Ealing homes being houses, which needs a licensed contractor. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Ealing W5 price you agree is the price you pay on the Ealing rounds, with Ealing parking rules in play.
All three. With 41% of Ealing privately rented and 45% owner-occupied, roughly half the W5 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Ealing Broadway (Elizabeth line, Central, District) — and 14% social-rented stock nearby, with this being London Borough of Ealing territory.
Ealing Studios and Walpole Park is the marker we route to for Ealing (W5) addresses, with 14% social-rented stock nearby — and 18,588 households on this patch, and broadway loading windows, permit bays on the villa streets and booked lifts in new blocks. A W5 slot added to an existing Ealing round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the streets near Ealing Studios and Walpole Park, with 37% of Ealing homes being houses.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Ealing W5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of ealing.
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