The reason bathroom worktop fitting in Ealing Broadway is quoted per kitchen rather than per metre comes down to the range of rooms these worktops end up in. Purpose-built mansion-block flats where the kitchen is still the original service room, giving a single 2.5m to 3m run with no scope to move anything, alongside new tower apartments with a peninsula and integrated appliances. None of that has to be decided before you get a price. It is what the survey is for.
These kitchens were service rooms once, so they are long, narrow and further from the entrance than the floor plan suggests. A vanity top is where all of that turns up in miniature, with the basin, the tap holes and a splash return crowded into a few hundred millimetres of stone. A bathroom is a short job that repays being drawn properly.
The lift is a small passenger car with a gate, and the alternative is a stone stair winding round the shaft with a turn at every half-landing. The soil stack serves the whole block and will not be moved, so the basin position answers to the plumbing rather than to where the unit would look best. A bathroom carved out of a bedroom keeps the bedroom window.
What we find behind the front doors here is Edwardian mansion block, Victorian villa conversion, 1930s purpose-built flat and 2020s town-centre tower. What is behind the plaster is different in each, and it matters at fixing.
Figures cover the 2 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Ealing Broadway| Figure | Ealing Broadway | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 48% | pre-1919 share higher than 77% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 7% | inter-war share lower than 72% of the 723 areas we cover | The plans vary house by house. |
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| flats and maisonettes | 82% | flat share higher than 77% of the 723 areas we cover | The lift car is part of the specification here. |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000256 and E02006969. Open Government Licence v3.0.