Two kitchens a street apart in South Ealing can turn bathroom worktop fitting into two quite different pieces of work, which is why nothing is priced from the doorstep. Edwardian terraces with the standard side-return infill, producing a 5m single-wall galley plus a slim island, rooflights overhead and the run terminating at a set of bifolds. If you are not sure, say so when you get in touch. It is a normal answer and we work with it.
A cast iron soil stack runs down the outside of the rear wall, so moving the sink means a fresh penetration through solid brick. The fittings come from four suppliers and arrive in no particular order, so the surface is drawn last and asked to reconcile all of them. Small enough to carry, awkward enough to plan.
The boiler has usually been moved out of the main house into the addition, and its flue, its pipework and its condensate all cross the wall the run wants. The bathroom in one of these is almost never original: it is a later room over the back addition, or a bedroom divided in two. A separate WC becomes a cloakroom with a very small top.
The stock behind these kitchens runs to Edwardian terrace, Victorian terrace, 1930s semi and small modern block. Which one you have changes the order of the day more than the design does.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) that contains South Ealing| Figure | South Ealing | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 69% | pre-1919 share higher than 94% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 9% | inter-war share lower than 67% of the 723 areas we cover | The plans vary house by house. |
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| homes built since 2010 | 2% | post-2010 share lower than 89% of the 723 areas we cover | No two kitchens are set out alike. |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000276. Open Government Licence v3.0.