Flat Refurbishment Ealing

Flat refurbishment in Ealing is the larger half of the borough's housing: 54% of its homes are flats. They range from flats carved out of Victorian terraces and Edwardian villas to purpose-built blocks, and 18% of all homes here date from 2000 or later. A flat is renewed inside a building you share, so the lease, the managing agent, the neighbours below and the block's rules shape the work as much as the finish does. We refit the flat within its own footprint and leave the common parts as we found them.

For Ealing, published UK averages put a full flat refurbishment at £33,000 to £48,000 and a basic one, with budget kitchen and bathroom fittings, at £15,000 to £18,000, and London flats usually cost more (Checkatrade and MyJobQuote, 2026). GS Renovation Ltd, a building contractor based in Potters Bar, does the work in Ealing: we refurbish the flat within the terms of your lease and licence to alter, protect the common parts throughout, and a registered electrician certifies the new consumer unit and circuits.

The kinds of Ealing flat that come up for refurbishment

Ealing flats fall into three broad groups, and each changes the job. A flat in a converted house sits inside Victorian or Edwardian fabric, with timber floors between you and the flat below, a shared front door and often one staircase serving every floor. A flat in a post-war purpose-built block usually has concrete floors, a communal heating or riser arrangement and a managing agent with written contractor rules. A flat in a newer block, and 18% of the borough's homes were built in 2000 or later, often comes with warranty terms and stricter controls on what can be drilled.

We identify which group an Ealing flat belongs to at the survey, because it decides how the rewire is routed, whether floors can be lifted, and where a new kitchen or shower can drain. In a converted house, services often run through the flat below, so a leak or a cut cable becomes a neighbour's problem. In a block with a concrete slab, chasing and coring are noisier and need tighter timing. The programme and the price follow from that answer.

Housing in Ealing

Ealing has about 149,900 homes on the Council Tax list: 28% pre-1919, 30% interwar and 42% post-war, with flats making up 54% and houses 46%.

Refurbishing an Ealing flat under a lease

Refurbishing a leasehold flat in Ealing brings the lease into the programme. Before any wall, floor or service changes, read the lease and ask the landlord, often through the managing agent, for a licence to alter. That licence often comes with conditions: approved drawings, set working hours, protection of the common parts and sometimes the landlord's surveyor checking the work. We price to those conditions and work within them, including stair and lift protection and a route for waste through the shared hallways that the other residents can live with.

Ealing retains SPG 10 Noise and vibration as interim planning guidance, but the hours that bind a flat refurbishment day to day are the ones in the lease and the licence to alter. Breaking out screeds, chasing walls and coring for extract ducts are planned into those hours and announced to neighbours in advance. Materials go up by hand or in a protected lift at agreed times, and rubble comes down in sealed bags rather than being thrown from a window, because a lorry parked outside a block for hours rarely suits anyone.

Floors, leaks and fire doors in an Ealing block

Floors are where flat refurbishments in Ealing go wrong. Swapping carpet for timber or tiles in an upper flat can carry footfall noise into the flat below, and many leases require the new floor to match the original acoustic performance. We lay resilient underlays or acoustic battens under hard floors and keep the ceiling below intact wherever the joists are opened. Before any kitchen or bathroom is replaced we test the existing waste and supply runs, since a slow drip into the flat below becomes a claim against you, not just a repair.

Fire safety inside an Ealing block is shared. The flat entrance door and the compartment walls around your flat usually form part of the building's fire strategy, and decisions on them generally sit with the freeholder or the responsible person, not with the leaseholder alone. We do not swap an entrance door or cut through a compartment wall without that agreement in writing. Inside the flat we replace the consumer unit and wiring, with a registered electrician certifying the work, and fit smoke and heat alarms to suit the new layout.

Letting an Ealing flat: EPC ratings and licences

A landlord refurbishing an Ealing flat between tenancies has a legal floor under the work. Ealing states that since April 2018 it is unlawful to rent a property that does not achieve an EPC rating of E or above. Since 1 April 2020 landlords can no longer let or continue to let properties covered by the MEES Regulations with a rating below E without a valid exemption, and the maximum fine per property is set nationally. In a flat the usual upgrades are electric heating controls, secondary glazing, draught-proofing and insulation to any exposed wall.

Licensing sets property conditions too. Ealing sets a separate, lower selective licence fee for self-contained flats, so a let flat can need a selective licence where that scheme covers the street, and Ealing property licences generally last 5 years where there has been no previous enforcement. The landlord or their agent applies for any licence. We carry out the works an inspection or the licence conditions call for, such as alarms, extraction, and repairs to damp or failing fabric, and hand over the electrician's certificate and the Gas Safe records for the landlord's file.

• Flat entrance door replaced as a certified fire door set, with the freeholder's written agreement
• Secondary glazing inside windows the lease keeps with the freeholder
• Buy-to-let refurbishments between tenancies, with the EICR and gas safety record arranged with the certifying engineers

VOA Council Tax stock of properties, March 2025, for all 41 statistical areas in Ealing. Counts rounded by the VOA.

Once you know the scope of the flat refurbishment in Ealing, it helps to read bathroom renovation in Ealing, our Ealing area guide, flat renovations in London, bathroom fitters in London for flats, our London flat refurbishment page and Small Kitchen Ideas.

Trusted Flat Refurbishment in Ealing

Flat work is judged by the neighbours as much as by the owner, so we run it to the rules of the building. GS Renovation's founder and director, Abdelaaziz Saaid, has more than three decades of hands-on building experience. For an Ealing flat we read the licence to alter, send the managing agent our method statement and programme, protect the common parts, and keep noisy work inside the agreed hours. At handover you get the certificates the lease and any letting will need.

• Our own trades on site rather than a chain of subcontractors
• Consumer unit and circuits certified by a registered electrician at completion
• Acoustic floor build-ups laid to the specification in your lease

Checked by Abdelaaziz Saaid, founder and director of GS Renovation Ltd (Companies House no. 14611254).