Croydon · CR0

Stone worktops in Addington

Stone worktops in Addington, Croydon (CR0): quartz from £130, granite from £121 and sintered stone from £110 per square metre supply only, templated in the room and fitted 5 to 10 working days from template by the team on our south London run with New Addington next door.

25-year material · 5-year workmanship
Fitted 5-10 working days from template
Covered on our south London run
Templated and fitted on site
Any extra join flagged at quote stage

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Navy breakfast bar with a plain white top and grey stools, grey shaker units behind

Addington worktops

The kitchens we meet in Addington

The reason stone worktop supply and fitting in Addington is quoted per kitchen rather than per metre comes down to the range of rooms these worktops end up in. The village core has small period cottages with tight kitchens and low ceilings, while the surrounding 1960s-70s detached houses have square kitchens with integral garages behind, commonly converted into a utility with a second worktop run. Once the template is taken the figure stops moving. Everything before that is an estimate and is described as one.

Plaster over blockwork is thin and hollow in patches, so anything fixed back to the wall needs a sound spot found first. Batches move through a yard continuously, so a slab reserved this month and a slab bought next spring can carry one name and still not be the same stone. Veining is a question of scale, and a postcard has no scale.

Post-war terraces have a short straight hall to the kitchen, which is a good deal kinder than the houses they replaced. Coming off a laminate top changes the thickness at the front edge, and twenty millimetres reads closer to what the room is used to than thirty ever will. Hard-working kitchens suit surfaces that ask for nothing.

Around here the stock is old village cottage, 1960s detached, 1970s detached and modern executive housing. They were built to different tolerances, and the stone has to absorb that.

Quartz worktop and full-height veined splashback running past a range cooker in a green shaker kitchen

old village cottage
1960s detached
1970s detached
modern executive housing

At a glance

Stone worktops, in short

Borough: Croydon
Postcodes: CR0
Covered on: our south London run
Fitted: 5–10 working days from template
Homes (VOA count): 8,210

Colours

Surfaces to start with in Addington

Graphite Mist, Imperial Gold Vein, Silver Eclipse, Steel Grey, Taj Mahal Sensa, Kashmir Gold, Moone and Sahara Stone: three quartz, three granite, one Dekton and one Sintered stone, each priced per square metre supply only.

Graphite Mist

Quartz · from £290/m²

Imperial Gold Vein

Quartz · from £280/m²

Silver Eclipse

Quartz · from £270/m²

Steel Grey

Granite · from £126/m²

Taj Mahal Sensa

Granite · from £400/m²

Kashmir Gold

Granite · from £141/m²

Moone

Dekton · from £165/m²

Sahara Stone

Sintered stone · from £280/m²

Grey quartz White quartz Marble-effect quartz Black granite

The full ranges: quartz worktops and granite worktops.

The place

Why stone worktops in Addington are their own job

A quote for Addington that ignores how the slab gets in is a quote that will change on the day. The village lanes are narrow with a sharp bend and no pavement in places, and the tram runs through on its own alignment, so unloading has to be off the carriageway. The 1960s houses often have the kitchen a step above the hall on a raised slab, which changes the finished worktop height, so we set out from the cabinet tops rather than a stated 900mm. Access, levels and out-of-square walls all land on the same quote as the stone, itemised line by line.

The work

Stone worktops, step by step

How supply and fit works

Splashbacks splashbacks and upstands

The money

What stone worktops cost in Addington

In Addington, 1% of households live in a converted or shared house, which is lower than 93% of the 723 areas we cover. Two facing runs mean two sets of edges and two scribes in a small span, which is why a compact galley rarely prices as cheaply as its area suggests. The supply rate of £110 to £550 per square metre reads the same for a small kitchen and a large one. Everything that makes them different jobs appears further down the quote.

period detached houses and villas

The carry, and what it rules out for stone worktops

Off-street parking means the van stays put all day, so tools, packers and the offcut we would rather have than not are all within reach. Nothing is trimmed at the kerb, so a mismeasured scribe is a workshop problem and a fresh piece, which is exactly why a template is checked twice before it is cut. Dry cutting quartz burns the resin and the burn does not polish out.

The building

The building, and what it does to the worktop

In the streets around Addington, most of the housing went up between the late forties and the early eighties. A short run leaves nowhere to hide a join. Older housing of that kind was planned around a chimney, so the usable lengths arrive in pieces and the pieces decide how much of a slab is ever seen. Movement needs a long unbroken length to be worth paying for.

Demand

What Addington asks for in stone worktops

Whichever job it turns out to be (the stock here suggests worktop replacement), this is done by the same team to the same drawing.

Questions

Stone worktop questions in Addington

Do you cover Addington?

Yes, Addington (CR0) is on the patch, worked on our south London run with New Addington, Shirley and Forestdale.

Why would worktops in Addington be any different from anywhere else?

In Addington, 2% of homes have been built since 2010, lower than 85% of the 723 areas we cover. Walls look modern and are not: block or breeze with a skim that has been patched over decades, so dry-laying and scribing still apply. A window in the middle of the run gives the working surface good light, so a mid-tone will not be swallowed the way it would be in a darker room.

What is the carry like in Addington?

In Addington, 33% of households have no car or van, which is lower than 59% of the 723 areas we cover. An inward-opening door swinging back against the wall leaves less clear opening than the frame measures, and a storm porch in front of it is tighter again. A difficult approach argues for a stone whose pattern repeats at close intervals, because a break disappears into a repeating figure and sits proud of a sweeping one.

Where does the money go on an Addington worktop?

Edge work is charged along the length of every exposed face, which is why an island with four finished sides prices differently from a run with one. In Addington, 0% of homes sit in council tax band F or above: lower than 94% of the 723 areas we cover.

What needs to be ready before you come to Addington?

In Addington, from the old village cottage to the modern executive housing, the units need to be fitted, fixed and level before we template, with the sink and hob in the room. Measure the run between the walls, note the cill height above the units, and tell us the thickness of the top that is coming off. A wall line that runs level over a floor that does not means the finish closes up on the plinth at one end, which is joinery rather than something the stone can answer. Floors that fall away across a room show it at the front edge rather than the back, and packing a carcass level is far cheaper than grinding a finished face.

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