Bromley · SE20

Stone worktops in Anerley

Anerley, SE20, sits on our south east London run through Bromley with Penge next door, so stone worktops here are templated and fitted by our own team: quartz from £130, granite from £121 and sintered stone from £110 per square metre supply only, in 5 to 10 working days from template.

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

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L-shaped kitchen with Polar White worktops, the sink under the window and the range cooker to the right

Anerley worktops

The kitchens we meet in Anerley

In Anerley, what the local housing does to stone worktop supply and fitting is worth knowing before you commit to anything. Similar terraced stock to Penge but on much steeper ground, and a higher share of flat conversions, so the common job is a compact galley of around 2.4m with a wall-hung boiler and a slim breakfast bar at the end. The flats suit landlord replacements and first-time-buyer refits. If your kitchen is a bit of both, that is common enough and it changes nothing about how we go about it.

Chimney breasts are often taken out at ground level and left standing above, so the middle of the run is newer wall than the two ends of it. Stone grows and shrinks a little with warmth, which is the reason joints are gapped, upstands are never wedged tight, and nothing is pinned as though it will sit still forever. The cheapest stone and the dearest one share a fitting day.

The flat entrance door is a certified fire door on a closer, and taking it off for an hour means dealing with the seals and the closer before the day ends. A matt or honed face suits a period room better than a mirror polish, and it is also the finish that hides the fine dust an old house produces all year round. Long narrow rooms want a pale face at the working end.

The housing here takes in Victorian terrace, Victorian semi-detached villa, 1930s flats and 1960s block. Each of those behaves differently once the old top comes off.

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

Victorian terrace
Victorian semi-detached villa
1930s flats
1960s block

At a glance

Stone worktops, in short

Borough: Bromley
Postcodes: SE20
Covered on: our south east London run
Fitted: 5–10 working days from template
Homes (VOA count): 8,160

Colours

Surfaces to start with in Anerley

Midnight Starburst, Midnight Sparkle, Silver Veil, Black Fusion, Itara Sensa, Baltic Brown, Daze and Sahara Stone: three quartz, three granite, one Dekton and one Sintered stone, each priced per square metre supply only.

Midnight Starburst

Quartz · from £130/m²

Midnight Sparkle

Quartz · from £180/m²

Silver Veil

Quartz · from £400/m²

Black Fusion

Granite · from £271/m²

Itara Sensa

Granite · from £370/m²

Baltic Brown

Granite · from £141/m²

Daze

Dekton · from £300/m²

Sahara Stone

Sintered stone · from £280/m²

Sparkle quartz Black quartz White quartz Black granite Marble-effect Dekton

The full ranges: quartz worktops and granite worktops.

The place

Why stone worktops in Anerley are their own job

Every area has its own complications, and in Anerley these are the ones that decide the day. Streets run steeply up from the station with parking bays on the slope, and many houses have a flight of steps up to a raised front door before you even get inside. Carrying stone up a raised front entrance on a hill is a two-plus-two job, and we allow for it in the pricing rather than turning up short-handed. We do not cut Anerley worktops from a plan and a postcode. We template the room, and the price is confirmed against what we measure.

The work

Stone worktops, step by step

How supply and fit works

Splashbacks splashbacks and upstands

The money

What stone worktops cost in Anerley

In Anerley, 2% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, which is lower than 77% of the 723 areas we cover. The return into the wall and the free end are two different details on one piece, and both are machined rather than cut square. The spread from £110 to £550 per square metre is the width of the catalogue rather than vagueness about price, and where you land in it is a decision about material.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces

What Anerley asks for in stone worktops

This is part of every job rather than an alternative to one; what the housing here calls for is worktop replacement and worktop splashbacks & upstands.

The building

The building, and what it does to the worktop

In this corner of the borough, the council tax banding sits at the bottom of the London range. Every survey starts from a blank sheet. Matching a surface fitted years ago is rarely possible, since the catalogue keeps the name long after the batch has gone. Rooms chopped into fragments waste a bigger share of whatever gets bought.

Anything that has to stay accessible, a stopcock, a gas meter, a riser panel, is marked on the template so the stone is cut around it instead of over it. Short pieces either side of a breast are where offcut earns its place, so a stone bought as a full slab starts to look sensible against one bought by the piece. An engineered surface yellows under standing warmth; natural stone does not.

Questions

Stone worktop questions in Anerley

Will you take on a job in Anerley?

Yes, Anerley (SE20) is on the patch, worked on our south east London run with Penge, Crystal Palace and Beckenham.

Is there anything about Anerley buildings that catches worktops out?

In Anerley, 11% of homes went up between 1919 and 1939, lower than 62% of the 723 areas we cover. Original shutter boxes survive in the reveals of the front rooms and stand proud of the plaster, and that is the line a run under the window has to be scribed to. Alcoves either side of the old breast chop the run into short lengths, and a kitchen made of short lengths is the case where buying a slab outright beats buying the square metres, because the remainder is paid for in both.

What do you check about the route into an Anerley property?

In Anerley, 18% of households live in a converted or shared house, which is higher than 79% of the 723 areas we cover. The hall is the only way in and out for whoever lives there, so it is cleared and then kept clear for as long as pieces are moving. Scuffing on the way in lands at the arris, so a punishing approach argues for a softened profile and for battens under every face that has been finished.

Why do two Anerley kitchens the same size price differently?

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 Anerley, 6% of homes have four or more bedrooms: lower than 71% of the 723 areas we cover.

What has to be finished before you can template?

In Anerley, from the Victorian terrace to the 1960s block, the units need to be fitted, fixed and level before we template, with the sink and hob in the room. Send the run lengths, say where the sink and hob will sit, and tell us which way the room faces and what lighting is going in above the working run.

Quartz, granite and Dekton worktops

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