Kitchen worktops in Bakers Arms

Yes. Terraces off the junction have back-addition kitchens of 2.2m to 2.8m, and the flats above the shopping parade have narrow kitchens fitted along one wall with limited daylight. Many terraces here have been converted to two flats, so kitchens sit in rooms never designed for them. The realistic answer on a main road is an early slot, a spotter on the van and pieces staged in one movement rather than several trips. Splashbacks are normally the last thing off, so a short parking window is exactly when they get rushed. Handling is where these pieces get damaged.

Victorian terrace, flat over shop and post-war infill block. The stair from the street is narrow with a tight turn at the top, which caps piece length well below anything the run itself needs. Patched plaster next to original render sits at different depths, and that step is exactly what an upstand covers. Decided before fabrication starts.

The junction is a major bus corridor with red route sections and loading bans, so drops happen on the side streets which are permit-controlled and busy. Above-shop flats have a shared side door, a steep straight stair and no lift, so anything over about 2.2m needs jointing. Communal stairs get boarded and the handrail padded, and we walk the route with a tape before the first piece leaves the van. Where the route is tight we break a long splashback at a natural vertical joint instead of forcing one panel through. Joint positions follow from that.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop splashbacks & upstands, in that order. Conversions put kitchens where the services could be made to reach rather than where they belong, so runs are short and interrupted. The template visit is booked once the units are genuinely in, not when they are nearly in. Appliances on site, not on order. Rented and converted flats here mean a lot of like-for-like replacements around existing sinks and hobs, so the old top gets measured before it comes out.

Galley runs are usually short enough to come out of a single slab, so the material band you choose does more to the total than the room shape does. Old laminate has often been holding a run square for years, and taking it off shows what the units were really doing. Carcasses have to be sound first. Where a corner is a couple of degrees off, a mitre cut to a theoretical ninety degrees opens on the wall side and there is no closing it afterwards. It is recorded on the drawing with the run dimensions so the workshop is not guessing. Measured at worktop height, nowhere else. Material runs from £110 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines rather than rolled into one figure.

Where ownership is split across a building, the common parts belong to someone else and the carry route is negotiated rather than assumed. The template happens when the units are in, fixed and level, whoever is fitting them. No stone is cut from a plan. Tell us the building when you book and the lift, the stair turn and any freeholder notice get built into the day rather than found on it.