Worktop design and quotation in Bank

Yes. Bank is on the patch, and the postcodes we work here are EC2R, EC3V. It is worked on our the City run, along with the rest of the Square Mile. Underground loading has a height restriction, and a van with an A-frame on it is taller than the driver remembers. Where a bay suspension or a permit is needed, that is a real cost and it goes on the quote instead of appearing later. Nothing here is added after the fact. We template in your kitchen and fit in your kitchen, so there is nothing to visit and nothing to collect.

Dot-and-dab plasterboard bellies at a taped internal angle, so the run picks up a few millimetres over the last 300mm and a plan-angle mitre will not close. With the room square and the access managed, the material band you choose does most of the work in the total. Priced from the building, not from a rate card. Plan the delivery route around the Bank junction restrictions first and the kitchen second, because a wrong turn here is a fine and a missed slot.

The Bank junction itself is restricted to buses and cycles during weekday daytime hours, which is the single most important planning fact for a delivery here - the approach has to be worked out from the permitted streets, not the shortest route. Add security desks, ANPR on the City's entry points and short loading windows, and an early or late slot is usually the only practical option. Estate roads are often too tight for a long-wheelbase van to turn, so the carry starts a good deal further from the door than a map suggests. That is why the fitting line on a quote reflects manpower and time rather than square metres. Nothing about it gets estimated after the fact.

It is one of the three we do most here, behind worktop replacement. Same template visit, same workshop, same installers either way. Party-wall and lease conditions in a converted building set when noisy work can happen, which shapes the fitting day more than the kitchen does. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Itemised, so it can be compared honestly. A kitchen carved out of a larger room sits under whatever the original plan left behind, so the run frequently ends at a blocked doorway or a boxed-in service. Everything is itemised: material, template, fabrication, fitting, each cut-out and each metre of upstand. Nothing payable until we template.

Two runs meeting at an internal corner is the most common shape we fit, and the corner is where the decisions are. Each run is priced on its own line against the supply rate, with the join count and the reason for each join stated. The join count is stated with its reason. Material is £110-£550 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines.

Dot-and-dab plasterboard sounds solid and is hollow behind, so anything fixed through it has to hit a dab or a batten rather than a void. Send photographs of every corner of the room and it gets priced properly first time. Priced as fabrication, not as area. Send a floor plan with the run lengths and confirm whether the existing units and sink are staying, along with the goods lift or loading bay rules if the building has any. A street with houses in single occupation next to the same houses cut into flats produces two completely different jobs from the same elevation. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. Nothing payable until template.