Worktop fabrication in Belgravia

Yes. Belgravia is on the patch, and the postcodes we work here are SW1W, SW1X. It is run from the Watford side, covering Hertfordshire & North London. Where the van can pull up level with the gate the pieces are handled the fewest times, which is what actually protects them. It rarely changes what we cut, but it does change how the pieces are stacked and strapped for the run out. That is the last thing settled before dispatch. We template in your kitchen and fit in your kitchen, so there is nothing to visit and nothing to collect.

Walls are thick, lime-plastered and built in a soft brick, so they take a scribe well and take a fixing badly. The galley run down a side-return usually measures longer than a slab will give us, so a join is designed in from the start and nested to land over a cabinet gable rather than wherever the material happens to run out. Settled on the drawing, cut once. Basement kitchens here run long and thin, so the slab has to be brought in on edge down a stair with limited headroom - measure the stair soffit, that is what limits piece length, not the room.

Listed status and estate landlord consent govern everything, works hours are policed by the managing agent and neighbours, skips are effectively banned so waste goes out by hand, and slabs come down an external area stair or through the front door and down a stone flight with a tight turn at the bottom. Communal stairs get boarded and the handrail padded, and we walk the route with a tape before the first piece leaves the van. The maximum piece length is fixed at drawing stage and every join is placed over a cabinet gable from there. The drawing carries that decision through to the saw. Tell us what the approach looks like when you book the template and it gets built into the day rather than discovered on it.

Not particularly, and it would be easy to pretend otherwise. What the research on this patch actually lists is worktop design & quotation, worktop templating and worktop installation. That is a statement about the local housing rather than about the work. It is quoted, cut and fitted exactly the same way here as anywhere else on the patch. Where kitchens turn over between tenancies the priority is a surface that survives a decade of being treated as a chopping board. Pieces are dry-assembled and checked on the bench before anything is loaded. Same slab run, or it is not a match. Quartz suits let property well: no sealing, no annual maintenance, and nothing an incoming tenant has to be told to look after. Pieces are dry-assembled and checked on the bench before anything is loaded. Nested for the job in front of us.

If the island is a few hundred millimetres longer than the usable length of a slab, a second slab gets bought to gain that overhang, and the whole slab is paid for rather than the part used. Pieces are dry-assembled on the bench before dispatch so the corners are known to close before they leave the workshop. That is nested before any glass goes on the saw. Material is £110-£550 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines.

A junction between an original floor and a later extension slab is almost never at the same level, so units carrying a run across it need packing first. Cut it square where it should be radiused and the piece will fail on the lift, not in the kitchen. The drawing decides it, not the fitter. The sink and hob need to be on site and the run layout fixed before we start cutting, because moving a hob after the join position is set means recutting the whole piece. Access in a tenanted flat depends on the tenant, so the template and fitting dates are agreed with whoever actually holds the keys. Changing an appliance after the nest is set means recutting the piece, not adjusting it. Changes cost a piece, not a tweak.