Benhilton worktops
The kitchens we meet in Benhilton
Ask three neighbours what they paid for stone worktop supply and fitting in Benhilton and you will get three answers, all of them correct for the kitchen they were quoting. Older stock on the hill north of the town centre with narrow rear kitchens in back additions, typically 2.6m of run with a boiler cupboard eating one corner. Some of the larger villas have been opened up into full kitchen-diners with a peninsula. A worktop that fits is a worktop that was measured. The description is background, the template is the actual instruction.
Suspended timber floors flex underfoot, and anything that moves beneath a unit shows up later as a lipped join. The surface is where the money actually moves: across the 185 surfaces we list the median is £224 per square metre, and half of them sit between £165 and £300. A finish is a decision about cleaning as much as about looks.
These were built late enough to have a damp course and proper footings, so the front of the house is close to true and the rear addition holding the kitchen is the part that has dropped. Rooms in these houses run long and narrow with the only honest daylight at the garden end, so a pale honed surface does more for the working half of the kitchen than any colour with depth in it. Long narrow rooms want a pale face at the working end.
The stock on this patch is Victorian terrace, Victorian villa, inter-war semi and post-war flats. The one you have sets the piece length before the kitchen does.
