Wandsworth · SW11

Stone worktops in Between the Commons

For stone worktops in Between the Commons (SW11, Wandsworth), our south west London run, with Clapham Junction next door, covers the template and the fit, with quartz from £130, granite from £121 and sintered stone from £110 per square metre supply only and fitting 5 to 10 working days from template.

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

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The same kitchen from the doorway, Arctic Starburst turning both corners past the induction hob to the tall units

Between the Commons worktops

The kitchens we meet in Between the Commons

We do not price worktop jobs in Between the Commons without seeing the kitchen first, and the reason for that is in the rooms themselves. This is the densest concentration of side-return and full-width rear extensions in the borough, the alley is infilled, the rear wall is pushed back, and the result is a 4m to 5m wide kitchen with a long run plus a 2.4m to 3m island under a flat rooflight. Islands almost always carry a hob and a mitred end panel. A worktop that fits is a worktop that was measured. The description is background, the template is the actual instruction.

Party wall settlement pulls the floor down at one side of the room, so a long run reads level at one end and not at the other. Edge profile is the last few millimetres anybody ever touches, and it is charged along the length rather than across the area, which is why it lands as a surprise. A finish is a decision about cleaning as much as about looks.

The addition is a brick narrower than the house it hangs off, which leaves a stub of the original rear wall standing square to the run at the doorway end. The alcoves either side of a breast break the run into short pieces, and short pieces are exactly where buying a full slab outright starts to beat buying stone by the metre. Honed hides the dust an older house makes all year.

The mix here is Late Victorian terrace and Edwardian terrace. Two of those can sit on the same street and quote a long way apart.

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

Late Victorian terrace
Edwardian terrace

At a glance

Stone worktops, in short

Borough: Wandsworth
Postcodes: SW11
Covered on: our south west London run
Fitted: 5–10 working days from template
Homes (VOA count): 60,900

Colours

Surfaces to start with in Between the Commons

Calacatta Luxe Gold, Aurora Gold, Glacier Granite, Black Fusion, Itara Sensa, Colonial Ivory, Kreta and Portland Limestone: three quartz, three granite, one Dekton and one Sintered stone, each priced per square metre supply only.

Calacatta Luxe Gold

Quartz · from £350/m²

Aurora Gold

Quartz · from £170/m²

Glacier Granite

Quartz · from £140/m²

Black Fusion

Granite · from £271/m²

Itara Sensa

Granite · from £370/m²

Colonial Ivory

Granite · from £142/m²

Kreta

Dekton · from £225/m²

Portland Limestone

Sintered stone · from £300/m²

White quartz Marble-effect quartz Grey quartz Black granite Gold granite

The full ranges: quartz worktops and granite worktops.

The place

Why stone worktops in Between the Commons are their own job

We would rather tell you what a fit in Between the Commons is going to involve now than discover it with a slab in the hallway. Uniform terraces with small front gardens, permit-only parking that is full by 9am, and no vehicle access to the rear at all. Everything goes down the hallway past the stairs, and the hall width of roughly 950mm sets the maximum slab width that can be turned. The island is the whole job here, so the exact spine position and the overhang for stools are agreed on site before templating; seating plans often change once the units land. It is our problem to solve, and solving it starts with a tape measure.

The work

Stone worktops, step by step

How supply and fit works

Splashbacks splashbacks and upstands

The money

What stone worktops cost in Between the Commons

In Between the Commons, 33% of homes sit in council tax band F or above: higher than 80% of the 723 areas we cover. The island is normally the largest single piece in the kitchen, which makes it the piece that sets the carry and sometimes the price. Thickness, finish and colour move a slab within the £110 to £550 supply band before anyone touches it, so that figure is settled by what you pick rather than by the room.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces

The shape of the run, and what it means for stone worktops

Sockets set into the end panel keep the top clear, but they sit below the stone and are cut into the panel by the fitter rather than machined into the worktop. A shape like that nests kindly on a slab, so more of what gets bought ends up on the units and the rate per square metre behaves much as the brochure says it will. A single straight run is the cheapest stone you will ever buy.

The route in

The carry, and what it rules out for stone worktops

A hall radiator or a coat hook at shoulder height takes a hundred millimetres off the usable width, and a hundred millimetres is often the entire margin. A jumbo format is the one thing a tight approach rules out absolutely, and ruling it out means accepting a joint in a run that could have been whole. Speckle forgives a joint that a sweeping figure never would.

Demand

What Between the Commons asks for in stone worktops

It is not ranked against the other work because it is part of all of it.

Questions

Stone worktop questions in Between the Commons

Do your own fitters come out to Between the Commons?

Yes, Between the Commons (SW11) is on the patch, worked on our south west London run with Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common and Battersea.

What do the kitchens in Between the Commons do to worktops?

In Between the Commons, 23% of homes have been built since 2010, higher than 87% of the 723 areas we cover. The bathroom upstairs sits directly over the kitchen, so its waste comes down in a boxed corner from floor to ceiling that no worktop is going to move. 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.

Do you have trouble getting long pieces into Between the Commons kitchens?

In Between the Commons, 18% of households live in a converted or shared house, which is higher than 80% of the 723 areas we cover. Where the hall runs straight through to the back the piece can be walked in flat, and it is only the two door frames that have to be cleared. How a vehicle reaches the door is settled at template rather than discovered on the morning, and what it settles is the largest piece the layout may contain.

What decides the price of a worktop in Between the Commons?

The remainder of a slab is part of the price whether it is fitted or left behind, and that is the honest reason short awkward lengths cost what they do. In Between the Commons, 10% of homes have four or more bedrooms: higher than 57% of the 723 areas we cover.

What do I need to sort out first?

In Between the Commons, from the Late Victorian terrace to the Edwardian terrace, 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. Where a run finishes into a reveal, the depth of that reveal is taken at worktop height and nowhere else. Floors that fall away across a room show it at the front edge rather than the back, and packing a carcass level is far cheaper than grinding a finished face.

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