Kitchen worktops in Bexleyheath

Yes. Interwar semis in bulk: kitchen at the rear beside a dining room, usually knocked into one to give a 3.5m run down one wall with a peninsula. Rear extensions with bifolds are the standard upgrade and bring islands with them. A dedicated loading bay or service yard is the easiest arrangement in a managed building, provided the slot is booked and someone has the key to the shutter. We aim for the first slot of the day where parking is tight, because that is when the street is emptiest. We would rather ask than guess.

1930s semi, interwar detached, postwar estate and 1990s town-centre flats. The kitchen is usually a rear room extended into the garden, with the original external wall now standing inside the run. Slab yield rather than floor area is what moves the material line, and the return piece is usually the reason. That is what the itemised lines are for.

Nearly every house has a drive and a dropped kerb, roads are wide and there is real turning room; only the town centre around the Broadway has serious loading restrictions. Where the van stands level with the front of the house a piece gets handled twice instead of five times, and stone breaks on handling rather than on the road. We price the carry from what you tell us about the route, so photographs of the approach are worth more to us than a floor plan. Nothing about it gets estimated after the fact.

Worktop installation, worktop design & quotation and worktop templating, in that order. The junction between the original room and the extension is the point to watch, because the two floors rarely sit at the same height. The template visit is booked once the units are genuinely in, not when they are nearly in. The room as it is, not as it was drawn. Easy access and big rooms mean full-length single pieces are usually deliverable — the check is whether the extension floor finished level with the original.

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. Slab yield is worked out at quote stage, so if the layout forces a second slab you hear it before you commit rather than after. No installed rate per square metre, because it is not a real number. Floors settle, and once base units are packed and levelled properly the stone sits true while everything else in the room admits it is not. One measurement never describes it, which is why a tape reading taken before the visit rarely matches the template. 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 someone is living in the house through the work, the strip-out and the fit are planned so the kitchen is out of use for a day and not a week. The templater needs the sink, tap and hob on site, and a Belfast sink installed at its final height. 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.