Biggin Hill worktops
The kitchens we meet in Biggin Hill
The useful questions about worktop jobs in Biggin Hill are really questions about the kitchen itself, which is where any sensible answer has to start. A lot of the older stock started as plotland bungalows and has been extended piecemeal, so kitchens are wide and shallow with several different wall builds in one run. The newer self-build replacement houses at the top of the hill go the other way, with proper full-height cabinetry and a large island. Neither case is harder than the other for us. Both start with somebody standing in the kitchen with a tape.
These kitchens have usually been retiled twice and knocked through once, and both of those leave marks the worktop has to deal with. A dark gloss in a room shaped like that will advertise every crumb and every water spot, and a mid-tone speckle is the reason another kitchen still looks clean by the evening. A slab has a direction, and the room decides which way it runs.
The floor is a solid slab with a screed over it, which is stable underfoot and rarely flat across a long run. Runs here are usually long enough to want a full slab and short enough not to need a second, which is the most economical position on the whole price list. Side light flatters movement and wastes a flat colour.
On this patch the buildings are 1930s plotland bungalow, chalet bungalow, 1960s detached and self-build replacement house. They fail in different places, which is why the survey looks at different things.
