Kitchen worktops in Bishop's Park

Yes. Terraces backing toward the river and the park have the usual rear kitchen with side-return infill at 3.2-3.8m, while the mansion flats overlooking the park keep original service kitchens of 2.4-3m with tall ceilings and a deep window reveal. In the riverside blocks the kitchen sits against the core with a peninsula facing the view, so the finished long edge is on show and needs a properly polished exposed end. Where an event closes the road entirely, the van cannot be moved once it is in, which is a different problem from not being able to park at all. It is noted on the job sheet at template so the fitting crew inherit the answer rather than rediscovering it. Two hours is the realistic figure.

Victorian terrace, Edwardian mansion flats, riverside apartment block and 1930s purpose-built flats. The addition wall is half a brick thick in places and has usually had a damp course injected and been re-plastered, which leaves it neither flat nor consistent. Victorian party walls and chimney-breast returns bow along their length, so the template plots the real line rather than assuming a straight one - the laser picks up points every few hundred millimetres down the back of the run and the drawing carries that curve through to the saw. No stone is ever cut from a plan.

Home fixtures at the nearby football ground close roads and suspend parking across the streets between the river and Fulham Palace Road, which rules out those days entirely. The park and the river path mean several streets are dead ends, so the turning circle for a Luton needs checking rather than assumed. Everything comes through the front door and down the hall, so the tightest point on the route is usually the newel post at the foot of the stairs. A template taken without walking the route produces a drawing that cuts beautifully and will not go in. It goes on the drawing with the run dimensions.

Worktop installation, worktop replacement and worktop templating, in that order. A new extension slab is not automatically level, and that wants checking before templating rather than after the stone is cut. Where the window is fixed there is no second day to fall back on, so the prep list matters more than usual. Sealed before we leave. Plenty of dead-end streets here, so check the van can turn round before it goes in loaded - reversing 100m with an A-frame is nobody's idea of a good start.

Peninsulas frequently land on a lightweight partition or on units that were never fixed down, and stone needs proper support under it before it goes on. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. The drawing leaves site complete. A low sill over the sink run is what decides between an upstand and stone dying into a window board, and there is often less clearance than an upstand is tall. The old top has been hiding it, so the first honest look at it happens when the laminate comes off. Found at template, not on fit day. 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.

Mixed ownership means the decision-maker is not always the person who lets us in, so it is worth being clear early about who signs the quote off. A template booked hopefully around another trade is the commonest cause of a wasted visit. 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.