Broad Green worktops
The kitchens we meet in Broad Green
The part of stone worktop supply and fitting in Broad Green that surprises people is how much of it is decided before anyone touches a slab. Dense terraced streets off London Road with narrow back-addition kitchens, often 2.4m or less once the boiler and back door are accounted for. A high share of converted and multi-let properties means several small kitchens in one building rather than one large one. The quote is free, so finding out where you stand costs you nothing at all.
Sash windows sit low in the rear wall, and the sill often lands below the height a worktop wants to run past. Which stone belongs on top of all that is a separate question from the building itself, and it is the one with a figure attached, because supply alone runs from £110 to £550 per square metre before a single cut has been made. Yield is the word behind most quotations people did not expect.
Cornice, picture rails and deep skirting survive in converted rooms, so the run stands off the wall and the back edge follows the units rather than the plaster. Alcoves either side of the old breast chop the run into short lengths, and a kitchen made of short lengths is the case where buying a slab outright beats buying the square metres, because the remainder is paid for in both. A tall room carries a thick edge; a low one does not.
On these streets the housing is Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, flat above shop and multi-occupancy conversion. The wall build-up is different in each, and the scribe follows the wall.
