Kitchen worktops in Brockley

Yes. Large stucco-fronted Victorian villas, most divided into flats. Garden flats have lower-ground or rear-extension kitchens with room for an island, while the upper conversions have kitchens fitted into former bedrooms with fireplaces, tall windows and no straight wall over 3m. A controlled parking zone means either a visitor permit sorted in advance or a suspended bay, and a suspension is applied for days ahead rather than on the morning. The templating visit needs somewhere to stop for two or three hours, which is a different problem from unloading for twenty minutes. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

1860s-1880s Italianate semi-detached villa, Victorian terrace and 1970s infill flats. The party wall is the straightest surface in the house and everything else has moved away from it over a century. The other constraint is the hall: a piece has to come through the front door, round the newel at the foot of the stairs and through a doorway into the back kitchen, so we size the pieces to the tightest turn on that route before we nest anything, which sometimes means splitting a run that would otherwise have gone in whole. Settled on the drawing, cut once.

Conservation area with front lightwells, high steps up to the raised ground floor and mature street trees; parking is permit-controlled and the villa steps are the real obstacle, not the doorway. Piece length is set by the internal diagonal of the lift car, not by the length of the slab. So the nesting is worked to the measured route first and to the slab second. The drawing carries that decision through to the saw.

Worktop templating, worktop fabrication and worktop replacement, in that order. Conversions put kitchens where the services could be made to reach rather than where they belong, so runs are short and interrupted. So the nesting is planned around it rather than around a standard kitchen. Proven on the bench before dispatch. Raised ground floors mean six or eight steps up to the front door on almost every villa, plan every lift as a two-man strap job.

If the island is a few hundred millimetres longer than the usable length of a slab, a second slab gets bought to gain that overhang, and the whole slab is paid for rather than the part used. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. Real angles, not plan angles. Level has to hold across the whole room rather than along one wall, or a floor that falls end to end shows as a step where two pieces meet. 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.

A street with houses in single occupation next to the same houses cut into flats produces two completely different jobs from the same elevation. Changing an appliance after the nest is set means recutting the piece, not adjusting it. The approved drawing is the instruction. 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.