The reason bathroom worktop fitting in Bromley Common is quoted per kitchen rather than per metre comes down to the range of rooms these worktops end up in. A lot of stock with the original small rear kitchen still in place, often 2.4-2.8m of run with the boiler on the wall and a back door in the middle of the elevation. Where extensions have gone on they are usually modest rear infills rather than full-width. Neither case is harder than the other for us. Both start with somebody standing in the kitchen with a tape.
Two runs and a return into a rear extension is the pattern, and the return is the piece that never nests neatly on a slab. None of it changes the material, but it does decide whether the top comes out of offcut stock or wants a slab bought for it alone. It is the smallest piece we cut and the most crowded.
There is usually a shared rear alley, and whether the gate onto it is unlocked decides whether long pieces come in from the back. The original bathroom here is the small room over the hall, and a vanity in it is short, shallow and hard against two walls, so both ends are scribed. Loft en-suites lose their splash return to the slope.
The building stock is inter-war semi, post-war council-built terrace, 1960s maisonette and Victorian cottage. Two of those can sit on the same street and quote a long way apart.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) that contains Bromley Common| Figure | Bromley Common | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 2% | pre-1919 share lower than 89% of the 723 areas we cover | Corners tend to come in close to square. |
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| households in a converted or shared house | 2% | converted-house share lower than 84% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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| households with no car or van | 23% | no-car share lower than 81% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000152. Open Government Licence v3.0.
