Kitchen worktops in Brook Green

Yes. This is family-house territory with wide plots, so kitchens are the big rear room after a side-return or full-width extension, running 4m plus with a 2.4-3m island and often a second sink in the island. Because the extensions are new build, the walls are square and level, which means single long pieces and mitred waterfall ends are actually achievable rather than aspirational. Permit hours are what matters, not the permit itself, because a bay that frees up at six in the evening is no use for a template at ten. The fitting slot is set around it, which is why we ask about it when the date is booked and not before we leave the yard. The day is built around that window.

large late Victorian family terrace, red-brick Edwardian house, mansion flat and Victorian villa converted to flats. Where the side return has been filled in, the old external wall is now an internal one and still carries its render, its gutter line and its old fixings. The second thing is the carry route: front door, narrow hall, a turn at the stairs and often a step down into the extension, which can mean a piece that would template in one length has to be split to physically get into the room. That is what the itemised lines are for.

Quiet residential streets with CPZ permit bays and reasonable width, so a van can usually get within 20m, but almost every house has a front path with two or three steps and a tiled Victorian threshold you do not want to chip. Where an extension is still under construction the back garden route via a neighbour or a side gate is often open and is far better than the hall. A narrow entrance hall with a turn into the back of the house caps the longest piece we can physically get in, whatever the run itself measures. We price the carry from what you tell us about the route, so photographs of the approach are worth more to us than a floor plan. You see that figure before we template, not after.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop fabrication and worktop installation, in that order. Households sharing a house tend to want two prep areas rather than one, which usually means an island as well as a perimeter run. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Itemised, so it can be compared honestly. Get in while the extension is still a building site and take the stone through the open rear wall - once the bifolds are glazed you are back to fighting the hallway.

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. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. The join is the last thing finished. Where a run finishes into a reveal, the depth of that reveal is taken at worktop height and nowhere else. On the day it means dry-laying, marking, and cutting the scribe on site before anything is bonded. Dry-lay, mark, cut, then bond. 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.

Owner-occupied kitchens are usually being done once, which is why the edge profile, the vein direction and where a join falls are worth the conversation. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. Nothing payable until template. 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.