Kitchen worktops in Canbury

Yes. A tight grid of Victorian terraces between the station and the river, nearly all with side-return or full-width rear extensions - a 3.2m run along the flank, a small 1.6m island or a peninsula, and rooflights that make the client want a low-reflectance finish. 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. A templater circling for a space arrives late into a slot that was already tight, and the drawing is what suffers. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, converted riverside works and modern riverside flats. A long piece has to come through the front door, down the hall, round the newel post and through a doorway with a step down into the addition. The day is planned backwards from the hall. Walked, measured, protected, then lifted.

Narrow gridded streets with parking on both sides and a controlled zone all day, plus a river frontage that limits through routes; front-door carries with a stair newel to negotiate are standard. A walk-up with winders at every half-landing means the piece is rested and re-gripped on the way, so the crew size goes up before the piece size comes down. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. None of it is worked out on the doorstep.

Worktop templating, worktop installation and worktop design & quotation, in that order. Extension kitchens are usually specified long before they are buildable, so the run lengths on the drawing and the run lengths in the room are different numbers. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Nothing payable until we template. Extensions here are almost all steel-framed with a glazed rear, so the flank wall is the only true reference line - level off that, not the floor.

Rooflights along a side return mean the worktop is lit from directly above all day, which shows every ripple in a surface and every gap at a scribe. A layout that has been packed and levelled run by run instead of to one datum shows as a step where two pieces meet. The join is the last thing finished. An intruding steel column, a brick pier or a downstand breaks a run that would otherwise have been one clean piece. The laser plots it as it is, at the exact height the worktop will sit, and the drawing carries that through. Measured at worktop height, nowhere else. 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.

The same building type can arrive as a careful one-off kitchen or as a fast turnaround, and the honest answer is that they are priced differently. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. Written to be read by whoever is paying. 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.