Kitchen worktops in Cheam

Yes. The most substantial family housing in the borough. Large 1930s detached houses with rear extensions producing kitchen-diners of 6m or more, islands over 2.5m with a breakfast overhang, separate utilities and often a second sink and a boiling tap. Off-street parking means the van stays put all day, so tools, packers and the offcut we would rather have than not are all within reach. Where unloading has to happen in one go, the load order is planned so nothing has to come off twice. The load plan follows from it.

1930s mock-Tudor detached, Edwardian house, conservation-area cottage and large post-war detached. The party wall is the straightest surface in the house and everything else has moved away from it over a century. The day is planned backwards from the hall. That is the shape of the day.

Wide roads with generous in-and-out drives and space to unload off the highway, though the village conservation area itself is tight with loading restrictions near the parade. Where the van stands level with the front of the house a piece gets handled twice instead of five times, and stone breaks on handling rather than on the road. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. That is what the morning is planned around.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop fabrication and worktop installation, in that order. A second kitchen or a kitchenette in an annexe is a small job with the same fixed template, fabrication and fitting lines as a large one. Cutting several kitchens from different slabs and calling them matched is where firms get caught out. Same slab run, or it is not a match. This is where the big single-piece islands go, so slab selection and vein matching across the island and the tall-unit return is discussed with the client before anything is cut.

Seating overhangs past roughly 300mm will not carry on the carcass alone, so flat steel bar or a plywood substrate has to be built into the units first. It is the shape rather than the square metreage that moves the number, which is why two kitchens the same size quote differently. Shape first, area second. The stone carries the scribe because the wall cannot be persuaded, so back edges are cut oversize and eased in rather than dropped straight down. The template drawing carries the real geometry through to the saw, and the piece is machined to it rather than trimmed to it later. The drawing decides it, not the fitter. 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.

An owner living in the house makes the decisions and lives with them, so the specification tends to go towards the material rather than towards the lowest total. The workshop works from the approved drawing, so whoever signs it off is signing off the join positions too. 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.