The reason bathroom worktop fitting in Church End is quoted per kitchen rather than per metre comes down to the range of rooms these worktops end up in. A lot of small interwar cottage-estate kitchens, typically 2.4m of run against one wall with a back door taking out the corner, plus tower-block flats with fixed galley layouts that cannot be moved because the services are in a duct. Refits keep the footprint and change the surfaces. Guessing at this stage would only put a wrong number in front of you, so we do not do it.
Where the kitchen has been opened into the living room the opening was trimmed with a steel, and a stub of the old wall was left standing at one end. Bathrooms in buildings like this are reached up a flight and worked in a room two people can barely stand in, and the visit is planned around both. A window reveal in a bathroom is stone as much as the vanity is.
The kitchen is a narrow room off the hall with the window at the far end, so the run is a galley by construction rather than by choice. Bathrooms in these flats are compact and squarely built, and take a short vanity that comes out of almost any offcut. Where the floor is solid, the unit sits where it is put.
What we are cutting for, here, is interwar cottage estate, 1960s-70s tower and slab block and Victorian terrace. Each of those puts the services somewhere else, and the cut-outs follow.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) that contains Church End| Figure | Church End | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 55% | pre-1919 share higher than 83% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 9% | inter-war share lower than 66% of the 723 areas we cover | The plans vary house by house. |
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| households owning their home | 21% | home-ownership share lower than 93% of the 723 areas we cover | Let property is specified for durability and turnaround. |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000117. Open Government Licence v3.0.