Kitchen worktops in Clerkenwell

Yes. Loft conversions of print, watchmaking and light-industrial buildings, where the kitchen is a run and an island in one large open space with exposed brick, steel and timber floors. Runs of 4m plus a 2.5-3m island are common and clients often want a single stone carried across island, worktops and splashback. Where the frontage is a clearway the unload happens away from the door and the carry gets longer, which is a crew and time question rather than a stone one. Where a bay suspension or a permit is needed, that is a real cost and it goes on the quote instead of appearing later. It is one line among the others, and it is honest.

former industrial warehouse conversion, Georgian terrace, Victorian model-dwelling block and modern apartment. Poured screed over steel decking can fall away across a long run, so level is checked across the whole room before anything is packed. Open-plan layouts mean long, uninterrupted runs and islands, so slab yield and whether we can nest those lengths dominates the material figure, and an intruding steel column or brick pier can force a scribe or a break in a run that otherwise would have been one clean piece. That is what the itemised lines are for.

Inside the Congestion Charge zone with narrow one-way streets, loading bans through the busiest hours and traffic filters on several residential blocks. Many converted buildings retain a goods lift, which is the difference between a one-piece island and a jointed one. Where the lift will not take the longest run we design a join in rather than gamble, because a piece that will not go up has to go back on the van. An access-driven join is priced like any other join, and people are always surprised to see one on a dead straight run. It appears as its own line rather than buried in a rate.

Worktop fabrication, worktop installation and worktop design & quotation, in that order. A new extension slab is not automatically level, and that wants checking before templating rather than after the stone is cut. So the nesting is planned around it rather than around a standard kitchen. Same slab run, or it is not a match. The floors in these conversions are old timber over long spans and are rarely flat, so level and pack the island carcass properly before setting stone or a 3m top will telegraph every dip.

An island is a single visible piece with four finished edges and no wall to hide against, so it is the piece the whole kitchen is judged on. 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. Floors settle, and once base units are packed and levelled properly the stone sits true while everything else in the room admits it is not. Rushing that is what leaves a gap you look at every morning for fifteen years. 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.

A let property is specified for durability and for a fixed window, and both of those are legitimate reasons to choose differently. 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.