Coombe (Croydon) worktops
The kitchens we meet in Coombe (Croydon)
Ask three neighbours what they paid for stone worktop supply and fitting in Coombe (Croydon) and you will get three answers, all of them correct for the kitchen they were quoting. A small pocket of large houses on wooded plots near Lloyd Park, where kitchens tend to be architect-specified rather than off-the-shelf: full-height cabinetry, a large island with a waterfall end, and a dedicated utility and laundry behind. You do not need to know which one you have before you call. We work that out on the survey.
Plasterboard partitions mean light scribes and clean joins, and the fabrication effort moves to the visible faces instead. Finish counts as much as colour once the light in a room is poor, because a polish hands every reflection back to you and a honed face quietly absorbs them. Pick the surface for the cooking rather than for the photograph.
Floors are chipboard deck on timber joists, which moves enough that level is taken with the units loaded rather than empty. Kitchens in a block like this are compact, so the total area is modest and the material band moves the figure far more than the metreage ever does. Warm stone beside painted timber, cool grey rarely.
What the kitchens here mostly sit in is large detached, Edwardian house on wooded plot, gated modern development and converted lodge. They were built to different tolerances, and the stone has to absorb that.
