Eden Park worktops
The kitchens we meet in Eden Park
We survey every kitchen before we price it, and the worktop jobs we take on in Eden Park show why that is not just paperwork. Quiet inter-war streets around the station where kitchens are typically a modest rear room extended by 2-3m, giving an L-shape with a run under the window and a peninsula facing the garden doors. Fewer full islands than Bickley or Chislehurst because the footprints are smaller. You do not have to work out which of those you have. We will look at it with you when we come to Eden Park.
Solid brick with a sand and cement render is firm to work against and reliably out of plumb across the length of a run. Heat is worth settling before anything else, since granite takes a pan straight off a burner and an engineered surface holds a scorch for the rest of its life. The cheapest stone and the dearest one share a fitting day.
A side door into a lobby with a cloakroom off it is the standard arrangement, so there is a second way in that misses the hall altogether. Runs here are usually long enough to want a full slab and short enough not to need a second, which is the most economical position on the whole price list. A compact kitchen puts the band ahead of the metreage.
The fabric of the place is 1930s semi, 1930s detached, 1950s bungalow and 1980s close housing. Knowing which one it is before we arrive is half the survey done.
