Elmers End worktops
The kitchens we meet in Elmers End
We do not price worktop jobs in Elmers End without seeing the kitchen first, and the reason for that is in the rooms themselves. Mixed private and ex-local-authority stock with mostly straight-run kitchens of 2.7-3.4m, often with the original larder cupboard still in place and a back door at one end. Buy-to-let and probate refurbishments make up a lot of the work, so specifications are practical rather than showpiece. You do not have to work out which of those you have. We will look at it with you when we come to Elmers End.
Windows sit in deep concrete reveals with a cast sill, and that reveal is usually the least square thing in the room. Run lengths are what turn a rate per square metre into a bill, since a slab is bought whole and the part of it nobody uses is paid for all the same. Supply is a range, and the room decides where in it you land.
Walls are dense in-situ concrete or blockwork with a thin skim, which will not be chased back and will not take a plasterboard fixing. These kitchens work hard, which argues for surfaces that ask for nothing: engineered stone for its consistency, sintered stone where heat and scratching are daily. Movement needs length, and length is what these rooms have.
Locally the mix runs to inter-war terrace, post-war council-built semi, 1960s low-rise flats and 1990s infill. Each of those behaves differently once the old top comes off.
