Kitchen worktops in Fitzrovia

Yes. Mostly apartments, many carved out of former commercial floors, which gives an open-plan kitchen along one wall of a large room at 3-4m and sometimes a genuine island where the floorplate allows. The older above-shop flats are the opposite, tiny and tucked behind a hall with services in the worst possible corner. Permit hours are what matters, not the permit itself, because a bay that frees up at six in the evening is no use for a template at ten. Pieces are loaded in reverse fitting order so the first thing off the van is the first thing that goes down. That is the last thing settled before dispatch.

Georgian terrace above retail, warehouse and office conversion, 1930s block and modern apartment. Working hours are constrained by the business underneath, so noisy work has a window rather than a day. With little area to spread them over, the cut-outs and the fixed lines carry the quote, so each is listed on its own. That is what the itemised lines are for.

Congestion Charge zone, Monday to Saturday controlled parking, delivery restrictions on the busier streets, and buildings that open straight onto the pavement with no forecourt. The converted commercial buildings have goods lifts worth booking, while the Georgian above-shop flats have none at all. The lift has to be booked and blanketed before anything moves, and that booking needs to cover the old tops coming out as well as the new stone going in. We price the carry from what you tell us about the route, so photographs of the approach are worth more to us than a floor plan. You see that figure before we template, not after.

Worktop installation, worktop fabrication 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. Everything is itemised: material, template, fabrication, fitting, each cut-out and each metre of upstand. Material is the slab only, and it says so. In the converted commercial buildings a full-length slab usually goes up in the goods lift, so check it before templating instead of designing in joins you do not need.

Galley runs are usually short enough to come out of a single slab, so the material band you choose does more to the total than the room shape does. A join that lands in the wrong place cannot be moved once the cut-outs are machined, so it is settled on the drawing. The bench proves it before the van does. Walls that bow along their length are the normal condition rather than the exception, and a straight-cut back edge will show a shadow gap at one end and touch at the other. Rushing that is what leaves a gap you look at every morning for fifteen years. It is the slow part of the day and it should be. 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.

Where ownership is split across a building, the common parts belong to someone else and the carry route is negotiated rather than assumed. The quote is written so it can be read by whoever is paying rather than only by whoever is standing in the kitchen. Nothing payable until template. 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.