Kitchen worktops in Fulham Broadway

Yes. Dense flat stock around the station and the stadium, so kitchens are small and open into the living space, generally 2.4-3m with a peninsula and an integrated appliance stack at one end. A lot of these are rental refurbishments on a tight programme, meaning template-to-fit turnaround matters more than exotic stone. On an event day the controls are wider, tighter and enforced harder than the signage suggests on any other morning of the week. The templating visit needs somewhere to stop for two or three hours, which is a different problem from unloading for twenty minutes. It goes on the job sheet for the fitting crew.

Victorian terrace converted to flats, flat over shop, 1990s-2000s apartment block and mansion flat. Working hours are constrained by the business underneath, so noisy work has a window rather than a day. The units are often 1970s or 80s and only around 500mm deep, so a standard 600mm stone top overhangs at the front and the doors and drawer fronts need checking against it. What is under the old top is the real question.

Matchdays at the ground bring road closures, parking suspensions and a controlled crowd zone across the surrounding streets, which makes a fit day there effectively impossible - check the fixture list when booking. On normal days the side streets are permit-controlled and the flats above the parades are up a single narrow street-door stair with a sharp turn onto the landing. Stone goes up on edge, and it is the half-landing turn rather than the flight itself that sets the maximum piece. Worth remembering that the old tops have to come out the way the new ones come in, and a laminate run is easier to remove in one length than to carry in one. The strip-out is planned around it.

Worktop replacement, worktop installation and worktop templating, in that order. Landlord work is scheduled around void periods, so the whole thing is a fixed window and the template date matters as much as the fitting date. Where the window is fixed there is no second day to fall back on, so the prep list matters more than usual. One visit, done properly. Never book an install on a home matchday - the road closures alone will cost you the slot, never mind the parking suspension.

The free end is what needs deciding early: square edge, mitred apron down the end, or a full waterfall to the floor, and a waterfall is cut in sequence off the same part of the slab. The existing layout is being kept, so the question is whether the old carcasses will take stone in that shape without more support. The units stay, the surface changes. A notch around a boxed stack is machined with a radius at the internal corner, because a square inside corner there is exactly where a top will crack. On the day it means dry-laying, marking, and cutting the scribe on site before anything is bonded. Eased in, never forced. 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.

Access in a tenanted flat depends on the tenant, so the template and fitting dates are agreed with whoever actually holds the keys. The fitting day is arranged with whoever can actually give us access for the whole slot. Access for the whole slot, or a different day. 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.