Hammersmith and Fulham · SW6
Splashbacks and upstands in Fulham Broadway
Stone taken up the wall, cut from the same slab run as your worktop so the batch actually matches.
Fulham Broadway kitchens
What the kitchens here are actually like
Units are often only 500mm deep, so a standard 600mm stone top overhangs at the front and the doors need checking against it. What decides between a slim upstand and full-height stone is nearly always the wall rather than the taste. The wall decides, not the brochure.
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.
Never book an install on a home matchday - the road closures alone will cost you the slot, never mind the parking suspension. A lot of these are rental refurbishments on a tight programme, meaning template-to-fit turnaround matters more than exotic stone. 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.
The stair from the street is narrow with a tight turn at the top, which caps piece length well below anything the run itself needs. Post-war terraces are typically blockwork or early lightweight block with a hard render coat, and the kitchen has usually been reconfigured at least once, leaving patched areas of newer plaster next to original render that sit at different depths. Cut from the same slab run as the tops.
What we are usually templating in is Victorian terrace converted to flats, flat over shop, 1990s-2000s apartment block and mansion flat. The differences between them show up at template, not at enquiry.
True everywhere
Splashbacks and upstands, in short
- Cut from the same slab run as the worktop, at the same time.
- Ordered later, from a different batch, the match is not reliable where the pieces meet.
- Socket and switch positions must be final before templating.
- The joint to the worktop is siliconed, never grouted.
Covered from the New Malden patch. Fitted 3–7 working days from template.
Victorian and Edwardian terraces
What gets asked for here
Honestly, this is not what we do most on this patch. Worktop replacement, worktop installation and worktop templating come up more often. That is a statement about the local housing rather than about the work, and nothing about how it is quoted, cut or fitted changes because of it.
Victorian and Edwardian terraces
Getting stone into the room
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.
Where an event closes the road entirely, the van cannot be moved once it is in, which is a different problem from not being able to park at all. Upstands travel in a crate and can wait on the van, which gives some flexibility a full-height panel does not. Handling is where these pieces get damaged.
Access
Getting stone into a Fulham Broadway kitchen
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.
Tell us what the approach looks like when you book the template and it gets built into the day rather than discovered on it. Where the route is genuinely tight, it changes how the pieces are cut, which is a fabrication decision rather than a delivery one.
3–7 working days
From template to fitted, working days from template. The same on this patch as every other.
New Malden patch
Fulham Broadway is worked from our New Malden run, covering South West London & Surrey.
We come to you
Templated in your kitchen, cut in our workshop, fitted by our own installers.
Access told straight
If the route forces an extra join, you hear that at quote stage, not on the day.
Questions
Worktop splashbacks & upstands in Fulham Broadway
If yours is not here, ring and ask. You get a straight answer rather than a call-back from a salesperson.
Do you cover Fulham Broadway?
Yes. Fulham Broadway is on the patch, and the postcodes we work here are SW6. It is run from the New Malden side, covering South West London & Surrey. Streets near a ground or a venue have restrictions that come and go with the fixture list rather than with the time of day. Splashbacks are normally the last thing off, so a short parking window is exactly when they get rushed. That is why they are crated the way they are. We template in your kitchen and fit in your kitchen, so there is nothing to visit and nothing to collect.
Does the housing in Fulham Broadway change how worktop splashbacks & upstands works?
Working hours are constrained by the business underneath, so noisy work has a window rather than a day. Patched plaster next to original render sits at different depths, and that step is exactly what an upstand covers. Cut from the same slab run as the tops. Never book an install on a home matchday - the road closures alone will cost you the slot, never mind the parking suspension.
How does the stone actually reach a kitchen in Fulham Broadway?
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. A walk-up with winders at every half-landing means the piece is rested and re-gripped on the way, so the crew size goes up before the piece size comes down. It is usually the full-height panels rather than the tops that will not make the turn, and that only shows up when they arrive. Joint positions follow from that. Tell us what the approach looks like when you book the template and it gets built into the day rather than discovered on it.
Is Fulham Broadway really a worktop splashbacks & upstands area?
Not particularly, and it would be easy to pretend otherwise. What the research on this patch actually lists is worktop replacement, worktop installation and worktop templating. That is a statement about the local housing rather than about the work. It is quoted, cut and fitted exactly the same way here as anywhere else on the patch. A worktop replacement between tenancies is a single-day job by design, because the flat is not earning while it is empty. Ordered later from a different batch, the match is not reliable exactly where the pieces meet. Siliconed to the worktop, never grouted. 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. Ordered later from a different batch, the match is not reliable exactly where the pieces meet. Siliconed to the worktop, never grouted.
Why do two Fulham Broadway kitchens the same size price differently?
A peninsula is an island with one end tied to a run, which means the join between them has to be planned rather than allowed to happen. Long runs almost never take a single panel, so the joint positions want agreeing before anything is templated. The joint to the worktop is siliconed, never grouted. Material is £110-£550 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines.
What has to be finished before you can template?
Anything that has to stay accessible, a stopcock, a gas meter, a riser panel, is marked on the template so the stone is cut around it instead of over it. Where the wall cannot be made good, setting the stone deliberately proud on a subframe with a shadow gap reads as a detail rather than a bad fit. Scribed, dubbed out, or set proud. Pick one. Boiler position, flue and any pipework drops must be settled and the wall skimmed level before templating the splashback run. Access in a tenanted flat depends on the tenant, so the template and fitting dates are agreed with whoever actually holds the keys. Full-height panels need the wall made good first, which is another trade and another timescale. Same slab run as the tops.
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Splashbacks and upstands in Fulham Broadway, priced properly
Plans, a sketch or photographs with rough run lengths is enough to start. You get an itemised written quote and the template dates we can offer on this patch.
25-year material warranty and a 5-year workmanship guarantee, both stated on your quote.