Wandsworth · SW17 SW16

Bathroom worktops and vanity tops in Furzedown

We cover Furzedown in Wandsworth (SW17 and SW16) on our south west London run with Tooting Graveney next door: bathroom worktops with material from £110 per square metre supply only, fitted 5 to 10 working days from template.

25-year material · 5-year workmanship
Fitted 5-10 working days from template
Covered on our south west London run
Templated and fitted on site
Any extra join flagged at quote stage

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Furzedown worktops

The buildings and streets around Furzedown

We do not price vanity tops in Furzedown without seeing the kitchen first, and the reason for that is in the rooms themselves. A quiet grid of Edwardian and interwar houses where extensions are usually single-storey rear rather than side-return, giving a squarer kitchen that suits a U-shape with a short peninsula. Utility rooms partitioned off the back of the kitchen are common. Whichever of those your kitchen turns out to be, the job in Furzedown runs the same way: survey, template, fit.

The extension slab was poured to its own level, so there is a lip or a ramp where the new floor meets the original one. Nobody looks at a bathroom surface until the sealant discolours, at which point nobody looks at anything else in the room. The aperture is polished because you look straight down into it.

An inter-war terrace is wider than a Victorian one and shallower than a semi, so the kitchen is a compact square room rather than a galley. The original bathroom in these houses is the small room over the hall, and a vanity in it is short, shallow and hard against a wall at each end, so both ends are scribed and there is no tolerance left between them. Square rooms make short work of a vanity template.

The housing behind these kitchens is Edwardian terrace, Interwar semi and 1930s terrace. The floor datum is the thing that changes most between them.

Figures cover the 2 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Furzedown
Figure	Furzedown	Against London	What it means for the job
homes built before 1919	63%	pre-1919 share higher than 90% of the 723 areas we cover
homes built since 2010	1%	post-2010 share lower than 94% of the 723 areas we cover	No two kitchens are set out alike.
median sale price, postcode district, Jan 2024 to Jun 2026, n=4,282	£527,500	median price lower than 53% of the 722 areas we cover

Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000958 and E02000959; HM Land Registry Price Paid for SW17 and SW16. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Edwardian terrace
Interwar semi
1930s terrace

At a glance

Bathroom worktops and vanity tops, in short

Borough: Wandsworth
Postcodes: SW17, SW16
Covered on: our south west London run
Fitted: 5–10 working days from template
Homes (VOA count): 6,300

The place

Why bathroom worktops in Furzedown are their own job

Fitting stone in Furzedown is a question of what the building will allow, and we would rather find that out early. The area sits inside a loop of main roads with limited through routes, so satnav approaches often fail and the van has to come in from Mitcham Lane or Tooting Bec Road. Once inside, parking pressure is moderate and most houses have a front path. Where a utility is partitioned off, the two rooms usually want the same material but different thicknesses, so which side takes the offcuts is confirmed before the slab is laid out. Both go on the drawing, and the drawing is what the workshop cuts to.

The work

Bathroom worktops and vanity tops, step by step

How bathroom worktops work

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Edge profiles worktop edge profiles

The money

What bathroom worktops cost in Furzedown

In Furzedown, 4% of homes sit in council tax band F or above: lower than 65% of the 723 areas we cover. The middle run is usually the one that dictates the slab, and the two wings are worked around it. The supply band of £110 to £550 per square metre is known the day you choose a colour. What is not known until the template is the piece count and the number of cut-outs.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces

The building, and what it does to the bathroom worktops

Across this patch almost nothing has gone up in the last fifteen years, which makes the carcass check the first question rather than the last. An en-suite added to a bedroom is another vanity carrying the same work at a reduced size. Every vanity is drawn from its own template regardless.

Demand

What Furzedown asks for in bathroom worktops

We rank the domestic jobs against a neighbourhood's building stock, and this is not one of them. For the record, the stock here asks for worktop replacement. The commercial work is surveyed and fitted to the same standard.

The route in

The carry, and what it rules out for bathroom worktops

Every internal doorway on the way through is another frame to clear, and internal doors come off their hinges rather than being propped open. Weight is seldom the difficulty; the awkwardness is two people, one rigid piece and a frame that was never built to admit all three at once. Loft en-suites arrive up the tightest flight in the house.

Questions

Bathroom worktop questions in Furzedown

Is Furzedown inside the area you cover?

Yes, Furzedown (SW17 and SW16) is on the patch, worked on our south west London run with Tooting Graveney, Tooting Bec and Streatham.

What should I expect from bathroom worktops in a Furzedown building?

In Furzedown, 11% of homes went up between 1919 and 1939, which is lower than 60% of the 723 areas we cover. There is usually a shared rear alley, and whether the gate onto it is unlocked decides whether long pieces come in from the back. Half-tiled walls are the norm, and the tile line is what the splash return has to meet, which is a decision taken before machining rather than discovered afterwards.

How would you get a worktop into a property in Furzedown?

In Furzedown, 40% of households have no car or van: higher than 52% of the 723 areas we cover. A pendant light hanging in the middle of a hall ceiling sets the angle a piece can be tilted to, and it is the measurement nobody thinks to take. A vanity is the one piece of stone that route will not usually defeat, because a top cut to a standard unit depth weighs what one person can manage.

What am I actually paying for, line by line?

The material is usually the smallest line on a bathroom quote, since most vanity tops come out of offcut stock rather than a slab bought for them. In Furzedown, 13% of homes have four or more bedrooms, higher than 71% of the 723 areas we cover.

What state does a Furzedown kitchen have to be in before you template?

In Furzedown, from the Edwardian terrace to the 1930s terrace, the vanity unit needs to be fixed and level before we template, with the basin and tap on site. Settle the tiling height and the basin model first, and let us know whether the unit is standing on the floor or hanging off the wall.

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