Kitchen worktops in Golders Green

Yes. Two clear kitchen types: 1930s mansion flats with fixed compact kitchens against a services wall, and family houses where a full kosher kitchen is the standard brief with two sinks, two dishwashers, separate meat and dairy runs, often two ovens and space for a Shabbat hot plate. That doubles the number of cut-outs and usually means two matched worktop runs rather than one. Without a bay the van ends up on a single yellow with a crew member watching it, which takes a pair of hands off the carry. Where unloading has to happen in one go, the load order is planned so nothing has to come off twice. That is the last thing settled before dispatch.

1930s mansion block, Edwardian and 1920s semi and large detached off the main roads. These kitchens are full of boxed soil stacks, gas risers and heating pipework, and the boxing usually stops short of the ceiling. This is the most managed day we do, with a hard finish time set by the block rather than by the work. Walked, measured, protected, then lifted.

Mansion blocks with small original lifts, stone stairs and porters, plus permit parking that is full by mid-morning along the main roads. Houses off the side streets have driveways, but the mansion flats are the defining access problem. 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. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. None of it is worked out on the doorstep.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop installation and worktop fabrication, in that order. Where kitchens turn over between tenancies the priority is a surface that survives a decade of being treated as a chopping board. One visit, with the sink and hob seated and sealed before we leave. Sealed before we leave. Kosher layouts must be agreed before templating because the meat and dairy split changes sink positions, drainer grooves and joint locations across the whole kitchen.

The catch with a galley is that both runs are seen end-on from the doorway, so any difference in overhang between the two reads immediately. Slab yield is worked out at quote stage, so if the layout forces a second slab you hear it before you commit rather than after. Shape first, area second. 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. The back edge is eased in progressively rather than offered up once and forced. Dry-lay, mark, cut, then bond. 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.

Owner-occupied kitchens are usually being done once, which is why the edge profile, the vein direction and where a join falls are worth the conversation. 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.