Kitchen worktops in Green Street Green

Yes. Post-war detached and link-detached with integral garages, so the kitchen usually backs onto the garage and the utility is a converted garage corner with a second worktop run. Kitchens are moderate size, typically an L plus a peninsula, and clients often want the garage side made into a proper laundry. A drive that shelves towards the house needs the van chocked and the trolley controlled, since a loaded A-frame gathers speed quickly on a slope. It sits in the fitting line as time on site rather than as anything to do with the stone. It is one line among the others, and it is honest.

1960s detached, 1970s link-detached, 1980s cul-de-sac housing and bungalow. Walls look modern and are not: block or breeze with a skim that has been patched over decades, so dry-laying and scribing still apply. The fitting itself is about squaring up to walls that look modern and are not: block or breeze walls with a skim that has been patched over decades, so we still dry-lay and scribe rather than trust the template edge. That is the shape of the day.

Cul-de-sac layouts with turning heads, so the van can get right to the door, but garage-side entrances have a step and a fire door that limits swing. A short hard approach with no steps means a full-length piece can be walked in flat by two people rather than turned up on edge. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. It gets checked before the first piece is lifted.

Worktop installation, worktop replacement and worktop design & quotation, in that order. A kitchen carved out of a larger room sits under whatever the original plan left behind, so the run frequently ends at a blocked doorway or a boxed-in service. The units stay and only the surface changes, so the whole job is one day rather than a kitchen refit. A day, not a project. Utility runs in converted garages sit on a different floor level to the kitchen, so we template the two areas as separate jobs even when it is one continuous cabinet line on the drawing.

Where the return runs into a wall that is out of square, the corner is templated as the angle it really is rather than as ninety degrees. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. Dry-lay first, always. Legs bottoming out on hard concrete or an uneven screed mean the tops of the carcasses are not one plane, and that is picked up at template rather than on fitting day. The old top has been hiding it, so the first honest look at it happens when the laminate comes off. The laminate has been covering it up. 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.

An owner living in the house makes the decisions and lives with them, so the specification tends to go towards the material rather than towards the lowest total. A replacement keeps the units and changes the surface, which is the least disruptive way to do this in an occupied property. Units kept, surface changed. 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.