In Harringay, what the local housing does to bathroom worktop fitting is worth knowing before you commit to anything. The Ladder streets are long, narrow terraces where the kitchen sits in a back addition and the classic upgrade is a side-return infill giving a 4m to 5m single run with the sink in the middle. Households along the Green Lanes end often want a second cooker or a large gas hob, which drives bigger cut-outs. If you would rather someone just came and looked, that is the design and quotation visit, and it costs nothing in Harringay or anywhere else.
A cast iron soil stack runs down the outside of the rear wall, so moving the sink means a fresh penetration through solid brick. Bathrooms in buildings like this are reached up a flight and worked in a room two people can barely stand in, and the visit is planned around both. One piece, four operations, and nowhere for any of them to move.
The step down from the main house into the addition is commonly a hundred to a hundred and fifty millimetres, which gives the kitchen a different floor datum from the rest of the ground floor. The bathroom in one of these is usually a later addition over the back kitchen, so the walls are thinner, the floor moves and a vanity has to sit level in a room that is not. Stud partitions want noggins before a wall-hung unit goes up.
The kinds of building we work in here are Victorian ladder terrace, Edwardian terrace and flat above shop. Each carries its own carry problem before it carries a worktop.
Figures cover the 4 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Harringay| Figure | Harringay | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 73% | pre-1919 share higher than 95% of the 723 areas we cover | Those walls carry a century of movement. |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 2% | inter-war share lower than 91% of the 723 areas we cover | The plans vary house by house. |
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| homes built since 2010 | 5% | post-2010 share lower than 65% of the 723 areas we cover | No two kitchens are set out alike. |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for 4 MSOAs (E02000419, E02000423 and 2 more). Open Government Licence v3.0.