Buckinghamshire & Berkshire
Kitchen worktops in High Wycombe, the Chilterns and east Berkshire
Templated and fitted across Beaconsfield, Marlow, Amersham, Gerrards Cross, Maidenhead, Slough, Aylesbury and Windsor. Everything happens at your address, not ours.
Working in Buckinghamshire & Berkshire
The Chilterns patch splits neatly in two. There are the older village properties around Amersham and Marlow, where the kitchen has been fitted into a room that was never meant to be one. And there are the large modern kitchens through Beaconsfield and Gerrards Cross, where the island is the whole point of the room.
Both need the same thing from us and for opposite reasons: a template that accounts for what the room is really doing, because in one case nothing is straight and in the other every edge is on display.
High Wycombe is a service area, not an address
There is nowhere here to walk into and nothing to collect. We template in your kitchen, cut the stone in our workshop and fit it in your kitchen. If you want to hold a surface before deciding, we post samples out free.
Local kitchens
The kitchens on this patch
Older cottages and converted properties bring low ceilings, thick uneven walls and doorways that a full slab simply will not pass through. That is not a problem if it is known on the day we template. It is a problem if it is found on the day we fit. We plan the route in and the join positions together.
The larger detached houses tend towards open-plan kitchens with a substantial island, a run of tall units and a separate prep or pantry area. Thick mitred edges and single-piece tops are the norm here, which puts the work back in the workshop where it belongs.
Towards Slough and Maidenhead there is more flat and 1960s to 1970s stock: compact galley and L-shaped kitchens where a thinner sintered surface or a slim square edge keeps the room from closing in.
If you are putting in a Belfast or butler sink (common in the village properties here), it has to be fitted and in place before we template. The cut-out is taken from the actual sink, not from a specification sheet.
Access
Getting a slab to your door here
This is the patch where the last hundred metres matters most. Narrow lanes, single-track approaches, gravel drives and steep hills all affect how close the van gets, and stone is heavy enough that the difference between parking at the door and parking at the gate changes the whole day.
Tell us what the approach looks like when you book the template. If we know we are carrying, we plan the pieces and the crew for it. Tight turns in a hallway can also move a join. We would rather put a 2–3mm seam somewhere sensible than find out on fitting day that the top cannot get into the room.
3–7 days
Working days working days from template, on this patch the same as every other.
Our own installers
The person who templates your kitchen briefs the person who cuts it. Nothing is subcontracted out on the way.
Near the edge of this patch?
Ask before you assume either way. Plenty of the kitchens we fit sit between the towns listed below, and if we genuinely cannot reach you properly we will say so rather than take a deposit.
Services
What this patch asks for most
Not a sales list, just the jobs the housing stock keeps producing.
Surfaces
Every colour we fit around High Wycombe
The full library is the same wherever you are on our patches: quartz, granite and sintered stone from £110/m² supply. Filter by material and colour, then order samples of the two or three you are actually deciding between.
Judge it in your own kitchen
Stone changes character under different lighting. A sample sitting on your units at nine in the evening tells you more than any screen or lightbox will. That is the whole reason we post them rather than ask you to travel.
Coverage
Towns we work in from the High Wycombe patch
These are the places we are in regularly. They are not a boundary. If you are just outside, send the postcode and we will confirm it in writing.
- Beaconsfield
- Marlow
- Amersham
- Gerrards Cross
- Maidenhead
- Slough
- Aylesbury
- Windsor
Questions
What people ask us around High Wycombe
The ones that come up on this patch specifically. If yours is not here, ring and ask. You will get a straight answer rather than a call-back from a salesperson.
Do you cover Beaconsfield, Marlow, Amersham and Windsor from here?
Yes. Beaconsfield, Marlow, Amersham, Gerrards Cross, Maidenhead, Slough, Aylesbury and Windsor are all on this patch, and it is the same team across the lot. Those towns are where we work regularly rather than a boundary line. A lot of this area is villages between them, so if yours is not listed, send the postcode and we will confirm it in writing.
Our cottage doorway is too narrow for a full-length worktop. What happens?
We plan the route in and the join positions together at the template visit, before anything is cut. If a piece cannot physically get through the door, the answer is a join put somewhere sensible (typically 2–3mm, colour-matched and sanded flush) rather than a fitting day with the stone stuck in the hall. Low ceilings and a tight turn at the foot of the stairs matter for the same reason, so mention those on the day too.
We are fitting a Belfast sink. What do you need from us?
The sink installed and in its final position before we template. The worktop is cut around the actual sink rather than a specification sheet, and the height it sits at changes the drawing. If it is sitting out of level we will tell you at template, because a straight stone edge above an out-of-level sink shows it up, and that is far easier to correct before the stone is cut than after.
How do you make a 20mm slab look like 60mm of solid stone on an island?
A mitred edge. The slab is cut at 45 degrees and folded down to form an apron, so what you see at the edge is 40mm or 60mm of stone with the pattern running round the corner. It only works if the pieces are cut in sequence and dry-assembled on our bench first. A cut-out two millimetres tight is a fifteen minute fix in the workshop and a lost day in your kitchen.
Can our island be one piece with no join in it?
Sometimes. It depends on the slab size of the material you have chosen and on whether a piece that large can physically get into the room. Both are answered at quotation and confirmed at template rather than on fitting day, and if a single piece is not going to work we tell you before you set your heart on it.
The van cannot get down our lane or onto the drive. Is that a problem?
It is a planning problem rather than a stopping problem. Gravel, a steep or single-track approach and a long walk from the road all change how we break the job into pieces and how many people we bring. Tell us what the last hundred metres looks like when you book the template and it gets built into the day instead of discovered on it.
Our kitchen has a rooflight and gets full sun. Will the worktop fade?
Sintered surfaces such as Dekton are UV stable, which makes them the safe answer for a room with a rooflight or a wall of glass. Granite is quarried stone and daylight does not trouble it either. Quartz is the one worth thinking about in a very bright room, so tell us how much direct sun the run actually gets and we will narrow the list before you order samples.
Our kitchen is a small galley. Will thick stone make it feel smaller?
It can. In the compact flats and 1960s and 1970s kitchens around Slough and Maidenhead, a 20mm top with a slim square edge usually reads better than a chunky apron: less shadow line, and the run looks longer. Sintered surfaces suit that job because they are strong at a thin section. Decide it with a sample sitting on your own units rather than from a photograph.
Do we need to be in for the template, and how long does it take?
Two to three hours for a typical kitchen, and longer for an island with several returns or a full-height splashback. Somebody who can make decisions has to be there, because join positions, overhang depths, tap hole placement and the edge profile are all agreed and signed off on the day. Once it is signed off the drawing goes to the workshop and you are 3–7 working days from a fitted worktop.
Next step
Send us the kitchen and we will send back a real number
Plans, a sketch or photos with rough measurements is enough to start. You get a fixed written quote with every cut-out and edge itemised, plus the template dates we can offer on this patch.