Whatever you have read about bathroom worktop fitting in Hoxton, the only version that matters is the one measured against the kitchen you are standing in. Georgian houses around the squares with small compartmented rooms, large post-war estates with standard galley kitchens, and a few converted industrial buildings with open-plan runs. Most of the work is replacement within the existing footprint rather than reconfiguration. We would rather find the awkward corner now than on the day the stone arrives in Hoxton, so the survey looks at everything.
These kitchens give three metres of usable wall and no more, so a dimension out by a few millimetres costs a whole run rather than a piece. What that does to a vanity is push the whole job into a narrow depth, because a bathroom takes the same stone as a kitchen in about two thirds of the width. A bathroom is a short job that repays being drawn properly.
Front doors off the deck open into a lobby barely wider than the door itself, and the turn out of it is a right angle. The service riser is boxed into a corner of the room, and the top is notched round it with a radiused internal corner rather than a square one. Deep reveals turn a window board into a real piece of stone.
The stock on this patch is Georgian terrace, Victorian terrace, large post-war estate and warehouse conversion. The one you have sets the piece length before the kitchen does.
Figures cover the 2 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Hoxton| Figure | Hoxton | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 9% | pre-1919 share lower than 69% of the 723 areas we cover | Corners tend to come in close to square. |
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| homes built 1919 to 1939 | 5% | inter-war share lower than 78% of the 723 areas we cover | The plans vary house by house. |
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| flats and maisonettes | 98% | flat share higher than 96% of the 723 areas we cover | The lift car is part of the specification here. |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000370 and E02007110. Open Government Licence v3.0.