Kitchen worktops in Hurlingham

Yes. The largest houses in Fulham sit here, and the kitchens reflect it - separate prep and pantry areas, a main island of 3-3.6m, an additional run of 4m and often a stone-topped bar or serving unit. Clients regularly ask for a continuous vein match from island to full-height rear panel, which means selecting consecutive slabs from the same block and dry-laying at the yard. Off-street parking means the van stays put all day, so tools, packers and the offcut we would rather have than not are all within reach. It rarely changes what we cut, but it does change how the pieces are stacked and strapped for the run out. The load plan follows from it.

large detached and semi-detached Victorian house, Edwardian villa, riverside apartment block and gated modern house. The rear extension is frequently original rather than added, which means it is solidly built and just as far out of square as the rest of the house. The day is planned backwards from the hall. That is the shape of the day.

Driveways and off-street parking are common, which is a rarity in the borough and makes the unload easy, but the houses are deep with long hallways and the kitchen is often the far room past two doorways. Some properties back onto the riverside path or club land with no vehicle access at the rear, so the front route is the only one. Carrying through the house means protecting the whole route first: floor boarded, banister padded, and the front door held open on a wedge rather than by hand. Finding it out on the morning costs the whole slot, because there is no second route to fall back on. That is what the morning is planned around.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop fabrication and worktop installation, in that order. A new extension slab is not automatically level, and that wants checking before templating rather than after the stone is cut. The fitting day is scheduled to suit that rather than to suit the diary. One visit, done properly. Vein-matched book-matched work means the slab selection meeting comes first - once the block is cut you cannot recover a mismatched island end.

An island is a single visible piece with four finished edges and no wall to hide against, so it is the piece the whole kitchen is judged on. The nest is laid out around that, with joins placed over cabinet gables and kept clear of every cut-out. The bench proves it before the van does. A run can measure dead right at both ends and still belly out in the middle, which only appears once the template plots the intermediate points. The template drawing carries the real geometry through to the saw, and the piece is machined to it rather than trimmed to it later. Radiused, polished, and clear of the joins. 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.

The same building type can arrive as a careful one-off kitchen or as a fast turnaround, and the honest answer is that they are priced differently. A half-day of access is not a fitting day, and it is better to say so at booking than to find out at eleven. Protection goes down first. 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.