Kitchen worktops in Lamorbey

Yes. Interwar housing around the park with rear kitchens and separate dining rooms; many have a side extension over the old garage, which gives a wide kitchen with an L and a small island rather than one long run. 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 is noted on the job sheet at template so the fitting crew inherit the answer rather than rediscovering it. Two hours is the realistic figure.

1930s semi, interwar detached, 1960s low-rise flats and postwar terrace. Original quarry-tiled floors sit lower than a later screed, so a run crossing that junction needs the units packed to one level. The sill height over the sink is settled on site, because there is often less clearance than an upstand is tall. Two to three hours, once the units are in.

Quiet roads with verges and drives, good turning space throughout, and school traffic around the park as the only timing issue. Even an easy kerbside carry wants the pavement clear at the tail lift, because a three-metre piece on edge has a swing radius nobody expects until it is swinging. Door widths, turn diagonals and any change of level are recorded on the drawing alongside the run dimensions. It goes on the drawing with the run dimensions.

Worktop installation, worktop templating and worktop replacement, in that order. Rear and side-return extensions are where the islands appear, and an island is the piece that decides whether one slab does the kitchen or two. The template visit is booked once the units are genuinely in, not when they are nearly in. Units fitted, fixed and level first. Side-extension kitchens mean the run crosses an old external wall — expect a step in the wall line and template for it.

Two runs meeting at an internal corner is the most common shape we fit, and the corner is where the decisions are. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. The join is the last thing finished. Walls that bow along their length are the normal condition rather than the exception, and a straight-cut back edge will show a shadow gap at one end and touch at the other. The back edge is eased in progressively rather than offered up once and forced. Dry-lay, mark, cut, then bond. 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.

Where someone is living in the house through the work, the strip-out and the fit are planned so the kitchen is out of use for a day and not a week. The template happens when the units are in, fixed and level, whoever is fitting them. Fitted, fixed and level, then we come. 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.