Kitchen worktops in Leyton

Yes. Dense two-storey terraces where the kitchen sits in the back addition at 2.2m to 2.8m, with the more thoroughly renovated houses filling the side return for a 3.5m run and a small island. Loft conversions have pushed many households to invest in the ground floor, so open-plan rear rooms are increasingly the norm. Streets near a ground or a venue have restrictions that come and go with the fixture list rather than with the time of day. The fitting slot is set around it, which is why we ask about it when the date is booked and not before we leave the yard. It is why the arrival time is what it is.

Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, post-war estate and recent apartment infill. A long piece has to come through the front door, down the hall, round the newel post and through a doorway with a step down into the addition. Victorian party walls and chimney-breast returns bow along their length, so the template plots the real line rather than assuming a straight one - the template picks up points every few hundred millimetres down the back of the run and the drawing carries that curve through to the saw. Two to three hours, once the units are in.

Modal filters, planters and School Street closures mean the direct route to a street is frequently blocked, and match days at the local football ground bring event parking restrictions across the surrounding roads. Permit bays are full during the day, so a bay suspension is often the only way to get within carrying distance. A narrow entrance hall with a turn into the back of the house caps the longest piece we can physically get in, whatever the run itself measures. The templater measures that route on the same visit, so the drawing leaves site already knowing the maximum piece. It goes on the drawing with the run dimensions.

Worktop installation, worktop templating and worktop replacement, 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 carcasses have to be sound, because stone is several times the weight of what is coming off. A day, not a project. Blocked-through streets are the constant here, so check which end of the road is open on the day of the fit, not at template.

On a heavily veined stone the island and the run behind it are nested off the same area of slab so the movement relates across the room. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. One datum for the whole room. 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 old top has been hiding it, so the first honest look at it happens when the laminate comes off. The laminate has been covering it up. 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 ownership is split across a building, the common parts belong to someone else and the carry route is negotiated rather than assumed. A replacement keeps the units and changes the surface, which is the least disruptive way to do this in an occupied property. Units kept, surface changed. 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.