Worktop fabrication in Lisson Grove

Yes. Lisson Grove is on the patch, and the postcodes we work here are NW8, NW1. It is worked on our central London run, along with the rest of Westminster. Without a bay the van ends up on a single yellow with a crew member watching it, which takes a pair of hands off the carry. Pieces are loaded in reverse fitting order so the first thing off the van is the first thing that goes down. The load plan follows from it. We template in your kitchen and fit in your kitchen, so there is nothing to visit and nothing to collect.

Walls are dense block or in-situ concrete with a bonded plaster, so the bottom course of tiles brings plaster with it when the old top comes off. The notch around a boxed stack is machined with a radius, because a square internal corner there is where a top fails. The bench proves it before the van moves. Concrete walls mean no chasing and no easy fixing - upstands get bonded rather than screwed, and any island needs a floor-fixed frame because you will not get a decent fixing into the wall.

Towers with a single residents' lift, controlled entry, and long internal corridors from the lift to the flat door. Estate roads have resident-only bays with active enforcement, and the Marylebone Road end has no stopping at all. The lift has to be booked and blanketed before anything moves, and that booking needs to cover the old tops coming out as well as the new stone going in. Getting that wrong leaves a finished, machined piece that cannot reach the room, which is a remake rather than a trim. The drawing carries that decision through to the saw.

Not particularly, and it would be easy to pretend otherwise. What the research on this patch actually lists is worktop replacement, worktop installation and worktop splashbacks & upstands. That is a statement about the local housing rather than about the work. It is quoted, cut and fitted exactly the same way here as anywhere else on the patch. A worktop replacement between tenancies is a single-day job by design, because the flat is not earning while it is empty. So the nesting is planned around it rather than around a standard kitchen. Nested for the job in front of us. Where kitchens turn over between tenancies the priority is a surface that survives a decade of being treated as a chopping board. Cutting several kitchens from different slabs and calling them matched is where firms get caught out. Same slab run, or it is not a match.

If the island is a few hundred millimetres longer than the usable length of a slab, a second slab gets bought to gain that overhang, and the whole slab is paid for rather than the part used. A join that lands in the wrong place cannot be moved once the cut-outs are machined, so it is settled on the drawing. The bench proves it before the van does. Material is £110-£550 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines.

A notch around a boxed stack is machined with a radius at the internal corner, because a square inside corner there is exactly where a top will crack. 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. The stack boxing needs to be in its final form and the sink and hob on site before we machine, since a boxing that gets re-clad afterwards throws the notch out. These kitchens tend to be compact and reasonably square, so the fixed template, fabrication and fitting lines are a larger share of the total than the stone is. Sink and hob are dry-fitted on the bench before dispatch, whoever supplied them. Changes cost a piece, not a tweak.