Kitchen worktops in Marylebone

Yes. Mansion flats dominate, and the classic job is a tired 1980s kitchen in a large flat being replaced with a handleless design in the same footprint - a 3.5m run along the old service wall plus a short island where the maid's room used to be. Estate leases mean layout changes need landlord approval, so the layout usually stays. Unrestricted kerbside is straightforward as long as the space in front of the property is actually clear when the van arrives. 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.

Georgian estate townhouse, Edwardian mansion block and medical-building conversion. The lift is a small passenger car with a gate, and the alternative is a stone stair winding round the shaft with a turn at every half-landing. A mansion block is a logistics job before it is a stone job. Sound carcasses are the one condition.

Portered mansion blocks with a set of house rules - works hours typically 9 to 5 weekdays only, no weekends, lift protection mandatory, and the porter controls when you can bring materials through the front hall. Original lift cars will not take a full slab. Piece length is set by the internal diagonal of the lift car, not by the length of the slab. With no room to turn, the old top gets cut up in the kitchen instead, which is dusty work and needs the room emptied first. That is agreed before a plumber is booked.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop installation, in that order. Quartz suits let property well: no sealing, no annual maintenance, and nothing an incoming tenant has to be told to look after. Two to three hours on site, with the sink, tap and hob physically present. The room as it is, not as it was drawn. Estate leases restrict altering the layout, so you are usually working to exactly the same run positions as the old top - keep the old worktop as a reference until the new one is in.

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. Old laminate has often been holding a run square for years, and taking it off shows what the units were really doing. The units stay, the surface changes. A boxed soil stack or service riser in the corner of a run eats into the worktop depth and has to be scribed around rather than cut square. Rushing that is what leaves a gap you look at every morning for fifteen years. Eased in, never forced. 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 the owner is not local, the decisions happen remotely, so photographs and a clear itemised drawing carry more weight than a showroom visit ever would. The template happens when the units are in, fixed and level, whoever is fitting them. No stone is cut from a plan. 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.