Stone worktops in Morden Park

Yes, Morden Park (SM4) is on the patch, worked on our south west London run with Morden, Lower Morden and St Helier.

In Morden Park, 91% of homes went up between 1919 and 1939, higher than 100% of the 723 areas we cover. The step down from the main house into the addition is commonly a hundred to a hundred and fifty millimetres, which gives the kitchen a different floor datum from the rest of the ground floor. The kitchen in one of these sits in the back addition and takes its daylight from one end, so the working half of the run is the darker half and a pale stone with a honed or matt face does more there than any colour with depth in it.

In Morden Park, 3% of households live in a converted or shared house, which is lower than 72% of the 723 areas we cover. Grass and gravel will not take a loaded trolley, so a boarded track gets laid from the gate to the door before the first piece moves. A square arris is the first thing to chip on a hard carry, which is one honest argument for a pencil round or a small chamfer over a knife edge.

Edge work is charged along the length of every exposed face, which is why an island with four finished sides prices differently from a run with one. In Morden Park, 7% of homes have four or more bedrooms: lower than 65% of the 723 areas we cover.

In Morden Park, from the 1930s semi to the Postwar bungalow, the units need to be fitted, fixed and level before we template, with the sink and hob in the room. Send the run lengths, say where the sink and hob will sit, and tell us which way the room faces and what lighting is going in above the working run. The stone carries the scribe because the wall cannot be persuaded, so back edges are cut oversize and eased in rather than dropped straight down. A run that sits under strong sun for hours every afternoon suits a surface built to be stable in daylight, because a resin-bound stone is made for indoor use and sustained sunlight is the one thing it was never designed around.