If bathroom worktop fitting in New Addington is on your list this year, the useful starting point is not the colour but the shape of the room. A large planned estate with highly repetitive layouts: small rectangular kitchens of around 2.4-3m of run, a larder or broom cupboard in the corner, and a back door onto a rear garden. Nearly all work is replacing worn tops on existing units, with an upstand instead of tiles. The quotation visit costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It is also the simplest way to find out which you have.
Doorways are 762mm at best, and the turn from the hall into the kitchen is the pinch point rather than the front door. For a vanity the length is rarely the argument, because it is the depth and what has to be drilled through it that set the piece. The bridge of stone behind the basin is the part that matters.
The kitchen is at the front or the back depending on the plan, and which it is decides whether there is a rear door on the route at all. Walls are block or brick under a hard render, so back edges are scribed on the bench rather than eased in with a grinder on the day. Deep reveals turn a window board into a real piece of stone.
What we are cutting for, here, is 1930s-50s cottage estate, post-war terrace, low-rise maisonette and 1990s regeneration housing. None of them is harder than the others; they are awkward in different ways.
Figures cover the 3 statistical areas (MSOAs) around New Addington| Figure | New Addington | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| homes built before 1919 | 0% | pre-1919 share lower than 98% of the 723 areas we cover | Corners tend to come in close to square. |
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| homes built since 2010 | 2% | post-2010 share lower than 85% of the 723 areas we cover | No two kitchens are set out alike. |
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| households in a converted or shared house | 1% | converted-house share lower than 93% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000223, E02000225 and E02000229. Open Government Licence v3.0.