Norbury worktops
The kitchens we meet in Norbury
If stone worktop supply and fitting in Norbury is on your list this year, the useful starting point is not the colour but the shape of the room. Edwardian terraces near the station with rear-addition kitchens, and 1930s semis climbing the hill towards Norbury Park with larger square kitchens that take a proper island. Shop-top flats have minimal kitchens of 2m or less along one wall. None of it needs deciding today. The survey is where the guessing ends and the numbers start.
Party wall settlement pulls the floor down at one side of the room, so a long run reads level at one end and not at the other. Every slab in a yard began either as a block sawn off a quarry face or as a pressed powder fired in a kiln, and almost everything that follows from the choice comes out of that single difference. Heat tolerance is a property of the material, not a claim about it.
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. Alcoves either side of the old breast chop the run into short lengths, and a kitchen made of short lengths is the case where buying a slab outright beats buying the square metres, because the remainder is paid for in both. Two slabs change the question from price to preference.
The stock behind these kitchens runs to Edwardian terrace, 1930s semi, flats above London Road shops and 1960s block. The one you have sets the piece length before the kitchen does.
