North Cheam worktops
The kitchens we meet in North Cheam
Two things are worth settling first with stone worktop supply and fitting in North Cheam: what it will cost and what has to come out to make room for it. Bay-fronted inter-war semis on grid streets off the main road, with rear kitchens of about 3m that are frequently opened into the dining room for a longer L. The flats above the shopping parade have minimal galley kitchens with no natural light. None of it needs deciding today. The survey is where the guessing ends and the numbers start.
The rear extension is usually the newest and truest part of the building, so it is the older half of the kitchen that gives the trouble. Hardness and toughness are separate properties, and the surface that laughs off a knife is often the one least willing to survive an unsupported corner. Colour gets chosen under kitchen lights, never under showroom ones.
The extension is commonly a flat-roofed addition of the seventies or eighties with a shallower floor build-up, so the two halves of the room do not sit at one level. Runs here are usually long enough to want a full slab and short enough not to need a second, which is the most economical position on the whole price list. Honed hides the dust an older house makes all year.
What the street keeps repeating is 1930s semi, 1930s terrace, flats above parade shops and post-war infill. That mix is why two jobs on the same road can run completely differently.
