Understanding bathroom worktop fitting in Old Bexley means understanding the kitchens it happens in, which is a more interesting subject than most people expect. The village core has small period cottages with low ceilings, uneven floors and kitchens in single-storey rear outshots, short scribed runs, no islands, while the larger Victorian and interwar houses on the edges have proper kitchen-diners. None of it needs deciding today. The survey is where the guessing ends and the numbers start.
Ground floors fall away towards the garden across the whole footprint, so the units are packed up long before anything is measured for stone. Nobody looks at a bathroom surface until the sealant discolours, at which point nobody looks at anything else in the room. It is the smallest piece we cut and the most crowded.
There is no back addition on these, so the kitchen is the original rear room and the run is one wall long with a door at each end of it. The bathroom in one of these is usually a later addition over the back kitchen, so the walls are thinner, the floor moves and a vanity has to sit level in a room that is not. Where the floor is solid, the unit sits where it is put.
The kinds of building we work in here are 18th-century cottage, Victorian villa, 1930s detached and postwar infill. That mix is why two jobs on the same road can run completely differently.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) that contains Old Bexley| Figure | Old Bexley | Against London | What it means for the job |
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| households in a converted or shared house | 2% | converted-house share lower than 75% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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| households owning their home | 80% | home-ownership share higher than 94% of the 723 areas we cover | People here are specifying once, for a decade. |
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| households with no car or van | 15% | no-car share lower than 94% of the 723 areas we cover | |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000087. Open Government Licence v3.0.
