Kitchen worktops in Parsons Green

Yes. Bigger family houses than the Fulham average, so the extension is usually full-width rather than side-return, producing kitchen-dining rooms with a 4m island run plus a separate 3m back wall including a boot room or utility. Specification tends toward large-format porcelain or Dekton on the island with a 20mm mitred edge, and a second stone surface in the utility. Unrestricted kerbside is straightforward as long as the space in front of the property is actually clear when the van arrives. Pieces are loaded in reverse fitting order so the first thing off the van is the first thing that goes down. It is decided in the yard, not at the kerb.

large Victorian family terrace, Edwardian semi, conversion flat in a period house and modern mews infill. Cornice, picture rails and deep skirting survive in converted rooms, so the run stands off the wall and the back edge follows the units rather than the plaster. The kitchen is usually a long galley in a rear extension or side return, so the run lengths are the first thing we check against slab length — anything beyond roughly three metres either needs a join or a second slab, and that decision alone moves the material figure more than a few extra square metres would. That is what the itemised lines are for.

Wider streets and larger front gardens make kerbside easier, and a good proportion of these houses have a genuine side gate with a clear 900mm-plus alley to the garden, which is the route to take. Where there is no side access the hall is generous but the stair balustrade projects, so measure clear width at the balustrade not at the skirting. Rear access usually lets us fit longer pieces whole, so the join count ends up decided by the slab rather than by the building. We price the carry from what you tell us about the route, so photographs of the approach are worth more to us than a floor plan. Nothing about it gets estimated after the fact.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop fabrication and worktop installation, in that order. In a converted house the flat entrance and the internal doorway are usually tighter than the communal stairs, and that is easy to overlook. Cutting several kitchens from different slabs and calling them matched is where firms get caught out. Same slab run, or it is not a match. Measure hall width at the stair balustrade, not the skirting - that projection is what actually stops a 900mm island top.

An island is a single visible piece with four finished edges and no wall to hide against, so it is the piece the whole kitchen is judged on. Slab yield is worked out at quote stage, so if the layout forces a second slab you hear it before you commit rather than after. The join count is stated with its reason. Legs bottoming out on hard concrete or an uneven screed mean the tops of the carcasses are not one plane, and that is picked up at template rather than on fitting day. The template drawing carries the real geometry through to the saw, and the piece is machined to it rather than trimmed to it later. Machined to the real line. Material runs from £110 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines rather than rolled into one figure.

An owner living in the house makes the decisions and lives with them, so the specification tends to go towards the material rather than towards the lowest total. Sink and hob are dry-fitted on the bench before dispatch, whoever supplied them. The approved drawing is the instruction. Tell us the building when you book and the lift, the stair turn and any freeholder notice get built into the day rather than found on it.