Kitchen worktops in Peckham

Yes. The Bellenden-side Victorian terraces are extension country - kitchen moved into a rear infill with a 3m run against the flank and a small island or peninsula - while the estate flats and warehouse-style conversions to the north stay galley-shaped with a single run and a tall bank. Enforcement zones rarely accept a trade van unloading stone as an exemption, so this gets sorted before the date is confirmed rather than argued about afterwards. Tell us at enquiry stage and it is priced properly, because a crew stood waiting is the most expensive thing on any job. It is one line among the others, and it is honest.

Georgian terrace pockets, Victorian bay-front terrace, 1960s and 1970s estate and 2010s conversion of light industrial. Lease conditions and the other flats in the building decide when noisy work can happen, so the fitting day has a start and a finish that are not ours to set. The day is planned backwards from the hall. The slow parts are slow for a reason.

Tight terraced streets with permit bays, a lot of skips and builders' vans competing for kerb, and rear access rarely usable because gardens back onto other gardens rather than a lane. Garden routes carry their own hazards: a drain cover, a step up to a patio, wet decking, or a lawn that will not take a loaded trolley. We walk the route with a tape and protect it end to end before the first piece is lifted. It gets checked before the first piece is lifted.

Worktop templating, worktop installation and worktop design & quotation, in that order. Small kitchens in a shared house are all short runs and tight cut-out spacing, which is more bench work per square metre than one large kitchen would be. Comparing quotes only works when they itemise the same things, and this is where the differences usually hide. Nothing payable until we template. Half these jobs land mid-build with the extension still drying out, so template late and check the plaster is on before you cut.

The catch with a galley is that both runs are seen end-on from the doorway, so any difference in overhang between the two reads immediately. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. Nothing is bonded until the whole run sits flat. Walls that bow along their length are the normal condition rather than the exception, and a straight-cut back edge will show a shadow gap at one end and touch at the other. Rushing that is what leaves a gap you look at every morning for fifteen years. Eased in, never forced. 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.

Where a landlord or housing provider is involved there is a specification to meet and a process to follow, and both are settled before a date is offered. The quote is written so it can be read by whoever is paying rather than only by whoever is standing in the kitchen. Nothing payable until template. 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.