Kitchen worktops in Pinner

Yes. The village core has genuinely old, listed and locally listed houses with low beams, uneven floors and small kitchens that need bespoke joinery and short scribed runs, while the surrounding Metroland streets have big semis with full-width rear extensions and island kitchens. The two demand completely different specifications on the same day. Bay bookings are usually an hour or two, which is fine for unloading and no use at all as a place to leave the van for a day. A van that has to move mid-fit costs the best part of an hour and takes a man off the tools to do it. The day is built around that window.

timber-framed and Georgian village houses, 1930s Metroland semi and detached and small mews and courtyard developments. Doorways are low and narrow, which is a genuine constraint on piece length before anything else is considered. Access through the property is usually the simplest of any archetype, with wide doors and generous rooms, so we can often carry a full-length piece straight in without a planned join. That is the shape of the day.

The High Street and the lanes around it are narrow, sloping and heavily restricted with limited loading windows, so village jobs need an early slot; the surrounding suburban roads have proper driveways and no such problem. The van gets close to the door and the stone comes off the tail lift onto a trolley, which is about the shortest carry we ever get. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. It gets checked before the first piece is lifted.

Worktop templating, worktop design & quotation and worktop installation, in that order. The junction between the original room and the extension is the point to watch, because the two floors rarely sit at the same height. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Itemised, so it can be compared honestly. In the old village houses nothing is straight and the ceiling may be lower than the slab is long, so check whether the piece can be tilted upright inside the room before it comes off the van.

Seating overhangs past roughly 300mm will not carry on the carcass alone, so flat steel bar or a plywood substrate has to be built into the units first. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. One datum for the whole room. A junction between an original floor and a later extension slab is almost never at the same level, so units carrying a run across it need packing first. It is fabrication time rather than material, so it appears on the fabrication line and not in the square metre figure. Priced as fabrication, not as area. 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 someone is living in the house through the work, the strip-out and the fit are planned so the kitchen is out of use for a day and not a week. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. 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.