Greenwich · SE18

Bathroom worktops and vanity tops in Plumstead

Bathroom worktops in Plumstead, Greenwich (SE18): material from £110 per square metre supply only, templated in the room and fitted 5 to 10 working days from template by the team on our south east London run with Woolwich next door.

25-year material · 5-year workmanship
Fitted 5-10 working days from template
Covered on our south east London run
Templated and fitted on site
Any extra join flagged at quote stage

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Modern bathroom vanity featuring double sinks, mirrors, and stylish black faucets.

Plumstead worktops

The buildings and streets around Plumstead

A good quote for bathroom worktop fitting in Plumstead reads like a description of your kitchen rather than a price list, and that is deliberate. Tight Victorian terraces stepping up the hill, most with a narrow back-addition kitchen, and a high proportion of flat conversions where the kitchen has been fitted into whatever room was left. Straight galley runs of 2.4m to 3.2m, wall units both sides, no island. Two kitchens on the same street can need different answers. That is why the price follows the template rather than the postcode.

Chimney breasts are often taken out at ground level and left standing above, so the middle of the run is newer wall than the two ends of it. A vanity top is where all of that turns up in miniature, with the basin, the tap holes and a splash return crowded into a few hundred millimetres of stone. The tap decides the drilling, so the tap is settled first.

The communal stair is wide and handsome and the flat door at the top of it is a standard leaf, which is where a long piece stops. Pipework in these houses runs on the surface and gets boxed in, and a top that has to notch round a boxing loses depth in the one direction it cannot spare. Deep reveals turn a window board into a real piece of stone.

Around here the stock is dense Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, postwar estate and 1980s infill. They were built to different tolerances, and the stone has to absorb that.

Figures cover the 3 statistical areas (MSOAs) around Plumstead
Figure	Plumstead	Against London	What it means for the job
homes built before 1919	47%	pre-1919 share higher than 75% of the 723 areas we cover
homes built since 2010	5%	post-2010 share lower than 63% of the 723 areas we cover	No two kitchens are set out alike.
flats and maisonettes	35%	flat share lower than 72% of the 723 areas we cover

Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOAs E02000318, E02000319 and E02000329. Open Government Licence v3.0.

dense Victorian terrace
Edwardian terrace
postwar estate
1980s infill

At a glance

Bathroom worktops and vanity tops, in short

Borough: Greenwich
Postcodes: SE18
Covered on: our south east London run
Fitted: 5–10 working days from template
Homes (VOA count): 10,230

The place

Why bathroom worktops in Plumstead are their own job

What we look for on a survey in Plumstead is the sort of thing that never appears on a kitchen plan. Steep hillside streets with permit parking and no driveways, plus long flights of front steps on the upper roads, the carry is usually uphill and through the house rather than round the side. Old lath-and-plaster and soft brick mean scribing to bowed walls is normal; the back wall can be out by 15mm over 3m. Have a look at the itemised quote and you can see what the building is costing and what the stone is costing.

The work

Bathroom worktops and vanity tops, step by step

How bathroom worktops work

Elegant bathroom vanity featuring dual sinks, black countertop, and mirrors.

Splashbacks splashbacks and upstands

The money

What bathroom worktops cost in Plumstead

In Plumstead, 35% of homes are flats or maisonettes, which is lower than 72% of the 723 areas we cover. Two facing runs mean two sets of edges and two scribes in a small span, which is why a compact galley rarely prices as cheaply as its area suggests. A per square metre figure of £110 to £550 describes stone, not a worktop. What turns one into the other is machining and a fitting day, and both are listed as themselves.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces

What Plumstead asks for in bathroom worktops

We rank the domestic jobs against a neighbourhood's building stock, and this is not one of them. For the record, the stock here asks for worktop replacement. The commercial work is surveyed and fitted to the same standard.

The building

The building, and what it does to the bathroom worktops

Taken across Plumstead and the roads either side of it, the banding is well below the London middle. More bathrooms in a building means more small tops, and small tops match only when they come off a single batch. The numbers describe the housing, not the basin in it.

The run

The shape of the run, and what it means for bathroom worktops

Handles on opposing runs meet in the middle of the aisle, so a deep edge profile specified on both sides takes width out of the standing space twice over. Thinner material saves almost nothing over a piece of this size, and what it costs in stiffness turns up on the day somebody has to lift it. What the kitchen cannot use, the vanity usually can.

Questions

Bathroom worktop questions in Plumstead

Is Plumstead inside the area you cover?

Yes, Plumstead (SE18) is on the patch, worked on our south east London run with Woolwich, Abbey Wood and Shooters Hill.

Why would bathroom worktops in Plumstead be any different from anywhere else?

In Plumstead, 13% of homes went up between 1919 and 1939, which is lower than 58% of the 723 areas we cover. Kitchens in the upper flats often sit in the return wing at half-landing level, so there are three or four steps inside the flat before the room is reached at all. The bathroom in one of these is almost never original: it is a later room over the back addition, or a bedroom divided in two.

What is the carry like in Plumstead?

In Plumstead, 8% of households live in a converted or shared house: higher than 56% of the 723 areas we cover. Where the turn inside is tight the piece gets turned on the path and brought in already on edge, which needs room in front of the door as well as behind it. Wet weather makes protection a question of grip rather than of cleanliness, since a soaked boot on a freshly tiled floor is how somebody falls.

What makes one job in Plumstead dearer than the next?

An undermount basin costs more than a countertop one, because the aperture has to be cut, polished and bonded rather than simply dropped through. In Plumstead, 5% of homes have four or more bedrooms, lower than 82% of the 723 areas we cover.

What needs to be ready before you come to Plumstead?

In Plumstead, from the dense Victorian terrace to the 1980s infill, the vanity unit needs to be fixed and level before we template, with the basin and tap on site. Have the vanity unit fixed and levelled, and the basin and tap on site, before the templater arrives, and tell us what is inside any boxing. Plaster thickness varies over the height of a wall, so the line at worktop height is not the line at skirting level, and the units decide which one matters. Extract ducting usually runs in a ceiling void, but where it drops into a corner instead, the shelf somebody drew there quietly stops being possible.

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