Bathroom worktops and vanity tops in Queenhithe

Why bathroom worktops in Queenhithe are their own job

Most of the work of a fit in Queenhithe happens before the van is loaded, in what we have already checked and allowed for. Upper Thames Street runs below and alongside as a fast dual carriageway with no stopping whatsoever, so access is via the raised riverside walk and a building's own service entrance off a side street. The walk from the nearest permitted stopping point to the flat door can be long and partly on a raised deck with steps, so a route survey matters more than the lift dimensions. Old inset hob and sink cut-outs rarely match modern appliance dimensions, so we confirm the new appliances before templating rather than cutting an oversized hole to hide an old one. It is our problem to solve, and solving it starts with a tape measure.

The money

What bathroom worktops cost in Queenhithe

In Queenhithe, 4% of homes have four or more bedrooms, which is lower than 89% of the 723 areas we cover. The return into the wall and the free end are two different details on one piece, and both are machined rather than cut square. The catalogue starts at £110 per square metre at the plainest end and reaches £550 at the top, supply only, with the same fabrication work sitting behind either choice.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces

The building, and what it does to the bathroom worktops

Handover kitchens are fitted with the cheapest carcass the specification allowed, and cam-lock chipboard boxes are what a stone top has to sit on. Partition walls are plasterboard on studs, and a wall-hung vanity carrying stone wants timber behind the board rather than fixings into plasterboard alone. Older walls give a vanity nothing straight to sit against.

The route in

The carry, and what it rules out for bathroom worktops

Where a basement car park is the only way up from the parking level the carry starts below ground, and two lifts in one building rarely share the same internal dimensions. The exception is a double vanity, which is a kitchen length in bathroom width and behaves like a worktop from the tail lift onwards. A vanity top is lifted once and set down once.

The run

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

Peninsulas frequently land on a lightweight partition or on units that were never fixed down, and stone needs proper support under it before it goes on. A bath surround, a sill and a shelf above the towel rail all come out of the same remnant, so they are drawn onto the plan while there is still material to draw them on. Where the kitchen eats the slab, the bathroom buys its own.

Demand

What Queenhithe asks for in bathroom worktops

Not a domestic job, so it is not ranked against the streets around it. Those streets generate worktop replacement. Same slabs, same saw, same installers.