Roehampton worktops
The kitchens we meet in Roehampton
Stone worktop supply and fitting in Roehampton is decided by the room long before anyone opens a colour chart. The postwar estate flats have small standardised kitchens, typically 2m by 3m, with services boxed at one end and a fixed sink and cooker position, so refits are straight runs with a return. The older village properties and the cottage estate houses have conventional rear kitchens with more scope for an L or a small peninsula. A worktop that fits is a worktop that was measured. The description is background, the template is the actual instruction.
A good number of these blocks are large panel system builds, where the wall is a precast unit with a grouted joint and nothing gets cut into it. Which stone belongs on top of all that is a separate question from the building itself, and it is the one with a figure attached, because supply alone runs from £110 to £550 per square metre before a single cut has been made. Edges are charged along their length, not across the surface.
The window cill clears a worktop by very little, which settles how tall the upstand under it can be before anyone has drawn a thing. Runs are short and the whole kitchen often comes off part of one slab, which means the remainder is the figure worth understanding before the colour is settled. Honed hides the dust an older house makes all year.
The fabric of the place is 1950s modernist slab and point block, Interwar cottage estate and Roehampton village Georgian and Victorian. Knowing which one it is before we arrive is half the survey done.
