Rosehill worktops
The kitchens we meet in Rosehill
The worktop jobs we do in Rosehill follow the same process every time, and it is the kitchen rather than the process that decides how the day actually goes. A boundary area between private inter-war semis and the edge of the St Helier estate, so you get two kitchen types on the same street: a 3m private-semi kitchen extended into the dining room, and the estate's original narrow galley with a pantry recess. A worktop that fits is a worktop that was measured. The description is background, the template is the actual instruction.
Where the kitchen has been opened into the living room the opening was trimmed with a steel, and a stub of the old wall was left standing at one end. The surface is where the money actually moves: across the 185 surfaces we list the median is £224 per square metre, and half of them sit between £165 and £300. Edges are charged along their length, not across the surface.
The gas enters at the back of the house and the pipe to the hob crosses the room at low level in a boxing along the skirting. Rooms in this stock are compact and the runs are short, so the whole kitchen often comes off part of one slab and the remainder is the number worth thinking about. Honed hides the dust an older house makes all year.
What we are cutting for, here, is 1930s semi, St Helier estate housing, post-war flats and 1960s maisonette. None of them is harder than the others; they are awkward in different ways.
