Bathroom worktops and vanity tops in Silvertown

Why bathroom worktops in Silvertown are their own job

Most of the work of a fit in Silvertown happens before the van is loaded, in what we have already checked and allowed for. Roads here are wide, industrial in character and largely unrestricted, so a large van can get right up to most buildings, which is unusual for the Docklands. The catch is that new blocks are gated with limited visitor access and single-lift cores, and some plots are only reachable via a long one-way loop round the dock. Vehicle access is easy but the buildings are not, so the constraint shifts from the street to the lift and the flat's entrance door. Templating in the room after the units are level takes the guesswork out of all of it.

The money

What bathroom worktops cost in Silvertown

In Silvertown, 2% of homes have four or more bedrooms, lower than 98% of the 723 areas we cover. An island is a yield question before it is a design one: it either comes out of the same slab as the perimeter or it needs a second. Two quotes can agree on a supply rate of £110 to £550 per square metre and still land a long way apart, because the cut-outs, the joins and the edge profile are priced after it.

period detached houses and villas

The carry, and what it rules out for bathroom worktops

Standing a three-metre length on end takes more headroom outside the car than inside it, and a low lobby ceiling is what actually stops it. The exception is a double vanity, which is a kitchen length in bathroom width and behaves like a worktop from the tail lift onwards. The piece is carried by its long edges, never by the aperture.

Demand

What Silvertown 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.

The building

The building, and what it does to the bathroom worktops

Locally the stock is unusually new for London. Stair turns and landing widths decide the piece list. More bathrooms in a building means more small tops, and small tops match only when they come off a single batch. Data suggests the bathroom. The plumber confirms it.

Piece size is set by the lift car and the entrance dogleg, which routinely turns a two-piece kitchen into a three-piece one. Bathrooms in these are square, plumb and finished before anyone moves in, so the template is short work and the whole question becomes what the unit is fixed to. Concrete walls take a bracket well and a chase badly.