Kitchen worktops in Sloane Square

Yes. Estate leasehold flats dominate and the kitchens are original service positions - often a narrow room of 2.2-2.8m against an external wall with a light well window, and a separate utility cupboard. Landlord consent shapes the job more than the room does, so most work is like-for-like surface replacement with new upstands rather than a re-plan. Where the bay sits some distance from the core, the carry across the car park is the longest leg of the day and gets boarded and lit. Splashbacks are normally the last thing off, so a short parking window is exactly when they get rushed. Handling is where these pieces get damaged.

Cadogan Estate red-brick and terracotta mansion block, late Victorian townhouse, Georgian survivor terrace and estate-managed leasehold flat. The rear extension is frequently original rather than added, which means it is solidly built and just as far out of square as the rest of the house. Victorian party walls and chimney-breast returns bow along their length, so the template plots the real line rather than assuming a straight one - the template picks up points every few hundred millimetres down the back of the run and the drawing carries that curve through to the saw. Recorded as it is, not as it was drawn.

Porters, sign-in books, lift protection and a works-hours window that typically runs weekday daytime only, with no weekend working permitted under the lease. Sloane Street and the square itself have short loading windows and heavy enforcement, so unloading is normally into the block's side or rear service door on a timed slot. Sign-in at the gate, a permit on the dash and a named contact are usually wanted before anything comes off the van. A template taken without walking the route produces a drawing that cuts beautifully and will not go in. It goes on the drawing with the run dimensions.

Worktop replacement, worktop splashbacks & upstands and worktop templating, in that order. Quartz suits let property well: no sealing, no annual maintenance, and nothing an incoming tenant has to be told to look after. The template visit is booked once the units are genuinely in, not when they are nearly in. Appliances on site, not on order. Landlord consent and the lease decide what you are allowed to change, so confirm it is a straight replacement before templating anything that moves a service.

Two parallel runs with a walkway between them is the most efficient shape there is on a slab, because both pieces nest as straight lengths with almost no waste. The same shape decides where splashback pieces break, and a joint in a corner reads as a detail while one in a clear run reads as a mistake. Corners get their own pieces. A run can measure dead right at both ends and still belly out in the middle, which only appears once the template plots the intermediate points. The template plots it as it is, at the exact height the worktop will sit, and the drawing carries that through. Plotted, not estimated. Material runs from £110 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines rather than rolled into one figure.

Quartz is the sensible default in a rental: nothing to seal, nothing to maintain, and nothing an incoming tenant needs briefing on. The template happens when the units are in, fixed and level, whoever is fitting them. Fitted, fixed and level, then we come. Tell us the building when you book and the lift, the stair turn and any freeholder notice get built into the day rather than found on it.