South Beddington worktops
The kitchens we meet in South Beddington
People often assume stone worktop supply and fitting in South Beddington is a straight swap, and sometimes it is, though the kitchen usually has an opinion about that. A regular grid of inter-war semis with the standard small rear kitchen, mostly upgraded rather than extended, so the work is typically a 3m run plus a 1.5m return on existing units with a new sink and upstands. We measure the kitchen you have, not the kitchen the plans said you would have. Those two part company often.
The boiler has usually been moved into the kitchen at some point, with its flue through the outer leaf and its pipework surface run to the nearest corner. Edge profile is the last few millimetres anybody ever touches, and it is charged along the length rather than across the area, which is why it lands as a surprise. Thickness changes the look and the figure in the same breath.
These were built in short runs of six or eight houses, so the party walls are solid brick and the rear elevation is a straight line with no outriggers. These rooms take good side light from the garden, which flatters a stone with movement in it and is largely wasted on a flat single colour. Save on the colour before you save on the thickness.
What the rooms sit inside, mostly, is 1930s semi, 1930s terrace, post-war infill and bungalow. That mix is why two jobs on the same road can run completely differently.
