Worktop design and quotation in South Tottenham

Yes. South Tottenham is on the patch, and the postcodes we work here are N15. It is worked on our north London run, along with the rest of Haringey. Without a bay the van ends up on a single yellow with a crew member watching it, which takes a pair of hands off the carry. It sits in the fitting line as time on site rather than as anything to do with the stone. It is one line among the others, and it is honest. We template in your kitchen and fit in your kitchen, so there is nothing to visit and nothing to collect.

Cottage terraces have no hall to speak of and the front door opens almost straight into the room, which makes the carry easier and the protection harder. The quote separates the joins the run needs from the joins the route forces, because they are different decisions with the same price. That is what the itemised lines are for. Kosher layouts mean two sink cut-outs and two drainer positions in the same job - get the meat and dairy sides confirmed in writing at template, they are not interchangeable.

Terraces with short front paths, permit parking that is heavily oversubscribed, and no rear access. Jobs cannot run on a Friday afternoon or Saturday in a lot of these households, so scheduling is fixed around that rather than around traffic. Door width, hall width and the diagonal at the turn are three separate measurements, and it is the diagonal that catches people out. An access-driven join is priced like any other join, and people are always surprised to see one on a dead straight run. You see that figure before we template, not after.

Yes. On the research for this patch it is the first of the three jobs listed, ahead of worktop templating and worktop installation. Households sharing a house tend to want two prep areas rather than one, which usually means an island as well as a perimeter run. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Material is the slab only, and it says so. A second kitchen or a kitchenette in an annexe is a small job with the same fixed template, fabrication and fitting lines as a large one. Comparing quotes only works when they itemise the same things, and this is where the differences usually hide. Itemised, so it can be compared honestly.

A galley puts the sink on one side and the hob on the other, which spreads the cut-outs across two pieces instead of weakening one. Each run is priced on its own line against the supply rate, with the join count and the reason for each join stated. Shape first, area second. Material is £110-£550 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines.

The stone carries the scribe because the wall cannot be persuaded, so back edges are cut oversize and eased in rather than dropped straight down. It is fabrication time rather than material, so it appears on the fabrication line and not in the square metre figure. Priced as fabrication, not as area. Send us the run lengths, plus photos taken walking from the pavement through the hall to the kitchen so we can see the door widths and the stair turn. Where someone is living in the house through the work, the strip-out and the fit are planned so the kitchen is out of use for a day and not a week. The quote is written so it can be read by whoever is paying rather than only by whoever is standing in the kitchen. Nothing payable until template.