St Paul's Cray worktops
The kitchens we meet in St Paul's Cray
A picture saved on a phone is a fine place to start stone worktop supply and fitting in St Paul's Cray, though it says nothing about what your own kitchen will allow. Standardised post-war estate kitchens, typically a straight 2.7m run under a window with a separate larder cupboard, and a back door into a rear garden. Replacing tired laminate on the existing base units is more typical than a full redesign. Either way, the next step is the same one: get someone out to look, and get the measurements written down.
A good number of these blocks are large panel system builds, where the wall is a precast unit with a grouted joint and nothing gets cut into it. Every slab in a yard began either as a block sawn off a quarry face or as a pressed powder fired in a kiln, and almost everything that follows from the choice comes out of that single difference. A slab has a direction, and the room decides which way it runs.
The first kitchen was fitted by the authority to a standard layout, so the waste, the gas point and the sockets are all still where that layout put them. Where budget leads, the honest saving is in the colour rather than in the thickness, because a thin top over a hard-working kitchen is a false economy. Side light flatters movement and wastes a flat colour.
What we find behind the front doors here is 1950s cottage estate, 1960s low-rise flats, post-war terrace and 1990s housing association infill. They are not interchangeable, and a worktop finds the differences quickly.
