Streatham Vale worktops
The kitchens we meet in Streatham Vale
What stone worktop supply and fitting actually involves in Streatham Vale depends on what you are fitting into, and around here that is not one thing. Uniform interwar semis with rear kitchens roughly 2.5m by 3m, and the standard project is a small rear extension or a knock into the dining room giving an L with a breakfast bar. Islands are rare because the extended room is used as a dining space instead. You do not need to know which one you have before you call. We work that out on the survey.
Suspended floors at the front meet a solid slab in the extension somewhere in the middle, and the units sit across the change. The surface is where the money actually moves: across the 185 surfaces we list the median is £224 per square metre, and half of them sit between £165 and £300. Heat tolerance is a property of the material, not a claim about it.
Downstairs the hall and dining room are boarded but the kitchen was laid solid from the start, so the room sits on a different construction from the one beside it. These kitchens are usually knocked through to the dining room, so the surface is read from two sides at once and the figure has to carry across the pieces rather than restart at every join. Long narrow rooms want a pale face at the working end.
What the street keeps repeating is 1930s semi, Interwar terrace and Postwar infill. Each carries its own carry problem before it carries a worktop.
