Sutton worktops
The kitchens we meet in Sutton
If you are weighing up stone worktop supply and fitting in Sutton, the first thing worth knowing is that the building decides more than the brochure does. Around the High Street it is mostly flats and small terraces, with kitchens of 2.4-3m in a rear addition or a corner of an open-plan living space. New blocks come with integrated appliances already fitted and only the tops replaced or upgraded on handover. None of that has to be decided before you get a price. It is what the survey is for.
Lower ground floor kitchens are reached by a stair with a winder in it, and the head height over that winder is lower than the room at either end. Run lengths are what turn a rate per square metre into a bill, since a slab is bought whole and the part of it nobody uses is paid for all the same. A slab has a direction, and the room decides which way it runs.
Floors are suspended timber over a shallow void and have moved, so the units are packed and levelled before anything is set on them. Ceilings are tall and the joinery is usually painted, which is the setting where a thirty millimetre edge looks right and a slim one reads as a saving somebody made. A kitchen with no window of its own needs tone rather than colour.
What turns up behind the front walls here is Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, 1960s block and new-build apartments. What the units are screwed to varies between them, and that decides the fixings.
