Kitchen worktops in Tottenham Hale

Yes. Almost entirely new apartment stock around the station and Hale Village - open-plan kitchens with a 2.8m to 3.2m run against the wall, a peninsula with a breakfast overhang, and integrated appliances behind matching doors. Work is upgrades from developer laminate and repairs to chipped edges rather than layout changes. Where the bay sits some distance from the core, the carry across the car park is the longest leg of the day and gets boarded and lit. The templating visit needs somewhere to stop for two or three hours, which is a different problem from unloading for twenty minutes. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

2010s apartment block, 2020s residential tower and Victorian terrace. Doorways are low and narrow, which is a genuine constraint on piece length before anything else is considered. Long perimeter runs and an island mean level has to hold across the whole room, so the templater sets a single datum and works every run and the island off it rather than levelling each wall in isolation. Recorded as it is, not as it was drawn.

Blocks are managed - book the loading bay, book the goods lift, sign in, protect the lift car and corridors, and finish within an agreed window. Several buildings restrict trade access to weekdays only. Where the lift will not take the longest run we design a join in rather than gamble, because a piece that will not go up has to go back on the van. A template taken without walking the route produces a drawing that cuts beautifully and will not go in. It goes on the drawing with the run dimensions.

Worktop replacement, worktop installation and worktop templating, in that order. Rear and side-return extensions are where the islands appear, and an island is the piece that decides whether one slab does the kitchen or two. No stone is ever cut from a plan, which is inconvenient exactly when a programme is tight. Units fitted, fixed and level first. Peninsula overhangs in these flats are supported on a single 18mm gable - fit brackets or a supporting frame rather than trusting the developer carcass with a 300mm cantilever.

The catch with a galley is that both runs are seen end-on from the doorway, so any difference in overhang between the two reads immediately. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. Dry-lay first, always. Dot-and-dab plasterboard sounds solid and is hollow behind, so anything fixed through it has to hit a dab or a batten rather than a void. The template plots it as it is, at the exact height the worktop will sit, and the drawing carries that through. Plotted, not estimated. Material runs from £110 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines rather than rolled into one figure.

The householder is normally on site at template, and that is the right time to settle sink position, tap centres and overhang rather than agree them by email. A template booked hopefully around another trade is the commonest cause of a wasted visit. Fitted, fixed and level, then we come. Tell us the building when you book and the lift, the stair turn and any freeholder notice get built into the day rather than found on it.