Tulse Hill worktops
The kitchens we meet in Tulse Hill
We plan the worktop jobs in Tulse Hill around access, ceiling height and what the kitchen has already been through, none of which shows up in a phone call. A high proportion of subdivided villas means kitchens on upper floors in rooms never designed for them, with the run set against an internal wall and services chased in later. The 1960s blocks have compact kitchens with a fixed sink under the window and a hatch or opening to the living room. Whichever it is, the process below is the same, and the figure you get after templating is fixed.
Original solid floors are quarry tile or flagstone bedded on ash, and they have moved with the ground rather than with the building. Quartz, granite and sintered stone each let you down in a different way, and choosing well is mostly a matter of knowing which of those three failures this room will provoke. Quartz, granite and sintered stone answer three different rooms.
A deep butler sink and a boiling tap on the same length put two heavy cut-outs within a metre of each other. Daylight arrives from more than one direction, which means a colour can be judged fairly here and a stone with real movement holds up instead of disappearing. Short pieces are the argument for buying a slab outright.
The housing on these streets is Victorian villa converted to flats, 1960s estate block, Interwar semi and Postwar low-rise. The run length that is easy in one is a join in another.
