Kitchen worktops in Wandsworth Town

Yes. Riverside developments dominate the flat market with open-plan living rooms where the kitchen is a peninsula plus an appliance wall, all in one visible volume so the stone is on show from the sofa. The Victorian terraces behind the one-way system have conventional rear kitchen-diners with a run and a short island. Permit hours are what matters, not the permit itself, because a bay that frees up at six in the evening is no use for a template at ten. The fitting slot is set around it, which is why we ask about it when the date is booked and not before we leave the yard. It is why the arrival time is what it is.

Victorian terrace, 2000s and 2010s riverside apartment and Interwar flat. A riverside block is a managed building with a booked goods lift, a loading bay and a concierge, and all three have to line up on the same day. Piece size is set by the lift car, not by the slab. Settled on the drawing, cut once.

The gyratory and the retail traffic make timing critical, and the riverside blocks require booked loading bays with a hard time limit plus a lift with a stated capacity. Terraced streets off the main roads are permit-controlled all week. 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. So the nesting is worked to the measured route first and to the slab second. It is settled on the bench, not on site.

Worktop installation, worktop fabrication and worktop replacement, 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. Where the window is fixed there is no second day to fall back on, so the prep list matters more than usual. One visit, done properly. In open-plan riverside flats the peninsula end is seen from three sides, so a mitred waterfall with matched veining is usually specified and the joint quality is judged at eye level.

Because a peninsula is seen from both sides, the underside of any overhang gets the same edge treatment as the top, which is easy to leave out of a spec. The existing layout is being kept, so the question is whether the old carcasses will take stone in that shape without more support. The units stay, the surface changes. Taped internal angles in plasterboard belly at the corner, so the run picks up a few millimetres over the last 300mm and a plan-angle mitre will not close. On the day it means dry-laying, marking, and cutting the scribe on site before anything is bonded. Dry-lay, mark, cut, then bond. 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.

Where ownership is split across a building, the common parts belong to someone else and the carry route is negotiated rather than assumed. The fitting day is arranged with whoever can actually give us access for the whole slot. Access for the whole slot, or a different day. 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.