Kitchen worktops in West Brompton

Yes. Terraces around the cemetery are narrower than the Earl's Court stucco and have shallow back additions, so the kitchen is a 2.4-3.0m single run with the boiler and the back door both interrupting it. Newer apartment stock near the station is open-plan with an island of 1.8-2.4m and a 40mm mitred edge, and there the constraint is the developer's fixed service riser rather than the wall. A controlled parking zone means either a visitor permit sorted in advance or a suspended bay, and a suspension is applied for days ahead rather than on the morning. A templater circling for a space arrives late into a slot that was already tight, and the drawing is what suffers. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

Victorian terrace, mansion flat, postwar infill block and new-build apartment near the station. The addition wall is half a brick thick in places and has usually had a damp course injected and been re-plastered, which leaves it neither flat nor consistent. The day is planned backwards from the hall. That is the shape of the day.

The area is squeezed between the railway cutting and the cemetery wall, so there are few through routes and the side streets are one-way with resident bays right up to the junctions. New blocks require a booked loading bay and a lift booking through building management, usually with protection boards fitted to the lift car before you can use it. The lift has to be booked and blanketed before anything moves, and that booking needs to cover the old tops coming out as well as the new stone going in. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. That is what the morning is planned around.

Worktop installation, worktop replacement 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. The fitting day is scheduled to suit that rather than to suit the diary. One visit, done properly. Two different worlds on one street - old stock needs a joint to get up the stairs, new stock needs a lift booking and a permit before you can even park.

On a heavily veined stone the island and the run behind it are nested off the same area of slab so the movement relates across the room. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. One datum for the whole room. Boxing is rarely the same depth at worktop height as it is at floor level, so measuring it low down is the usual reason a top will not sit back. The old top has been hiding it, so the first honest look at it happens when the laminate comes off. The laminate has been covering it up. 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.