If bathroom worktop fitting in Wimbledon Chase is on your list this year, the useful starting point is not the colour but the shape of the room. A good proportion of bungalows here mean single-level kitchens where the whole room can be worked at once, wide U-shapes with a run on three walls and no upstairs to negotiate. The semis follow the standard rear kitchen plan with the pantry recess absorbed into a taller unit run. Send a few photographs of the run and we will tell you which of those you are dealing with before we come out to Wimbledon Chase.
Where the side return has been filled in, one side of the new room is old brick and the other is new blockwork, and the two do not behave alike. Ventilation, heating and lighting all compete for the same short stretch of wall, so by the time the surface is drawn the room has already been argued over once. Shelves and a window board come off the same offcut.
Wide doorways and level thresholds mean full-length pieces go in whole and the join count comes down to slab length alone. The original bathroom here is the small room over the hall, and a vanity in it is short, shallow and hard against two walls, so both ends are scribed. Boarded floors give, and a vanity shows it at the tile line.
The houses and blocks behind these jobs are 1930s semi, Interwar bungalow and 1950s detached. The run length that is easy in one is a join in another.
Figures cover the statistical area (MSOA) that contains Wimbledon Chase| Figure | Wimbledon Chase | Against London |
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| homes built before 1919 | 56% | pre-1919 share higher than 84% of the 723 areas we cover |
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| households owning their home | 64% | home-ownership share higher than 79% of the 723 areas we cover |
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| households with no car or van | 31% | no-car share lower than 64% of the 723 areas we cover |
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Sources: VOA Council Tax Stock of Properties 2025 and ONS Census 2021 for MSOA E02000699. Open Government Licence v3.0.
