Wimbledon worktops
The kitchens we meet in Wimbledon
What stone worktop supply and fitting actually involves in Wimbledon depends on what you are fitting into, and around here that is not one thing. Around the Broadway and the streets running up towards the Ridgway you get Victorian and Edwardian houses where the original back addition has been opened into the rear reception, so the kitchen ends up L-shaped with a run down the flank wall and a peninsula where the old wall stood. Newer apartment blocks above the town centre are mostly straight galley runs with a breakfast bar returning off the end. Ring us with the rough dimensions and we will tell you what is likely, then confirm it properly at the Wimbledon survey.
A hundred and forty years of alterations sit under the current kitchen, and the worktop is what has to sit flat on top of all of it. Water settles more than taste does: how much a body absorbs, and how quickly, decides whether sealing becomes part of your year. The cheapest stone and the dearest one share a fitting day.
The kitchen occupies the ground floor of the addition with a garden door at the far end, so there is a second way in that is narrower than the front door and a great deal shorter. The alcoves either side of a breast break the run into short pieces, and short pieces are exactly where buying a full slab outright starts to beat buying stone by the metre. At four metres a stone is a tone rather than a pattern.
The stock on this patch is Late Victorian terrace, Edwardian semi, 1930s mansion block and 2000s town-centre apartment. Which of those you have decides most of what follows.
