Quartz worktops in Camden

Ceiling heights in a subdivided house rarely match the units they now hold, so wall cupboards and worktop runs end up in unusual relationships. The template records it as found. Nothing to seal on the day, and nothing to seal later.

Standing before 1919 / 48.6%

Skirting, picture rails and a century of repainting mean the wall is not where the plan says. The template is taken off the wall itself. That is a survey question, and we answer it on the day.

The middle half of our quartz range runs from £150 to £270 per square metre, across 69 colours. In Camden, 27.3% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, among the highest in London. In a large room the question is how many slabs the cut list needs, because an island that spills onto a second slab moves the price more than any extra metre of run.

Somers Town has the highest flat share of the 23 Camden neighbourhoods we list, at 98%, ahead of Holborn (98%) and Euston (98%); Dartmouth Park has the lowest, at 73%. Where the kitchen is up a flight, each quartz piece is sized to the stairwell before it is sized to the room.

South Hampstead has the highest share of converted houses of the 23 Camden neighbourhoods we list, at 55%, ahead of Belsize Park (53%) and Hampstead (40%); Euston has the lowest, at 4%. A conversion usually means a stair that turns and a kitchen made out of another room, so the quartz is cut from a template taken once the units are in.

Free samples are posted for the Worktop Worx quartz collection; other quartz is judged from the slab.