Islington
Dekton & sintered worktops in Islington
We cover 19 neighbourhoods in Islington — Canonbury, Clerkenwell and Farringdon among them — across 10 postcode districts. Templating and fitting are done by our own team, so the same people measure the room and install the stone.
The housing here
What Islington's stock means for sintered stone
Taken across the whole of Islington, 26.7% of homes are lived in by the people who own them, among the lowest in London. Flats make up 85.3% of homes, among the highest in London.
26.7%
Lived in by their owners
of homes
31st of 33 London boroughs, highest first
85.3%
Flats
of homes
5th of 33 London boroughs, highest first
Lived in by their owners26.7%
No sealing, no maintenance schedule, and heat will not mark it. Where no one is going to look after a worktop, that is the argument. Finish decided against your own units, not under showroom light.
Flats85.3%
The thinner formats are the reason to consider it here. A piece that will not go round a half-landing at thirty millimetres often will at twelve. We will say which format suits it at survey.
Our sintered stone runs from £250 to £300 per square metre for most of the catalogue, with 65 colours in the range. What moves the number is the cut list — joins, cut-outs and how the pieces nest into a slab — rather than the floor area of the room.
£250–£300/m²
Where most of the catalogue sits, supply only. Fabrication, edges, cut-outs and fitting are quoted on top.
65 colours in the range
- Heat
- Excellent (nothing in it can scorch)
- Porosity
- Effectively zero porosity
- Sealing
- Never needs sealing
Tones
We cannot post sintered stone offcuts, so samples are the quartz range only. The template is taken in your kitchen and the stone is fitted there too.
Questions
Dekton & sintered in Islington
Which worktop needs least maintenance in a rented property in Islington?
The engineered and sintered surfaces, because neither needs sealing. Granite is porous to varying degrees and is sealed on installation, which then wants topping up over time — fine in an owner-occupied home, less realistic where nobody has been told to do it.
Can you fit sintered stone worktops in a flat in Islington?
Yes, and it is most of what we do here. The constraint is the route rather than the room: we measure the stairwell, the lift and the turns at survey, and size the pieces to what will physically go up. Where a full-length piece will not make the turn, the join is planned into the design rather than improvised on the day.
Do you cover the whole of Islington?
Yes — 19 neighbourhoods across 10 postcode districts, Angel, Archway, Arsenal and Barnsbury among them. There is nothing to visit: the template is taken in your kitchen and the stone is fitted there by the same team.
Other surfaces
The same kitchens, in something else
The housing does not change, so most of what is on this page still applies. What changes is weight, machining and maintenance.
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