Islington
Granite worktops in Islington
We cover 19 neighbourhoods in Islington — Barnsbury, Bunhill and Caledonian Road 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 granite
In 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%
Nobody will tell a tenant when the sealer was last topped up, and an unsealed granite marks where a sealed one would not. That is the practical risk, stated plainly. Priced from the slab and the cut list, both itemised.
Flats85.3%
The denser granites weigh noticeably more than the lighter ones, so in a block the stone you choose changes the carry as well as the look. Worth knowing before the stone is chosen rather than after.
Our granite runs from £148 to £250 per square metre for most of the catalogue, with 45 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.
£148–£250/m²
Where most of the catalogue sits, supply only. Fabrication, edges, cut-outs and fitting are quoted on top.
45 colours in the range
- Heat
- Excellent (hot pans are fine)
- Porosity
- Porous, varies by stone
- Sealing
- Sealed on installation, topped up over time
Tones
We cannot post granite offcuts, so samples are the quartz range only. The template is taken in your kitchen and the stone is fitted there too.
Questions
Granite 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 granite 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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