Dekton worktops, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

10th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

24th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

Lived in by their owners / 60.9%

There is usually time to compare finishes properly here, and sintered ranges vary more between finishes than the photographs suggest. Priced from the machining as well as the area, and both are shown.

Built between the wars / 33.9%

The kitchen has usually migrated into the back addition. That decides the run, and the thinner format is often what makes a long single piece practical there. We will say which format suits it at survey.

The middle half of our sintered stone range runs from £250 to £300 per square metre, across 71 colours, 63 of them Dekton. In Kingston upon Thames, 20.3% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, above the London middle. 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.

The share of housing built since 2010 is not even across Kingston upon Thames: of the 15 neighbourhoods we list, it is highest in Canbury at 19%, then Norbiton (13%) and Tolworth (13%), and lowest in Old Malden at 0%. Newer kitchens usually sit on square, modular units, which keeps the template for a Dekton top quick.

Seething Wells has the highest flat share of the 15 Kingston upon Thames neighbourhoods we list, at 82%, ahead of Surbiton (78%) and Kingston upon Thames (66%); Old Malden has the lowest, at 13%. Where the kitchen is upstairs, the thinner Dekton formats weigh less on the stairs and turn more easily on a landing.

63 Dekton and 8 Karexa sintered stone colours in the range

Tones

We cannot post sintered stone offcuts, so samples are the Worktop Worx quartz collection only.