Quartz worktops, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

26th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

25th of 33 London boroughs, highest first

Lived in by their owners / 60.9%

Where people are fitting a kitchen they intend to keep, the questions are about wear and edges rather than lead time. Quartz answers most of them the same way every time. Samples of our own quartz collection are posted free before anything is committed.

Built between the wars / 33.9%

Suspended timber floors flex more at the centre of a room than at the walls, so a peninsula or an island needs its base checked before a heavy top goes on it. The cut list carries it; the specification does not change.

The middle half of our quartz range runs from £150 to £270 per square metre, across 69 colours. In Kingston upon Thames, 20.3% of homes sit in council tax band F or above, above the London middle. Price follows the pieces, not the room: each join, cut-out and edge is a line on the quote, and the slab count comes from how the template nests.

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%. In those, the route up the stairs, more than the room, sets the size of each quartz piece.

The share of homes in converted or shared houses is not even across Kingston upon Thames: of the 15 neighbourhoods we list, it is highest in Seething Wells at 22%, then Surbiton (17%) and Southborough (11%), and lowest in Old Malden at 1%. 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.