Your slab is cut, mitred, polished and dry-assembled in our own workshop, with your sink and hob dry-fitted on the bench before a single piece is loaded onto the van.
The template drawing arrives in the workshop and becomes a cutting plan drawn onto your actual slab. That step is called nesting, and it decides more about how the finished kitchen looks than the colour did. On a marble-effect quartz or a granite with real movement, nesting is what determines whether a vein runs across a join or stops dead at it.
Then the kitchen is built on the bench before it is built in your house. Runs are laid out together, joins pulled up tight, the sink dropped in and the hob offered up. Anything wrong is found there, where it costs an hour and a new cut, rather than in your kitchen where it costs a day, a slab and a fitting date.
Everything is machined to the template drawing, not to the plan and not to a tape measure taken on the day. This is the whole reason templating happens after the units are in.
Fitted 5–10 working days from template. Deposit at template, balance before installation.
What is involved
Six operations, and all of them happen before your 5 to 10 working days are up.
Your runs are positioned on the slab so the pattern falls where you want it. On materials with directional movement we lay pieces out so the vein continues through a join wherever the template allows it.
Runs, returns, islands and all apertures cut from the digital template. Every dimension traces back to the room, not to a measurement anyone wrote down twice.
A mitred edge builds a thick, solid-looking edge out of a thinner slab by cutting two pieces at forty-five degrees and bonding them. Done properly the joint disappears into the corner. Done badly it is a dark line down the front of your kitchen.
Sink aperture, tap holes, hob, sockets and any drainer grooves, each machined to the physical item you supplied at template.
The kitchen is assembled on the bench, joins pulled up, and your sink and hob dropped into their apertures to prove the fit before anything leaves the building.
Exposed edges and arrises polished to match the factory face, everything checked over, then protected and labelled by run for the fitting team.
Joins
This is the single most common thing customers are unhappy about, almost always because nobody explained it to them beforehand.
Slabs are manufactured and quarried in fixed sizes. A four metre run is not one piece of stone in any material we sell, at any price. Anyone implying otherwise is describing a kitchen they are not going to fit.
We place joins over a unit gable so there is something structural directly beneath. A join spanning an unsupported gap is the point the worktop will eventually fail at, which is why we will not put one there to save a cut.
A join running through a sink or hob aperture is the weakest geometry in the whole worktop. On a corner run we would rather bring the join to the internal corner, where the eye reads it as part of the shape of the room.
A finished join is typically two to three millimetres wide, filled with a colour-matched adhesive, then sanded and polished flush so you feel nothing at all when you run a hand across it.
In quartz, granite or sintered stone, an invisible join does not exist. What we control is where you have to look. Anybody promising you an invisible join is promising something the material does not do.
Join positions are shown to you and signed off at template. They are not decided in the workshop and revealed on fitting day.
The workshop stage
Being honest about the second list is what stops a disappointing handover.
Questions
If yours is not here, ring and ask. You will get a straight answer rather than a call-back from a salesperson.
No, and nobody can. A well-made join in stone is two to three millimetres, filled with colour-matched adhesive and sanded flush so it is smooth to the touch. What we do is place it where you are not looking and agree that position with you at template.
It depends on your run lengths and the slab size of the material you chose. We give you the likely number at quotation and confirm the exact positions with you during the template visit.
On materials with directional veining, usually yes. Your pieces are laid out on the slab so the vein continues through the join wherever the template geometry allows. On heavily patterned granite there is a limit to how far it can be carried, and we will tell you where that limit is.
Because it moves the surprise from your kitchen to our bench. A cut-out a couple of millimetres tight is a fifteen minute fix in the workshop. Discovered on fitting day it costs everybody a day and possibly a slab.
Where this happens
Twelve neighbourhoods whose housing stock throws up this job most often. Each page covers what fabrication actually involves in that stock: the access, the era of the building and what that does to the work.
These twelve are a sample, not a coverage boundary. We work in 723 Greater London neighbourhoods and out into Surrey, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Essex.
Next
Every job runs through more than one of these. Follow the thread rather than guessing which order things go in.
Worth reading
The questions that come up most, answered in full rather than in a sentence.
Why joins exist, what decides how many you get, where a good one belongs, and the honest truth about how visible a join is in quartz, granite and sintered stone.
Read the guideThe edge is the part of the worktop you touch every day and the detail that dates a kitchen fastest. What the common profiles are, what each costs you in labour, and how to pick.
Read the guideWhat the two standard thicknesses actually change, what they do not (strength, mostly), and why the honest deciding factors are weight, the carry into your kitchen and how you want the edge to read.
Read the guideHow overhangs actually work, why knee room is measured from the cabinet rather than the stone, what decides a safe unsupported span, and the support options ranked by what each costs you visually.
Read the guideWhy an island is a slab-yield question before it is a design one, how book-matching and waterfall ends are won or lost at slab selection, and what has to be decided before the cabinetry is fixed.
Read the guideEvery one of these is on our Google profile under the reviewer’s own name. Nothing here is written by us, and the link goes straight to the source.
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Next step
Plans, a sketch or photographs with rough run lengths is enough to start. Nothing is payable until we template.