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Worktops
The surface itself: which stone, what it costs by the square metre, and what the room does to that number.
- 5.0from 26 Google reviews
- 25-year material · 5-year workmanship
- Fitted 5-10 working days from template
You are buying a slab and the work done to it
Supply and fit is one transaction with two halves. The first is material: a slab, priced per square metre, anywhere from £110 to £550 across the 181 surfaces we hold. The second is everything done to that slab, which is templating, cutting, mitring, polishing, every cut-out and the day our installers spend in your kitchen. Both halves appear on the quote, separately, and the reason is that only one of them is a rate.
The stone is a rate because it is sold by the square metre and always has been. The work is not, because it answers to your kitchen: how long the runs are, how many joins that forces, how many apertures get machined, and how a piece of stone the size of a door gets from the van to the far side of the room. Two kitchens of identical floor area routinely differ by more than double, and it is rarely the floor area doing it.
What you get for the second half is a single company holding all of it. We template it, we cut it and we fit it, which is why the 5-year workmanship guarantee can cover the join, the cut-out and the fixing without anybody needing to establish whose fault a thing was.
At a glance
- What it is
- Supply and fit as one job
- Supply rate
- £110–£550/m², slab only
- Surfaces
- 181 to choose from
- Fitted
- 5–10 working days from template
Fitted 5–10 working days from template. Deposit at template, balance before installation.
What is involved
From a rough square metre figure to a fixed price
You can do the first two of these yourself, tonight, with a tape measure. They will land you within sight of the real number.
- 01You, ten minutes
Measure the runs, not the room
Length along the wall multiplied by depth, run by run, then added up. A standard base unit run works out around 0.6m deep, so three metres of units is roughly 1.8m². An island is measured on its own because it is usually deeper. Floor area tells you nothing here.
- 02Supply only
Multiply by a supply rate
Your square metres against the rate for the surface you like. £110/m² is the entry point and £550/m² the top of the range, and that spread is fivefold, which makes the slab the largest single decision on the quote before anybody has discussed the room.
- 03Free, up to four
Order samples before you settle it
Up to four quartz samples go out free, and they are worth waiting for. A photograph of stone is a photograph taken under lighting that is not yours, and the surface that looked warm on a screen can read grey against your doors at nine at night.
- 04Itemised
Add the work as its own lines
Templating, fabrication, each cut-out, the edge profile, any upstands by the linear metre, and fitting. These are quoted individually rather than folded into the stone price, so dropping a drainer groove or a second tap hole visibly drops the total.
- 05On site
Template makes the square metres binding
Everything above is priced from your dimensions. The template visit measures the room as it actually is, once the units are fitted and level, and that is the figure the slab is cut to. If the two disagree, you hear the revised number before anything is cut.
- 06Two stages
Deposit at template, balance before fitting
Nothing is payable while you are deciding. The deposit is taken when the template is signed off, the balance falls due before installation, and the kitchen is fitted 5 to 10 working days after that template.
The number
Six things that move it, in roughly that order
None of these is a hidden extra. They are the reasons two quotes for the same square metreage come back hundreds of pounds apart.
Which slab you chose
Supply runs from £110/m² to £550/m². Nothing else on the quote has that kind of range, so the colour you fall for at the start is quietly setting the budget for everything after it. This is also the one line you can change without changing your kitchen.
Square metres bought, not square metres fitted
Stone is cut out of a rectangle. A layout that nests neatly onto one slab is efficient; a layout needing four hundred millimetres more than the slab gives means buying into a second one, and that step is a cliff rather than a slope. It is why a slightly shorter island can cost noticeably less than a slightly longer one.
How many cut-outs, and which ones
Sink aperture, tap holes, hob, pop-up sockets, drainer grooves. Each is a separate machining operation on a piece that is already paid for, so each carries its own line. Drainer grooves in particular are hours of work, and plenty of people drop them once they see the line rather than the total.
The edge, and how much of it is exposed
A polished edge on the visible sides is the baseline. A mitred edge, which builds a thick front out of a thinner slab, is more material and considerably more bench time. An island with four finished sides has roughly twice the edge of the same area against a wall.
Upstands, splashbacks and window sills
All priced separately, upstands by the linear metre and splashbacks by area, and all cheapest decided now because they come off the same slab run as the worktop. Added later they are a fresh slab, a fresh delivery and no promise on the batch.
How the stone reaches the room
A three metre piece of quartz is carried in by hand, does not bend and does not go up a turn in a staircase that a sofa struggled with. A third-floor flat with no lift, a narrow side return or parking two streets away is real labour, and it is priced honestly rather than discovered on the day.
Why there is no fitted price per square metre anywhere on this site
Because it would be a made-up figure. An installed rate only works if fabrication and fitting scale with area, and they do not: they scale with joins, apertures, edges and access, none of which the square metreage knows about. Quoting one would mean either padding every simple kitchen to cover the awkward ones, or quoting low and finding the difference later. So the supply rate is published, the work is itemised, and the total is fixed before you agree to anything.
Supply and fit
What the price covers, and what it does not
Everything on the left is in the quote you approve. Everything on the right belongs to another trade or another company, and is far cheaper to know about now.
Inside the job
- The slab itself, at the supply rate quoted per square metre
- A digital template of your kitchen, taken once the units are fitted and level
- Cutting, mitring and polishing in our own workshop, then dry assembly on the bench
- Every cut-out machined to the sink, tap and hob you actually own
- Delivery and fitting by our own installers: scribed, levelled, joined and sealed
- Your sink and hob seated and sealed into the stone
- The 25-year material guarantee and the 5-year workmanship guarantee
- A care guide written for the surface you chose, not a generic leaflet
Outside it
- Supply only: we do not sell slabs for somebody else to fit
- Fitting a worktop bought from another company, because we cannot guarantee a cut we did not make
- Connecting water, waste, gas or electrics: we seat and seal, other trades connect
- Fitting, levelling or repairing the kitchen units underneath
- Tiling, plastering or making good the decoration afterwards
- Laminate, timber and acrylic: we work in quartz, granite and sintered stone only
Questions
Worktops: the questions we get asked
If yours is not here, ring and ask. You will get a straight answer rather than a call-back from a salesperson.
What does supply and fit actually include?
The slab, templating, fabrication, every cut-out, the edge work, delivery and installation by our own team, with your sink and hob seated and sealed into the stone. It does not include plumbing or electrical connection, kitchen units, or tiling and making good. Material carries a 25-year guarantee and our work a 5-year workmanship guarantee.
How much is a stone worktop per square metre?
Supply is £110 to £550 per square metre depending which of the 181 surfaces you choose, and that is the slab on its own. Fabrication and fitting are quoted as separate lines because they answer to your run lengths, your cut-outs and how the stone gets into the room rather than to area. Send rough measurements and an indicative range comes back the same working day.
How do I work out my own square metres?
Measure each run along the wall, multiply by its depth, and add the runs together. Standard base units put you around 0.6m deep, so a three metre run is roughly 1.8m². Do the island separately, because it is usually deeper and often finished on all four sides. That figure is close enough to price against, and template makes it exact.
Will you supply a worktop without fitting it?
No, and we would rather say so early than take the enquiry. The template drawing our machine cuts to is the same drawing our installer works from, and that is the only reason we can stand behind the join, the cut-out and the fit as one piece of work. Splitting it would leave you holding the gap between two companies.
Where this happens
Worktops in your part of London
Twelve neighbourhoods whose housing stock throws up this job most often. Each page covers what worktops 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.
Reviews
5.0 from 26 Google reviews
Every 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.
Perfect service,the best on this job
Kleant Istrefi
Google review
I recently had my kitchen worktop and splashback done by Karem from Worktop WorX and i am very pleased with the result. From the initial consultation and measurements to the final installation, the whole process was smooth and professional. The attention for details and the quality made the difference and everything was finished to a high standard. I definitely recommend Worktop WorX to anyone looking for reliable and high quality kitchen work
Alexandru Balint
Google review
Really impressed with the quality and finish of these worktops. Great range of materials, precise fabrication, and smooth communication throughout. The whole process was easy and the final result looks fantastic. Highly recommend!
Nastasia Drago
Google review
Next
What usually happens either side of this
Every job runs through more than one of these. Follow the thread rather than guessing which order things go in.
Next step
Send us the kitchen and we will price it properly
Plans, a sketch or photographs with rough run lengths is enough to start. Nothing is payable until we template.