Kitchen worktops in Addington

Yes. The village core has small period cottages with tight kitchens and low ceilings, while the surrounding 1960s-70s detached houses have square kitchens with integral garages behind, commonly converted into a utility with a second worktop run. Off-street parking means the van stays put all day, so tools, packers and the offcut we would rather have than not are all within reach. We stage the strip-out so the old tops leave in one trip rather than trickling out across the afternoon. It is a full day at the kerb, not a delivery.

old village cottage, 1960s detached, 1970s detached and modern executive housing. The window sits in the middle of the run over the sink, and its board and cill set the limit on how tall an upstand can be. With little square metreage to spread them over, the cut-outs and the fixed template, fabrication and fitting lines carry the quote, so each one is listed separately rather than buried in a rate. Priced from the building, not from a rate card.

The village lanes are narrow with a sharp bend and no pavement in places, and the tram runs through on its own alignment, so unloading has to be off the carriageway. Everything comes through the front door and down the hall, so the tightest point on the route is usually the newel post at the foot of the stairs. We price the carry from what you tell us about the route, so photographs of the approach are worth more to us than a floor plan. You see that figure before we template, not after.

Worktop installation, worktop replacement and worktop design & quotation, in that order. Extended households run kitchens hard, and that pushes the specification towards granite or sintered stone rather than a light quartz. The units stay and only the surface changes, so the whole job is one day rather than a kitchen refit. A plumber either side of us. The 1960s houses often have the kitchen a step above the hall on a raised slab, which changes the finished worktop height, so we set out from the cabinet tops rather than a stated 900mm.

The catch with a galley is that both runs are seen end-on from the doorway, so any difference in overhang between the two reads immediately. A layout that has been packed and levelled run by run instead of to one datum shows as a step where two pieces meet. Dry-lay first, always. A junction between an original floor and a later extension slab is almost never at the same level, so units carrying a run across it need packing first. This is the commonest reason a replacement turns out to need more than a straight swap. The laminate has been covering it up. Material runs from £110 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines rather than rolled into one figure.

Owner-occupied kitchens are usually being done once, which is why the edge profile, the vein direction and where a join falls are worth the conversation. A replacement keeps the units and changes the surface, which is the least disruptive way to do this in an occupied property. Plumber either side of us. Tell us the building when you book and the lift, the stair turn and any freeholder notice get built into the day rather than found on it.