Kitchen worktops in Botany Bay

Yes. Green-belt hamlet with a handful of farmhouses and large detached houses. Kitchens are big rooms with a range cooker in the old chimney recess, a freestanding-look layout and thick 30mm or 40mm tops rather than the 20mm you see in the suburbs. Where the van can pull up level with the gate the pieces are handled the fewest times, which is what actually protects them. A templater circling for a space arrives late into a slot that was already tight, and the drawing is what suffers. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

farmhouse, Victorian cottage and large modern detached. Doorways are low and narrow, which is a genuine constraint on piece length before anything else is considered. An island a few hundred millimetres over the usable slab length costs a whole second slab, which is worth knowing before the layout is fixed. You see it before you commit to anything.

Narrow lanes with no pavement, no lighting and passing places only, plus horses and farm traffic. A long-wheelbase van fits but reversing out is not an option, so turning space has to be confirmed first. A narrow entrance hall with a turn into the back of the house caps the longest piece we can physically get in, whatever the run itself measures. An access-driven join is priced like any other join, and people are always surprised to see one on a dead straight run. You see that figure before we template, not after.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop templating and worktop installation, in that order. The junction between the original room and the extension is the point to watch, because the two floors rarely sit at the same height. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Nothing payable until we template. Range cookers in these houses sit in a masonry recess that is never square - template the two flanking tops individually with a tolerance gap, do not assume a symmetrical opening.

A galley puts the sink on one side and the hob on the other, which spreads the cut-outs across two pieces instead of weakening one. Joins are pulled with suction clamps and finished flush, then colour-matched, which is the last thing done rather than the first. Nothing is bonded until the whole run sits flat. The returns into a breast recess are the tightest scribes in the room, and they are eased in rather than forced. Send photographs of every corner of the room and it gets priced properly first time. Priced as fabrication, not as area. 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.

An owner living in the house makes the decisions and lives with them, so the specification tends to go towards the material rather than towards the lowest total. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. Nothing payable until template. 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.