Kitchen worktops in Brockley

Yes. Large stucco-fronted Victorian villas, most divided into flats. Garden flats have lower-ground or rear-extension kitchens with room for an island, while the upper conversions have kitchens fitted into former bedrooms with fireplaces, tall windows and no straight wall over 3m. Enforcement zones rarely accept a trade van unloading stone as an exemption, so this gets sorted before the date is confirmed rather than argued about afterwards. It is noted on the job sheet at template so the fitting crew inherit the answer rather than rediscovering it. Two hours is the realistic figure.

1860s-1880s Italianate semi-detached villa, Victorian terrace and 1970s infill flats. The rear room is generous with a chimney breast in one corner, so the run gains a return and two scribed ends whatever the plan drew. The galley run down a side-return usually measures longer than a slab will give us, so a join is designed in from the start and nested to land over a cabinet gable rather than wherever the material happens to run out. Every join over a gable, clear of every cut-out.

Conservation area with front lightwells, high steps up to the raised ground floor and mature street trees; parking is permit-controlled and the villa steps are the real obstacle, not the doorway. Where the lift will not take the longest run we design a join in rather than gamble, because a piece that will not go up has to go back on the van. The maximum piece length is fixed at drawing stage and every join is placed over a cabinet gable from there. Once the cut-outs are machined there is no going back on it.

Worktop templating, worktop fabrication and worktop replacement, in that order. A kitchen carved out of a larger room sits under whatever the original plan left behind, so the run frequently ends at a blocked doorway or a boxed-in service. Cutting several kitchens from different slabs and calling them matched is where firms get caught out. Same slab run, or it is not a match. Raised ground floors mean six or eight steps up to the front door on almost every villa — plan every lift as a two-man strap job.

An island is a single visible piece with four finished edges and no wall to hide against, so it is the piece the whole kitchen is judged on. Join positions and vein direction are marked on the template drawing before it leaves site. One datum for the whole room. Legs bottoming out on hard concrete or an uneven screed mean the tops of the carcasses are not one plane, and that is picked up at template rather than on fitting day. We would rather find it at template than on the morning, which is why the templater looks behind the units. 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.

The same building type can arrive as a careful one-off kitchen or as a fast turnaround, and the honest answer is that they are priced differently. The workshop works from the approved drawing, so whoever signs it off is signing off the join positions too. Dry-assembled before it leaves. 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.