Kitchen worktops in Camden Town

Yes. Heavy flat-conversion territory, so a lot of kitchens are the rear half of a first-floor conversion or a lower-ground room off a light well, which keeps runs to 2.4-3.2m single-wall or a shallow L with the sink under the window. Whole-house jobs are rarer than up the hill, and when they happen it is usually a rear knock-through with a 3m run and a peninsula rather than a full island. The realistic answer on a main road is an early slot, a spotter on the van and pieces staged in one movement rather than several trips. It is noted on the job sheet at template so the fitting crew inherit the answer rather than rediscovering it. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

early Victorian terrace, Georgian-style stucco terrace, post-war ex-local-authority block and canal-side new build. Lease conditions and the other flats in the building decide when noisy work can happen, so the fitting day has a start and a finish that are not ours to set. Alcoves either side of the breast are rarely the same width and rarely parallel, so each one is templated as its own piece with its own scribe. Two to three hours, once the units are in.

The CPZ runs seven days near the markets, the streets around the Lock are pedestrianised or clogged with market traffic until late, and Camden Road and Kentish Town Road are constant bus routes with nowhere to sit a van. Most drops are a shared front door then a turn onto a narrow converted landing, so a 3m slab often cannot be carried flat past the newel post. Stone goes up on edge, and it is the half-landing turn rather than the flight itself that sets the maximum piece. Door widths, turn diagonals and any change of level are recorded on the drawing alongside the run dimensions. The laser records it along with everything else.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop installation, in that order. Conversions put kitchens where the services could be made to reach rather than where they belong, so runs are short and interrupted. The fitting day is scheduled to suit that rather than to suit the diary. The prep list is not optional. Expect to plan a join purely to get material up a converted staircase, and check the floor first because conversion floors above a shop or a pub bounce more than you want under 30mm quartz.

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. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. The drawing leaves site complete. A low sill over the sink run is what decides between an upstand and stone dying into a window board, and there is often less clearance than an upstand is tall. We would rather find it at template than on the morning, which is why the templater looks behind the units. Found at template, not on fit day. 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.

A street with houses in single occupation next to the same houses cut into flats produces two completely different jobs from the same elevation. A half-day of access is not a fitting day, and it is better to say so at booking than to find out at eleven. One visit, our own installers. 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.