Kitchen worktops in Crayford

Yes. Terraces built for the works have small back-addition kitchens under 2.5m with a yard door, the interwar estates above the town have the usual rear kitchen and dining room, and the newer riverside flats have compact open-plan runs with a peninsula. A free-parking street with cars both sides can still leave the van forty metres away, and that distance is carry, not driving. We stage the strip-out so the old tops leave in one trip rather than trickling out across the afternoon. The waste run is planned, not improvised.

Victorian industrial workers terrace, 1930s semi, postwar council estate and 2000s riverside flats. Original brickwork is uneven by ten millimetres or more across a bay, so the back edge is scribed to the actual face rather than to a line. Where brickwork bows enough that a full-depth piece cannot go back tight, the units move forward and the front overhang changes. What is under the old top is the real question.

The town is split by the main road and the river, with a steep hill up from the high street and terraced streets parked nose-to-tail; the riverside blocks have their own gated parking. Sign-in at the gate, a permit on the dash and a named contact are usually wanted before anything comes off the van. With no room to turn, the old top gets cut up in the kitchen instead, which is dusty work and needs the room emptied first. It sets what the day actually looks like.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop fabrication, in that order. A new extension slab is not automatically level, and that wants checking before templating rather than after the stone is cut. The units stay and only the surface changes, so the whole job is one day rather than a kitchen refit. Sound carcasses or it does not go ahead. The old works terraces have very low ceilings in the rear addition — check head height over the run before specifying tall upstands or a splashback.

A peninsula is an island with one end tied to a run, which means the join between them has to be planned rather than allowed to happen. The nest is laid out around that, with joins placed over cabinet gables and kept clear of every cut-out. Every join sits over a gable. Where a run finishes into a reveal, the depth of that reveal is taken at worktop height and nowhere else. The laser plots it as it is, at the exact height the worktop will sit, and the drawing carries that through. Measured at worktop height, nowhere else. 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.

Where a landlord or housing provider is involved there is a specification to meet and a process to follow, and both are settled before a date is offered. If the carcasses are tired the honest answer is that stone will find that out, and it is better said before than after. Units kept, surface changed. 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.