Worktop design and quotation in Farringdon

Yes. Farringdon is on the patch, and the postcodes we work here are EC1. It is run from the Watford side, covering Hertfordshire & North London. Bay bookings are usually an hour or two, which is fine for unloading and no use at all as a place to leave the van for a day. Where a bay suspension or a permit is needed, that is a real cost and it goes on the quote instead of appearing later. You are told before you commit to a date. We template in your kitchen and fit in your kitchen, so there is nothing to visit and nothing to collect.

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. Long uninterrupted runs price well until a column or a deep scribe breaks one, and then the nest changes. Priced from the building, not from a rate card. These are fabrication jobs more than fitting jobs, with long single pieces, mitred edges and matched veining, so slab selection and layout deserve the time up front.

Congestion Charge zone, heavy weekday traffic, and buildings that open straight onto the pavement with no lay-by, so loading is a booked bay or an early slot. Service lifts are common and worth confirming in writing before anything is cut. A car that takes 2.4m on the diagonal will not take a three-metre worktop however it is stood, and there is no trimming it on the landing. That is why the fitting line on a quote reflects manpower and time rather than square metres. It appears as its own line rather than buried in a rate. Tell us what the approach looks like when you book the template and it gets built into the day rather than discovered on it.

It is one of the three we do most here, behind worktop fabrication. Same template visit, same workshop, same installers either way. Extension kitchens are usually specified long before they are buildable, so the run lengths on the drawing and the run lengths in the room are different numbers. Everything is itemised: material, template, fabrication, fitting, each cut-out and each metre of upstand. Nothing payable until we template. A new extension slab is not automatically level, and that wants checking before templating rather than after the stone is cut. Comparing quotes only works when they itemise the same things, and this is where the differences usually hide. Material is the slab only, and it says so.

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. Slab yield is worked out at quote stage, so if the layout forces a second slab you hear it before you commit rather than after. No installed rate per square metre, because it is not a real number. Material is £110-£550 per square metre supply only, and templating, fabrication and fitting are quoted on their own lines.

Where a column lands in the run the template plots its actual outline so the stone is cut to fit around it rather than stopped short and filled. Send photographs of every corner of the room and it gets priced properly first time. Priced as fabrication, not as area. Send photos of the full route from where a van can park to the kitchen, including the goods lift and door widths, and tell us what the worktop is going back against. Quartz is the sensible default in a rental: nothing to seal, nothing to maintain, and nothing an incoming tenant needs briefing on. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. Written to be read by whoever is paying.