Kitchen worktops in Golders Green

Yes. Two clear kitchen types: 1930s mansion flats with fixed compact kitchens against a services wall, and family houses where a full kosher kitchen is the standard brief with two sinks, two dishwashers, separate meat and dairy runs, often two ovens and space for a Shabbat hot plate. That doubles the number of cut-outs and usually means two matched worktop runs rather than one. 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 rarely changes what we cut, but it does change how the pieces are stacked and strapped for the run out. The load plan follows from it.

1930s mansion block, Edwardian and 1920s semi and large detached off the main roads. Permitted works hours are commonly weekdays with a late start and an early finish, so a one-day fit is planned around the porter and the lift. This is the most managed day we do. That is the shape of the day.

Mansion blocks with small original lifts, stone stairs and porters, plus permit parking that is full by mid-morning along the main roads. Houses off the side streets have driveways, but the mansion flats are the defining access problem. 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. Finding it out on the morning costs the whole slot, because there is no second route to fall back on. That is what the morning is planned around.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop installation and worktop fabrication, in that order. Landlord work is scheduled around void periods, so the whole thing is a fixed window and the template date matters as much as the fitting date. The fitting day is scheduled to suit that rather than to suit the diary. One visit, done properly. Kosher layouts must be agreed before templating because the meat and dairy split changes sink positions, drainer grooves and joint locations across the whole kitchen.

Galley runs are usually short enough to come out of a single slab, so the material band you choose does more to the total than the room shape does. Each run is priced on its own line against the supply rate, with the join count and the reason for each join stated. The join count is stated with its reason. A notch around a boxed stack is machined with a radius at the internal corner, because a square inside corner there is exactly where a top will crack. On the day it means dry-laying, marking, and cutting the scribe on site before anything is bonded. Eased in, never forced. 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 householder is normally on site at template, and that is the right time to settle sink position, tap centres and overhang rather than agree them by email. 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. Protection goes down first. 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.