Kitchen worktops in Greenhill

Yes. Town centre living: compact apartment kitchens, many in converted offices where the kitchen is a single wall of 2.4m to 3m against a service core with no window. Upgrades are cosmetic by necessity because the layout is locked, so tops, upstands and a new sink are the whole job. 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. We stage the strip-out so the old tops leave in one trip rather than trickling out across the afternoon. Old tops out and new stone in, both through the same gap.

1930s flat above shops, 1960s office-to-residential conversion and 2010s-2020s town centre tower. A former office building converted to flats has deep floorplates, so kitchens end up in internal rooms with no external wall at all. The template records that corner as it is, so the mitre closes tight instead of being cut to a theoretical 90 degrees. Two to three hours, once the units are in.

Multi-storey and podium parking with height barriers, controlled loading bays with strict time limits, and goods lifts that need booking through building management. Station Road and College Road restrictions rule out casual kerbside unloading. The barrier, the entry code and the estate rules decide when a van can get near the door, and none of that is negotiable on the day. The templater measures that route on the same visit, so the drawing leaves site already knowing the maximum piece. That is part of what the visit is for.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop splashbacks & upstands, in that order. In a converted house the flat entrance and the internal doorway are usually tighter than the communal stairs, and that is easy to overlook. Ordered later from a different batch, the match is not reliable exactly where the pieces meet. Siliconed to the worktop, never grouted. Office conversions have shallow floor-to-ceiling zones and boxed services above the units, so measure the clearance for tilting a slab upright inside the room.

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. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. One datum for the whole room. 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. It is usually what pushes a job towards a 100mm upstand instead of a full-height panel, because an upstand rides what a panel exposes. Make the wall good first, or accept the detail. 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 ownership is split across a building, the common parts belong to someone else and the carry route is negotiated rather than assumed. Splashbacks are cut from the same slab run as the tops, so they have to be decided before fabrication, not after. Decided before fabrication, not after. 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.