Kitchen worktops in Greenwich

Yes. Most of the town-centre stock is narrow three-storey Georgian and early Victorian terraces where the kitchen sits in the back addition or on the lower ground floor, so runs are short — 2.4m to 3m — and rarely straight. Where the side return has been opened the kitchen becomes an L with a small peninsula rather than a true 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. A replacement is a two-way job, with old tops going out and new stone coming in, so the van needs to stay put across the whole day. Old tops out and new stone in, both through the same gap.

Georgian terrace, early Victorian terrace, Edwardian mansion flat and 1980s riverside infill. Where the side return has been filled in, the old external wall is now an internal one and still carries its render, its gutter line and its old fixings. The laser plots the bow along the back of the run, which is why a tape reading taken beforehand never matches. No stone is ever cut from a plan.

The one-way system, the pedestrianised streets around the market and resident-permit-only bays mean a slab usually has to be walked in from wherever the van can legally stop, through a narrow Georgian front door and often down a tight winder stair to a lower-ground kitchen. Weight tells on a staircase more than anywhere else, because there is nowhere to set a piece down mid-flight and no way to change your grip once it is moving. The templater measures that route on the same visit, so the drawing leaves site already knowing the maximum piece. The laser records it along with everything else.

Worktop templating, worktop replacement and worktop fabrication, in that order. 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. Pieces are dry-assembled and checked on the bench before anything is loaded. Nested for the job in front of us. Nothing here is square — template off the fitted units rather than the walls, and check the stair turn will take a 3m piece before quoting it as one.

Where the return runs into a wall that is out of square, the corner is templated as the angle it really is rather than as ninety degrees. The existing layout is being kept, so the question is whether the old carcasses will take stone in that shape without more support. The units stay, the surface changes. The stone carries the scribe because the wall cannot be persuaded, so back edges are cut oversize and eased in rather than dropped straight down. Internal corners are machined with a radius and polished, and kept well clear of any join or cut-out. Radiused, polished, and clear of the joins. 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. The workshop works from the approved drawing, so whoever signs it off is signing off the join positions too. Changes cost a piece, not a tweak. 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.