Kitchen worktops in Hackney Wick

Yes. Industrial conversions and new blocks, so the kitchen runs open-plan against one wall of the main space with a 3.5-4m run and an island or a long peninsula. Ceilings are high and services are surface-run, which changes where a splashback can sensibly stop. Where the van can pull up level with the gate the pieces are handled the fewest times, which is what actually protects them. Tell us at enquiry stage and it is priced properly, because a crew stood waiting is the most expensive thing on any job. You are told before you commit to a date.

former factory and warehouse conversion, live-work unit, new-build apartment and canal-side development. Poured screed over steel decking can fall away across a long run, so level is checked across the whole room before anything is packed. These read as easy from the outside and rarely are. Walked, measured, protected, then lifted.

Narrow lanes between the canal and the railway, gated yards, and buildings designed around goods vehicles rather than parking, a few still with loading doors and hoists. Newer blocks have booked service lifts while the older conversions can mean a long industrial stair. 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. The fitting day is planned backwards from that point, before anything comes off the van. None of it is worked out on the doorstep.

Worktop fabrication, worktop installation and worktop design & quotation, 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 fitting day is scheduled to suit that rather than to suit the diary. The prep list is not optional. Walls in these converted units are rarely plumb and often bare brick, so an upstand shows every undulation and a separate stone splashback scribed to the wall works far better.

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. Pieces are dry-assembled on the bench before dispatch so the corners are known to close before they leave the workshop. The bench proves it before the van does. Walls that bow along their length are the normal condition rather than the exception, and a straight-cut back edge will show a shadow gap at one end and touch at the other. This is the item most often left out of a cheaper quote, and it comes back as a variation once the templater has been. Priced as fabrication, not as area. 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.

Access in a tenanted flat depends on the tenant, so the template and fitting dates are agreed with whoever actually holds the keys. The fitting day is arranged with whoever can actually give us access for the whole slot. 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.