Kitchen worktops in Harlesden

Yes. Dense Victorian terraces with the kitchen in a narrow back addition, and a large share of the stock is split into flats, so the job is often a 2.4m to 3m single run squeezed into a converted rear room with the sink under the original sash. Where a house is still whole, the side return infill is the standard upgrade and turns the kitchen into an L with a small peninsula. 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. Waste is the part people forget: the old laminate or tired granite has to be walked back to the van and it does not get lighter. Old tops out and new stone in, both through the same gap.

Victorian bay-fronted terrace, Edwardian terrace and post-war council block. The back addition is a narrow two-storey outrigger with a single external wall, and the kitchen galley runs the length of it. Victorian party walls and chimney-breast returns bow along their length, so the template plots the real line rather than assuming a straight one - the laser picks up points every few hundred millimetres down the back of the run and the drawing carries that curve through to the saw. Recorded as it is, not as it was drawn.

No driveways to speak of, red route and bus lane restrictions on the main roads, and controlled parking on almost every side street, so a dispensation or a very early start is usually needed to get the van close enough for a hall carry. Carrying through the house means protecting the whole route first: floor boarded, banister padded, and the front door held open on a wedge rather than by hand. Door widths, turn diagonals and any change of level are recorded on the drawing alongside the run dimensions. It goes on the drawing with the run dimensions.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop splashbacks & upstands, in that order. A kitchen carved out of a larger room sits under whatever the original plan left behind, so the run frequently ends at a blocked doorway or a boxed-in service. The units stay and only the surface changes, so the whole job is one day rather than a kitchen refit. A day, not a project. Back-addition kitchens are rarely square to the main house, so expect a taper across a 3m run and template the whole piece as one rather than assuming a right angle at the return.

Two runs meeting at an internal corner is the most common shape we fit, and the corner is where the decisions are. The same shape decides where splashback pieces break, and a joint in a corner reads as a detail while one in a clear run reads as a mistake. The joint to the worktop is siliconed, never grouted. A run can measure dead right at both ends and still belly out in the middle, which only appears once the laser plots the intermediate points. This is the commonest reason a replacement turns out to need more than a straight swap. Found at template, not on fit day. 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.

Managed stock usually comes with its own rules about working hours, waste, and who is allowed on site. If the carcasses are tired the honest answer is that stone will find that out, and it is better said before than after. Units kept, surface changed. 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.