Kitchen worktops in Kensal Green

Yes. Terraced houses with narrow back additions and a growing number of canal-side and former-industrial new-build flats with open-plan kitchen-living rooms. The house jobs are typically 3m plus a 1.5m return with the boiler still in the kitchen, and the flats are handover kitchens being upgraded from laminate without moving a single unit. Where the bay sits some distance from the core, the carry across the car park is the longest leg of the day and gets boarded and lit. A templater circling for a space arrives late into a slot that was already tight, and the drawing is what suffers. The templater needs a proper stop, not a pause.

Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace and canal-side new-build block. The back addition is a narrow two-storey outrigger with a single external wall, and the kitchen galley runs the length of it. Lath-and-plaster on the party wall and the chimney breast returns almost never runs true, so a 100mm upstand bedded on silicone is the honest answer here — it rides the bow and hides the junction the worktop can never close on its own. The wall makes that decision, not the brochure.

Harrow Road and the gasworks-side roads are busy through the day with restricted stopping, and the residential side streets are permit-only. New blocks have proper loading bays but require a booking slot and a goods lift key. 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. It is usually the full-height panels rather than the tops that will not make the turn, and that only shows up when they arrive. That is agreed at template, not on fitting day.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop splashbacks & upstands, in that order. Developer-fitted kitchens come with thin cam-lock carcasses, which are fine under laminate and want bracing before stone goes on them. The carcasses have to be sound, because stone is several times the weight of what is coming off. A day, not a project. In the new flats the units are often carcass-and-door systems with thin tops and no rails, so check the cabinet tops can carry 20mm stone before pricing.

A galley puts the sink on one side and the hob on the other, which spreads the cut-outs across two pieces instead of weakening one. 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. Joint placement is a decision, not an accident. 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. One measurement never describes it, which is why a tape reading taken before the visit rarely matches the template. Measured at worktop height, nowhere else. 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 same building type can arrive as a careful one-off kitchen or as a fast turnaround, and the honest answer is that they are priced differently. A plumber disconnects before we arrive and reconnects after we leave, and that is worth booking early. 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.