Kitchen worktops in Lee

Yes. The Lee Green and Lee High Road terraces have the standard back-addition kitchen, but the streets toward Manor House have larger detached and semi-detached houses where the kitchen has usually been extended into the garden for a 4m run plus island. Side returns are the common project. A controlled parking zone means either a visitor permit sorted in advance or a suspended bay, and a suspension is applied for days ahead rather than on the morning. The templating visit needs somewhere to stop for two or three hours, which is a different problem from unloading for twenty minutes. It goes on the job sheet for the fitting crew.

Victorian terrace, large Victorian villa, 1930s semi and postwar infill. The back addition is a narrow two-storey outrigger with a single external wall, and the kitchen galley runs the length of it. The quote separates the joins the run needs from the joins the route forces, because they are different decisions with the same price. Priced from the building, not from a rate card.

Mixed — terraced roads are permit-parked and narrow, the villa streets have off-street parking and wide gates, and the South Circular makes stopping anywhere near Lee Green awkward. The side passage is the measurement that matters, because a piece has to be carried flat down it and then turned in at the back door, and the turn is always tighter than the passage. We price the carry from what you tell us about the route, so photographs of the approach are worth more to us than a floor plan. Nothing about it gets estimated after the fact.

Worktop installation, worktop templating 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. That changes what the quote should be compared against, because the shape of the job is not the same as a single family kitchen. Itemised, so it can be compared honestly. Side-return extensions here often leave a long unsupported run past a bifold opening — confirm there's a support leg or return before cutting.

If the island is a few hundred millimetres longer than the usable length of a slab, a second slab gets bought to gain that overhang, and the whole slab is paid for rather than the part used. The template records every angle in that shape as it actually is rather than as the plan drew it. Real angles, not plan angles. Window boards and cills stand proud of the plaster, so the back edge of the top has to be plotted to where the units actually sit rather than to the wall. On the day it means dry-laying, marking, and cutting the scribe on site before anything is bonded. Eased in, never forced. 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. Nothing is payable until we template, so a quote can sit while consents and decisions catch up. Nothing payable until template. 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.