Kitchen worktops in Muswell Hill

Yes. Big three-storey Edwardian houses where the ground floor has been opened right through, so the kitchen run is 4m or more along the side wall with a long island parallel to it and a bank of tall units where the old scullery was. Larders and pantries get asked for here more than in most of Haringey. Without a bay the van ends up on a single yellow with a crew member watching it, which takes a pair of hands off the carry. It is noted on the job sheet at template so the fitting crew inherit the answer rather than rediscovering it. It goes on the job sheet for the fitting crew.

Edwardian terrace, Edwardian semi and 1930s mansion flat. The rear wall is usually a single brick thick and has been rendered, patched and re-rendered, so it bows in and out along the length of the run. 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.

Steep gradients on Muswell Hill itself and on the roads dropping to Alexandra Park - a slab on a trolley will run away from you. The Broadway has narrow service roads behind the parades and controlled parking on the residential streets all day. Stone goes up on edge, and it is the half-landing turn rather than the flight itself that sets the maximum piece. An access-driven join is priced like any other join, and people are always surprised to see one on a dead straight run. You see that figure before we template, not after.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop templating and worktop installation, in that order. The junction between the original room and the extension is the point to watch, because the two floors rarely sit at the same height. Comparing quotes only works when they itemise the same things, and this is where the differences usually hide. Itemised, so it can be compared honestly. These houses are three storeys with the original stair rising straight off the hall, so anything longer than 2.7m has to come in through the front and swing before the stair newel - measure that corner at template.

An island is a single visible piece with four finished edges and no wall to hide against, so it is the piece the whole kitchen is judged on. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. The join is the last thing finished. 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. Send photographs of every corner of the room and it gets priced properly first time. 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.

A street with houses in single occupation next to the same houses cut into flats produces two completely different jobs from the same elevation. The quote is written so it can be read by whoever is paying rather than only by whoever is standing in the kitchen. Every line has a reason next to it. 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.