Kitchen worktops in St John's Wood

Yes. Detached and semi-detached villas with large rear kitchens - a 4m run, a 3m island, a separate utility and often a prep sink, all designed by a studio. The portered blocks nearby are the opposite: a self-contained kitchen room with a fixed layout and a landlord consent process before anything moves. Streets near a ground or a venue have restrictions that come and go with the fixture list rather than with the time of day. Where unloading has to happen in one go, the load order is planned so nothing has to come off twice. The load plan follows from it.

Regency villa, Victorian semi-detached villa, 1930s mansion block and 1960s portered block. The stair to the lower ground floor has a turn at the bottom and a low soffit above it, and both are measured before anything is nested. The joins here are chosen rather than forced, so they go where the veining and the gables want them. The bench proves it before the van moves.

Leasehold and estate consents govern the villas, and the blocks impose porter-controlled access, weekday-only works hours and lift protection. Match and event days at Lord's suspend bays and gridlock the roads around the ground, which needs checking when booking a fitting date. A car that takes 2.4m on the diagonal will not take a three-metre worktop however it is stood, and there is no trimming it on the landing. The maximum piece length is fixed at drawing stage and every join is placed over a cabinet gable from there. The drawing carries that decision through to the saw.

Worktop design & quotation, worktop fabrication and worktop installation, in that order. Landlord work is scheduled around void periods, so the whole thing is a fixed window and the template date matters as much as the fitting date. The fitting day is scheduled to suit that rather than to suit the diary. One visit, done properly. Big islands in the villas usually exceed what four men can carry through the house - check whether the garden doors are still off, because going in through the rear is far easier than round the stair.

Seating overhangs past roughly 300mm will not carry on the carcass alone, so flat steel bar or a plywood substrate has to be built into the units first. 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. Where a breast interrupts a long wall the join can often go there, so it reads as a natural break rather than a line in the middle of a worktop. The template drawing carries the real geometry through to the saw, and the piece is machined to it rather than trimmed to it later. Radiused, polished, and clear of the joins. 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.

Where the owner is not local, the decisions happen remotely, so photographs and a clear itemised drawing carry more weight than a showroom visit ever would. The fitting day is arranged with whoever can actually give us access for the whole slot. One visit, our own installers. 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.