Kitchen worktops in Teddington

Yes. The grid of Victorian and Edwardian terraces off the high street is heavy side-return territory - a 3.4m run along the flank with a rooflight above and a 1.8m island - while the larger villas towards the lock take a 4m run plus a separate pantry or utility. Bay bookings are usually an hour or two, which is fine for unloading and no use at all as a place to leave the van for a day. The fitting slot is set around it, which is why we ask about it when the date is booked and not before we leave the yard. It is why the arrival time is what it is.

Victorian terrace, Edwardian terrace, Victorian villa, 1930s semi and modern riverside flats. The chimney breast in the corner has usually been left in place, so the run gains a return and two scribed ends. Slab yield rather than floor area is what moves the material line, and the return piece is usually the reason. Priced from the building, not from a rate card.

Terraced streets are narrow with permit parking both sides, the high street has timed loading only, and the riverside roads near the lock are one-way with bollards; side passages are typically 800mm and gated. Sign-in at the gate, a permit on the dash and a named contact are usually wanted before anything comes off the van. An access-driven join is priced like any other join, and people are always surprised to see one on a dead straight run. It appears as its own line rather than buried in a rate.

Worktop templating, worktop installation 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. Everything is itemised: material, template, fabrication, fitting, each cut-out and each metre of upstand. Material is the slab only, and it says so. With side passages that narrow, the slab comes through the front door and past the stairs, so the longest piece is limited by the hall, not the kitchen.

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. A layout that has been packed and levelled run by run instead of to one datum shows as a step where two pieces meet. Dry-lay first, always. Sill height gets settled with the template on site, because it is one of the few dimensions nobody has measured before we arrive. One measurement never describes it, which is why a tape reading taken before the visit rarely matches the template. Plotted, not estimated. 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.

Owner-occupied kitchens are usually being done once, which is why the edge profile, the vein direction and where a join falls are worth the conversation. Material is quoted as a supply range and the labour lines separately, because an installed rate per square metre is not a real number. 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.