Kitchen worktops in Wapping

Yes. Warehouse loft apartments have big open volumes where the kitchen is a defined block in the middle of the floor, so you get a 3m plus run against exposed brick plus a substantial island with waterfall ends. Ceilings are high, beams are exposed and cabinetry is often bespoke, so the stone has to be set out against timber that is not straight. Permit hours are what matters, not the permit itself, because a bay that frees up at six in the evening is no use for a template at ten. 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. The day is built around that window.

Victorian riverside warehouse conversion, 1980s dockside new-build and post-war estate. Steel columns and downstands land where the frame put them, which is frequently in the middle of what would otherwise be a clean run. These read as easy from the outside and rarely are. The slow parts are slow for a reason.

The high street is narrow, cobbled in places and lined with tall converted warehouses with no forecourt, and parking is permit-only with very few bays. Many conversions retain a small original hoist-style lift or a tight brick stair core, and buildings often require a river-side or courtyard route agreed with the porter in advance. Where nothing will go up the stairs or into the lift, the only route left is through an opening, and that is a lifting operation rather than a carry. Finding it out on the morning costs the whole slot, because there is no second route to fall back on. That is what the morning is planned around.

Worktop fabrication, worktop design & quotation and worktop installation, in that order. A kitchen carved out of a larger room sits under whatever the original plan left behind, so the run frequently ends at a blocked doorway or a boxed-in service. So the nesting is planned around it rather than around a standard kitchen. Proven on the bench before dispatch. Exposed brick and reclaimed timber never give you a straight reference line, so the island gets set out to the floor and the perimeter gets scribed to the wall.

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. On the day that means dry-laying the whole layout first and only then pulling and bonding the joins. Nothing is bonded until the whole run sits flat. Exposed structure means the back edge is not a straight line at all, and a scribe of fifteen or twenty millimetres across a run is normal. Send photographs of every corner of the room and it gets priced properly first time. Better on the quote than in a variation. 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 let property is specified for durability and for a fixed window, and both of those are legitimate reasons to choose differently. Sink and hob are dry-fitted on the bench before dispatch, whoever supplied them. Changes cost a piece, not a tweak. 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.