Kitchen worktops in West Hendon

Yes. New waterside apartments with open-plan kitchens along one wall, typically 3m with a small peninsula, alongside older terraces on the Broadway side with narrow back kitchens that have never been extended. The new-build work is surface replacement; the terrace work is often a full refit in a very tight footprint. A red route means no stopping, and no stopping means exactly that, so the stone comes in from a side street or from a bay behind the property. It is noted on the job sheet at template so the fitting crew inherit the answer rather than rediscovering it. Two hours is the realistic figure.

2010s-2020s regeneration towers by the reservoir, Victorian and Edwardian terrace and post-war blocks. A riverside block is a managed building with a booked goods lift, a loading bay and a concierge, and all three have to line up on the same day. The lift is measured before the piece is loaded, and once inside the flat the fitting is quick by comparison. Walked, measured, protected, then lifted.

The regeneration blocks have proper service entrances and lifts but require booking and restricted loading times, while the older terraces sit on a busy A road with red route sections and no off-street parking at all. 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. We walk the route with a tape and protect it end to end before the first piece is lifted. None of it is worked out on the doorstep.

Worktop replacement, worktop templating and worktop installation, in that order. Extension kitchens are usually specified long before they are buildable, so the run lengths on the drawing and the run lengths in the room are different numbers. One visit, with the sink and hob seated and sealed before we leave. Sealed before we leave. Waterside blocks have long internal corridors from the lift to the flat door, so the carry inside the building is often longer than the one outside it.

Galley runs are usually short enough to come out of a single slab, so the material band you choose does more to the total than the room shape does. Join positions and vein direction are marked on the template drawing before it leaves site. One datum for the whole room. A lightweight stud partition will not carry a breakfast bar or a peninsula end, and stone finds that out faster than laminate ever did. This is the commonest reason a replacement turns out to need more than a straight swap. The laminate has been covering it up. 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 ownership is split across a building, the common parts belong to someone else and the carry route is negotiated rather than assumed. A half-day of access is not a fitting day, and it is better to say so at booking than to find out at eleven. Protection goes down first. 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.