Victorian terrace kitchen, Islington

This project was built in Islington, London. We work right across Greater London, and the areas we cover page carries the planning and access detail for Islington: the conservation areas, the Article 4 directions, and the parking and loading constraints that decide how a job on that street has to be programmed.

Kitchen opened into the rear reception room. It was a private job in Islington, London, built by our own crew under one contract and one named site manager, with the drawings, the pricing and the construction all in the same hands.

Yes. It was priced as a fixed sum against a written specification before anything started, so the figure agreed at the outset was the figure invoiced. The only things that move a fixed price are a change the client asks for, or something genuinely unforeseeable opened up on site, and both are priced and agreed before the work goes ahead.

Yes. The drawings, the specification and the construction were all ours, so there was no gap between what was designed and what was priced. Anything awkward or expensive to build gets raised at drawing stage rather than discovered on site, because the person who drew it is the person who then had to price it and build it.

The property sits in a conservation area, which set the constraints on materials and on anything visible from the street. Building regulations approval applies to structural work whether or not planning permission is needed, and the sign-off is handed over with the rest of the completion paperwork at the end of the job.

Yes. Victorian terrace kitchen, Islington was a private building job, and the same crew takes on that work across London every week. Send the address and a rough idea of scope and we will come back with a realistic range, what would move it, and a programme, before anyone visits.

Sometimes. We ask first, and where the client is happy to talk we put you in touch; some households would rather not, and that is their call, not ours. Where a reference is not available for this Islington job we can usually offer one from a comparable project instead.