Line-by-Line Pricing Before You Book a White Run

A bright kitchen is easy to price as a pretty rectangle and then fill with extras on the morning the fitter arrives. Go Worktops writes quotes as an operations list — sheet, edge, cut-outs, bowls, upstands, template and fit — each with a figure you can challenge. If a line is missing, it is not a courtesy; it will arrive later as a surprise.

Read the quantities before you look at the photograph

You want linear metres of twelve-millimetre sheet, the finished edge type, the number of bonded joints, and whether the breakfast return is in the same ticket. If the kitchen is handleless and thin, the quote should say twelve-millimetre visible edge, not a default forty-millimetre built-up nose you never asked for. Parking suspensions and stairs belong on the page, not in a later email. A courtyard with no loading bay is a cost. Naming it now stops an argument on the morning the sheet arrives.

If you add a curved breakfast bar after the first price, that is a new thermoforming line, not a rounding error. Ask for a revised sheet, not a verbal we can do that.

Holes, bowls and upstands are products, not favours

Hob cut-outs, tap holes, overflow slots and pop-up socket wells are fabrication time. A quote that says cut-outs extra is not a complete quote. Count your holes now: one hob, one tap, one soap dispenser, perhaps a boiling-water tap. Each is a line. Integral bowls are a product, not a favour; undermounting a separate sink is another product, with clips and a cut-out larger than the bowl. Upstands priced per metre should state height and whether they are square or coved. A courtyard kitchen with true walls usually wants a sixty-millimetre square strip. If the quote assumes 100 millimetre coves, you are paying for a country detail on a handleless room.

List every hole. Price integral bowls and undermount cut-outs as separate, named lines. State upstand height and profile; do not accept a default cove.

• List every hole: hob, tap, soap, boiling tap, pop-up well.
• Price integral bowls and undermount cut-outs as separate, named lines.
• State upstand height and profile; do not accept a default cove.

What a fitted Go Worktops figure should already cover

Our fitted figures include the site template, the fabrication of the agreed drawing, colour-matched joints, and a return visit to fit. They include waste removal of offcuts unless you ask to keep a repair piece. They do not include plumbing the tap, wiring the hob, or packing cabinets that are not level. Those are other trades, and naming them on the quote stops an argument on the day. Keep a folder with the final quote, the drawing and the sample code. High-key whites are easy to mix up between batches. The code on the quote should match the board on your window sill, letter for letter.

Treat a curve or a waterfall as a new ticket, not a handshake. Match the colour code on the quote to the board you actually live with.

Challenge TBC lines before anyone books the template

Circle anything that says TBC, site extra or subject to survey without a method. A template can change a length by a few millimetres; it should not invent a waterfall you never drew. Email the marked-up quote and wait for a clean revision. Do not book a template against a page you already distrust. Go Worktops would rather revise a figure than start a measure on a document that still hides labour. If a line cannot be closed until survey, the method for closing it should still be written down: who measures, what units, and when the revision lands.

Reject TBC lines unless that method is on the page. Silence is not a price.

• Reject TBC lines unless the method for closing them is written down.
• Treat a curve or a waterfall as a new ticket, not a handshake.
• Match the colour code on the quote to the board you actually live with.

Next step with Go Worktops

Order a sample, then request a fitted quote or browse the worktop collection. The colour should be judged in your own daylight before anyone templates the run.