Countertop replacement is the smallest job we sell and the one people overestimate most. The kitchen does not close for a month. Done right, it is two visits and a working sink by the end of the week.
The sequence
The measure. We come out, template the room, and look at what the new material will sit on. This is also where the written price happens — after measuring, not from a photo.
What decides the timeline
The material does. A slab that is in stock locally moves fast; a particular quartz pattern or a bookmatched pair can add weeks of lead time before fabrication starts. Fabrication itself runs through our partner fabricators and is measured in days. The install — setting the tops, cutting in the sink, reconnecting plumbing — is two to three days on site for most kitchens.
The thing to check first
Stone is heavy, and it is honest about weak cabinets. If the boxes underneath are sagging, water-swollen or pulling off the wall, new tops will make that worse, not better. We check this on the measure visit before anything is ordered. Sometimes the answer is a cabinet repair or reface first; sometimes the boxes are fine and nobody mentions them again.
Sink, faucet, backsplash
Decide these before fabrication, not after. The sink model determines the cutout; an undermount cannot be swapped for a drop-in once the stone is cut. A tile backsplash can ride along in the same week, and a full-height slab splash has to be templated with the tops.
Where to start
Read up on the materials themselves — quartz, granite, marble and natural stone, or porcelain and sintered stone — or skip straight to what a replacement covers. The estimate visit is free and the price arrives in writing.
