Engineered, non-porous, never needs sealing. The default for a busy family kitchen.
Kent · Renton · Auburn · Federal Way · Tukwila · Bellevue · Kirkland · RedmondKent & King County, WA
We cut your countertops ourselves.
Countertop fabrication and installation in Kent, WA. We cut quartz, granite, quartzite and marble in our own shop, and our own crew installs it. You get a written, itemized price the day we meet.
Photos in today Mike calls back today written price the day he measures
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Same dayYour itemized price
2–3 daysTo laser template
1Crew, and it is ours
1 yrWorkmanship warranty
5 yrsMike cutting stone
2,000Sq ft of shop floor
StoneWay Countertops is a stone countertop fabricator and installer in Kent, Washington. Owner Mike Barzul and his own crew cut quartz, granite, quartzite, marble and porcelain slabs in a 2,000 sq ft shop at 18856 72nd Ave S, and install across King County — Kent, Renton, Auburn, Federal Way, Tukwila, Seattle, Bellevue and Kirkland. Open Monday to Saturday, 8:00–5:00. Phone (206) 643-9354.
One crew, start to finishThe person who measures your kitchen is the person who cuts the slab and installs it.
Your price does not moveWritten, itemized, and unchanged unless you change the scope.
Seam you cannot feelIf you can catch it with a finger on install day, we take it apart before we leave.
Own fabrication shopNot a middleman. Cutting, polishing and edge work all happen in Kent.
Countertop fabrication and installation in Kent, WA.
No subcontracted fabrication, no sales rep in the middle. Kitchens, bathrooms and repairs, handled by one shop.
Kitchen countertops
Kitchen countertop replacement in quartz, granite, quartzite, marble and porcelain. Laser templating, sink cutouts, faucet holes and edge profiles — all done on our own equipment.
See every material we cut
Bathroom vanity tops
Vanity tops, shower thresholds, window sills and full bathroom remodels. One crew from demolition to the last bead of silicone.
See how a bathroom runs
Countertop repair and sealing
Chipped edge, dull spot, a seam somebody else left proud. We fix stone we did not install, and we tell you when it is not worth fixing.
See repair and sealingMaterials
Quartz, granite, quartzite, marble and porcelain.
We do not push a brand. We tell you what each stone does in a real kitchen — with kids, with cast iron, with red wine — and you decide.
Natural, hard, heat-proof. Seal it once a year and it takes almost anything you drop on it.
Looks like marble, behaves like granite. The stone people fall in love with in the slab yard.
Beautiful and honest about age. It will etch. We say so before you sign anything.
Thin, UV-stable, indestructible on a patio. Harder to fabricate, which is why few shops offer it.
Leftover pieces from bigger jobs. Priced by the piece — right for a vanity or a small island.
How a countertop job actually runs.
Every date below came from Mike, not from a marketing page. If something slips, you hear it from him before you notice it yourself.
01
We meet at your kitchen
Mike comes out himself, looks at the cabinets, the sink, the walls that are never square, and listens to what you actually want.
02
You get a written price
Itemized, and it does not change afterwards unless you change something.
Same day as the meeting03
Laser template
Once the price is approved we come back with the laser and capture the room to the millimetre. Nothing is cut before this, and you get your install date the same visit.
2–3 days after approval04
We cut and polish
In our own shop, on our own machines. You are welcome to come look at the slab before we start — most people do.
05
Install day
Three of us, one day. We do not leave until you have run your hand along the seam and told us it feels right.
The whole process, step by step, including the days without a sink
The seam
Countertop seams: how we plan them and where we hide them.
Ask anyone who has been burned by a countertop and they describe the same thing: a seam you can catch with a fingernail, in the middle of the island, where you look at it every single morning.
It happens because the seam gets planned around the slab instead of around the room. We plan it around the room — under a cabinet run, off to the side of the sink, in the shadow — and we show you where it will be before we cut.
If you can feel it with your finger on install day, we take it back apart before we leave.
One seam · book-matched · you should not feel it
Where a seam has to go, and what a good one looks like up close
Recent countertop installations.
Our own photos, taken on the job. No renders, no stock, no borrowed portfolios.
Send a photo of your kitchen. Get a real answer today.
No showroom visit required to start. Three shots is enough: the whole run, the sink corner, and the wall where the old top ends.
Mike calls back the same working day.
The shop
Our Kent countertop shop: Mike Barzul and two people he trusts.
Mike has been cutting stone for five years. We are a countertop fabricator, not a reseller: the shop is 2,000 square feet in Kent with a bridge saw, a polisher, and enough room to lay a full slab flat and look at it in daylight before anybody touches it.
That is the whole company. It is why you get one phone number, one crew, and one person accountable from the first measurement to the last.
- OwnerMike Barzul
- Crew3 people
- PlumbingAndrey Aftanasiv
- TileNazar Chachun
- Shop2,000 sq ft, Kent WA
- ExperienceMike, 5 years cutting stone
Countertop pricing, explained.
Slab prices move with the market and with the piece you fall in love with, so we show the level instead of a number — the way a hotel shows its class. Your written price comes the day we meet.
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EntryMost stock quartz and basic granite. Available now, no waiting on a container.
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MidPopular quartz collections and better granite. Where most kitchens land.
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UpperQuartzite, designer quartz, most marble. Real movement in the stone.
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TopExotic and book-matched slabs. One of one — we photograph it before we cut.
Six things are in every price we quote, and seven things can add to it. Both lists are written out in full, with nothing hidden — and the level each material sits in is explained there too.
See what is included, and what adds to itThree ways to buy a countertop around here.
You are almost certainly getting three quotes. Here is what actually differs between the kinds of company you are calling — no names, just how each one is set up.
| Big-box store | Dealer who sends the cutting out | A shop that cuts your slab (us) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who measures your kitchen | A subcontracted templater you meet once | A salesperson, then a templater later | Mike, the owner, himself |
| Who cuts the slab | A fabrication partner you never meet | An outside shop, chosen on price | The same crew, in our Kent shop |
| Who you call about a bad seam | Store customer service | The dealer, who calls the shop | Mike, on the number on this page |
| Can you see your slab before it is cut | Usually not | Sometimes, at the supplier | Yes — we lay it flat in daylight |
| Time from approval to template | Depends on the partner's queue | Depends on the outside shop | 2–3 days |
| Does the price move after templating | Often, once the real measurements land | Often, and the dealer blames the shop | No, unless you change the scope |
Countertop service area across King County, WA.
The shop is in Kent, which puts Renton, Auburn, Federal Way, Tukwila and most of King County inside an easy drive — and we cross the lake for Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond.
Tap your town and it drops into the form below. Not listed? Call (206) 643-9354 — we go where the work is worth the drive.
Get directions to the shop · 18856 72nd Ave S, Kent, WA 98032
Questions people ask before ordering countertops.
If yours is not here, call and ask. Mike answers his own phone.
How much do new countertops cost in King County?
Two numbers make up every countertop job: the slab and the work. The work is ours and it is predictable. The slab is the market, and it swings hard — the same 40 square feet of stock quartz and of a book-matched quartzite are not in the same conversation.
So instead of a number that would be wrong for half the people reading it, we show the slab level on the pricing scale above — $ through $$$$ — and give you a real, itemized, written figure the day we meet. That figure does not move unless you change the scope.
How fast can I get a price for new countertops?
Same day. Mike comes out, measures the run, looks at the cabinets and the sink, and you get a written, itemized price before the day is over. No showroom appointment, no three-day wait for a call back.
How long does it take from approving the price to installation?
We book the laser template two to three days after you approve the price, and you get your install date at that visit. Fabrication happens in our own shop in Kent, so the schedule is ours to keep rather than a partner's.
Quartz or granite — which is better for a busy kitchen?
Quartz is engineered and non-porous, so it never needs sealing and shrugs off wine, oil and citrus. Granite is natural stone: harder, better with a hot pan straight off the burner, and it wants sealing about once a year.
For a household with kids, quartz is the low-maintenance answer. For someone who cooks hard and likes a stone that is one of a kind, granite or quartzite wins. We will tell you which one fits how you actually live, not which one has the bigger margin.
Where will the seam be, and will I see it?
We plan the seam around the room, not around the slab — under a cabinet run, to the side of the sink, in a shadow — and we show you exactly where it will land before anything gets cut. On install day you run your finger across it. If you can feel it, we take it apart and redo it before we leave.
Do you make the sink cutout and faucet holes?
Yes. Sink cutouts, faucet and soap-dispenser holes, and the edge profile are all part of the job. Undermount sinks are set and supported by us, not left for another trade.
Do you do bathroom vanity tops as well as kitchens?
Yes — vanity tops, shower thresholds, window sills and full bathroom remodels. Plumbing is handled in-house by Andrey Aftanasiv and tile by Nazar Chachun, so a bathroom does not turn into three companies blaming each other.
Can I see the actual slab before you cut it?
Yes, and most people do. The shop is 2,000 square feet, which is enough room to lay your slab out flat in daylight so you can see where the veining runs and decide how it should fall across the island.
What areas do you serve?
The shop is at 18856 72nd Ave S in Kent. We regularly work in Kent, Renton, Auburn, Federal Way, Tukwila, Des Moines, SeaTac, Burien, Covington and Maple Valley, and we cross the lake for Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish and Issaquah.
Two things we put in writing.
Every contractor says them out loud. These two go on your estimate, so they cost us something if we break them.
The written price
If the number on install day is different from the number you approved, and you did not change the scope, you pay the number you approved.
In writing, on the estimate, every time.
The seam
If you can catch our seam with a fingernail on install day, we take it apart and redo it before we leave.
Not a courtesy — it is on the estimate.
Get a price
Tell us about the kitchen.
Leave a number and Mike calls you back. After you meet, your written price arrives the same day.
Call or text
(206) 643-9354
Email
info@stonewaycountertops.com
Shop
18856 72nd Ave S, Kent, WA 98032
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Hours
Monday to Saturday, 8:00–5:00.
Outside those hours, send a text — Mike replies first thing next morning.
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