No two slabs are the same, which is the best thing about granite and the reason people get burned by it. You will stand in front of your actual slab before we buy it.
What granite countertops cost here
Most granite slabs run from $ to $$ on the tier scale we use for every stone, which makes granite the cheapest way into real quarried rock. The scale is explained once, on the pricing page.
Included in every quote: template, sink cutout, an eased or quarter round edge, delivery, install, and hauling away your old counters. Adding to it: a cooktop cutout, a mitered or ogee edge, a seating overhang that needs support, and plumbing reconnection. Each is named on the pricing page and appears on your written quote before you sign, never after.
Granite has the widest spread of anything we cut. A common brown or speckled gray sits at the bottom of $. Blue Bahia or a heavily figured Brazilian slab jumps to $$$$, because those slabs are sold by the piece at the yard and priced by the yard, not by us. Alpine White, Himalaya White, White Dallas and Black Pearl sit at $; Fantasy Brown and Silver Waves at $$.
See how the price is built, and what can add to it
You pick the slab, not a sample chip
Granite countertops are bought slab by slab, and a four-inch sample tells you the color while lying about everything else. Granite has movement, and where that movement lands on your island is the whole look.
So the sequence here is: we measure, we tell you roughly how many slabs your kitchen takes, and then you come to the yard with us and stand in front of the actual slabs . We tape out where your island falls on the slab. Then we buy it.
Names people ask for by name, and that we cut regularly: Alpine White, Himalaya White, Fantasy Brown, Silver Waves, White Dallas, Black Pearl, Blue Bahia.
Who granite is wrong for
- You want a calm, even surface. Granite is not that. It has grain, mineral flecks and sometimes a natural fissure that looks like a crack and is not one.
- You want a bright white kitchen. The white and light granites are the porous ones. They will take an oil mark if the seal has worn off, and they need resealing more often than a dark slab.
- You will never think about sealing again. Then buy quartz. It is not a moral failing, it is a fair trade.
- You have a slab budget of exactly one number. Granite prices at the yard swing hard by color. Falling in love with a rare slab is how a granite kitchen ends up costing more than a quartz one.
Sealing, in plain terms
Most granite wants sealing about once a year. Some dense black granites want it once and then never again.
The test takes a minute and costs nothing: put a tablespoon of water on the counter, leave it, come back later. If the stone under it has gone dark, the seal is gone and it is time. If the water is still sitting there in a bead, you are fine.
Sealer is a bottle from the hardware store, a cloth, and twenty minutes with the windows open. We leave you a bottle and show you how on install day.
Two slabs, one kitchen
The most common granite complaint online is not a bad seam. It is two slabs that do not match, discovered on install day, in the customer's own kitchen.
Blocks are cut in sequence at the quarry, so two slabs from the same block match and two slabs from different blocks do not. If your kitchen takes more than one slab, we buy consecutive slabs from the same bundle, we lay them out in the shop, and we photograph the layout for you before anything is cut. If the yard cannot supply two from one block, we tell you that before you commit, not after.
Where the seam goes
Granite hides a seam better than any manufactured surface, because the pattern gives your eye somewhere else to go. That is not a reason to be careless with it.
You get a seam layout drawing after the template, showing where each piece breaks and how the grain runs across the join. We do not put a blade to the slab until you sign off on it. On install day the seam is filled with color-matched filler and it is flat to the touch. Run your hand over it while we are still there.
See how the template, the seam drawing and install day run
Thickness and edges
3cm is standard in a kitchen and needs no plywood deck under it. 2cm is for vanities, or for a built-up mitered edge. Eased and quarter round edges are in the price above. Bullnose, bevel, ogee, mitered and waterfall are extra and priced on the pricing page.
Questions people ask about granite
Which is better quartz or granite?
Granite for heat, for a slab nobody else has, and usually for price. Quartz for consistency, for zero maintenance and for a plain modern look. If you cook hard, granite. If you clean fast and forget, quartz.
Which is more durable quartz or granite countertops?
Quartz resists chips and stains better. Granite resists heat far better and can be polished back if it is ever damaged. Quartz cannot be refinished on site, so the honest answer depends on how you expect to wreck it.
What cost more quartz or granite countertops?
On average quartz costs more, but the ranges overlap. A common granite is our cheapest stone. A rare granite can beat any quartz in the shop. The table on the pricing page shows both.
What are the pros and cons of granite vs quartz?
Granite countertops: take heat, every slab unique, lower entry price, need sealing, have natural pits and fissures. Quartz: no sealing, uniform color, matchable years later, scorches under a hot pan, seams show more.
Who has the best price on countertops?
Whoever gives you one written, itemized number that already contains the cutout, the edge, the install and the tear out. Ask three shops for that and compare the bottom line, not the headline per-foot price.
Your next step
See what each material costs · See how the job runs, day by day · See finished kitchens in granite
Book a free measure. We come out, measure, and email you an itemized bid. Then we go to the yard together and you choose the slab.
Call (206) 643-9354 or tel:+12066439354 · 18856 72nd Ave S, Kent, WA 98032 · Monday–Saturday, 8:00 – 5:00