Worktop Fabrication Services
Our comprehensive Stone Worktop Fabrication Services cover a wide area from our central Harlow fabrication unit & showroom extending throughout Essex to Hertfordshire, London & surrounding areas.
Local Worktop Specialists
As a local worktop supplier we measure, fabricate and install kitchen worktops in homes across Essex and Hertfordshire and London. Our in-house fabrication ensures every worktop is bespoke and made to exact specifications.
Full and comprehensive worktop fabrication services adapted to your requirements, ensuring the best outcome for you and your projects.
Areas We Service
Our immediate areas for fabricating worktops & surfaces:
Guidance & Estimates
We simple provide the full range of natural and engineered worktop surfaces from all manufacturers and suppliers at the best prices.
Ultimately, it is your decision to choose the surface that works best for your budget and your kitchen design. Based on your initial choice, we can help fine tune stone choices by offering similar colours and designs from other suppliers, either as alternatives, or as a better value product.
Although we stock a good range of stone worktop surfaces in our yard, there are far too many to stock them all. We also understand that small samples for veined materials, do not provide visually to help make a decision, so we can arrange visits for you to view surface materials. Many suppliers and manufacturers are relatively close by, there are several in Harlow with a good enough range that will give a good enough idea of what to expect.
Estimates
We are happy to provide estimates and quotations for as many surface options you feel necessary to help with your budget. In fact, we always provide alternative options wherever possible on surface material, and similar designs, because the costs can vary substantially from manufacturers and suppliers. Along with the estimates and quotations, we send images of the full slabs, and as previously mentioned, we can arrange for you to see the actually material in person.
We like to be as transparent as possible in all aspects. We are customers also, and understand that trust and honest advice is difficult to find. Advising and making you aware of any issues, possible savings, and design layout makes all the difference. Your peace of mind, is paramount, knowing that your countertop choice is in good hands, acting on your design ideas to ensure that your surface material is maximised for finished appearance.
Prompt Turn Around
Proud of our customer service and solutions, our comprehensive stone worktop fabrication services, and bespoke products are of the highest quality. Living without Stone Kitchen Worktops can be awkward, so our general turnaround time from go ahead to installation of only 10 to 14 days, we hope, minimises disruption.
Worktop Templating / Measure
As soon as you are ready to proceed with your worktops, we can visit to measure at a time most for you within 2 or 3 days.
It generally takes two to five days before the your stone worktop material arrives to us from the supplier, during this period we will have booked-in and have measured kitchen base units or existing surfaces.
All base units are measured traditionally by measuring tape, for more complex kitchen unit arrangements, including uneven walls and radius curves, corex sheeting for templating will be utilised. For a smoother measuring service, having sinks and hobs at hand on day of measure will save time, however, we understand that this is not always possible and request that you provide full specification of each to ensure accurate surface cuts. Stone worktop fabrication will commence promptly after measure.
Site Access
It is prudent that access to the location of installation is considered when designing your kitchen. Although lengths are restricted to slab sizes, 3 metre worktops runs are long enough to cause issue in tight twisting corridors, lifts and up flights of stairs. Additional labour maybe required to lift and transport heavy worktop lengths over long distances, or your worktops may have to have additional joins to accommodate.
View before cutting
There are several reasons you may wish to see the material before we start cutting, which we strongly recommend because once we start cutting - its too late to change your mind! With natural materials, the colouration and veining can be substantially different from each end of the slab, this can be true also for engineered materials, especially those with veins.
Orientation of the slab, direction of veins, and pattern positioning is all very important, as in many cases, the slab can be cut in at least 2 different orientations. Naturally, we match veins as closely as possible during fabrication whilst maximising materials to keep costs within a budget. If you have the time, our stone worktop fabricators would be happy to see you at time of cutting to ensure you get the cuts just the way you want them.
Worktop Fabrication
Complete facilities and solutions for all aspects of stone worktop fabrication
CNC Machines and Stone Masons
Water is essential for a cleaner cut, and for the health and safety in eliminating the risks of silica dust. As certified and licensed fabricators of natural stone and engineered materials, you are assured that our stone worktop fabrication service is comprehensive and to the highest quality and standards.
Fabricated with Water
As stone fabrication materials are exceptionally hard, copious amounts of water is used for all cutting and polishing during stone fabrication. A combination of specialised CNC machinery, edge polishers and vacuum lifts are used to cut and transport your bespoke cut kitchen surface around the facility before being finished by hand by professional stonemasons.
Final Worktop Inspection
Before our expert installation team visit to install your stone worktop surface, cladding or stone flooring project, all polished edges are finished by our stone worktop fabricators and checked for quality prior to being loaded for delivery or installation.
Worktop Installation
Installation follows stone fabrication services, we aim to book our experienced installation service within 7 days of measuring.
Installation Day
Installation generally takes 2 to 3 hours to complete and with only a few trade tools and lots of experience, kitchen surfaces are positioned, levelled, secured, then siliconed to the base units. Any surface joins and mitred joins are glued together with colour matched resin. Splashbacks, upstands and under-sills are secured to walls, and undermounted sinks to the underside of the surface with silicone.
Large Kitchens
Very large, or natural granite or natural quartzite kitchen worktops that require resin support bars may need a few extra days to fabricate.