Fitted by our own installers rather than a subcontracted crew. Scribed to your walls, joins pulled and sanded flush, sink and hob seated, sealed and cleaned down before we leave.
A worktop cut dead straight along its back edge will show a gap against your plaster, because plaster is not straight. Scribing is the trimming of that back edge on site so it follows the actual line of the wall. It is fiddly, it is the reason a stone fit takes hours rather than minutes, and it is most of the difference between a professional installation and a bad one.
The balance is due before installation, so the fitting day itself is about the work rather than about money. Our installers arrive with the pieces protected and labelled by run, and with the drawing that came off your template.
Everything we do that day is covered by the 5-year workmanship guarantee, which is separate from the 25-year material warranty on the stone itself.
Fitted 5–10 working days from template. Deposit at template, balance before installation.
What is involved
One visit. How much of the day it takes depends on runs, joins and cut-outs, and we tell you which at template.
Floors and units covered, a route cleared from the door to the kitchen, and each piece brought in by hand. Stone is heavy and there is no gentle way to carry it, so the route matters.
Pieces are offered up, back edges scribed to the actual wall line, overhangs checked against the units. This is where the templating work either pays off or does not.
Worktops are bedded onto the units, levelled and packed where needed so the surface is true across its whole length and the joins meet cleanly.
Joins are drawn up tight, bonded with colour-matched adhesive, then sanded and polished flush so there is nothing to feel under your hand.
Undermount sinks are bonded and supported from beneath, inset sinks and hobs seated into their apertures, and everything sealed into the stone. Seated and sealed, not connected.
Sealant run along the wall junctions, protection lifted, surfaces cleaned, and a care guide left that is specific to your stone rather than a generic leaflet.
On the day
Straight answers to the questions people ask us on the doorstep.
Fitting is completed in a single visit. A straightforward run of units is a morning. A kitchen with an island, several joins and full-height splashbacks will run most of the day. You are told which yours is at the template stage, not on the morning.
Scribing and joint finishing happen in the room, because they can only be done against the actual walls. We protect floors and units before we start and clean down before we leave, but this is not a silent trade.
Freshly run silicone must cure before it is loaded. The installer will tell you on the day when it is ready, which is why your plumber should be booked after us rather than for the same hour.
A fitted, levelled worktop with finished joins, all cut-outs machined and sealed, sink and hob seated, surfaces cleaned and our protection removed. Plus a care guide written for your material: quartz, granite and sintered surfaces do not want the same cleaning products.
The 5-year workmanship guarantee covers our fabrication and fitting: joins, cut-outs, edges and how the worktop is secured. It applies to every kitchen we fit. The 25-year material warranty covers the stone itself against manufacturing defects (residential installations).
Fitting day
The second list is the one that catches people out, so book the other trades around it.
Questions
If yours is not here, ring and ask. You will get a straight answer rather than a call-back from a salesperson.
A single visit. A straightforward run of base units is usually a morning; a kitchen with an island, multiple joins and splashbacks takes most of the day. We tell you which yours is at template so you can plan the other trades around it.
Usually, but afterwards rather than alongside. The silicone needs to cure before the sink takes water, and the installer will tell you on the day when it is ready. Booking a plumber for the same hour as the fit is how people end up with a joint that has to be redone.
Somebody needs to be there with access for the whole visit and able to sign off at the end. It does not have to be you, but it does have to be somebody who can make a decision if one is needed.
Removing an existing worktop is part of a replacement job rather than a new installation. If you are swapping out laminate for stone, that sequence is set out in full on our worktop replacement page.
Where this happens
Twelve neighbourhoods whose housing stock throws up this job most often. Each page covers what installation actually involves in that stock: the access, the era of the building and what that does to the work.
These twelve are a sample, not a coverage boundary. We work in 723 Greater London neighbourhoods and out into Surrey, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Essex.
Next
Every job runs through more than one of these. Follow the thread rather than guessing which order things go in.
Worth reading
The questions that come up most, answered in full rather than in a sentence.
The stone is rarely the slow part. Here is the real sequence, the one dependency that sets your finish date, and how to plan backwards from a weekend you care about.
Read the guideWhy joins exist, what decides how many you get, where a good one belongs, and the honest truth about how visible a join is in quartz, granite and sintered stone.
Read the guideWhat each sink type does to the worktop it sits in: how the cut-out is cut and finished, what it costs in fabrication, what carries the weight, and why the sink has to be in your kitchen before anyone can template.
Read the guideWhy an island is a slab-yield question before it is a design one, how book-matching and waterfall ends are won or lost at slab selection, and what has to be decided before the cabinetry is fixed.
Read the guideYou can, and the worktop will usually be fine. Your knives will not be. What actually scratches each of the three materials, why most marks are not scratches at all, and why heat is the real risk.
Read the guideA slim stone upstand, a full-height stone splashback or tiles. What genuinely differs between them, why the grout line is the real reason people move to stone, and where tiling is still the better answer.
Read the guideHow overhangs actually work, why knee room is measured from the cabinet rather than the stone, what decides a safe unsupported span, and the support options ranked by what each costs you visually.
Read the guideHow to tell whether your granite actually needs resealing, why the annual rule everyone repeats is wrong, and how to apply a sealer without leaving a haze you then have to fix.
Read the guideEvery one of these is on our Google profile under the reviewer’s own name. Nothing here is written by us, and the link goes straight to the source.
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Next step
Plans, a sketch or photographs with rough run lengths is enough to start. Nothing is payable until we template.