Buncombe Custom Countertops is the trusted specialist for custom countertop installation in Buncombe County, NC, specializing in quartz, granite and quartzite slab work. We offer marble and butcher block for kitchens, baths and bars.
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Drag the handle. The cabinets stayed; only the top changed.
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BeforeAfterOur team provides templating, fabrication and installation, delivering countertops cut to fit a century-old wall or a brand-new cabinet run for both residential and commercial projects. We template on your installed, leveled cabinets, and the same crew that took those measurements carries the finished countertop in and sets it.
From undermount sink cutouts and seam placement on a long run to tear-out of the old top and the final bead of silicone, our team handles every detail. Serving Asheville, Weaverville, Arden and Candler, we are the one shop and one crew behind Buncombe County custom countertop installation, from the river valleys to the ridgelines.
Why Buncombe Custom Countertops
The crew that measures your kitchen is the crew that sets the tops.
Almost every countertop job in Buncombe County falls into one of three jobs: a retrofit in an older house, an upgrade over sound builder cabinets, or a full rebuild after water damage. Knowing which one you have tells us what to check at the measure and what will move the price, so we sort it out on the first call.
The county was created in 1792 and Asheville has been its seat for most of that time, so a good share of the housing stock is old enough that no wall is square and no floor is level. A new top in a house like that is scribed to the wall rather than pushed against it, and the backsplash has to follow a line the plaster chose a century ago. Templating on the cabinets as they actually stand, not as a drawing says they stand, is what makes the stone sit tight.
The subdivisions built in the 2000s and 2010s around the county are full of kitchens with good boxes and tired tops: laminate or an entry-level granite with a builder edge. Those cabinets can usually stay. The job is a tear-out, a check that the boxes are level and strong enough for stone, and a new top in quartz, quartzite or a better granite, often with a larger island than the original plan had.
Hurricane Helene put water through homes along the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and their creeks in September 2024, and many of those kitchens are still being rebuilt as insurance and recovery money arrives. A rebuild is new cabinets, sometimes a house raised onto a new foundation, and a top that has to wait until the boxes are set. We schedule the measure for the day your cabinets are in and level, never before, and we pick non-porous, easy-to-clean surfaces when a family asks what holds up.
Homeowners and trade buyers come to us for different reasons, so each gets its own path instead of one form that fits neither. Tell us which one you are when you call and we route you to the right quote.
You get a free in-home measure, help choosing a slab at the stone supplier's yard, a seam layout to approve, and one written quote that names the material, edge, cutouts and install date.
Per-home packages priced from your plans and finish schedule, with templating done on site once the cabinets are installed, so a revised plan never turns into a top that does not fit.
Fabricate-only or fabricate-and-install on tops you sell to your own clients, quoted from your drawings and scheduled around your cabinet delivery.
Unit-type pricing for turns and renovations, with durable surfaces chosen to survive tenant and guest turnover rather than to impress on a listing photo.
Asheville has won the Beer City USA poll four times, and the bars, prep lines and service counters behind that trade take a beating no home kitchen sees. Send the drawings and we return a bid built around your opening date.
A full kitchen of new stone in Buncombe County is typically estimated at roughly $2,500 to $6,000 for a standard layout, and the numbers climb with square footage, material grade and how hard the top is to get into the house. Quartz is generally estimated at about $60 to $150 per square foot installed, granite at roughly $40 to $100, and quartzite at around $80 to $250 for the harder, rarer slabs. An island added to the kitchen usually pushes a whole project into the range of roughly $8,000 to $20,000.
These are the things that decide where your kitchen lands inside those ranges:
Every figure on this page is an estimate built from typical ranges for this kind of work, and all of it is subject to change with slab prices and site conditions. The final price is the one on the written quote we prepare after the free in-home measure.
The process
Every job runs through the same five steps, and the install date is set at the measure and written on your quote rather than guessed on the phone.
We look at the cabinets, the walls and the floor, and we also look at the route in: where a truck can stop, how far the crew carries a heavy slab, and whether there are stairs, tight turns or a narrow door on the way. Granite runs about 2.65 to 2.75 grams per cubic centimeter, so a long piece is a real load and the carry path is part of the plan.
You pick the actual slab at the stone supplier's yard, not a sample chip, because natural stone varies from one slab to the next.
We mark where every seam and cutout falls on your chosen slab and send it for your sign-off before anything is cut.
All cutting, edging and polishing happens in the shop, with water on the blade. OSHA's construction standard for silica, 29 CFR 1926.1153, notes that water on a saw blade substantially reduces the dust from cutting stone, which is one reason the cutting stays out of your kitchen.
The crew sets the tops, joins the seams, fits the undermount sink with a silicone seal, and cleans up. Your plumber reconnects the sink and faucet once the stone is in.
What we build
Nineteen services, from one vanity top to a builder's whole package.
Bids broken out by area and phase, shop drawings returned before fabrication, and templates booked around the trades already on your site.
Surfaces specified for spilled beer, citrus, heat and a thousand wipe-downs a week, fabricated on a calendar that ends at your opening night.
One standard spec across the building, turns booked around move-out and move-in, and a bid you can read unit type by unit type.
One package per floor plan, templated house by house on the installed cabinets, with upgrade options your sales team can put in front of buyers.
You sell the top, we cut it to your drawings or your templates, and it reaches your customer under your name.
Seating overhang, the support under it and whether the top needs a seam, all settled at the measure before any stone is cut.
The top and the side panel come from the same slab, mitered at 45 degrees and glued into one piece before it leaves the shop.
Every outlet box, window edge and cabinet line is recorded when the counters are templated, and the openings are cut before the stone reaches your house.
Chosen for summer sun, heavy rain and winter nights below freezing, with the grill opening cut to your grill maker's size.
Some stone sold as quartzite is softer marble or dolomite. Before you commit, we help you test the slab you love.
Install day is planned at the template: the cabinets are checked, the seams are agreed and the sink and cooktop openings are fixed before any stone comes off the truck.
Sound cabinets can take a new top. We take the old one off carefully, show you what it was hiding, and template the new stone on the same boxes.
Choose a color from a sample and the slab arrives looking like it. We also tell you plainly where quartz needs a trivet.
No two granite slabs match, so you choose the actual stone, approve where the seams fall, and learn the sealing routine before install day.
Marble etches, softens and records every lemon and every loaf. If that is the look you want, we will help you pick the finish that wears it best.
A warm wood island, a baking counter or a full run of wood, built with the right grain, the right finish and room for the wood to breathe.
An industrial, handmade surface in any color you can mix. We explain how it is cast, what the sealer does, and what a hairline crack means before you commit.
A bathroom vanity needs a small piece of stone, so it can come from a remnant. Pick the basin and faucet first and we cut the top around them.
Most chips can be filled and polished. A crack is judged on what is holding the stone up, and if a new top is the better spend, the quote says so.
Trade accounts
Fabrication to your template or ours, to your schedule, with shop drawings when the job calls for them.
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Questions
Yes. We're licensed, bonded, and insured, and we will show you the certificate of insurance before any work is scheduled.
Most standard kitchens are estimated at roughly $2,500 to $6,000, with material, slab count, edge and access moving the number most. An island, a waterfall end or a full-height backsplash adds to that. Only the written quote that follows the measure fixes what you pay.
Usually, yes. If the boxes are sound, level and strong enough to carry stone, we tear out the old top and set the new one on the cabinets you have. We check that at the measure, and if a cabinet needs shimming or a support added, it goes on the quote.
It depends on the slab you choose and the shop schedule, so we do not quote a day count on the phone. The install date is set at the measure and written on your quote.
We template the installed cabinets, note every cutout and appliance, talk through material and edge, and walk the route from the driveway to the kitchen. You leave the visit knowing what the job involves, and the written quote follows.
No. The sink and faucet are disconnected and reconnected by a licensed plumber, because that is plumbing work, licensed separately in North Carolina. We cut the sink opening, set an undermount sink with its seal, and coordinate the day with your plumber.
Not always. Stone and quartz rarely fail from water on their own, but cabinets that sat in water usually do, and a top cannot stay on boxes that are coming out. Sometimes a top can be lifted off intact for reuse, when the stone and its layout allow it, and we tell you at the measure; otherwise we template a new one once replacement cabinets are set.
Yes, through a separate trade path. Send plans, a finish schedule or shop drawings and we return a bid priced per home, per unit type or per job, with fabricate-only available to cabinet shops that install their own.
Or call (828) 470-1105. Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
Free measures across Buncombe County. Builders, cabinet shops and property owners can send drawings for a bid.
Licensed, bonded & insured. Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
