A countertop project runs roughly four to six weeks from slab selection to installation, and most of that is waiting on cabinetry rather than on us. Here is each stage, and the one thing at each stage that determines whether the finished kitchen looks considered or merely finished.
Send plans, elevations or photographs and we will talk through scope, material direction and budget. If you are early enough that cabinetry is not ordered, this is the best possible time, because some layouts constrain what stone can do.
Bring: rough dimensions, cabinet drawings if you have them, and any images of kitchens you like.
Visit the Bridgeport yard by appointment and choose the actual slabs. We photograph what you select and tag it in your name so no one else can take it. For natural stone this step is not optional. Two slabs of the same named material can look like different rocks.
Bring: a cabinet door sample, your flooring, and a piece of the hardware finish. Stone reads differently against real materials.
Once cabinets are installed and level, we template the space digitally. This captures what the drawings never do: walls out of plumb, cabinet runs that drift, and appliance tolerances that are not what the spec sheet claims.
Needed on site: cabinets fixed and level, sink and cooktop on site, and appliance specs confirmed.
We overlay your template on a photograph of your slab and position every piece before a blade touches it. You see where the veining lands on the island, where each seam falls, and how a waterfall will carry around the corner. Nothing is cut until you approve it.
Your decision: seam placement and vein position. This is the last reversible moment in the project.
Cutting, sink and cooktop cutouts, edge profiling and hand finishing in our shop. Mitred and built-up edges are assembled and dressed here rather than on site, which is why the joints do not read as joints. Typically five to ten working days.
Nothing needed from you. This is the quiet part.
Delivery, setting, seam joining, on-site polishing and sealing where the material requires it. Most kitchens install in a single day. Plumbing reconnection follows once the adhesive has cured, usually the next day.
Needed on site: clear access, cabinets empty, and a plumber scheduled for the day after rather than the same day.
You get care instructions specific to your material, because marble, soapstone, quartz and porcelain need four genuinely different routines and generic advice is worse than none. We handle resealing, chip and seam repair, and re-honing years later, including on stone we did not originally fabricate.