Most Pflugerville kitchens from the late 1990s and 2000s still have the original builder laminate, tile, or thin stone. We tear that off, you pick a real slab in Austin, and one crew templates, fabricates, and sets it.
Pflugerville is in Travis County, east of I-35 near the SH 130 corridor. A large share of the housing stock is late 1990s and 2000s tract houses that still have the original builder kitchen counters. Those tops are usually laminate, ceramic tile on a plywood deck, or a thin granite that was already tired when it went in. Replacement starts with taking that surface off the boxes, not wrapping it or coating it. The new stone has to land on cabinets that have sat under a different weight and a different seam layout for a long time.
ATX Granite King works Austin and the I-35 corridor, including Pflugerville. You pick the actual slab off a real Austin slab floor that holds 299 lots. Materials on that floor include granite, quartzite, engineered quartz, marble, dolomite, soapstone, porcelain slabs, and semi precious. After you pick, one crew templates the kitchen, fabricates the pieces, and installs them. Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. The crew gives dates in writing with the quote. Call (512) 297-7493 or email info@atxgraniteking.com. Reachable seven days a week.
If the house is a rental or a flip and you do not want a showpiece slab, they work with a slab selection and fabrication partner for rental grade and flip grade stone so a rental does not have to pay for a showpiece. For a kitchen you cook in every day, pick from the floor yourself. Any talk of a number ends the same way. Call for a straight quote.
You walk an Austin slab floor with 299 lots and choose the actual piece that will be cut. Granite, quartzite, engineered quartz, marble, dolomite, soapstone, porcelain slabs, and semi precious sit on that floor. Movement and pits vary from slab to slab. What you point at is what gets templated and cut. Call for a straight quote when you want to look.
Replacement starts with the old top coming off. Laminate, tile, and dated stone all leave a different mess. Tile thinset and backer can hang on the wall and on the boxes. After the deck is clear, the crew templates the real openings, not a drawing. Fabrication follows the template. Install is the same crew. Dates come in writing with the quote. Call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote.
Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. You still supply the sink unless one is staying. The cut is made in the shop from the template, not guessed on site. Undermount, drop in, and farmhouse each change how the cabinet face and the stone edge meet. Tell the crew the model before template day so the cut matches the bowl.
Kitchen countertop replacement in a Pflugerville tract house is a tear out and a new stone top, not a refinish. The old laminate, tile, or dated stone comes off down to the cabinet boxes. The sink comes out. A cooktop or range opening is measured as it really sits. New pieces are slabs cut to the template, with seams placed where the runs and the stone allow. Granite is a natural igneous stone, hard and heat tolerant, but porous enough to want sealing. Engineered quartz is ground stone and resin, is non porous, needs no sealing, and can be damaged by direct heat and by long UV outdoors.
Marble is calcium based and etches from acids like lemon and vinegar regardless of sealing. Quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone, though some slabs sold as quartzite are softer and behave more like marble. Dolomite, soapstone, porcelain slabs, and semi precious each have their own limits. Porcelain is generally more brittle at the overhang and at sink rails. Soapstone is softer and will take knife marks. None of that is a reason to skip the material if you want it. It is a reason to pick with your eyes open on the Austin floor, then let the same crew cut and set it so the weak spots are not at a dishwasher clip or an unsupported overhang.
The job includes what happens at the wall and at the cabinets. A four inch builder backsplash in laminate or tile may come off with the top, leave a paint line, or stay if it is a separate tile field. Upper cabinets usually stay. Base cabinets stay unless a box has failed. The dishwasher, range, and fridge must move enough to free the old top. Replacement is a countertop job. It is not a full kitchen remodel. If the boxes are out of square, which they often are in late 1990s and 2000s tract housing, the stone is scribed and shimmed. It will not make crooked cabinets look new.
Sequence is fixed. First you pick the slab in Austin. Then a site visit checks cabinet condition, sink and dishwasher support, and whether a tile backsplash is staying. Tear out of the old top can happen before template or on the way into template, depending on whether the existing surface hides the true cabinet plane. Laminate often peels with the build up strips. Tile usually means prying thinset and backer off the boxes and sometimes off the wall. Dated stone may be epoxied to the rails and can take a rail with it if someone is careless. The crew that will fabricate is the crew that should pull it.
Template is done on the real cabinets after the old top is off, or on a surface the crew trusts to match the boxes. The template captures inside corners, the window, the fridge panel, and the sink center. You confirm overhangs, edge profile, and seam locations before anything is cut. Fabrication happens off site. Sink cutout and sink set are part of that work. Holes for faucet, soap, and air gap are drilled to the model you give them. If you change the faucet after template, the holes will be wrong. That is on you. The crew gives dates in writing with the quote. There is no same day promise and no next day promise.
On install day the fabricated pieces come in. Seams get dry fitted, then set with color matched adhesive. The sink is set if it is undermount. The cooktop opening is checked. Splash pieces, if they are stone, go on after the deck is true. Caulk at the wall is last, and it follows the wall, not a straight line, because Pflugerville tract walls from that era are rarely flat. Plumbing and the dishwasher reconnect are not always in the same visit if the plumber is yours. Ask that up front. When you want a number for your kitchen, call for a straight quote at (512) 297-7493.
The backsplash is easy to forget. A laminate splash that is molded onto the deck comes off with the top and leaves a raw wall strip. Paint will not match. Tile splash that sits on the old counter has a grout joint at the deck. When the new slab sits at a different height than builder laminate, that joint opens or the tile gets undercut. If you want to keep the tile, say so before tear out so the crew can try to save the bottom course. Often the honest answer is that the bottom row will break. A new short stone splash covers the scar. A full height tile job is a different trade.
Cabinets take the weight and the screws. Late 1990s and 2000s builder boxes in this part of Travis County are usually particle board sides with a thin rail. Stone is heavier than laminate. A dishwasher with a missing side panel, a sink base with a cut out rail, or a peninsula with no support legs can sag after install. The crew can add build up and brackets. They cannot turn a failing box into a new cabinet. If a door no longer sits right after stone is on, it was already racked. Inside corners that were hidden by a wide laminate radius show as a hard stone corner and will collect crumbs. That is the trade for a square edge.
These facts are ordinary. Old silicone under a tile deck smells when it is ripped. Water damage under a sink may only show once the top is off. A cooktop cord that was fished through a too small hole will fight the new cut. Quartz can scorch from a pot off the burner. Marble will etch from lemon. Some quartzite on the market is softer than the name suggests and will etch and scratch more than a buyer expects. Granite generally wants a sealer because it is porous. Outdoors, engineered quartz does not like long UV. Call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote, not for a speech that hides them.
Start with how the kitchen is used, not with a color. If pans come off the burner onto the deck, granite or quartzite is generally the better bet because they tolerate heat better than resin quartz. If you wipe lemon and vinegar and hate etching, skip marble and be careful with some dolomite and with soft slabs sold as quartzite. If you want no sealing and a uniform look, engineered quartz is usually the practical pick indoors. If you want a dark honed surface and accept marks, soapstone can work. Porcelain slabs can chip at edges if abused. Semi precious is a show surface with seams and fill that you will see in daylight.
Then look at the old top and the layout. A small galley in a late 1990s or 2000s Pflugerville tract plan often has a sink run, a stove run, and a short return. That is two or three pieces and maybe one seam. An L with a peninsula is more stone and more seams. Tile tear out takes more labor and dust than peeling laminate. If the tile goes up the wall as a full splash, decide whether stone splash, keep the tile, or call a tile setter after the counters. Do not order a tall stone splash from a chip. See the slab. Movement that looks fine on a short strip can be loud on a tall splash.
Rental and flip kitchens can use the partner path for rental grade and flip grade stone so you are not putting a showpiece in a unit that will take tenants. A house you keep is the opposite. Walk the 299 lots. Look at the actual slab in sun if you can. Ask where the seams will fall on that movement. Ask what happens to the dishwasher and the existing splash. Then stop guessing at a number. Call for a straight quote. The quote is where dates show up in writing. Email is info@atxgraniteking.com. Phone is (512) 297-7493, seven days a week.
Call (512) 297-7493 or email info@atxgraniteking.com. Say you are in Pflugerville, what is on the counters now, laminate, tile, or stone, and whether the backsplash is attached. Say if the sink and faucet are staying. The crew serves Austin, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Hutto, Jarrell, Salado, Belton, Temple, Killeen, Harker Heights, and the I-35 corridor. A straight quote is the next step, not a brochure. They will tell you when you need to be on the slab floor to pick, and they will put dates in writing with that quote. Do not expect a timeline of days on a first call.
On the floor you pick the slab. That is the material that will be in the house. After pick, template is scheduled around tear out. You do not need to empty the whole kitchen, but the deck, the sink cabinet, and the cooktop have to be clear. Pets and kids need a closed door because old tile and silicone are dirty work. If a plumber is yours, line them up for disconnect and reconnect. The countertop crew sets the sink. They are not your full plumbing contractor. If cabinets need a new rail or a panel by the dishwasher, that is carpentry. Ask on the first call so it is not a surprise when the old top is off.
After install, granite generally needs sealer because it is porous. Quartz does not. Marble will still etch. Keep heat off resin quartz. Keep UV in mind if any piece lives under a hard west window, though this page is about indoor kitchen decks. If something is wrong with a seam or a chip from transport, say so while the crew is there. Getting a number always ends in the same place. Call for a straight quote. That is the whole on ramp. One crew, from the Austin floor to the Pflugerville cabinets.
$38 per square foot, cut, measure, and install included. Jobs over 1,000 square feet: $30 per square foot.
Sink cutout and sink set are included in the fabrication work. Non standard work is still quoted before work begins. Send the rough square footage and the rooms involved, or call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote.
No. Replacement means the old surface comes off. Laminate and its build up strips are not a stable plane for slab. Tile is worse because of thinset. Old stone may look flat and still be a problem if it is thinner or if seams do not line up with the new layout. The boxes need to be seen. Covering the old top traps extra height at appliances and at the splash. The honest downside is a torn up kitchen for a stretch instead of a cover up that fails later.
It depends on whether the tile sits on the counter or stops above it. If it sits on the deck, the bottom course often breaks when the old top comes out, especially in late 1990s and 2000s tract work where the tile was set to the laminate. The crew can try to save it if you ask before tear out. Many times it will not survive. A short stone splash hides the scar. Keeping a full tile field may mean a tile setter after the new counters. That extra trade is yours to hire.
Usually, if the boxes are sound and the sink base and dishwasher span are supported. Particle board builder cabinets from that Pflugerville housing era can sag if a rail is cut out or a side is missing. The crew can add support. They cannot fix rotten bottoms or make unlevel runs level without shims you may see at the kick. If cabinets are already failing, repair them before stone. Stone will not hide that. Call for a straight quote after you look at the boxes with the crew.
The crew gives dates in writing with the quote. There is no honest fixed span that fits every laminate peel versus every tile grind versus every island. Tear out, template, shop time, and install are separate steps. You will be without a deck between tear out and install. Plan on using a table. Anyone who names a single timeline of days on a phone call before seeing the kitchen is guessing. Call (512) 297-7493 for a straight quote and get the dates in writing.
No. This is countertops. Tear out of the old top, template, fabricate, install, sink cutout and sink set. Not new cabinets, not flooring, not electrical, not painting the scar the splash leaves, not plumbing beyond setting the sink. If you need those trades, hire them. The limitation is real. A strong slab on tired, out of square boxes still looks like tired boxes with a new top. Walk the Austin floor, then call for a straight quote if the boxes can take the stone.
Tell us the rooms, the rough square footage and what you have in mind for kitchen countertop replacement in pflugerville. You get a number for the whole job, in writing, before anyone cuts anything.