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Countertops in Rollingwood, TX
Austin Custom Countertops is the trusted specialist for countertops in Rollingwood, TX, serving Travis County and specializing in kitchen countertop replacement for original ranch houses, stone fabrication for new custom homes, and granite or quartzite countertops chosen to suit each house. We offer bathroom vanity tops and full height stone backsplashes.
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Countertops in Rollingwood, TX
Our team provides a template date booked around a builder's cabinet install, delivering tops cut to walls that have moved for older homes and a set day that holds on a construction schedule for both residential and commercial projects. Every piece is cut in our own Austin shop, and the crew that templates your kitchen is the crew that installs it, under a written warranty.
From the scribe line on a 1950s wall that has settled out of true to a whole new house of kitchen, bar and bath surfaces set on the builder's calendar, our team handles every detail. Serving Rollingwood, West Lake Hills and Barton Creek, we keep the measuring and the installing in the same hands from start to finish.
How we work
Licensed, insured & bondedDocumented insurance and permits where the job needs them
Our own shop and crewCNC fabrication in Austin, nothing handed to a third-party installer
One firm written priceThe quote is the number at install, cutouts and edges included
Laser templatingDigital templates off your actual cabinets, so seams land where they should
A city of ranch houses that is rebuilding itself one lot at a time
Rollingwood is small enough to cross on foot. It covers 0.70 square miles of land about three miles west of downtown Austin, at an elevation of 627 feet, and it governs itself rather than being a neighborhood of the larger city around it.
The ground was ranch land first. Condido Dellana bought 1,800 acres here in 1904, a spread that reached from Barton Creek to the Colorado River, and in 1946 the brothers A. B. and George B. Hatley bought 300 acres of it. The city's own history records just 28 homes when the village incorporated, and most of the street names still come from the Hatley family and the people around them.
What went up on those streets was modest: single storey ranch houses from the 1950s and 1960s on generous lots. Plenty of them are still standing. Many are not, because the city is being reshaped by teardowns, with new custom homes rising where the originals stood.
So a Rollingwood countertop job comes in two forms that share nothing but the stone. One is an original ranch kitchen that has been reworked once or twice in sixty years. The other is a house still being framed, where the counter is a line on a builder's schedule. We take them separately below, because they are quoted, scheduled and installed in different ways.
New tops in an original ranch kitchen
A kitchen from the 1950s or 1960s has usually outlived its first cabinets and sometimes its second. Some still carry boxes built in place by a carpenter. Others were refitted with factory cabinets decades later, set against walls that were already out of true. Nothing about the outside of the house tells us which, so the first visit is spent finding out.
The walls matter more than the boxes. Plaster or early drywall over a frame that has been settling since the Eisenhower years rarely runs straight for the length of a counter. A rigid top cut from a tape measurement and pushed against that wall leaves a gap that widens toward one end. Our laser template is taken with the cabinets exposed, so the file records the wall exactly as it runs, and the back edge of the stone is machined to follow it.
Then the deck. Tile bedded in mortar does not lift off a cabinet; it is broken out, and it can take the plywood beneath it along for the ride. Laminate glued over particleboard is lighter work but leaves adhesive and build strips behind. Either way the surface under new stone has to be flat, solid and level, and we shim, reinforce or replace it before templating so the problem is priced rather than discovered.
Last, the plumbing. Moving from a drop in sink to an undermount changes where the drain sits, and a sixty year old trap arm or shutoff valve may not enjoy being disturbed. If a plumber needs to look first, you hear it from us at the measure, not with the water turned off.
Stone for a new custom home going up on an old lot
On a new build the countertop is one trade in a long sequence, and it arrives near the end. Cabinets must be set, fastened and level before a template means anything, and the backsplash tile, the plumbing trim and the appliances all queue behind the stone. A template taken against boxes that are still being adjusted produces a top that fits a room that no longer exists.
So the builder's calendar sets ours. We book the template for the day the cabinets are final, and we ask for the sink, cooktop and range specification sheets beforehand, because every cutout is machined to a model number and a substitution made after cutting means a new top. The install date goes to the builder in writing on the same day, so the trades behind us can plan against a date that holds.
Larger new kitchens raise layout questions of their own: an island that approaches or passes the length of a single slab, a waterfall end whose vein has to turn the corner, a seating overhang deep enough to need steel under it. Those are settled on the slab layout, which the homeowner and the builder both see before any stone is cut.
A finished interior also needs guarding. Floors, door casings and fresh paint along the whole carry route are covered before a slab comes through the front door, and the covering stays down until the last piece is set.
Matching the stone to the house, and the city's paperwork
Walk one Rollingwood street and you pass original ranch houses, ranch houses renovated with their character kept, contemporary new builds and houses still under construction. There is no single local look, so the material follows the house rather than the postcode. A honed or leathered granite sits comfortably in a renovated ranch kitchen. A contemporary build often calls for large format quartz, or a mitered edge that makes a thin slab read as a thick one.
Anything that will live outdoors narrows the list. Engineered quartz is held together by a polyester resin that breaks down in direct sun, so a grill surround or a patio bar top gets granite or porcelain regardless of what is inside.
The city runs its own development services and publishes separate plan submittal checklists for residential work, including one for an interior remodel, one for a demolition and one for a new residence, with applications taken online through MyGovernmentOnline. Whether a given project needs a permit is a question for the city, and on a new build or a full remodel that paperwork usually belongs to the builder or the homeowner. We fit our template and install dates around whatever the city has asked for, and we are glad to supply fabrication drawings if they help.
What drives the price of countertops in Rollingwood
There is no figure on this page, and in Rollingwood a figure would be especially misleading, because the two kinds of job here sit at opposite ends of the effort scale for the same square footage.
The local driver is which of them you have. An original ranch kitchen can bring mortar bed demolition, a deck that needs rebuilding, cabinets that need leveling, walls that need scribing and plumbing that needs attention before stone goes down. A new build brings none of that, but it brings coordination: a template timed to the cabinet install, cutouts drawn from specification sheets, and an install date committed to a builder.
Material is the biggest single line either way. Quartz, granite and quartzite are priced at different levels, and individual slabs within one category differ by color, pattern and rarity.
Slab yield comes next. A long island can tip a layout into a second slab even when the total area looks modest, and a matched waterfall end uses stone that a plain end does not. Then the finer detail: the number of cutouts, the number of seams, the edge profile, backsplash height, any steel support for an overhang, and whether the sink and faucet are new. All of it becomes one written figure after the measure, and that figure is the one on the final invoice.
Templated and cut for Rollingwood
We laser template off your existing cabinets, so the counter is cut to the room you actually have rather than to the plan it was built from. Settled cabinets, out-of-square walls and a run that has moved over twenty years are all measured, not assumed.
Fabrication happens in our own Austin shop, which is a short run out to Rollingwood. That keeps the template to install window inside the same week for most kitchens.
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Rollingwood questions
Do you work in Rollingwood?
Yes, across the whole city. It is 0.70 square miles, entirely inside Travis County, and a short drive from our Austin shop, so every address in it is inside our normal area.
My house is an original 1950s ranch. Can the cabinets take stone?
Often they can, but we check rather than assume. At the template visit we look at the boxes, the fastening and the deck, and we level or reinforce anything that has moved. If a cabinet genuinely cannot carry the stone you want, you hear that with the quote, along with the options.
We are building a new house. When should you template?
Once the cabinets are set, fastened and level, and not before. We ask your builder for that date and for the sink and appliance specification sheets, then give the builder an install date in writing so the backsplash and plumbing trim can be booked behind it.
Do I need a permit from the city for new countertops?
That is the city's call, not ours. Rollingwood publishes its own checklists for interior remodels, demolitions and new homes. If the counters are part of a larger remodel or a new build, the builder or homeowner usually handles that paperwork, and we schedule around it.
The wall behind my counter is not straight. Will there be a gap?
Not if the top is cut to the wall. The laser template records the wall as it actually runs, bow and all, and the back edge of the stone is machined to follow it, so the counter closes tight instead of relying on a thick bead of caulk.
Which stone suits a renovated ranch house?
There is no rule, but honed or leathered granite and softer veined quartzite tend to sit well with the proportions of a ranch kitchen. We would rather you see the actual slabs in person than choose from a sample chip.
Can I use quartz on a covered patio?
We advise against it. The resin binder in engineered quartz is not stable in sunlight, and a covered patio still sees plenty of it. Granite or porcelain is the right choice outdoors.
How do I get a firm number?
Book the free measure. We template your kitchen, look at what is under the old top, talk through slabs, and send one written price for the finished job before anything is cut.
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