Kitchen Countertop Installation in Central Florida

There is no single best countertop, only the best one for how you cook, clean, and live. In our showroom you can see and touch full samples side by side instead of guessing from a two-inch chip, and our designers help you weigh durability, maintenance, and cost against the look you want. The goal is a surface you love that also makes sense for a busy Florida kitchen.

A countertop is more than a slab dropped on top of your cabinets. True Builders handles the full scope so the finished surface fits tight, drains right, and lasts. Because we self-perform and coordinate every trade in-house, the plumbing reconnect and any tile work are handled by the same team, not three separate vendors on three different schedules.

From your first showroom visit to the day you set a coffee mug on your new counter, here is what to expect. We keep you informed at every step so there are no surprises on installation day.

A countertop should suit the way Floridians actually live, from humid summers to open-plan kitchens that flow into the living room. We help homeowners across Polk, Hillsborough, and Pasco counties pick surfaces that shrug off heat and moisture and pair cleanly with the cabinets and flooring already in the room. Because we are a full remodeler, we can also reconfigure your layout, extend an island, or open a wall while the counters are out, all under one permit and one crew.

Plenty of companies will sell you a slab. Far fewer stand behind the entire job from template to teardown to install. True Builders has earned 4.8 stars across more than 400 Google reviews, and we are part of the True family that has served over 100,000 customers. When you hire us, you get a licensed general contractor and one accountable team, not a chain of subcontractors pointing fingers.

Call (863) 647-1800 or stop by our Plant City showroom, and we will help you choose a material, look at your space, and put together a clear, fixed-scope estimate.

Most countertop jobs arrive with a second question attached. If the cabinets underneath are sagging or swollen, kitchen cabinet installation has to come first, because stone needs a sound, level base. If the counters are the last piece of a bigger plan, our kitchen remodeling and renovation design and planning teams handle the whole scope. Our recent projects and our video library show finished kitchens across Lakeland, Plant City, Brandon, Winter Haven, and Davenport, and the full list of towns we cover is on our service areas page.

Countertops are quoted per square foot installed, which includes the slab, fabrication, cutouts, and installation. Published industry cost guides put quartz at $65 to $95 per square foot for mid-range material, with the full range from $85 to $190 per square foot installed. Most homeowners land between $100 and $150. Granite runs $50 to $150 per square foot: entry-level slabs $50 to $70, mid-range $70 to $95, and exotic or rare stone $95 to $200 and up.

A typical kitchen has 30 to 40 square feet of countertop. At that size, expect $2,400 to $6,000 including the slab, cutting, and installation. Cutouts for an undermount sink or a cooktop, a thicker edge profile, and a waterfall island all push the number up. A full-height stone backsplash can add as much as the counters themselves, because it is more square footage of the same slab.

Countertops are about 11 percent of a full kitchen remodel budget, which surprises people who assume the stone is the expensive part. Cabinets, at roughly 29 percent, cost close to three times as much.

These are general market ranges compiled from published industry cost guides. They are not a True Builders quote. Your real number depends on scope, materials, and site conditions, including how many seams your layout requires and whether the slab you fall in love with is a stock color or a special order. We template and quote a fixed scope. Call (863) 647-1800 or Get a Quote.

People usually ask this in linear feet, because that is how a kitchen run measures. Twenty linear feet of standard 25-inch-deep counter is about 42 square feet. At the common installed range of $100 to $150 per square foot, that is roughly $4,200 to $6,300. On budget quartz nearer $85 per square foot it drops to about $3,600. On premium quartz at $190 it climbs to about $8,000.

If you meant 20 square feet, such as a single island or a small galley run, the same rates put you at roughly $2,000 to $3,000 installed. Ask us which one you are measuring and we will price both, because the difference is thousands of dollars and the phrase '20 feet' means either one depending on who says it.

What moves that estimate: an undermount sink cutout, the number of seams your layout forces, whether the edge profile is a simple eased edge or a built-up ogee, and whether we are removing and hauling away an old countertop and reconnecting the plumbing. All of it goes in the written scope.

These are general market ranges compiled from published industry cost guides, not a True Builders quote. The real number depends on scope, materials, and site conditions.

Our showroom and headquarters are at 4000 N Frontage Rd in Plant City, and our Lakeland office is at 2829 Badger Rd #19. Seeing a full slab in person is the whole point of the showroom. Granite and quartz both look completely different at slab scale than they do on a two-inch sample chip, and the veining on a natural stone slab is not repeatable.

We install across Polk, Hillsborough, and Pasco counties. Most Lakeland and Plant City kitchens we template are standard 25-inch-deep runs with one or two seams, which keeps fabrication straightforward and the quote predictable.

New countertops are the fastest visible upgrade in a kitchen, and financing means you can do the whole run at once instead of half the kitchen now and the island later in a slab that no longer matches. We work with a third-party lending partner, and checking your options uses a soft credit check that does not affect your credit score.

Financing is subject to credit approval, and terms depend on the lender, the amount requested, and your credit. For smaller jobs we accept all major credit cards.

Verify us before you sign. Our Florida general contractor license is CBC1258346 and it is searchable in the Florida DBPR license database. We are licensed and insured, we hold an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and we carry 4.8 stars across 400-plus Google reviews. Family-owned in Central Florida since 2009.