Inside our scope
Field templating on set casework, fabrication of every top, sink and fixture cutouts, edge profiles, backsplash and side splash pieces, setting and shimming the tops, and sealing the joints where tops meet walls and splashes.
Commercial Countertops for GCs and Building Owners
Henderson Custom Countertops supplies and installs commercial countertops in Hendersonville, NC as a trusted Henderson County subcontractor to general contractors, specializing in quartz break rooms, solid surface service counters and stainless prep tops. We offer takeoffs from your drawings and fabrication to your finish schedule.
- No-cost measure at your home
- You approve the slab
- Itemized written quote
About our commercial countertop fabrication & installation
Our team provides templating on installed casework, delivering countertops that fit the building as it was actually framed, from a tenant suite to a taproom, for both residential and commercial projects. We return shop drawings and submittals for approval before a single slab is cut, so the architect and the GC see every seam, edge and cutout on paper first. Licensed, bonded and insured, we carry the countertop scope inside your contract and never stand in as the prime contractor.
From the itemized takeoff and the submittal log to the punch walk and closeout papers, our team handles every detail. Serving Hendersonville and commercial jobs out to Fletcher and Mills River, we set install days around the other trades already on your schedule.
Why Henderson Custom Countertops
What You Can Hold Us To
Whoever measures your cabinets is the person accountable for the finished top.
On-site measureEvery wall and cabinet measured and checked for level before cutting
Your slabYou approve the exact slab and where each seam lands
Written scopeMaterial, edge, cutouts and backsplash listed line by line
Licensed, bonded & insuredProof of insurance on request; a COI and W-9 with every commercial bid
What we take on as the countertop subcontractor
On a commercial job in Henderson County we are the countertop subcontractor: we take one defined slice of the general contractor's contract, the fabricated and installed tops, and the prime contractor stays answerable to the owner for the whole building. That is the ordinary shape of a subcontract, where one business performs part of another's contract and invoices the contractor above it rather than the owner. It keeps the lines clean. You hold the permit, the schedule and the owner relationship; we hold the tops. For a facility manager or business owner running a small build-out without a GC, the scope is the same, only the paperwork comes straight to you. Either way the bid names exactly what is ours and what is not.
Setting sinks, not connecting them
We set undermount and drop-in sinks and cut the faucet holes to the fixture schedule. Plumbing is a separately licensed trade in North Carolina, so a licensed plumber on your job makes every water and drain connection after the tops are down.
Outside our scope
Casework supply and install, permits, plumbing and electrical, and the overall building schedule stay with the prime contractor or the owner. If a cabinet line is short or out of level, we flag it before templating rather than build a top around it.
What to send for a commercial countertop bid
Send the drawings and the finish schedule, and the bid comes back itemized by room and by surface rather than as one lump figure for the building. An itemized bid lets a GC compare it line for line against other trades' numbers and lets an owner see exactly which break room or reception top is driving the total.
- Floor plans and the interior elevations that show casework runs, islands and counter heights.
- The finish schedule naming each countertop material, color and edge, or an allowance level if the selection is still open.
- The countertop and casework specification sections, if the architect wrote them.
- The sink and plumbing fixture schedule, so every cutout is priced to the actual bowl and faucet.
- Your target dates, whether the building will be occupied during install, and any after-hours limits.
A bid built this way works like a bill of quantities: every bidder prices the same counted items, so the comparison is fair and nobody measures the drawings differently. Two documents travel with it. A certificate of insurance goes out with the bid package, and so does a W-9, the IRS form a business uses to hand over its taxpayer identification number to whoever will file information returns on its payments. Your accounts payable team asks for both eventually; they arrive up front.
How a commercial countertop bid is priced
Commercial countertop contracts in Henderson County are typically estimated at roughly $10,000 to $150,000, and where a job lands in that band depends far more on quantities and material than on the building type. Installed material alone commonly runs an estimated $50 to $150 per square foot for solid surface, roughly $60 to $150 for engineered quartz, and about $80 to $250 or more for stainless steel work surfaces. The ladder those ranges come from is industry-wide, not a quote, so use it to sanity-check a budget line, never to set one.
What actually moves a commercial number:
- Takeoff quantities by room, floor or unit type, and how many of them repeat.
- Material and allowance level, and whether the finish schedule is final or still open.
- The submittal and shop drawing cycle, including resubmittals after comments.
- Mobilizations: one install trip for the whole building costs less than four phased ones.
- After-hours or occupied-building work, which changes crew time and access.
- Slab availability for the specified color and lot.
- Who sets sinks and fixtures, and how many cutouts each top carries.
- Punch list response and any return trips it needs.
Every figure on this page is a budgetary estimate and subject to change. The written bid, priced from your drawings, the finish schedule and a site walk, sets the final price. Send the drawings and the finish schedule and we will return it itemized.
Scheduling around the other trades
Countertops land late in a commercial schedule because they cannot be templated until the casework is set, level and fixed, and they must be down before the plumber can finish. That sequence is not our preference; it is how the material works. Caesarstone's own project guidance tells builders to have the fabricator take final measurements once cabinetry is in, and to hold plumbing and appliance connections until after the countertop is installed.
Casework set and checked
The cabinet installer finishes, and the boxes are stable, fixed and level enough to carry stone without rocking.
Field template
We template on the installed casework, never from scaled plans, because walls in a remodelled downtown storefront rarely match the drawings.
Shop drawing sign-off
Seams, overhangs and cutouts go back for approval, the step construction submittals exist for: confirming the right product is going in before it arrives on site.
Fabrication and install
Stone is cut wet in the shop, not in your tenant's space. OSHA names stone countertop manufacturing among the activities that release respirable crystalline silica, so keeping the cutting off site is also keeping the dust off site.
Plumber and punch
Your plumber connects the fixtures, and near substantial completion the owner, architect or GC walks the job and writes the punch list. We come back for our items on it and turn them around as a trade, not as an afterthought. In an occupied building, the install can be phased floor by floor or scheduled outside business hours where the tenant needs it. Tell us that in the bid request, because it changes the crew plan and the price.
Which commercial countertop page fits your building
This page covers what any commercial buyer gets from us. Four pages go deeper on one kind of buyer each, and the right one depends on who is paying for the tops and how often the work repeats.
Builders with a subdivision phase
Production and custom builders repeating a small set of floor plans need one selection per plan and a countertop day that fits a production schedule. That is the builder packages page, and it carries the Fletcher and Mills River growth that drives it.
Cabinet shops and remodelers
A shop or designer who sells the top to their own client needs a fabrication partner who stays behind their name. That page covers fabricate-only work and trade accounts.
Restaurants, breweries and bars
Food and drink businesses need surfaces that survive a service line and a taproom rail. The Mills River brewery corridor, where Sierra Nevada opened its second brewery in 2014, and the restaurants of downtown Hendersonville's Main Street are the local reason that page exists.
Medical and dental offices
Exam rooms, labs and sterilization areas are chosen for cleaning and chemical demands, and Hendersonville's two hospitals, AdventHealth Hendersonville and Pardee, anchor a steady stream of practice build-outs around them. Other commercial stock across the county, from the warehouses and the old Station Hotel of the Seventh Avenue Depot District to new offices near Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, is bid from this page. None of the places named here are clients of ours; they are the buildings this county is made of.
Materials specified on commercial counters
Most commercial finish schedules in this county call for one of four surfaces, and each earns its place for a reason a facility manager can check.
- Engineered quartz. Roughly 93 percent crushed stone bound in resin by weight, consistent from slab to slab, which suits a break room or a row of identical offices.
- Solid surface. Alumina trihydrate in acrylic or polyester resin, joined with color-matched adhesive so seams nearly disappear, a common choice for service counters and long runs.
- Stainless steel. An iron and chromium alloy that resists rust and corrosion, the standard work surface in commercial kitchens.
- Granite. Natural stone with real variation, used for reception tops and lobbies where the owner wants something no other building has.
If the finish schedule names a material we think is wrong for the room, the bid says so, with the reason, and prices the specified item anyway. The architect makes the call.
Stone, Edges and Finishes
Start to finish
From Measure to Finished Counters
Nothing is cut until you have approved the slab and the seam layout.
Site visit
We measure the cabinets, check them for level, look at the carry path in, and talk through material, edge and sink.
Slab and layout
You choose the slab, and we show you where the seams and the veining will fall before anything is cut.
Fabrication
The stone is cut wet, edged and polished in the shop, with openings cut to the sink and cooktop you picked.
The install
We carry it in, set it, seal natural stone that needs it, and walk the finished counters with you.
Also from our shop
More Commercial and Trade Work
Straight answers
Commercial Countertop Fabrication & Installation: Questions We Hear
Do you bid commercial countertops as the prime contractor?
No. We bid and work as the countertop subcontractor under the general contractor, or directly for an owner on a small build-out, and the prime contractor stays responsible for the building, the permit and the overall schedule.
Can you bid from plans before the casework is installed?
Yes, the bid is priced from the drawings and finish schedule. Fabrication is not: final templates are taken on the set casework, because a top cut to scaled plans is a top that may not fit the room that got built.
What paperwork comes with a commercial bid?
A certificate of insurance and a W-9 go out with every commercial bid package, alongside the itemized pricing by room and surface. Shop drawings and material submittals follow after award, before anything is cut.
Who connects the sinks and faucets on a commercial job?
A licensed plumber. Plumbing is a separately licensed trade in North Carolina, so we set the sinks and cut the fixture holes, and the plumber on your job makes the water and drain connections once the tops are installed.
Can you install in an occupied office, clinic or restaurant?
Yes. Installs can be phased room by room or scheduled outside business hours when the tenant has to stay open, and because stone is cut wet in the shop rather than on site, the dust stays out of the space. Say so in the bid request so it is priced.
How soon can you start after award?
The start date depends on the submittal turnaround and whether the specified slab is in stock, so it is written into the bid schedule after we see the finish schedule rather than promised here.
How do commercial payment terms work?
Terms follow the subcontract you issue. As a subcontractor we invoice the general contractor, or the owner on a direct job, against the schedule of values in that agreement.
Do you take small commercial jobs, like one break room?
Send it. A single break room or reception top is bid the same way as a full floor, from the drawings and the finish schedule, and the bid will say plainly whether the job fits our schedule.
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