Rancho Cucamonga Custom Countertops is San Bernardino County's trusted source for custom countertops in Chino, CA, specializing in post-closing builder-top upgrades, quartz kitchen replacements and granite for older homes. We offer full-height slab backsplashes and island tops.
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Our team provides careful tear-off over new cabinets, delivering an upgraded countertop without harm to the boxes underneath and clean results for both residential and commercial projects. We lay out the seams on the slab you choose and show you the plan before anything is cut, and the same crew that templates your kitchen installs it.
From lifting a brand-new builder top off its cabinets to setting quartz with a matched seam, our team handles every detail. Serving Chino along with Chino Hills, Ontario and Eastvale, we work around your move-in date and leave the kitchen ready for its first week of use.
How we work
Homeowners get a free template visit. Contractors, cabinet shops and builders get tops to their schedule.
A new Chino homeowner can upgrade countertops through the builder before closing or replace the builder top afterward, and the right choice depends on price, choice and timing. Most buyers at The Preserve meet this question at the design appointment, while the house is still framing.
The upgrade is added to the purchase price of the home, so it is paid over time with the house rather than in cash up front. You pick from the builder's menu of levels, which is usually a short list of colours and one or two edge profiles. The top is in place on move-in day, with no second trade in the house afterward.
You choose any slab, any edge and any backsplash height, including a full-height slab the builder may not offer. The cost is paid on its own, as a separate job. The builder top comes off brand-new cabinets, which needs care (see below). Some owners do both: take the builder's base top, then upgrade the island only, or add a tall backsplash later. We can price your plan against your builder's upgrade sheet if you bring it to the template visit, so the comparison is on paper, not a guess.
Taking a builder top off new cabinets is a careful lift, not a demolition, because the cabinets underneath are staying for decades. Builder quartz and granite are usually glued to the cabinet tops with adhesive or silicone at a few points, with the sink hung from the stone.
We cut that adhesive with the top supported, disconnect the plumbing, release the sink and lift each piece straight up. Nothing is pried against a cabinet face or a new floor. The floor and the cabinet fronts are covered before the first cut.
The removed top does not have to go to landfill. A sound builder slab can end up on a garage workbench or a laundry, and we can cut a remnant piece for you if you ask before tear-off.
An upgrade chosen through your builder adds no days after closing, because the top is installed during construction, while an after-closing replacement adds a short gap between move-in and the finished kitchen. That gap is the real trade-off for most Preserve buyers.
The builder route has its own delay, just earlier. Selections are locked at a cut-off date in the build schedule, and a change after that point may not be possible at all. If you are still deciding on stone when the cut-off arrives, the after-closing route keeps the choice open.
Many owners unpack everything except the kitchen for that first fortnight and cook on a grill or order in. Planned that way, the wait is short and the kitchen is done once.
Away from The Preserve, Chino has plenty of older houses from the decades when it was one of the region's dairy centers, and those kitchens are a straight replacement job. Chino incorporated in 1910, and dairying flourished here from the 1950s through the 1980s, so the town's older housing spans several eras of tile, laminate and early stone.
These homes are handled differently from new builds. The old top may sit on a mortar bed or a tired particleboard deck, and the cabinets are older, so they are checked for level and water damage before the stone is measured.
Replacing a standard kitchen in quartz or granite after closing in Chino is typically estimated at roughly $2,500 to $6,000 for 30 to 40 square feet, and a large kitchen with an island in a premium slab is commonly estimated at $8,000 to $20,000.
A full-height slab backsplash is usually estimated to add about $2,000 to $8,000. Removal and disposal of the old top is typically estimated at roughly $100 to $500, and a careful lift off new cabinets is priced for the extra time it takes.
Your builder's upgrade prices are set by the builder, not by us, so compare the two in writing. Every figure here is an estimate for Chino and is subject to change; the final price is set in the written quote after we measure your kitchen.
The Preserve is more than single-family homes. The city describes it as about 5,435 acres of former farm and dairy land, annexed in July 2003, planned around a community core and a regional commercial center, with roughly half kept as open space. It lies between Kimball Avenue and State Route 71, and between Euclid and Hellman Avenues.
Homecoming at The Preserve, a Lewis apartment community there, advertises quartz or granite countertops in its homes. Apartments at that scale make Chino a multifamily market as well as a builder one: unit turnovers, damaged tops and repeat layouts by unit type.
Chino also has industrial zones, Chino Airport and the Chino Valley Medical Center. If you are a property manager or GC working here, send the unit counts, drawings and finish schedule, and we will return a bid built on the plans.
Call to book a visit. Bring your builder's upgrade sheet if you have one. We measure, talk through slabs and backsplash height, and send a written quote so you can compare the two paths side by side.
Questions
Upgrade through the builder if you want the cost added to the home's price and the top in place on move-in day. Upgrade after closing if you want a wider choice of slabs, edges and backsplash height and can pay for it as a separate job.
Yes. We cut the adhesive and silicone with the top supported and lift each piece straight up, never prying against the cabinet boxes. Floors and cabinet faces are covered first.
The install date is fixed once you approve the quote and choose a slab, and the quote states it. Many owners book the template visit in the first week after closing so the new top is in before they fully unpack the kitchen.
It can. Builder home warranties vary on work done by other trades, so read yours or ask the builder before booking. We can note on the quote exactly what we touch.
A standard quartz or granite kitchen is typically estimated at roughly $2,500 to $6,000. Your written quote sets the final price once we have measured and you have chosen a slab.
Yes. Older kitchens often have tile on a mortar bed or laminate on a worn deck. We remove it, check the cabinets and deck, and install the new stone.
Yes. Send the unit counts or plans and the finish schedule, and we will return a written bid by unit type.
Yes. Every install carries a written warranty, which we review with you at signing.
Homeowners get a free template visit. Contractors and builders can send plans for a bid.
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