Rancho Cucamonga Custom Countertops is San Bernardino County's trusted specialist in full-height slab backsplashes in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, specializing in range-wall slab panels, bookmatched backsplash walls, and window-return wraps. We offer quartz and marble panels cut from the same stone as your countertops.
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Our team provides outlet and switch cutouts sized to each electrical box, delivering grout-free walls that continue the countertop for homes and easy-care surfaces for both residential and commercial projects. We template the wall only after the tops are set, and the same crew that measures every outlet position installs the panels.
From electrical box extenders at every outlet to the stone returns around a window sill, our team handles every detail. Serving Rancho Cucamonga, Glendora, San Dimas and Ontario, we keep your kitchen usable around the work and deliver a stone wall that looks cut for the room on every backsplash project.
How we work
Homeowners get a free template visit. Contractors, cabinet shops and builders get tops to their schedule.
On a full-height slab backsplash in Rancho Cucamonga, every outlet and switch on the wall becomes a cutout in the stone, and most of those electrical boxes need extenders to meet the new, thicker surface. The National Electrical Code, section 314.20, requires the front edge of a box behind a noncombustible finish like stone to sit no more than 1/4 inch back from the finished face. A 3/4-inch stone panel over 1/2-inch drywall leaves the box about 1-1/4 inches behind the face, so a listed extender or an adjustable box is the normal fix. That is an electrician's job, scheduled between our template visit and install day so the devices seat tight against the stone.
A window on the sink wall is where a slab wall earns its keep or shows its joints. The stone can stop at the window's edge, or wrap into the opening as a return on the sides and the sill. A return is its own piece, mitered or butted, and it is laid out from the same slab so the pattern continues into the window.
Behind a range, the panel runs up under the hood and has to allow for its mounting. Floating shelves on stone need their brackets placed before the panel goes up, never drilled through it afterward.
Bookmatching a slab backsplash means cutting two panels in sequence from adjoining surfaces of the same stone and opening them like a book, so the pattern mirrors across the center joint. The mirror line usually goes on the range or on the sink, where the eye lands first.
The effect depends on keeping the slabs in the order they came off the block. We mark each panel's position on the slabs, check the mirror at the joint, and cut only after you have seen it laid out.
Removing an old tile backsplash often damages the drywall behind it, and that wall must be repaired and flat before a slab can go up. Tile set in thinset tends to pull the drywall paper and gypsum with it, and tile on a mortar bed can come away in sheets with the lath.
A stone panel will not bend to a wavy wall, so the wall is patched, skimmed flat and dry before we template. If your countertops are staying, the old short splash is cut free of them carefully and the top edge is checked so the new panel sits on a clean line. Where the tops are new as well, the wall is templated after they are installed.
If you are replacing the counters and the wall in one job, taking the old tops and the old splash off together saves a second round of wall repair and lets us template both at once.
A full-height slab backsplash usually adds at least one slab to a kitchen, and a long wall or a bookmatched wall can add two, because the wall is as large a surface as the counters below it. A 4-inch splash comes out of the offcuts of the countertop slabs; a wall from counter to cabinets does not.
The panel has to cover the height between the counter and the upper cabinets or the ceiling, across every wall that gets stone. Windows and range hoods remove area, but the cutouts around them still need slab around them, so the savings are smaller than the opening suggests.
We count slabs for the wall at the same layout as the counters, so the full stone order is known before anything is bought.
A full-height slab backsplash in Rancho Cucamonga typically adds an estimated $2,000 to $8,000 to a countertop job, with the wall area, the extra slab it needs and the number of cutouts moving the price most. A single range wall sits toward the low end of that band, and a whole kitchen of full-height stone sits toward the top.
The backsplash figures here are estimates that may change with slab prices and the condition of your walls. Your final price comes from a written quote after we measure the wall itself.
A slab backsplash reads best in the same stone as the countertop, cut from the same slab lot so the color and pattern agree. Buying the wall slab at the same time as the counter slabs, rather than later, is the reliable way to get that match, because natural stone varies from block to block.
Engineered stone is made in several thicknesses, from 6 mm and 12 mm up to 2 cm and 3 cm, and a thinner panel can make sense on a wall where it carries no load. Whether a thin panel exists in your color depends on the maker's line, and we check before you commit.
Some kitchens put a different slab on the wall on purpose, such as a veined marble or quartzite behind a quiet quartz counter. That works when it is chosen as a feature and laid out as one, not when it is a near miss on a match.
Designers and remodelers planning a slab wall can send elevations with the outlets, switches, windows and hood marked. We flag every box that needs an extender so the electrician is booked before install day, and we template once the countertops are in place.
The process
Four steps, and nothing is cut until you have approved the slab and the seam layout.
Homeowners book a free template visit. Contractors and builders send plans and a finish schedule for a bid.
You pick the material and the slab, and we mark where every seam will fall before it is approved.
We template on your installed cabinets, then cut, edge and polish the tops in the shop.
The same crew sets the tops, fits the sink, joins the seams and leaves the room clean.
Questions
The wall is templated after the countertop is set, the outlet boxes are extended by an electrician, and the stone is cut for every box, the hood and any shelf brackets. The panels are then glued to the wall and the joints are filled to color.
Usually they stay put but need box extenders, because the code allows a box behind stone to sit no more than 1/4 inch back from the finished face. We mark each one at the template visit for your electrician.
Sometimes, but natural stone varies block to block, so an exact match to an older top is not certain. Bring a sample or a photo of the edge and we compare slabs side by side before you decide.
It typically adds an estimated $2,000 to $8,000 in Rancho Cucamonga, depending on wall area, slab count and cutouts. The written quote after we measure the wall sets the final price.
No. The tile comes off and the wall is repaired and flattened first, because a stone panel needs a flat, sound wall behind it.
The wall is scheduled after the countertops and the electrician's box work, and we give you the date once the panel layout is approved. A single range wall is usually a short visit.
We install across Rancho Cucamonga and in Glendora, San Dimas, Ontario, Claremont and La Verne. Call with your address to set up a template visit.
Yes, the installed backsplash is included in the written warranty you receive at install.
Homeowners get a free template visit. Contractors and builders can send plans for a bid.
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