Replacing your kitchen worktop

A worktop wears out faster than the kitchen underneath. Burn marks next to the hob, a swollen edge by the sink, a knife cut that will not go away. The cabinets can last for years yet. Then we replace just the worktop, and that takes two short visits: one to measure, one to fit.

First the cabinets, then the worktop

A composite or ceramic worktop is rigid. It does not follow the cabinets, so the cabinets have to carry it. If your row of base cabinets is not level, the worktop is under tension and it cracks at the first cut-out. With any stone-type worktop we check the row first and adjust the cabinets where needed.

If the cabinet floors have sagged or been damaged by a leak, a new stone worktop makes no sense. We tell you that when we come to look, before anything is ordered.

Measuring with a template

For natural stone, ceramic and composite we first make a template of your actual kitchen. Walls in Dutch homes are rarely square, and five millimetres over three metres shows straight away as a gap. The template goes to the stone workshop, which cuts the worktop, the cut-outs and the tap holes to size.

Between measuring and fitting there is a delivery time, and the supplier of the worktop sets it. We put that on your quote as soon as we know it. We will not promise two weeks when the workshop needs five.

And your kitchen in the meantime?

On most jobs we only take the old worktop off on the day the new one arrives. So you keep cooking as normal. We do not sell a temporary chipboard worktop as standard. It costs € 475 to € 650 excl. VAT depending on size, for something that goes once the new worktop is in. We only fit one if the sink really leaks or the worktop sags.

Which material, and what it costs per metre

The price per metre is all-in: the worktop, the finished edges, transport and fitting. These are market prices, because the worktop itself comes from a supplier or stone workshop. We fit every material and have no favourite brand.

Source: market indication, 1 September 2026. The market quotes these prices including VAT; the excluding-VAT figures are worked back and rounded. Each cut-out for a sink or hob adds € 50 – € 100 incl. VAT. A three-metre composite worktop comes to € 1.100 – € 2.100 including VAT at market prices.

We supply and fit all five. We have no house brand and no bonus on any particular slab, so we are free to tell you that laminate is often the wiser choice than marble for a family with children. More about each material: worktops: materials and colours.

What always comes with it

Replacing a worktop is never just the worktop. These items belong with it, and we put them on the quote up front:

• Disconnecting and reconnecting the sink and tap. An undermount sink is glued to the new worktop in the workshop.
• Connection materials: siphon, drain, sealant and fixings. The extended connection kit costs € 199,65 incl. VAT (€ 165 excl.). Reusing an old siphon leaks within a year, so it is not worth it.
• The cut-out for the hob. A different hob rarely has the same cut-out size. With a new hob we take that size into the template.
• Splashback or upstand. The old worktop leaves a strip of unfinished wall behind. The old row of tiles rarely matches the new worktop.
• Call-out charge € 72,60 incl. VAT (€ 60 excl.). Two visits, charged once.

Replacing the doors as well? See replacing kitchen doors and fronts. Everything else you can do with an existing kitchen is on kitchen renovation, and all our rates are on the price page.

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