Price kitchens, islands and vanity tops from your own shop costs
You enter what your stone shop costs to run once, and every kitchen after that is priced from your numbers instead of a per-foot figure from a competitor.
- Know what a shop hour really costs Shop and slab-yard rent, silica safety, slurry disposal and every wage, yours too, turn into one break-even rate, with a separate rate for the saw, CNC and templater.
- Price the whole kitchen, not just the slab Template, saw cuts, sink and faucet cutouts, edge, seams, install and tear-out each get their own line.
- Still quote per square foot You get the job total and the price per sq ft, plus the same kitchen at three other sizes.
- Catch the small costs before they catch you Layout approval, slab-yard visits, seam work and field fixes sit on a checklist that must be answered before the quote is ready.
- Hand the customer a clean quote A one-page quote with your deposit and countertop terms, ready to print or save as a PDF.
- See which kitchens made money The Job Log keeps every quote, won or lost, and the hours each job really took.
- One-time payment, no subscription
- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
How it turns slabs, saw time and install hours into a kitchen quote
The file has six tabs: set up the shop once, keep slab prices current, and build one quote per job.
- Start HereWhat to fill in first. Plan on one evening.
- Shop SetupYour yearly shop costs, your crew and your bridge saw, CNC and templater, turned into a break-even rate and a rate for each machine.
- Price ListSlabs per square foot, remnants, seam epoxy, sink clips and brackets, each with the date you last checked the price.
- QuotePick the slab, enter the square feet and the time for each shop step, add tear-out, answer the checklist, and it gives the job price and the price per sq ft.
- Customer QuoteThe page the homeowner or contractor sees: scope, price, deposit and terms.
- Job LogAfter install, the real hours go in, so you know whether the kitchen paid.
What is a break-even rate? It is what each billable hour in your shop has to bring in to pay the wages and every other cost of running it, before any profit. For a stone shop that includes costs most trades never carry, like silica monitoring and slurry disposal. The true hourly rate guide walks through it.
Prefilled example built-in
The file comes filled in with a made-up stone shop and its $4,668 quartz kitchen quote, so you see a finished quote before you type in your own numbers.
The sample shop is an owner and three staff with a break-even of $63.08 per hour. The job is a 3cm quartz L-shape plus a 40 x 55 inch island, about 50 sq ft, with an eased edge, one undermount sink, three faucet holes, a 4 inch splash and the old laminate torn out.
| A | B | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 sq ft quartz kitchen | Amount |
| 2 | Slab, supplies, shop time, install and tear-out | $2,957 |
| 3 | Easy-to-miss costs | $447 |
| 4 | Markup, cushion and profit | $1,264 |
| 5 | Price to the customer | $4,668 |
That is $93.36 per sq ft installed for the order of 50 sq ft. The $1,264 is kept after every cost, the owner's wage included, and the 19 hours of work bring in about $137 each. The step-by-step version is on how to estimate countertops.
$447
That is what the easy-to-miss lines alone added to this one example quote. It is about 8 times what the calculator costs. Miss them once and the file has paid for itself.
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- Instant download
- Excel and Google Sheets
Why a per-square-foot price from the showroom loses money on small jobs
Customers shop countertops per square foot, but the template trip, the sink cutout and the install setup take about the same time on a 30 sq ft job as on a 120 sq ft kitchen. Charge one flat per-foot number and the small jobs quietly pay for less than they cost.
The sample shows it. The same quartz, edge and sink come to $109.49 per sq ft at 30 sq ft and $79.24 at 120 sq ft. Quote the small job at the big kitchen's rate and you give away about $30 a foot, or roughly $900 on a 30 sq ft top.
The calculator prices each job from its own slab and hours first, then shows the per-foot number at the end. You still give the customer a per-foot price, just one that covers that job.
Layout approval, seams, silica and the other stone shop costs it catches
The Quote tab won't mark a quote ready until each of these has a Yes, No or N/A:
- Layout drawing and slab nesting for the customer to sign off before anything is cut.
- The slab-yard visit with the customer, or picking the slab up yourself.
- Seam work: color-matched epoxy, the seam setter and cleanup.
- Silica control: wet cutting supplies, respirators and slurry for this job.
- Field modifications on install day, and a small reserve for a cracked piece.
- Plumber disconnect and reconnect. Left as No in the example on purpose, so the warning stays until you price it or exclude it in writing.
Exactly what you get
One spreadsheet file, sent as an instant download as soon as you pay. It opens in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. There is no subscription, no app and no login.
- The six-tab calculator, ready for your shop's numbers.
- A sample stone shop, with a finished quartz kitchen quote to study first.
- Countertop customer terms you can edit, covering template measurements, cabinets set before template, and heat damage on quartz.
- A Job Log that shows your win rate and which kitchens ran over their hours, the habit explained in job costing.
How it compares
Most owners price a job one of these ways. Here is what each one gives you.
| Copying another company's price | A free estimate template | Estimating software | This calculator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from your own costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Makes you answer the easy-to-miss costs | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Shows which jobs made money | No | No | Varies | Yes |
| Works in Excel and Google Sheets | – | Yes | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free | Free | Usually a monthly fee | $49.95 once |
Who it's for: stone fabricators and countertop installers
It fits shops of about 1 to 15 people that cut and install quartz, granite, quartzite, marble or porcelain and quote per square foot, including an installer who just bought a bridge saw or CNC. One-person shop or a crew of fifteen, vanity tops or full kitchens, it works the same way, because the slab, the hours and the rates are all yours. If you give showroom ballparks that turn out low, see quote vs estimate.
It is not for big fabrication plants already running estimating software, homeowners budgeting a remodel, or laminate installers who buy tops in set lengths. To check your shop rate first, try the free true hourly rate calculator.
Stop pricing kitchens from a per-foot number you heard. Price every top from your slab, shop and install time, catch the small costs that slip, and see which jobs made money.
Countertop Fabrication Pricing Calculator
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