In-Home Templating in Mount Prospect, IL

About 11.2 miles as the crow flies — 11 miles east of the shop via Golf Rd, or I-90 and Elmhurst Rd (IL-83); roughly 20-25 minutes. That matters for templating more than for anything else we do, because the template is the appointment where we come to you, and a short run means a tight arrival window rather than a vague morning.

Common fabricator guidance is about 10-12 inches of unsupported overhang for 3cm granite or quartz, only about 6 inches for 2cm granite, and never more than one-third of the total countertop depth cantilevered. Seating overhangs usually run 10-16 inches deep, which is exactly the range where hidden steel brackets — typically spaced every 18-24 inches — earn their keep. This is not fussiness: an unsupported stone overhang is fine until a guest leans on it or a kid climbs it, and then it snaps at the weakest point. Brackets are cheap; a cracked island top is not.

Template to install typically runs 5-15 business days (rush shops manage 3-5; peak spring-summer season can stretch to 20). The good news: your kitchen keeps working through fabrication — you only lose the sink between tear-out and plumbing reconnection, usually 1-2 days. Install day itself is 2-6 hours for a standard kitchen. The quiet weeks between template and install are an information vacuum, not a problem — your counters are in a CNC queue — but ask at signing how the shop will confirm your install date so you can book the plumber.