Countertop Contractor near Western High School
Countertop contractor near Western High School in Davie starts with a question about your water, not about your slab. The town's own 2025 report says Davie supplies only a portion of the town, and the west side of this school zone is not in Davie at all. What decides the upkeep on a porous stone is whose water comes out of your tap.
- Warranty
- 2 years
- License
- CGC1524886
- Licensed & insured: CGC1524886
- 500+ kitchens completed
- 2-year workmanship warranty
- Answered 7 AM–10 PM, 7 days
A countertop contractor near Western High School is asked the same thing in almost every kitchen: how often does this stone have to be sealed. The answer is not printed on the slab. It depends on what comes out of the tap in that house, and on these streets there is no single answer to that, because this school zone does not sit inside one town. Its west side is not in Davie at all. So before anyone talks about quartz, granite or the other materials we install, we find out who actually supplies the water to your address.
Your Water Decides the Maintenance, Not the Slab
Davie says it plainly on the first page of its own annual report: the town provides water and sewer service to a portion of the town, and other portions are served by other municipalities or by private utility companies. That sentence is easy to skip past and it changes the whole maintenance conversation. A report published by a town describes the water that town treats, and here it does not cover every house with a Davie address, let alone the part of this school zone that sits outside the town line. What Davie does produce comes out of the Floridan Aquifer and through reverse osmosis membranes that pull the salts out of it, and the treated water carried 53 parts per million of sodium in 2025 against a limit of 160. That is a real number about a real plant. It is not a number about your kitchen unless that plant is the one filling your sink.
Here is what any of that has to do with a countertop. Every surface in this trade falls on one side of a line: it either takes water in or it does not. A non porous top holds whatever the water leaves at the surface, where a cloth reaches it, and the film around the faucet base stays a housekeeping job. A porous stone that was never sealed, or whose sealer has worn through, lets the same deposit travel slightly into the surface, and at that point cleaning it is no longer cleaning. Which side of that line your counter sits on is a property of the slab you bought. How hard the water works on it is a property of the utility. Nobody can hand you a sealing schedule for this zone out of a town document, because the town document does not describe every tap in it.
So the order of the job here is the reverse of the showroom order. We confirm who bills the water at the address before we recommend a material or a routine to keep it, and when that cannot be confirmed we say so rather than filling the gap with a general rule. Then we measure. The counter that belongs in your house depends on the run of the cabinets, on whether that run is still level, and on whether the sink is staying where it is, and all three get settled before anyone looks at a color. It is also the practical reason we lean toward non porous surfaces in this part of Davie: a top that never asks for a sealer does not care how the water question turns out.
What the Counter Costs and How Long It Takes
A countertop replacement here runs $4,500 to $7,500 for a kitchen of about thirty linear feet, and that number is the whole counter. Template, fabrication, tear out and disposal of what is there now, installation, the sink cutout and the seams. Pulling the faucet and the drain and setting the sink back afterward is inside it as well, which is worth checking against any other quote you are holding. The price is the same everywhere we work and nothing about this school zone moves it.
Total time is two to three weeks from the day we template, because the slab is cut to your measurements rather than pulled off a rack. Time with people inside your house is one to two days. The gap between those two numbers is fabrication, and you keep the counter you have through all of it, because nothing comes out until the new one is finished, polished and loaded.
If you are keeping natural stone or buying it, the sealing question gets settled by the stone and not by the word on the invoice. The Natural Stone Institute tells homeowners to test the stone instead of assuming it: water left on a surface that absorbs will darken it, and water on one that does not will simply sit there. We run that test on your counter at handover so you know what a passing result looks like, and you run it again yourself whenever you want a current answer. That is the schedule. It is set by the stone in your kitchen and not by a date somebody picked.
Pine Island Ridge sits inside this same school zone, on its northeast corner. If that is where your house is, the page for that neighborhood is the one to read first.
Where the Shop Is, from SW 136 Avenue
From the campus side of the zone the simplest way to us is Griffin Road. It crosses Davie from one end of town to the other and finishes at State Road 7, and the shop sits just north of that intersection, at 4491 South State Road 7, suite PH19. There is little reason to make the drive, though. The template is taken in your kitchen, on the cabinets you already have, so the first visit is ours rather than yours. The phone is answered from 7 AM to 10 PM every day of the week if you would rather settle the water question before anything else.
Kitchen Remodeler Davie
4491 S State Road 7, Ste PH19, Davie, FL 33314
Every day, 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Licensed, Insured, and Permitted in Davie
A countertop replacement generally stays clear of permitting when the sink stays where it is and no plumbing or electrical is relocated. Once any of that moves it is plumbing work and it is reviewed as such. We identify and price any permitting a job needs before it is approved, so it is not a line that turns up after the slab is cut. The work is contracted and invoiced by Gaven Constructions under Florida license CGC1524886, and the two year workmanship warranty on the installation labor, seams and sink cutout included, comes from that same company.
- License
- CGC1524886 Certified General Contractor, verifiable in the Florida DBPR licensee search.
- Insurance
- Insured and bonded Certificates are available before any work is scheduled.
- Workmanship warranty
- 2 years On installation labor. Most of this market publishes one.
- Permits and design
- Priced before approval Requirements vary by project scope. Any required permitting, drawings, engineering, or design services are identified and priced before the project is approved.
- Who contracts the work
- Gaven Constructions Kitchen Remodeler Davie was acquired by Gaven Constructions, a licensed contractor since 2015. Every estimate and invoice is issued in that name, which is what puts the license behind the job.
Common Questions
How much does a new countertop cost near Western High School in Davie?
$4,500 to $7,500 for a kitchen of about thirty linear feet, and the figure is the same everywhere we work. It buys the complete counter: template, fabrication, removal and disposal of the old top, installation, the sink cutout and the seams, plus pulling the faucet and drain and setting the sink back afterward. We do not quote by the piece, and we do not bring a number down by leaving a section of the old material in place.
Who supplies the water to a Davie house in the Western High School zone?
It depends on the address, and that is not a dodge. Davie's own annual water report states that the town serves a portion of the town and that other portions are served by other municipalities or by private utility companies, and the west side of this school zone falls outside Davie to begin with. We confirm who bills the water for your address before we put a maintenance routine in writing. If it cannot be confirmed, you hear that instead of a rule that may not apply to your kitchen.
Does my Davie stone countertop need to be sealed?
That is decided by the slab, not by the word on the invoice. Some natural stone takes a sealer and some is dense enough that it does not, while engineered quartz, porcelain and solid surface never do. The way to find out is to leave water on it. If the stone darkens where the water sat and lightens again as it dries, it is absorbing and it wants sealing. If the water just sits there, it does not. Run the test again whenever you want a current answer, because the stone is the only thing that can give you one.
How long is my Davie kitchen without a counter?
One to two days, against two to three weeks for the job in total from the day we template. Those weeks are fabrication, and the counter you have now stays in place and in use through almost all of them. Nothing is torn out until the replacement is cut, polished and on the truck, which is also why we never template and demolish on the same visit.
My address is on the Weston side of the school zone. Do you work there?
Yes, and the number does not change. The west side of this attendance zone falls outside Davie, which is part of why the water question has more than one answer here, but it is inside the area we already cover and we quote it on the same structure with no charge for the drive. The counter is $4,500 to $7,500 for about thirty linear feet either way, and the total is the same two to three weeks.
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Do you know who bills your water?
Most people here do not, and it is the first thing that decides how a porous counter behaves five years in. Send us the address with a photo of what you have now, and we will settle the material question with the water question answered instead of assumed.
Call (786) 780-2728