HELLO! GRANITE! MONTHLY GRANITE WORKTOPS

Introducing Hello! Granite! - our new monthly subscription service!

Hello! Granite! is the new monthly subscription granite worktops service from Affordable Granite. In a world where choice and change are the new normal, we saw the need to come up with an offering that puts a kaleidoscope of fresh variety into the very heart of your home. Hello! Granite! will keep you and your friends constantly surprised by the beauty of natural stone, and of engineered quartz materials too! And all of that at a very affordable price!

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Once a month our fitters will visit you and swap out your quartz or granite worktops for new ones!

Hello! Granite! - a Huge Gap in the Market!

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In a recent brainstorming session in our marketing department at Affordable Granite, several of us simultaneously came up with the same insight at the same time. We suddenly realised that no one – NO ONE! – was offering granite and quartz worktops on a monthly subscription basis. In a world where everything is brought to your door, from coffee to gin, from flowers to underpants, from shirts to shaving equipment, we were amazed that kitchen worktops were completely under-served.

Some of us at AG actually spend time with other people, and we got the impression that many of our friends were looking for something a bit different in their kitchens. Was this hunch right, though? Did people really want a subscription worktop service?

We were shocked to find that no one was offering subscription granite worktops

Hello! Granite! - Testing the Market

At Affordable Granite, we weren’t happy to just trust to our own instincts. We took our intuition out on the road, talking to real people, people selected on the basis of being open to monthly subscriptions.

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We spoke to Chesney and Stilton. Something was missing in their relationship, but they couldn’t pin it down. Just a few questions and they realised that boredom with having the same worktops, month after month, was the undefinable je ne sais quoi that they couldn’t describe.

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We caught up with Sven during a slack afternoon at the Lido. Swedish-born, but a long-term North London resident, he bemoaned the lack of design flair and variety in the English kitchen scene. We pointed out that in Sweden, Lack is a cheap coffee table, but we took his point.

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James and Michelle are proud to have a hard-working kitchen. They are the kind of couple who like to grin while putting pieces of apple onto strips of raw beef. They volunteered with no prompting that they longed for new kitchen worktops every month.

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Brooklyn and Anna love to travel. Lockdown has been hard, but now they are on the move again. Internet natives, they can work and play anywhere, enjoying different cultures and food as they go. And when they get back to their own kitchen, they don’t want it to be to the “same old, same old”. Another tick for Hello! Granite!

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Janice and Paul have been together for over ten years. They recently found their domestic life revolutionised by a “His and Hers” Underwear subscription. “We are open to anything – especially in the kitchen!” they told our researcher.

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Claude and Mika are already huge fans of their random monthly coffee packages, which Claude uses to dye his beard. They expressed positive interest in a worktop subscription, but had questions about the hit on their budget in these difficult days.

Our market research told us that the demand was there

Hello! Granite! - Getting the Show on the Road

If you have ever been involved in launching a new product, platform or service, you will know that there is a long journey from seeing the need to actually meeting it. We have been busy, getting Hello! Granite! ready for market.

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The big questions, of course, were “Can we do this?” and “How do the financials work?”. Andy used up the back of three whole envelopes on the second of those, and we just took the first one for granted. We knew the demand was there, and were confident that we could rise to the challenge.

The great thing with Hello! Granite! is that it cuts out the templating phase. We can use the same template data month after month! That allows installations to be done more cost-effectively than any granite worktop installations before. We intend to pass on the full benefit of that on to you, the customer! Gone are the days when you would buy granite worktops, expecting them to last for many years. Through the magic of a streamlined, templateless operation and bulk-buying, you can now enjoy fresh quartz and granite worktops, month after month after month!

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In the workshop, reactions have been positive. As Spencer put it, “Replacing all the worktops we fit after only a month seems to guarantee steady work for a long time to come.”

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Ben, workshop manager, with a large tool.

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Members of the fitting team who had questions or concerns about Hello! Granite! were able to do some counselling with Dave.

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Cassie, in the Sales Team, knows that Hello! Granite! is going to be a challenge. As she put it in a meeting: “It’s going to be a challenge.” You can bet your bottom dollar that she is well up to taking that challenge on!

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The entire office team feels that this is a make or break moment. But then “the workshop has those every day!”, quipped Annabel.

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Although Hello! Granite! only goes fully live this Friday, the office team as a whole has already been getting up to speed with the new software we need to handle monthly subscriptions.

We are Affordable Granite – and we are ready to say Hello! Granite!

Hello! Granite! - What do we offer?

In a nutshell, we are offering a subscription surface service. You pay a one-off join up fee, which covers templating costs, and then a monthly subscription which is taylored to the needs of your specific kitchen. For that you get our fitters coming every month, around the day of your choice, delivering  brand new quartz or granite worktops right into your home! And all for a mere fraction* of the normal purchase price!

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Of course, a subscription service wouldn’t be worth much without real freedom of choice:

  • Every month you will be given a choice of three different solid stone worktop materials
  • If you don’t like your worktops and don’t wish to wait a whole month before changing, you can post them back to us at John Lory Farm.
  • If you wish to keep your worktops for an extra month or two, then just tell us at the office and we will put your Direct Debit on hold for as long as you wish.
  • You can cancel freely at any time, without obligation, after the first three months
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*By “a fraction of the normal price”, we mean a fraction like nine tenths or thereabouts.

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Your “set up” fee of £500 covers the templater’s visit and gives you a 20% discount on your first month’s worktops!

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Hello! Granite! is in a sense a stand-alone brand, but it comes with all the expertise, reputation and experience of Affordable Granite – the South East’s best-loved granite worktop supplier!

Hello! Granite! is the real deal when it comes to regular deliveries of granite worktops!

Hello! Granite! - We are not alone!

It’s always great to find that other innovators are thinking along the same lines as yourself. Our friends at Norden Kitchens have been trialling there own subscription service since the beginning of the year. The Kitchen Club is a subscription service with a difference – an entirely new kitchen, every month, at a special low price!

We are proud to have been chosen by Norden Kitchens as the Preferred Quartz Worktops Supplier for The Kitchen Club and we look forward to installing many thousands of granite worktops across Surrey and South East in our partnership with them!

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January… 
One space, three very different looks.

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February…
The owners were amazed by the degree of transformation that The Kitchen Club was able to give them, month by month!

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March…
The Kitchen Club by Norden Kitchens and Hello! Granite! by Affordable Granite are the dream team when it comes to subscription kitchen transformations!

Customers who subscribe today to both Hello! Granite! and The Kitchen Club will be eligible for an additional 5% discount off the total value of their first year’s subscriptions.

The Kitchen Club and Hello! Granite! are the dream team!

Hello! Granite! - Happy Customers

Although we are still only just beginning, it’s great to get positive feedback from satisfied customers from the trial phase…

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Garth (investment advisor, Battersea)

I wish I had been able to subscribe sooner

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Blake (journalist, Blackheath)

I find myself dressing each month to complement my worktops

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Tristan (trainee chef, Islington)

I find myself dressing each month to complement my worktops

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Leroy (electronic musician, Brighton, not pictured)

Sometimes my food looks so great on the worktops I just watch it for a while. Then I put different tomatoes into the hole in the avocado, you know…?

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Bewar and Sadia (fur trappers, Richmond)

You know when you are out and you realise that it is this month’s worktop day? It’s like that for us every month! We just race home. We can’t wait!

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Pixie (school student, Cheam) 

I like the new worktop thing but yeah, mum’s vegan food is still the same

Hello! Granite! - Time to Subscribe!

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Interested in subscribing to a monthly worktop delivery via Hello! Granite!? Or just want to know more? Be sure to fill in our Contact Form before midday on 1st April!

If you are interested in other special projects we have done at this time of year, then you could check out…

The Affordable Granite Volcano

Smart Granite Worktops

AG Drone Deliveries

We are Affordable Granite, the leading granite and quartz worktop supplier in Surrey, East and West Sussex and across the South East. Our main business is granite and quartz, but we also install kitchen and bathroom worktops in quartzite and marble. We want to be the best in the business for customer service and advice to anyone who is doing up their kitchen. Call us for a quotation on 01293 863992 or by email on sales@affordablegranite.co.uk.

© Most images from Pexels. Right click on the image to view the photographer’s name. The “quails eggs” and “artichoke” images are from Caesarstone, and show their materials. The green kitchen image is from Silestone, showing their Blanco Zeus Extreme quartz. Other images © Affordable Granite / Andrew King Photography.

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