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Re: Kitchen Counters (Home Update) - PROBLEM #1

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 23 Mar 22 11:37 PM | 49 view(s)
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Re: “Countertop installation went really well.”Actually, it did not. But I'm a construction novice and I didn't catch the problems. I signed off thinking that the work was done and it all looked nice. That was dumb of me. When my builder got out of the hospital, he saw what had been done and called to say "It's all wrong!" That made me feel a bit sick.

I'm going to describe the first of the two major problems in this post. I'll describe the second one later. There were also several minor problems. But the big ones were doozies.

The two photos below show the largest slab. You might notice a peculiar notch carved from the bottom in photo #1. The purpose of the notch is to allow the back yard door, which you can barely see in the first photo, to open further. It matters since the door is the largest the house has. There's no sliding glass door. When something large has to come in, that's the door that will probably be used.

But the notch was cut a full five inches too small. The door doesn't fit into it at all.

The company sent different installers today to assess the problem. They agreed that the notch isn't big enough for the door.

My builder also pointed out that the far end of this slab extends slightly further than it should into the stove gap and makes the hole for the 30" stove VERY tight despite the fact that the near end of the slab actually juts out a little from the wall. In other words, the slab width is mis-cut by 3/8 of an inch. The assessors measured and agreed.

The assessors scraped, pried and cut through the silicon that held the slab and its backsplash panel and took the slab with them. The slab isn't ruined. They can fix it. Aside from time and labor, it probably won't cost the company too much.




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Re: Kitchen Counters (Home Update)
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 15 Mar 22 1:22 AM 		Msg. 30401 of 58662

Countertop installation went really well. The installers showed up when they were supposed to, and there were no hiccups. It took less than two hours - which I find impressive. Here's the install in a nutshell (scroll down):

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