Hi! I'm doing soy candles for the first time and tryed CB-135 with US ECSENTIA chocolate fudge FO (10%) The contaminar have 3" of diameter,. The candle looked lovely: smoth surface and very fragrant. 24h after, I Light the candles ( I make 3 diferent wicks: eco wick 4 ; eco wick 6 (following wick Guide) and small woodwick from 4CANDLES. Wick 6 did made a nice melt pool and the wick 4 also get the edges but not so quickly. The woodwick make the candle tunneling. The scent was perfect and I was confident. After reach a Good melt pool I let the candle burn for about 3 hours. When wax resolidify, There was an awful brown strip on the three candles on the place of the melting pools. Next day lighted the candles again: very poor scent, the melting pool get much more time to achieve but did with wick ECO 6 and ECO 4 and did not with woodwick. The colour of the surfaces get much more dark even. I try the same wax with diferent scents this time: 2 from 4candles and 1 from scent perfique. now I have to Wait 48h and then light then to see what happen. If someone did already face this problem, please help me.

Greendesigns, you had me with - "Of course, then there are the issues you find out during demolition and the mistakes that you the homeowner and your trades will make. The only surety that you can have for a remodel is that it will cost more and take longer than you think it will." ...but you lost me at the $500 over budget part. That would be truly funny if it were not painfully way too low. Try thousands upon thousands over budget. Of course, our reno involved more than a kitchen, but the overages were for many reasons. One of which was our gc trying to a la carte us to death. We had our master bedroom extended and yet he felt the need to charge extra, after contract, to re-set up the cable in the same bedroom. I can go one with many more examples, but that one illustrates well. Another reason is just about everyone who touched our job did something major wrong. The cabs were delivered shy 13 cabinets (big delay). Someone threw out the below the counter parts to our faucet. The architect drew our plans without going all the way into the stand up attic and assumed a whole section of the house had beams running in one direction when they went another way. The mistake was not figured out until our roof was ripped off, in Dec., no less. That lost us another month (and a lot of money). The sink leaked, the dw leaked, the icemaker leaked, the electricians screwed up the bathroom vent fan. They messed up the thermostat and heating (took weeks to sort out and still is not right). They installed the eyebrow window wrong and it took weeks of arguing and troubleshooting to try to rectify what was done. The cab installers made the island the wrong height and then damaged a cover panel. The counter guy mismeasured the island counters and had to remake them (6 month delay!). The gc's guys installed the vent for the kitchen in the wrong place, then at the wrong height, twice, and now it only functions as a light and I can bang my head on it if I am not careful. The house had rot in the sills which was discovered when the back of it was torn off. Our doors were delivered in the wrong sizes and one was warped. The flooring company sold me the wrong products so they ended up failing after installation and will be redone soon. Our propane line was installed to the wrong location so we got rejected on our c.o.s and can't hook up our stove yet (10 months and counting). To put it mildly, nothing went well the first try. If all had been done properly and professionally, it could have been done much sooner and with less stress and closer to budget. It seems like the good gcs are less prevalent based on speaking to others who renovate locally and gw these days.... In theory, a gc should make a project go smoother and faster.

As usual, there is a lot of blaming the consumer on this forum by the pros who habitually post….Despite the pros’ superior knowledge vis-à-vis consumers and despite many consumers’ attempted diligence around being thoughtful and careful. What I especially dislike is the sense that you’re not entitled to the beautiful results you see on Houzz forums if you haven’t spent huge sums with architects, designers, colorists, and other high-end consultants. To be sure, these professionals can be worth their weight in gold, but the ‘let them eat cake’ attitude for the rest of the unwashed plebeians is cold and harsh. Where’s the empathy, folks? That being said, and despite Samtrz’s diligent efforts, I do think she made three unforced errors here. First, how many times does a fabricator have to warn that a job won’t be perfect before you internalize that you will not get what you ordered? He didn’t just say that all natural stone is imperfect; he told you that your specific design would not be perfect. Samtrz was on inquiry notice to unpack that statement. Second, the fabricator indicated he had no previous experience with the requested bookended installation (and by the way, its still not clear if the slabs actually were bookended; the parties made opposing statements on that score, though I take the point that had they followed the consumer’s instructions, Samtrz would have been happy). Third, Samtrz wasn’t at home for the install, which frankly I just can’t fathom for something so expensive and important to them. None of this is to say you don’t have any potential legal recourse, Samtrz, and surely the moral blame is on the countertop fabricator/installer. But surely there is some blame here to go all the way around. It ain’t one-sided, folks.

New slab installed!!!! And…. The fabricator cut the wrong part 🤦🏻‍♀️ But, otherwise, the manufacturer handled the original issue! So that was great. A few words of wisdom - if you are planning on getting Metropolis Dark or Metropolis Grey - check for the lines!!!! I have now seen it in 4 out of the 5 slabs I’ve viewed. In our new slab it was just down at the very bottom, so easy to cut around, but most that I’ve seen are more center. Apparently, it’s part of “how that stone is made”…. Also, despite it being quartz, it HAS to be sealed. We lived with that defective piece for 4 weeks and no sealant…it was a mess! You can not drip anything (including water) on it! One morning I was scrubbing out cat prints because my cat had tracked water from the sink. It was super cute, but not the look I was going for. :) Also, make sure that you, personally, tell the fabricator if you want a specific area of the stone. In spite of our fabricator seeing first hand what the defect was, he still did not catch it on the new slab… and although I had, none of the people working in my renovation passed the information to him… Ok, those are my lessons for the day! Also - Tenax Proseal seemed to be the least color altering sealant for this slab… but I did a lot of testing on the bad one to double check. Happy kitchen renos, everyone!