They should be able to and willing to fix it, by either grinding in place - messy, but it will depend on by how much. The problem is they should have used adhesive under the granite, so it's not going to come up without a fight or a potential for damaging your counters or slabs. It will have to be done in place, but a good installer can handle it!

Keep us posted and good luck!

This was also the one place we really splurged and hired someone else to do!

yep -- there is enough goop and caulk there that it should be really hard to get up.

and to add to the fun, we have five dogs who will bark non stop the whole time they are using noisy tools.

it is 1/8" of an inch too big in the back and 1/4" in the front, which seems awfully small, but it is enough that Berta didn't fit.

hopefully they can just shave it down.

Take a "tip" from another GW'r (not me) and make sure no granite dust gets on your drawer glides because you won't be able to get it off (it sticks to the lubricant).

The "extra" bit of granite is hanging off of the edge of the cabinet, so hopefully the dust will stay on the outside of the cabinet?

If they don't take off the granite to grind it down (and maybe if it's still really fresh, it shouldn't be too bad... insist that they bring a shop vac with them- one guy should hold the vacuum hose right to the counter to suck up as much as possible while the other grinds. My KG also rigged up a 'tent' with a garbage bag, AND had another guy hold up damp rags to try and catch dust. I still had to vacuum kitchen, DR and LR. Wipe down all cabinets, lighting fixtures, and wash leather couches. (and this was just grinding down the epoxy joints, not really grinding down granite). If you have doorways to other rooms, close them off with plastic sheeting- in fact if you can rig up a plastic curtain from one side of your cabinets to the other even better. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

I spoke with the granite guy first thing this morning and he said that before the start cutting away at it, he wants to have his guys try pushing it closer to the wall in the corner since it is so close.

I don't think it will work, but if it does that would be nice.

Especially because I thought we were past the worst of the messy stuff and I spent an entire day last week cleaning the drywall dust off of everything on the floor to ceiling bookshelves adjacent to the kitchen!

I was terrified that would happen, and drove my poor granite guy nuts following him around with a tape measure and sqaure......good luck!

Thanks! They did a really good job of not making too much of a mess while they were trimming it down. One guy held the vac while the other one cut and then they vacummed, swept and wiped down the kitchen when they were done.

It was a stupid boo boo considering that they had made cardboard templates of everything, but they did an EXCELLENT job of making it right and getting it down fast.

If anyone in the Northern Virginia area is looking for excellent service, Erins Marble and Granite are it!

I am glad it worked out. It is nice to hear of a great ending to a mistake. It seems like a kot of granite companies don't fix their mistakes without a lot of foot dragging.

Yes, these guiys are awesome -- the manager immediately said that he would send them back out, no question about it.

His main concern seemed to be that the crew was out on an install when I called to tell him about the problem and he didn't think they would be done until late afternoon.

Once I told him that I didn't mind waiting a couple of hours, we were fine:)