NhBaskets, while I agree on not turning on the hood until it's fully installed, do check on the venting on not only your range hood but your bath vents too. At the outset, when I asked, I was told that our range hood would vent through the roof. ok. The day the HVAC guys finished the venting we noticed that our range hood venting pipe goes up into an attic space, turns a corner and is vented out into the CLOSED porch roof area. The part between the porch ceiling and the roof above it. This is totally wrong. The builder knows this, and it needs to be corrected before we move in, but there must be some mysterious timeline for correcting stuff like that. Meanwhile I keep checking it. I'm quite concerned that they don't connect our Vent-A-Hood and try to turn it on until the vent is properly installed through the roof. Also, we noticed that the bathroom vents went up into same porch roof space, or just up into attic area, and did not connect to anything, although the vent holes are cut into porch ceiling for those. Now a lot of those are hidden behind drywall. Honestly, I don't understand why they don't do it right the first time. And why they don't correct it right away if it wasn't done right. If they'd corrected it right away the roof flashing would have gone around the vent hole and we would be a lot more confident that we wouldn't eventually have a problem there. As it is now, the roof is finished, and cutting a hole is going to present all the problems it would as if it were a remodel. And we don't have problems with our builder, we love him and for the most part everything is going very very well. I have so much sympathy for you. I just can't imagine how stressful this would be with problems with the builder.

Yikes! Assuming the first two fridges were also GE Profile?- is there anyway you can get a different model? Though it sounds like you may have the odds in your favour- if you have gone through three lemons already! I haven't added the ice maker to my fairly basic fridge, cuz I have an 'irrational' fear of the same thing happening. My fridge backs onto the wall separating kitchen from living room, so I can picture water seeping into hardwood everywhere. Definitely stay on top of GE until you get satisfaction. I have been dealing with Panasonic about an OTR MW that I bought last December- and I am still waiting for the mounting brackets which are on back order- I have a file on which I started writing dates- NAMES- work order #'s and short notes of conversations (long story- missing brackets just the latest...) I am also of the school- catch more flies with honey than vinegar- but remain firm. Good luck!

can you tell me more about what that means, xedos? The new KA slide-in has a little digital panel that isn't visible from the "face" of the range. I have never had anything digital before (learned on a Viking 30" with 4 great burners) so I really prefer the simple stuff. Less stuff to break!

Ouch. A stiff gel/paste mix with a Ph neutral cleaner and poultice + baking soda may help lift, you may also want to cover the paste in saran wrap while it sets for 48 hrs...after which I would be utilizing an extractor to suck out the stain rather than wet liquids to carry it further down into the stone. Knowing that you have a laticrete waterproofing and mesh underneath id leave tearing out the tile as a last resort as it may compromise the waterproofing opening a bigger issue. If you find the stain to be very topical and not so deep set you may also ask youre installer about polishing down the pan with successive diamond grits/poulstice to remove the top most layer -,(******** not for the rookie polisher) - best of luck