Sorry, but I don't care for it at all. I could not live with that....it looks scrunched up. I'd either get a different set...one made for a close mount (and make the granite people pay for it) or I'd get new granite. Personally, I'd get new granite. I like the look of the wide mount faucets and would be very disapointed with having to settle for something else due to someone else's mistake. Believe it or not, they made a mistake on my granite. I had already purchased a pretty surface-mount bowl. When the brought my granite in though, they had a hole cut for an undermount. They could have taken it back to the shop and re-cut the hole (and delayed the install) but they had an undermount on the truck that they offered me for free which matched the hole they already had. It was a "happy accident" though...I love this undermount bowl! Some errors I can live with....some I cannot.

So they fixed the doors and to be honest, I can not see where the hole was repaired. And at first I thought, well I guess we'll just live with them and try to get some sort of written guarantee from the contractor. The contractor said it was done by a kitchen cabinet person, not just any sort of paint job. However, I looked at it again before leaving the house at night and this might be my imagination or the lighting, but it almost seems like the doors are a third of a shade darker than the cabinet frame. And then on one of the doors, higher than where the hole was it almost seems like a 2 inch swirl of a hair got stuck in the paint. However, it is not as thick as a hair (and I know I'm splitting hairs) pardon the pun and nothing is really stuck but its something that doesn't rub off. Who knows if it came like that. Another thing happened. I had my hood delivered on Friday and the head guy ask the workers to check it before I accepted delivery. I think the same guy who drilled the wrong hole checked it but then on Monday, he told me the hood was bent in the corner. I said if you checked it why didn't you see it? He said because they didn't take it out of the box when they checked and that part was way at the bottom. There was also a little bit of a scuff on that corner of the box on the outside. And I sort of understand how the delivery truck isn't going to wait 20 min+ for them to take the whole thing out and unwrap it (it was big and bulky). But now I'm not even sure what the hood distributor is going to do. I've been giving them info via email like serial # and a photo and they want some more detail on the damage. I've asked the contractor to ask that worker to pay more attention to detail. We already had the discussion of why the shipment wasn't refused. Also, I will now be exchanging the blower and incurring a 25% restocking fee and delivery charges or driving it an hour+ away. It's good and bad. Good that they figured out a place for the external vent that we hadn't thought of but bad that they didn't do it before we bought the inline blower. Overall, it will probably cost me less doing it externally than keeping the inline and installing it. So the question is where do I pick and choose my battles? And I certainly want to maintain good will. This whole project is very tricky and overall, I think they've done a very good job and the kitchen looks great. I would manage the future master bath project a little more closely, now that I know I need to understand how they are doing certain things. Are they going to think I am crazy if I mention that the color of the entire doors might be less than a shade different? The KD is supposed to give me a cost for the doors and she said she would do it at cost. She said if the doors have to be replaced after a year it would be much more costly because they would require a "color match" process On reading the manuals, I mentioned my concern about the Fisher Paykel to the plumber and about hand tightening the Rohls w/ disposer. He said he just hooks up but he doesn't read the manuals and he will just do it the way he's done it since he hadn't had a problem. Well at least he was honest! I asked how many of the farm sink/disposers he had installed and he said 6-7 this year so I didn't argue with him. :) It's probably true most people don't have a problem and they only post when there is a problem. At any rate, thanks for your help and for letting me vent This post was edited by CT_Newbie on Tue, Nov 5, 13 at 22:49

Not sure why this was bumped...but indeed, I've been surprised by how quickly potassium nitrate (typical 'stump out') or ammonium nitrate (still available online in small quantities) will accelerate the decay of large pieces of wood. I had some huge 3' X 10' logs from a tree that fell about 3 years before, that I had pushed back into a wooded area with my FEL. They just weren't breaking down very fast. I didn't even drill into them, I just carefully sprinkled prills of KNO3 into the nooks and crannies where the bark was splitting. (edit: I now remember I did put just a few drill holes in places there were only big flat surfaces...but not many.) A year later those nooks and crannies took on a porous, cardboard like appearance, with big chunks of the wood sloughing off. Mushrooms are also growing all over them. If I do another round this year, I think they will be on schedule to have totally vanished by 2-3 years time.

What about having a custom filler plate machined out of stainless that would cover the old hole plus go under the new one. Kinda of like the plates that come with faucets that hide the multi-hole configuration if you decide to only do a single. You could creative with it to make it look intentional.