Vincent11-I have well water which is "hard" water. What I do is at the end of the night I spend a few minutes wiping dry the silgranit sink with a sponge. No residue, spots-very easy and keeps the sink looking great. Another bit of advice from this forum is that some will use mineral oil to bring out the shine-I do that about once a month. Also heard that a squirt of Dawn can keep the sink looking new. I decided against stainless because I didn't want to have to deal with scratches that would happen over time but that's just me. Lots have ss sinks and love them but I prefer my silgranit. Hope this helps!

A nice surprise to see a call out! Appreciate your update on the Silgranite sink, thanks. I checked my settings and the checkbox for allowing other users to send email to me is checked, is there something else that needs to be turned on?

Deborah: Kohler is wrong. They are trying to think ahead to allow room for plumber hands to tighten junk and leaking clips. A 27" sink undermounts into a 27" cabinet if the sink is strapped, not clipped or blocked, in place. Plenty of room under a sink for tightening. Hercules Universal Sink Harness or Sink Straps. You can believe Kohler or you can believe a guy who has done this thousands of times and has pictures to prove it. I put a 33" sink into a 27" cabinet last month.

Hi flaherty -- I bought my silgranit from homeperfect too. My experience with homeperfect was, well, not perfect. But not bad either. This is what I took away from the interaction: They happen to have some *VERY* pushy salesmen, They are not all that pushy. The supervisor was quite nice, though not clearly anymore 'superior' than simply another CS rep - I think they may be all fairly autonomous. I had an order all laid out and then couldn't get it to go on the computer so called the next day. The rep was nice-enough, sort of, but ended up pushing me to a purchase I hadn't intended and as I didn't have my list in front of me I didn't realize. I was not happy. I called back and got a different rep and the experience was *very* different, moreover the second rep seemed to know exactly of which I complained. Eventually I talked with a supervisor and we hammered out an agreement about the problem. I would never deal with the first rep again; I would happily deal with the second and supervisor. I would be quite cautious buying stuff from homeperfect, they're kinda pushy. This is in contrast with some other internet operations; some are just neighborhood stores with telephones, some are huckster-pushers. But a sink is a sink; it comes in a box, it's supposed to be what it's supposed to be. If it isn't when it arrives, you have a right to get one that is. Even from hucksters. But you may have a more irritating experience getting there! That's my experience at least. I didn't see your photos but it sounds like the details of whether you have what you should have are worked out. If it's not as it should be, just keep talking to someone else at homeperfect until you find someone who responds as they should. This isn't really terribly exotic as problems go, it's just your particular CS rep who's exotic! Just go get another one. Long ago in dealing with the phone company especially, I learned that if you draw a rep who is just not getting, answering bizarrely or refusing to grant a simple request, just stop mid-sentence, say "thank you very much", hang up and dial for another one. It's just not worth the aggravation. I think my first dud-rep at homeperfect was "Adam". I'd avoid him like the plague, personally. Hope this isn't slander -- ymmv and I'm sure he's a loving individual. I just found him, personally, a pia to deal with! Good luck. I love my silgranit -- I have the cascade which I thought was kinda cool. But I have to say, if I had it all to do over again, I'd have gotten a bigger bowl. I guess I like biiiiiiig sinks. Maybe a bathtub would have worked? ;)