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Elizabeth
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Comments (3)The screw that was in the fixture seemed too small. It was 1/2 inch. I went to lowes and purchased 3/4 inch screw and a washer. I used tape to hold the screw in place. I used a needle nose drawer to hold the screw while I screwed in the wing nut. I was able to attach the can back into place. I was able to screw in the Led. After all this excitement my Led light did not come on. I am sure if the light is bad or if all the movement caused a wire to become loose. I will try to insert the old light bulb back to see if that works. Thanks for taking the time to respond....See MoreNeed Help re Botched Marble Install
Comments (9)+1 Corlett. You won't like the repair - the epoxy won't look much different. They either replace it or give you a big discount I guess? Oh - and my marble jambs (shower) have tons of scratches - near ever end that the tile/stone guy cut on his saw.... And he keeps telling me they are just natural to the stone... Yeah, funny how none of them were there before he installed the jambs (they were in my dining room for a week, and I'm the marble police in the kitchen so I would have noticed), and the scratches all happen to be near every cut end. People just don't have pride in their work any longer....See MoreNeep Help ... New Granite Install in Kitchen Has Mismatched Edges
Comments (9)A bit of Tenax Agar on the lighter spot might help to blend it better. But, you have an exceedingly complex installation that will be 100% guaranteed to have a mismatch for something somwhere. You simply cannot do a stacked edge with a curve in a busy stone and not have something not line up. It's physically impossible. Overall, it looks great, and I really had to hunt for that spot. Try a bit of the Agar and see what it does. And celebrate the fact that they did such an outstanding job in that there are not more areas that aren't quite matches. It could have been truly awful. Instead, it's pretty spectacular....See MoreGranite is being installed being installed right now...Problems..help!
Comments (14)Cracks can occur at fissures. And fissures can exist on their own, without cracking. That’s a normal part of stone. Repair of any of that, crack or fissure, is never an issue, unless they lack blending skills. But looking at your pictures a second time, the cooktop cutout has a sharp 90 inside corner. That is prohibited in all stone manufacturing. All inside corners should be radiused, to avoid stressing the stone. That sharp 90 is what caused that to crack. Reinforcement of epoxy will just shift the stress elsewhere. That will crack again, just in a slightly different adjacent spot. They should redo that. https://www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/default/assets/File/consumers/homeownersconsumer_countertop.pdf...See Morerantontoo
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