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Do you blame your body shop man when a shopping cart dents your car? Of course not. Your fabricator is not to blame here.

You've got a nice break. Stop touching and contaminating it please. With some tinted methacrylate, the repair will look very natural and be stronger that the stone.

I feel your pain.

maybe a different company or granite manufacturer could repair it for cheaper ?

(not a pro) Please pay attention to what flopsycat said about support for the overhang. Your stone is beautiful and once repaired, you'll want to make sure it doesn't happen again elsewhere on your overhang.

Truth is about these stones, they always use fillers in cracks etc, but it’s not noticeable, just like when joining countertops together. Professionals can blend in the colour when joining, so it will not be noticeable.

in the meantime best to assess if proper support was installed.

Hello everyone and thank you for the feedback. For the main question I am getting, it is properly supported. The granite is a 3 cm thick slab and we had metal support beams placed every 18 inches along the entire length of the overhang. My custom cabinet maker and granite fabricator worked together to fit and install the correct number of beams. This is my first kitchen remodel and I personally haven't heard of granite cracking into pieces post install. As far as I can tell from the comments here this is an issue that can occur and if properly treated will look just fine afterwards. I think my initial response came from sticker shocker as I didn't think I would be charged so much for the repair.

How long is the overhang?

is their plywood under the granite?

it does seem odd for it to snap off Like that sińce granite is a very strong stone. maybe your elbows are made of steel?

how much expense is it really for the manufacturer to Repair this?

$500 yikes

Wait. When a grocery cart slams into my car, I expect it to leave a dent. If I put my elbow on the countertop, I don’t expect a piece to fall off. In no way an assignment of blame, but there’s a little difference here.

Can you post a photo from further back that shows the overhang? I had 2 unsupported overhangs and got rid of them when I remodeled my kitchen. I could never stop the men/boys in my house from placing very heavy objects on the overhang and I got tired of being the granite police!

I would be very upset! I just had new granite installed with metal supports...if a corner fell off after I leaned on it, no way would I accept to pay for $500 fix for it!

I'm more interested in what is going on on your floor. Is that ceramic tile going in over particle board with some leftover backing of sheet vinyl still there? Oh mercy, if that is the case, that is not going to end well...

Your repair can look as good as this one. Maybe better since yours is much less contaminated and worn. I'd tint a dark and a light methacrylate for your repair. Your Delicatus is a very chippy breaky stone.

From the pictures, I don't believe this break is related to the overhang support.

$500.00 is my minimum charge, even if you live next door and I don't even have to start my truck. You want to be worried about being charged too little, not too much.

Fix it now please. Sooner is best.

Joseph- That looks great. You indicated that Delicatus is “very chippy breaky.” What is the best source for learning about qualities of stone before purchasing?

"What is the best source for learning about qualities of stone before purchasing?"

Karin_MT hangs around here. She's a geologist.

A drop-in solves the problem. Yeah, the sink is off center a tad, but so was the original. I've got to play the hand I'm dealt. Cutout was too big to move it over.

Rachael:

This is a version of the stone you have. If you've got an undermount sink without a faucet deck, you'd better keep everything wiped up religiously.

How does SYDNEY QUARTZITE perform As a countertop, with an undermount sink?

is it “chippy breaky? ( I’m using this phrase by :flopsycat1 ).

i would LOVE to use this with my lower grey, upper white Cabinets (floors look like calacatta).

https://blackstonesd.com/product/sydney-quartzite/

Actually, “chippy breaky” is a term posted by @Joseph Corlett, LLC.

Oh, sorry. thank you. ;)

Me AGirl:

Your link says the stone they're calling a quartzite in title is in fact a granite. Stoners. You can't believe anything they say or write.

To answer your question, I don't know how one could duplicate long-term water exposure damage on a particular stone. Maybe find its porosity?

I 'd switch stones were I you. Not for performance reasons, but because your floors and proposed countertops are going to have a constant Sophia Loren/Jayne Mansfield battle with each other:

Love the comparison ;) and love them both! (The stone and the ladies).

I trust your expertise, am open to suggestions of countertop, and backsplash.

also, what is the pro con in your opinion of using a granite or quartzite as a countertop(for undermount sink)?

i will also have a countertop on an island/peninsula.(it’s against a wall opening). Should I use the same stone throughout?

Me AGirl best to start your own thread. Hard to follow what’s going on here.

to Joe Corlett, we aren't talking long term damage or homeowner abuse here. The counter tops were installed 2 WEEKS ago, not 2 years ago. Leaning your elbow on a counter top is normal in a kitchen, it's not as if she slammed it with a hammer. Granite that breaks after a normal person leaning on it is defective, and the installer should replace or repair it free of charge. The homeowner is lucky it just hit the floor, and not her foot or a child. The installer should be happy there's no lawsuit here.

I am by no means an expert but this looks like Delicatus which is what I have in my kitchen. I can tell you it has not been babied, and I do have an overhang. I regularly find my friends and family leaning heavily on the overhang and in several years I don’t have a chip, a stain or a crack anywhere in the whole kitchen. I can see several spots where I believe there was filler and repairs prior to install, possibly done prior to it even reaching my fabricator. I think that’s normal. But that’s it. So I would be really upset if this was me. Having said that, my installer did SUCH a good job on the seams that they’re hard to see even though I know where they are. So I’m sure this can be repaired to the point that it’s barely noticeable.

So you’re saying the metal support is 18” in from this edge?

I don't see any support under the portion that broke off. I would assume that's the issue here.

I agree there is no support there so I would need to see a picture from under the overhang to see what the support is . Also info as to size of overhang there are issues we are not seeing.

You all may be correct on the lack of support, but to have a new granite top break like that seems that there was a serious weakness in the stone. Fissures do not usually cause breakage, damaged stone cracks. In either case, the GC, stone supplier, and installer bear the responsibility, not the homeowner.