Given buehl's experience(s) with Expo's KD is it really any wonder they'd (continue to) be so off the mark with other kitchen-related products? What a disservice they're doing to consumers who don't have access to real soapstone information!

Andersen is a pretty big company with quite a few smart engineers. If the product is that good, why not issue a lifetime warranty on the frame. I have seen quite a few examples of premature material failures in the case of the fibrex material but those are just my observations and should be taken in context of the small sample study. I strongly disagree with the idea that fiberglass (Marvin or otherwise) will only last just as long as fibrex. The resins in fiberglass are much more UV stable than the vinyl used in fibrex and there are thousands of examples of 30 year old boats that are doing quite well in far more inhospitable conditions than a home's window placement. Fibrex is 70% vinyl by material make-up, if that is okay, you can probably go to a 100% vinyl window and be just as good off for much cheaper.

I would advise you avoid doing business with AZ tile and Dean Jessup specifically. We had a horrible experience with them. Don't expect them to act with integrity or stand behind their product. We used a fabricator that was a personal referral from him. When we had discoloration and fingerprints that wouldn't come off of our Della Terra quartz he informed me I must have "scarred" it by cleaning with a paper towel. ( I called him within an hour of the fabricator leaving). We paid beyond stone to buff it with a cleaner at their recommendation. It mostly resolved the issue although as a result of the buffing the gloss and sheen no longer match our perimeter counters. Best we can figure out the fabricator applied turtle wax or something similar to disguise striations around the sink cutout. Which is why fingerprints couldn't be cleaned off. We still have some smudges. Bottom line rather than try to help us resolve the issue he was hostile and accusatory. He said the fabricator (a friend of his apparently) said it was fine so we must have done something. Do business with them at your own risk.

I have a Cub Cadet BC5090 string trimmer. It is a four cycle gas mower that I have had for seven seasons. I do normal maintenance on the trimmer. It is a four cycle so there is no gas/oil mixtures or oil in the gas to plug up the carburetor. I do not use stabilizers, or any preservative in the gas. Yet when ever I pick it up and after priming with the primer bulb, one or two pulls at half choke will start the engine and then move the choke to full open when it is running. This is the same whether it was last week when I used the trimmer or 5 month earlier in the fall. I have a 3/4 of an acre but have a ditch with about 120 feet of rock for erosion control that has to be trimmed. With the rocks, around the trees, trim out the stepping stones, edge the drive, trim around the flower beds, and the house takes me about 45 minutes.