This was installed last night . Im pretty sure this is a crack . I’m going back today to talk to company . Any thoughts of Best way to repair ?

We had silicone bleed on newly installed quartzite. Acetone applied and almost all gone. Now we have to apply silicone to where quartzite meets the wall and put tile backsplash in. Can anyone recommend a silicone for perimeters that won’t bleed? Tks so much afraid to add new problem places.

i have been posting on another Houzz thread regarding my White Quartz. Installed 3 months ago. White Denali Quartz from AZ Tile. It gets pewter color little lines from ANYTHING metal (stainless pans) , belt rubbing when u lean , mixing bowls, anything with an alloy as the guy from AZ TILE just told me. This has happened since day one. My fabricator didnt really know what is was. Most coming off with joy/ Palmolive detergent and elbow grease or bar keepers friend. VERY ANNOYING. Some hasn’t come off and Ive been told to use Magic Eraser and scrubbing bubbles without bleach. I will try today. Counter top looks great, but it’s NOT the easy maintenance everyone said it’s suppose to be as I am constantly having to wipe off these little grey lines. Also caused a lot of little lines when my sweater that had some plastic little stud like balls on sleeves was resting on counter. then I had a feathery herringbone effect of little whispy grey lines. . First pict is counter after Scrubbing Bubbles (no bleach) & Magic Eraser 2nd pict is counter after sweater rubbing. 3rd pict is Our Newly Remodeled Kitchen 4th pic is sweater I was wearing that made marks. SO, it took 10 sec using Scrubbing Bubbles (without bleach) and magic erase and damp cloth. Voilla!!! No elbow grease needed. Finally, an answer !! I wonder if this would work on your coffee stains??? swaeter that caused little whispy grey lines when my arm was resting on counter back and forth using ipad

You're an odd duck Joe 😅 But I have to say I do agree with the sentiment of a lack of standards within the industry has soiled it. Many overpromised and underdelivered jobs which is unfortunate... but I'd argue this is due to a large portion of the industry lacking general required skills & knowledge. With wholesalers willing to sell to anyone with a wet saw, many "fabricators" seek a quick buck leaving the client in a lurch. I work in the wholesale business while previously on the front line for a fabricator. I find it interesting that some of my fabricators rarely if ever bring these problems my way, and yet others are putting one fire out after another before saying they won't work with certain materials. This leads me to the conclusion that knowing what you're doing might have something to do with it. However as mentioned this is a wholesaler issue as well as many stones are passed off as something they are not. Calling a dolomite a granite, or a marble a quartzite for example. While quartzites like Taj Mahal or Cristalo are a much stronger, less porous materials, but many of the stones in this thread like Do Brasil, Macubas, Aria, etc.. I have sold over a hundred times easily (annual wholesale sales $8,000,000-$10,000,000 which also includes quartz, granite, marble, dolomite, limestone, onyx, porcelain, etc...). In fact I've recently had customers come back after 4 years because they were building a new home only to put Aria in again because they loved their last counters so much. That said I have seen these issues crop up many times, and in quite a few cases I've had to link up a quality fabricator to rescue a sus fabricators job. I always say "I have 40 clients, but I don't have 40 I'd let into my house". I'm sure the same goes for your business 😉 Now just to respond to a couple of your points "Some of these quartzites have had your recommended procedures followed to the letter and have still failed miserably." - How do you know? You hovering over them? You know the disiccants that you find packaged in products occasionally? Well the same stuff occurs naturally in some of these stones. These stones will suck up moisture, oil, and anything else; you're not sealing your way out of them. It's the nature of the beast; they are unsuitable for use as countertops. - You know everything on earth has a saturation point. Science! But many stones have a higher cement content that binds the quartzite leading to these more porous qualities. However many stones are marketed as "soft quartzites" which is a misnomer, and some stones that are not quartzite at all which is on the entity that sold the material to them. What is more unsuitable is the industry's lack of self-policing. Every time there's an unhappy customer, the natural stone industry suffers. I hate what these irresponsible hacks, importers, trade associations, and fabricators are doing to my industry. - Agreed When I click on your link I get this: "This content isn't available right now. When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted." I'll be happy to debate this with you and your fellow stoners on your Facethingie page. Or bring it over to All Slab Fabricators, unlike the SFA, where everyone is welcome. - I know for someone of your age the internet can be difficult; I don't mind showing you how to do it: https://gprivate.com/69fzy once you're there just ask to join. It's hardly exclusive with 18k+ members, 5K more than your group 😘 I sense a bias Joe, certainly it could be argued that I have one as well, but my goal when selling product is not to be an evangelist for any one product. You on the other hand wrote this: We Corian fabricators were telling consumers over a decade ago about the problems inherent in natural stone. But no, like a wayward daughter in love with the bad boy biker at the bar, you wanted hard and shiny and turned deaf ears to our pleas. We told you Corian never, ever, bled at built up edges. We told you it was virtually stainproof and repairable. No. You were warned repeatedly. Now own up. It's all we can do to hold our "I-told-you-sos" inside. We don't wanna hear it. I provide the pro's and con's for a product and let the customer decide. I always say no news is good news. Unfortunately; as you pointed out many in my business do not approach it with the same tact.