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Are my expectations too high? (Granite installation)

10 months ago

First time remodeling a kitchen and I’m not sure what’s normal/acceptable. 3cm viscount white granite was installed on Friday. Please let me know if you think these concerns are valid, or are these issues just within normal limits/to be expected sort of things:
A) sink cutout looks wavy to me and the corners don’t look uniform.
B) I asked for flush/zero reveal. Doesn’t look flush to me.
C) looks like they repaired a chip at one corner. I understand these things happen. But the color match doesn’t look great IMO.
D) another corner is chipped and they didn’t repair it and also there’s a gap between the granite and wall.
E) they didn’t clean off their yellow marker marks at the seams before sealing them.
F) there’s silicone smeared more than an inch up the side of one cabinet.
G) one edge has a rough patch with gobs of hardened glue(?) on it and on the cabinet.

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Sarah
Original Author
10 months ago
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Sarah
Original Author
10 months ago
Yellow seams
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
10 months ago
Your sink installation looks fine.

I'm betting that's not a yellow marker at the seam. It's probably a green bloom which is a chemical reaction between the accelerator used on the super glue to finish the seam and the stone. A dab of oven cleaner will probably remove it.

The repairs are low quality and need to be redone.
Beatrix
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Firstly, the granite itself is beautiful, excellent choice. I probably would not be happy with C + D (the chip repairs.) I agree with you, they did not do a good job with the chips. The sink doesn't look bad to me from the pics. I wonder if the waviness you're seeing is movement in the stone or something? Maybe in person it looks different? That yellow stuff at the seam would be unacceptable to me ... as Joe said it looks like a chemical reaction situation and if it continues to happen after they come back and clean it, they need to make it right. As far as silicone smeared up onto the cabinet, I would try to clean that off myself because I'd be afraid they would screw up my cabinet at this point. Anything I have to get down on my hands and knees to see and crane my neck I wouldn't worry about. Your counters are beautiful, once you get your decor in place and start using your kitchen hopefully these things will be just distant memories.
chispa
10 months ago
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What is the measurement of your front rail?
DeWayne
10 months ago
One reason that the sink should not have either a negative or exact reveal is the curved edge towards the sink.

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