On June 2 2016 Canuck Designs an authorized company for Vicostone installed three slabs of Quartz tops Vicostone BQ100 on top of my existing cabinets of 24 years with a 15 year Vicostone warranty. On December 19 2020. I noticed a hair line crack that started in the middle of the countertop. I contacted Vicostone Calgary and told them the problem. They told me they would send a representative to look at the Hairline Crack. On January 13 2021. The company rep showed up. After serval days the company said, nothing would be done since my cabinets shifted and caused the problem. He also said my Installer should have told me to reinforce the cabinets. On a closer look, the crack happen above the lazy Suzie. That area has a solid top and attached with a support pole in the middle. It is the most’d supported area of the entire cabinets. I went one step further and talked to another authorized dealer for Vicostone. It looks like an issue with the stone itself says the authorized dealer. I also had a conversation with another authorized Dealer for Vicostone (They said, if there was a shift in the cabinets, the crack would start on the weakest point, in my case the ninety degree corner edge or the outside wall edge. I told them that the crack started in the middle of the slab and over a period of a month, it worked its way to the inside corner. (I have pictures before it moved to the corner) I was told more than once, if the weakest point was the middle of the slab, then it is an issue with the stone itself) I had a meeting with the company owner. As I tried to present the evidence. He ask me for my bill of sale from him. I said I handed the proof of purchase from Canack Designs to your rep. I don’t have a bill of sale from him since I bought from Canuck Designs, Canuck Designs bought from Vicostone.Canuck designs do not exist since the owner retired. I have pictures with a level, Cabinets have not shifted and perfectly level. Vicostone will not honor any warranty (Buyer Beware)

I cannot comment on the other products, but I have Vicostone Misterio in both of my remodeled bathrooms. It’s just my husband and I using them—very lightly. We “baby” these new bathrooms. Despite my diligence of wiping every tiny speck of water or anything else, my light Vicostone counters etch. Drives me nuts. I would have been happier with marble and accepting it as a fact of the natural material. I thought (most) Quartz was at least resistant to water spots/etching. Not this stuff. I cannot imagine what it would look like if my kids were still living at home and heavily using the counters and not wiping up after themselves. We have city water, and it’s considered relatively soft.

Got pepper seedlings pricked and repotted. Just pepperonchini, I need to do a round of canning this year. A dozen pots, hopefully I'll be busy later this summer. Lots of flower seed started, some herb seed. Daffs are up and yellow all over the place. Haven't opened any of the caps in over a week. Been busy at work and then we got some of that cold snowy crappy. Only a scant inch. It's supposed to warm up more this week so I'll start peeking then. Rain is coming in and I need to open the garden caps to make sure everything is good and wet out there. I need to do some cleaning out on the porch. Wormwood cuttings I took too late last year and didn't really take need to be sorted out from the lots that are doing well. Why can't they do that neatly so I don't have to sort the pots out, lol. Some of my flower seedlings are getting big enough that I need to start their sheltered hardening off with the cooler temps and night hours out in the porch. So cleaning I must do. Been sorting out the gardening supply stock. I've got plenty of dried toothache blossoms on hand and some hot peppers to use up... so once it's sunny I'll put out some jars of tea for spraying the new tree planting out back. The combo of hot from the peppers and numbing from the toothache plant can be disturbing to critters that want to nibble. Running low on sugar ferments so I'll have to make more this year.

I've come to the conclusion that if I fill up my life with misery, the stories consumed through novels, then..... THAT IS MY LIFE. faftris...I'm so sorry for your losses. I understand that good writing and making the reader feel emotions for the characters misery is NOT the course I would wish to set my life on either. I also do not care to hear about drug addiction, murder, racism... or a multitude of other attrocities.