Too many guys in the stone business don’t deserve the title of “Installer”. More appropriate would be “Plop and Runner” ‘cause that’s what they do. Plop the tops down and run out the door. Fortunately, adhering stainless steel sinks with polyester and wood shims, leaving appliance ends unfinished, not leaving enough appliance clearance and failing seams make work for me:
Big gobs of polyester supposedly hold the seam together. Right.
This is the completed seam. It’s a good color match but a proper repair would have required pulling the eight-foot long peninsula with sink, utilizing a Seam Phantom, reinstalling the top and reseaming. I was at three-quarters of a day as it was; they didn’t have the budget for that. The seam got gradually wider as it came from the wall. The plop-‘n-runners narrowed it as much as possible, but they quit when the farthest end of the peninsula was hanging ¾” more over the eight-foot run of cabinets than in the corner.
This is a photograph of a restaurant tabletop in Geneva, IL. It’s painted MDF, or should I say it’s flaking painted MDF. As the table gets wiped, the moisture swells the MDF and the paint pops off. Disgusting. As we traveled up route 59, from Joliet to West Chicago last weekend, we passed at least three granite shops. You guys have got some work to do.
Joe