can granite be warped? Granite install

8 years ago

Had granite installed on new cabinets. It looks like it's sagging, bowing in center. Granite is high on one end & dios in center. When granite was being installed, shims were used on one end & in other end cabinet was raised one inch off floor for the two pieces to match. The granite installer is telling me my cabinets weren't level. The contractor of cabinets said we have a bad piece of granite. The contractor out a 3' level in center & it was not level. Then did a string from corner to opposite corner was 1/4" off. The installer jacked up the cabinet so the 2 pieces would match. I now have a granite counter that in one end is stuck to a cabinet that's now 1" off floor. This is all wrong!!! What do we do? Is granite bad?

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Ellsworth Design Build

8 years ago

Also worrisome is that the cabinet installer only had a three foot level!

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Angel 18432
8 years ago
I'm bumping this up in hopes one of the kitchen posters can help you.
virginia lynn
8 years ago
Use a level and see if the drawers below granite are level. If the cabinets are not level I would "think" they would not be level.
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8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Granite can vary in thickness slightly. Maybe 1/4”. Underneath on the rough side. Not the smooth side. But not 1” out. That is your cabinets out of level. The granite people have to shim to level.

Of course your cabinet contractor is trying to shove it off on to the counter guys. He is wrong. It’s him. Get a pair of dial calipers and you can show him.
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
I'd tape some sticks to the floor and up the front of the cabinets past the tops. Get a laser level (or a water level) and mark level on all the sticks. Measure down from level and see who's lying.

Yes, 3cm granite can sag over time. I reinstalled a top on an insurance job that couldn't be leveled because of the slight sag. Sagging stone at seams is no excuse; Gorilla Grips and other technologies are powerful enough to take dips out of stone until the adhesive grabs. Engineered stone manufacturers have cupping tolerances in their specifications for good reason. It all curls sometimes.

My money's on cabinet installation error on this one.
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JAN MOYER
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Ninety nine to one it's the cabinet installer. That is because the perfectly level floor or wall is indeed rare. Very.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
8 years ago
Cabinet install for sure and sorry but I have never seen granite sag
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Astonia Stone Artisans
8 years ago
This is Caledonia granite- if anything is going to bow that quickly- it isn't going to be Caledonia. This is on the cabinet installation and the granite company was doing their best to work with the surface they had. If they were that out of level, my installers would have left and re-scheduled installation after the cabinets were fixed.
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
8 years ago
Sorry Astonia, but your templater should have caught the out-of-level cabinets, not the installers.
shirlpp
8 years ago
I agree with Joseph Corlett. The templater came to my home and the cabinets were not level. He scheduled another appointment to come back and re-template to give the cabinet installer time to level the cabinets.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
8 years ago
Totally agree.
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Astonia Stone Artisans
8 years ago
Not my job on the post, I was just commenting if we arrived somewhere like that what we would do rather than what was done but yes of course my measure technician would have spotted it first.