I share my wins and my losses here. Time for a doozy:

This blueberry-stained Kohler cast iron sink has got to go.

So here's the new quartz Elkay with my signature perfect reveals. You don't drill the holes for the faucets, you knock 'em out with a ball peen hammer, per Elkay's instructions, as they are pre-drilled underneath.

I told myself, "Joe, you'd better knock the rough edge off that faucet knockout or you might chew through the faucet electronic line when you tighten it down."

"Nonsense." (I foolishly told myself.)

Well, I got the faucet tightened, and found the fiber optic line that controls the hands-free function of this faucet lying on the bottom of the cabinet, just like I told myself would happen:

When you tell an employee to knock the meanness off a knockout, he fails to do so, and it costs you $300.00, it pi$$es you off. When you tell yourself to do it, you ignore yourself, and it costs you $300.00, you're apoplectic.

I called a buddy with more experience in fiber optics and he says I'm screwed, so I told the lady to order a new faucet and I'd take it off her balance. She tried to pay me for the sink, but I refused any payment until I drove the 45 minutes each way and the hour it'd take to install the new faucet. So I added 25% to my labor on this job.

The real winner here is my sister. She just got a $350.00 quartz sink that I had to replace when the chemicals I used to remove the green bloom in the cutout corners bled onto the sink. A new cutout will cover that damage. Now she's getting a $300.00 faucet that may or may not work hands free. If I can ruin a countertop soon, she'll have the nicest kitchen in her trailer park.