Help! Is this waterfall seam trash?

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

Just had a quartz countertop installed on a penensula with a waterfall and a pittered drop edge on one side, the waterfall seam is widder on one sode than the orher. First two pictures are of the left corner of waterfall ( not bad) and 4th is right corner of the waterfall ( visably wider and has a 45 degree angle on the corner) and the 3rd is of

cracks in the seam of the mitered drop edge. please let me know what you think!

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S W
Original Author

4 years ago

Verbo,
I said the GC chose the fabricator. I think the “you get what you pay for” argument is total BS and lazy. It’s not like they say, “this is a cheap price so don’t expect it to be good”. There are a lot of people on this sight paying top dollar for bad seams so I guess you don’t get what you pay for. I guess for any price I can expect strait cuts in the quartz? I paid $250 for a 60’ granite vanity and the cuts were perfect, by your logic that guy should have sent me a trapezoid instead of a rectangle.

The GC selected the fabricator and the cost was part of the total cost of the Reno. He said he had a relationship with the fab guy and that they do good work. The GC had a good rep and was not the cheapest quote we got. Sorry if you don’t like what we went with. I am sure with your superior taste you would have made a much better selection. People are here looking for help, so take your condescending arrogant tone over to Reddit.

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User
4 years ago
Pull back and show pictures from a standard distsnce of stsnding 36” back. What quartz brand is this? How much square footage was your project? What price did you pay? How did you come to choose this fabricator?
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
4 years ago
Your seams aren't horrible, but need to be consistently re-profiled and polished. That may eliminate the adhesive voids, not cracks, that you're seeing in your 3rd picture.
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S W
Original Author
4 years ago
Hello Verbo,
Please see the attached photo from 36”. Our GC put the tape on the countertop because he suggested they grind the edge and make both sides evenly bad. I told him that was not an acceptable solution. Here is a link to the quartz

https://www.veneziastoneusa.com/catalog/quartz/calacatta-tuscany-quartz

The first pic is the whole counter, the second the left side which is ok? And the third and 4th are of the right side that is much wider and has a part that angels from the top at a 45 degree angle before the waterfall. Any advice you have I would appreciate. The GC selected the fabricator
S W
Original Author
4 years ago
Verbo, I am also attaching a picture of the top counter before they added the waterfall showing the double cut they made. They stated the cut from one side then finished from the other side (?) leaving a recessed section on the right side that made the seam wider on the right side..
millworkman
4 years ago
They cut this on site, not fabricated in a shop?
S W
Original Author
4 years ago
Hello millworkman, the counter arrived at the home precut and the 4” drop edge assembled. You are probably right to suspect it was not cut with a bridge saw.
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Joseph Corlett, LLC
4 years ago
"I think the “you get what you pay for” argument is total BS and lazy."

You are correct.

Please explain your last picture. I'm not getting it.
S W
Original Author
4 years ago
Hello Joseph, thank you for your question. The last picture is of the top of the counter before the waterfall was installed. The top of the picture shows the left side of the edge that is ok and the bottom of the slab is the right side that has the larger gap. If you look starting at the edge at the top of the pictures and run your eyes down the edge you will see that a little more than half way down the edge you can see that the cut is discontinuous and the edge noticeably recedes and the texture of the edge is more smooth. I don't have a picture of this, but a picture of the mitered edge would show that the slab was cut from the left (top of the picture here) to about 4/5 of the way across the slab then a second cut was made from the right (bottom on the picture) to meet the first cut. The problem is that the cuts did not line up. To me, this probably means that when they joined the waterfall to the top, the gap on the right was larger due to the unevenness of the cut.
spammie
4 years ago
I’m not a professional, but I’d be unhappy with the seaming.