granite crack 1 week after installation

ryder72

DirectDebacle - Have you got anything constructive to say? I think most sensible readers here will understand what 'impact' means.

DirectDebacle

kmdesign wrote: »

DirectDebacle - Have you got anything constructive to say? I think most sensible readers here will understand what 'impact' means.

Read my previous posts on this thread.

Clearly you haven't understood the OP or taken on board the opinion expressed by the fitting company after a site visit.

Your scaremongering tactics, alleging poor project management, is a red herring.

Try to be unbiased with your comments then you won't look such a fool.

CKdesigner

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Read my previous posts on this thread.

Clearly you haven't understood the OP or taken on board the opinion expressed by the fitting company after a site visit.

Your scaremongering tactics, alleging poor project management, is a red herring.

Try to be unbiased with your comments then you won't look such a fool.

I think you are being a bit harsh there DD. Everyone is making assumptions on this post as we haven't got all of the facts from the OP.

If the base units weren't fitted level then the fitters should look at a career change as there is no excuse for this, but the OP has not confirmed this either way. And then their is the granite company, in no way should they have fitted the granite on un-level units, its just wrong.

So if this is all correct then the OP as the project manager is completely stuck, the granite company is blaming the fitters and the fitters will blame the granite company.

In my opinion buying kitchen units from one company, fitting from another and then worktop from a 3rd can only lead to trouble if you as the project manager don't keep on top of things.

CK

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Unless the OP withheld material information from either the people who installed the cabinets or the people who installed the granite then there is a certainty, he is not at fault. Whether both suppliers are at fault is a point of argument and it may be necessary to construct a case against both separately and together. Going after them severally may also allow them to get together and come to a replacement solution. However, they may just as easily put the blame on the OP, at which point you simply have to put both in the small claims.

They both owe a duty of care and the granite suppliers have to provide goods of sound quality.

I might try to stop both sides talking to each other but at the same time try to get both sides to take some of the blame and pay some of the cost.

DirectDebacle

The above sums it up nicely.

The O.P. has done what would be expected of a project manager. He has organised the materials and labour to be on site and in the correct order.

It has been suggested he was wrong not to check the kitchen fitters work. It is not the project managers job to be running spirit levels to check they are within the tolerances of fitting granite any more than he would be required to take core samples for analysis if he had a new concrete floor laid.

It is his job to find resolutions to problems when they arise, which is why he posted here in the first place.

From the apparent 'experts' that have posted it seems doubtful that granite is any way desirable as a worktop. By definition a top you can work on. I haven't seen one granite worktop fitted in any professional kitchen I've seen.

It probably looks ok for a while if it isn't used.

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DirectDebacle wrote: »

From the apparent 'experts' that have posted it seems doubtful that granite is any way desirable as a worktop. By definition a top you can work on. I haven't seen one granite worktop fitted in any professional kitchen I've seen.

It probably looks ok for a while if it isn't used.

I agree 100% with this, it clearly is not a suitable material to use as a worktop.