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Our Initial Visit

When we arrive at your home for your free inspection, we will sit down with you and spec out your granite kitchen or bathroom countertop using a fast and efficient software suite called Moraware. With our digital templating process, we will get the exact dimensions of your countertop, appliances, and backsplash areas. Depending on your choices of stone type, surface area, and complexity of the cut, a price will be generated for you immediately.

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Templating Process

In a restoration task where you are just changing the counter top, you can template once the existing counter top has actually been removed.It is best to make the template once the countertops are gotten rid of so Taken for Granite and Marble can get the most accurate template. For a complete kitchen remodelling or a new construct, the templating procedure occurs after the cabinets and devices have been correctly set up to ensure everything is leveled correctly. Taken for Granite and Marble can see this during the templating procedure, one factor a standard design template may be preferred, and change the corner appropriately.

Fabrication

Taken for Granite and Marble can help you with these choices, however all of these decisions are made before the fabrication process itself. Fabrication includes making a last inspection for stone flaws, consisting of acnes, scratches, joints, and fissures. A multi-step procedure involving ever-increasing grit polish is utilized to smooth the stone surface area; finally, your stone is washed, dried, and the sealant base coat is applied.

Installation

We’ll bring every single piece in, one by one, and make sure it’ll fit. We bring a piece in, figure out where it strikes the walls, how many spaces you have, how to seam it together, make sure those seams lay actually, truly smooth when it makes the turn. If everything is all great, we lift the counter top up, we glues it down, we sets it completely.

We’ll take a piece back outdoors if minor modifications require to be made. We’ll notch out where he needs to notch out. We’ll bring it back in and you’ll never know the distinction.

After that, we’re going to set the sink. The sink is usually an under install. Not to state you have to go with one, it’s simply more suggested. You can wipe everything directly into your sink. The under mount– we’re going to put underneath the counter top, cut out grooves on the beyond the granite beneath so we can bolt it into location so it’ll stay there for life. We’ll still put some adhesive and of course, we’ll caulk this gap right here so no water gets in between. Following that, depending upon what faucet you picked and the number of holes you desire, we’re going to drill the faucet holes for you.

After we get all of these pieces magnificently set up like you see right here to as close as excellence as possible, we’re going to clean everything up with acetone. Get all the gunk up and we’re going to put our sealant on.

Make sure you like the work that we did. And then we clean up everything and leave it as clean as we entered your house.

After that, we’re going to set the sink. The under mount– we’re going to put below the countertop, cut out grooves on the outside of the granite beneath so we can bolt it into place so it’ll stay there for life. Following that, depending on what faucet you selected and how many holes you desire, we’re going to drill the faucet holes for you.

After we get all of these pieces wonderfully set up like you see right here to as close as perfection as possible, we’re going to tidy whatever up with acetone.

Get in touch with us for your free estimate!

A new granite or marble countertop is just a phone call away.

Taken for Granite and Marble has years of experience with the sales, fabrication, and installation of kitchen and bathroom countertops. We have a wide variety of colors and styles to make a unique creation for your home.