Monday morning started in anticipation of the countertop. Lotus Designs is scheduled to bring the countertops between 10 and 11AM. Steve once again feverishly sets the area ready. I get a call at work around 11AM that one of the guys who was supposed to help carry the countertop has pulled his ankle so they are expecting a replacement to arrive. Marnie called me and then Shane, twice during the day, giving me updates that they were still waiting for the replacement guy. Finally, Steve calls me saying that Ken let him know the counter tops would arrive by 5PM. I head home around 4:45 and Steve had to take off for the evening. Finally, around 5:30 the countertop arrives with two guys to carry the stuff into the home.

The counter tops are bloody heavy – the larger piece is about 400 lbs. On average, I’m told this stone weighs 20 lbs/sq.ft. I give them a hand as they navigate the piece through the house.

The counter tops are glued to the top of the cabinets with a polyurethane glue. On the side of the sink, they are also glued on the back to the wall. The undermount sink is glued to the edges of the cabinet and to the underside of the countertop with the same polyurethane glue as well. The sink is then pushed up against the countertop by sticking a piece of wood between the cabinet floor and the underside of the sink. It takes 24 hrs for the glue to “cure”.

On the other side, it turns out that the walls are not exactly square so the left side of the countertop is sticking into the stove area by a 1/4 inch. So there is no room to slide in the stove. They had to quickly pry apart the countertop, shave off a 1/4 inch and then bring it back inside – all while the glue is still working! Now the hole is barely enough to slide in the 380 lb stove.

I’m happy I don’t have to fool around with such heavy objects to earn a living.