/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2713024
Story time regarding expensive stone
>be me
>get a call for a rush repair for a VIP client
>Rare quartzite slabs, book matched, wall to wall. Each slab was in the 25k territory, the installer called each one a "toyoya camry". totalling about 300k in material for this ONE bathroom.
>installer cracked one slab by the window, 1mm height variance, already installed on the wall.
>can see the crack badly because the window
>homeowner wants it pulled, told the installer he'd pay the original price just can't live with it and doesnt want to wait to find a replacement
>quartzite... harder than granite, shatters when ground etc.
>took me 2-3 days to drop the height and I had to feather it about 3-4 feet to hide the depression from the grind. Polishing material that hard was a nightmare. Note that this was a wall so no gravity, had to channel all my water to a bucket as I worked and push on the wall as hard as I could while running a grinder and not digging into it (shatters the stone substrate).
>tfw it passes

I have many many stories