We had our kitchen installed in 2005, and when we speced it out, I didn’t know much about granite countertops or their installation. And as it turned out, the company that was hired to install it did a shitty job. So much so that I’ll call them out: Kitchens That Rock (interestingly, their BBB rating is still A+, but their website is nonexistent). They’re in Frederick. Avoid them.

What’s supposed to happen is: the countertop gets delivered, flipped over, channeled out for the sink, and clips are epoxied onto the bottom, which then screw the underside of the sink to the stone. What happened in our kitchen: they dropped the granite on top of the cabinets, tacked the sink to the underside of the stone with drywall screws and scraps of wood, and then it was Miller Time. I thought the scraps of wood were there to hold epoxy in place, until a couple of years later, when the sink had pulled away from the stone and started bowing in the middle and smelling funny, and I realized there was no epoxy. I called, and had a representative of the company come out to look at the job. He dicked around under the sink, farted around with the scraps of wood, told us it was fixed, and left. It was only then that I did some research and realized we’d been screwed twice, but I didn’t want those assclowns coming back into our house. So, shame on me.

Fast forward to yesterday, when a nice man from Milestone came in, looked over the sink, shook his head sadly, and got to work making things right. They drilled channels, installed clips, told us the sink we’d been advised to buy was made from too thin a gauge of steel, and left, for a very reasonable price. Hopefully the sink is fixed for good now, and we won’t have any more problems with leakage, mildew or funny smells under the sink.