[Andy Graves]

I had a “Holy Crap Day” on Friday.

My cell phone rings at about 8:30 in the morning and I see the caller id, it says “Installer”. My stomach always sinks a bit because they know what they are doing so they usually don’t call. So I brace myself for the worst and it usually is nothing.

This time it was something. Something big. Actually something huge. We decided to put the sink in the cooktop spot and the cooktop in the sink spot. I spent the next 5 hours switching the two so we could finish the install that day.

Thankfully the material was Corian Oat and the Glue matched so well that I didn’t see a thing. I know we all do stupid things, but I got to tell you this is a killer in time, material, morale, and schedule.

The lesson learned is check the templates before mounting the sink, finishing the top and driving out to the job.

[Matt Kraft]

I did that once, but thankfully it was caught in the shop.

I was actually talking to the customer making sure we were OK to install as planned, and she quizzed me about seam or seam location. I explained she had a seam to the left of the cooktop. She said that didn’t seem right with how the templater told her we were going to do it. I thought really hard, looked at the shop order in front of me and my stomach dropped. I told her, my mistake, she was correct.

Then we went and fixed it. Long day that day.

[KCWOOD]

We had a very small “L”… and as we were taking it in the house realized the template had been upside down. We do mostly Staron Vanity sinks, ever get so used to doing the same thing over and over, that when the Avonite sink was being placed we tried to put the overflow drain in the front instead of the back where it belongs. Details, just the small details.. The world does look different upside down! LOL

[Shane Barker]

I came so close to doing the same thing this last Monday. If
I had the correct dxf file for this particular Hi Macs sink I was ready to put
it right where the cooktop goes. I dodged a bullet on that one.

Shane

[Eisenwinter]

Last summer, we had a batwing top. Usually the center of the batwing is where the sink goes, so I rolled right on.

Got it to the site and realized the sink went on the left wing….

Got back to the shop and looked at the template, and there it was, a centerline marked “sink”.

Thankgoodness we had ordered a half sheet extra.

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