The Trip to the Granite Yard

 The trip to the granite yard was what I would call semi-productive.

The printer that prints the templates in a plastic-like material

was 'off-line' so we had no templates to lay out.  But ... we did

look at several pieces of granite for the bathroom vanity.

Wilson & I were going back and forth between one of those

pre-formed plastic type of vanities vs. a remnant piece of granite.

What you see above is a remnant piece left over from another job.

It's a Tier 3 in price but in a remnant it's a Tier 1.  This would

have been perfect but it had what they call a 'leather texture finish'

meaning it's rough and not nicely polished like most you see.

 This was our second choice which upon further inspection had

cuts along the edge about 1" in.  Lou our granite guy called

someone from production to determine if our size could work 

and it wouldn't.  Also this size [as is] was cutting it close for what

we needed {they also had to have enough to make the back splash}.  

 It seemed all the good pieces in the size we needed were tagged sold.  

 This is actually the same granite as the remnant pictured

above.  We chose the lower half for the bathroom vanity top

because we liked the 'movement' of colors through the stone.

 Since we didn't have templates to play with we are having

Lou lay them out on the slabs and take pictures which

he will send via e-mail.  Hopefully, this will work out

because there is no way we are crossing the Bay Bridge over

the weekend in the summer which includes Monday.  For those

that don't know the Bay Bridge is the main way of getting to

the beach resort area of Ocean City, Maryland.  Traffic crossing

this bridge is a nightmare in the summer months.

If Wilson goes back to the granite store on Tuesday this will 

push the install date by two weeks ... which throws everything else off

just enough to be annoying.  Keeping fingers crossed the

photo's will work out enough to give approval to start cutting.