From: Hammarberg, Eric
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:39 AM

> From: Sharpshooter
> Sent: Thu Mar 18 08:30:56 2010
> 
>> gut renovating kitchen hereon.  We expected stone flooring 
>> (we chose Jerusalem stone and will always think of Ralph) to 
>> go wall-to-wall.   Esteemed Contractor now says, no, stone 
>> will come right up to but not under the counters.  He says 
>> this is standard practice, 

> Sounds farkatke to me
> I agree with you, go under the cabs 

I'd go one step further. You are the owner. This is a custom kitchen. Custom means you get what you want the way you want it. You want stone wall-to-wall? You footing the bill? No problem! I'll get right on it mr sir.

You might want to be a real pain-in-the-butt client and demand that any cabinet anchors be set into the mortar joints, and plumbing penetrations be thoughtfully positioned through the stone units so that down the line if the layout does change, erasing the evidence of the former layout will be a little less challenging. Might want to buy a little extra stone and put it out on the porch as coasters under the plants so that if you have to patch plumbing penetrations you'll have some matching stone to do so.

Or you could just hide the extra stone in the toe-kick base of the cabinets to weight them down a bit more to resist the next exciting earthquake's ten-foot shift.

Mr. Not An Earthquake Engineering Expert
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