Steve Henderson writes:

One tip... BEFORE you go to Home Depot and request a quote, find out
who THEIR supplier is, and go directly to them. If you wait until
after the HD quote, they won't be able to help you because of their
partnership with HD... the HD markup adds a lot.

Big understatement.

Good advice all around Steve.

I'd skip HD all together, actually. Just go to a home show in the
area. Ask everyone selling granite "Who does your fabricating? Where
do you get your slabs?" At a home show I went to recently, there were
12 folks selling granite, 2 were fabricators. The other 10 companies
contracted to those 2 fabricators for thier fab work!

Also ask if they do their cuts in a fabrication facility, or on-site.
Go with the folks working at the fab.

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Todd H.
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