Well, things started out great. Found a beautiful stone, was told that it wouldn't etch, stain, or chip. Had it fabricated and installed through our contractor.
Within a year's time, we had two incidents of etching, a chip and multiple "impact" spots (which means it's also not as durable as they told us since we never intentionally hit it with anything). I reached out to Hilltop to try and get some answers and initially they were very helpful. However, they informed me that they "mislabeled" this product and it should have been labeled as something else.
I was offered 2 new slabs, but I would have to pay the fabrication costs - plus my entire kitchen was already designed around these stones. This didn't feel like a great option to us, and their alternative (at that time) was a one-time "repair" of the stone worth about $250. We felt there was somewhere we could meet in the middle since we now had an installed stone that would require yearly (at least) upkeep, which is not what I was sold, or signed up for. We decided to go in and meet with the owner to work it out directly.
The owner blamed any issues on the fabricator, and took zero responsibility for any of the previous "mislabeling" comments. He called me a liar and said we were just there trying to get some money out of him. We were simply there to see if there was a solution we could find in the middle of $7-10K in additional cost or $0. He was not willing to work with us at all, and was extremely rude. We walked away with nothing and still have a stone from them requiring yearly upkeep.
Meanwhile, the stone on sale at their store now has a different label. They did not stand behind their product with us, were not willing to work with us, and chose a confrontational approach when we met with them. All of this in mind, we would recommend being careful when purchasing from Hilltop. read more