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  "name": "What should I ask a backsplash installer before I sign anything?",
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      "name": "What should I ask a backsplash installer before I sign anything?",
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        "text": "**Direct answer:** Ask for proof of the proposed tile, grout, adhesive, sealant, and trim, along with a written scope and clear change-order process. Product samples, manufacturer instructions, photos of preparation, and a final walkthrough are more useful than a verbal promise that the job will be easy.\n\n**Context:** Backsplash quality is often determined by hidden preparation and layout decisions. Documentation helps you compare vendors without relying on different assumptions about demolition or wall repair.\n\n**Key factors:**\n- Confirm substrate preparation, pattern, grout joints, edge details, and cleanup.\n- Ask who supplies materials and who owns shortages or damaged pieces.\n- Request a schedule that identifies curing and final inspection.\n\n**Practical guidance:** Keep the approved sample and written selections with the contract. Before payment is complete, inspect corners, exposed edges, outlet covers, grout consistency, and countertop transitions.\n\n**Soft positioning:** Elite Remodeling & Design can document design selections and coordinate them through its remodeling process.",
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        "description": "Ask for an itemized scope covering demolition, wall preparation, layout, tile, grout, trim, outlet treatment, sealing, disposal, curing, and cleanup. Confirm material responsibility, change-order handling, schedule, and final inspection. Keep approved samples and written product selections."
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  "description": "Ask for an itemized scope covering demolition, wall preparation, layout, tile, grout, trim, outlet treatment, sealing, disposal, curing, and cleanup. Confirm ma"
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