Heck no. Still bits are generally purpose built for specific materials. I would not use a bit for stone on stainless steel. That's how you get work hardened stainless. Which is a pain to work with because it's so dang hard.

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THIS. Tune the door first. Also examine the spring. You’d be amazed at how many 2 spring doors have 1 broken spring.

Change those in pairs and unless you know what you are doing hire a pro.

We can't use ANY hammer drill on stone tops, the many repeated impacts will eventually cause failure in the material. Some may work, most won't. Quartz is made up of about 93% natural Quartz chips, and the rest an epoxy binder resin. It's heated and pressed together in a huge line, and when cooled is extremely durable, but if you start creating point heat/impacts nearing the manufacturing process, all bets are off.

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Seriously, lol! Yeah man, this house is stealing my life force. Trying to keep it together so that my kid has a house without a sky-high mortgage someday when he's ready. But I'm really wondering if it would be more of a burden for him like it is for me.

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Stay strong!!

ok, that should be fine even if you miss a stud (no guarantees, just make sure anything beneath it to be durable as well)

so the choice will be whether you want anyone looking at how you hung it to be impressed by your craftsmanship or your idgaf

for my idgaf approach, I'd have a level handy, get one screw in, then make sure it's level before putting in the rest (a pencil line on the wall with the level can give you a good approximate height and a "level enough" but keeping the level on for the second screw is barely any extra work)

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Yes, that's very likely what you've found.

It's worth noting that there is often doubled up drywall between suites to improve fire ratings. Or there is sound mitigation products in place. Either can cause a little extra havoc with stud finders. I usually use a small drill bill and just check for S solid wood once I'm 99% sure I've found the studs.

Trust me, the diamond abrasive will NOT make it through the SS even once. The heat generated in the SS is too much. Both the bit and the SS turn pretty blue colors, and you just smoke the drill too. 0/10 do not recommend.

You are not alone. Every day brings me another kick in the nuts.

I rarely cut Quartz wet when in the field.

I use magnets to find studs, I’ve never had good luck with stud finders. Your stud finder probably uses a magnet or something similar, and where you taped is where the screws are. You can assume the studs run vertically where your tape is.

Brother!!!! I’ve had so much go wrong in so little time. Good to know there are other hell houses out there. Stay strong. We should set up a support group! 😄

If you're drilling a quartz counter top wear a respirator and use a vacuum. Those tops are 93% Silica and 7% resin. Highly toxic. I'm our stone shops Safety guy!

Hmm...

Within the week, The first floor flooded via the bathroom toilet. Not a toilet's worth of water. All the water from my shower that morning, plus the washing machine tub contents. My opening the washer lid while it was mid-spin broke the washer. Water in three rooms and the basement looked like a rainforest with all of the water dripping from every rafter.

Then cold water pipe to the bathroom tub on the second floor froze, so no shower until that thawed two days later. And the garage door opener committed suicide. Of course the snow blower would not start.

Who knows what will be next.

Hello, from a fellow crappy home owner.

Ok, you don't want to try from underneath! You can easily locate the hole that you want to use from underneath, and transfer your measurements to the top. Cover the top area w/ blue tape so you can make marks. All of the holes should be on an even number measurement, MOST are 4" center to center. So locate the center of the faucet hole from underneath, by using the very back of the circle, that's the center. Now measure to the center of the hole you want to use. I would guess it will be 8" or 12". With that measurement, go up top and find the center of your faucet at the back of it, and measure to the center of where you want the new hole. So now you have the side to side located. The front to back is simply the same distance from the wall as the center of the faucet, 90 degrees from where the center is on the back. The quartz is NOT friendly on ANY drill bit! I believe HD has a diamond tipped line that I made work, but you might need 2. Go at least 1 size larger than the minimum, the flange will give you plenty of wiggle room. Source: am countertop guy, that builds as a hobby.

If you want to be really safe remove the faucet and measure front and back of the existing hole and you can find center. The existing holes on the sink should be 4" on center.

You're NOT alone! My house is just as bad and I swear it's alive. Would take me half a day to list everything that's gone wrong in the last year and I too am vigilant about maintenance and have sank any extra money into it. Losing the race of things breaking faster than I can fix or replace them. I spend the majority my free time working on it. Honestly, it's hell.

Update: I used a magnet and it stuck to a spot on each area with masking tape, I'm guessing these are the screws that hold the drywall to the studs? Each piece of masking tape is about 16-18 inches apart, I'll have to double check some of them.