Apparently, the workers installed the countertop on top of the sink when the owner was not at home, and the wife signed the documents accepting the work.
The dude had to cut holes with improvised tools.
Counters are installed whole like that sometimes. I can imagine that maybe the contractor's router broke or was lost or stolen and they had to come back the next day with the router to cut the proper hole but in the meantime he just rough cut a couple holes with the buzz saw so that the homeowners can use their sink.
Waste disposal is a weirdly American thing. That's why when you go on holiday and chuck your food down the drain like a special-needs kid discovering toilet roll for the first time, you have to phone people like me to fix it for you
Where I live in the UK, food is placed in a compostable bag which are taken away weekly. They turn it into energy. Way better than blending it and putting down the drain.
Fun fact, burning biomass is not very good as far as emissions go. In the US waste water treatment byproducts are typically methane and fertilizer, both bottled and sold. a much better place for all that carbon, imo.
Is that common in newer homes? Is it a regional thing? I've only ever seen garbage disposals installed in the regular sink drain, I've never seen one that had it's own dedicated little sink like that!
Ah yes the ol I have limited space so I will divide it in half. Do you by chance operate my company's budget? No money for raises but if we split it between hiring, decommissioning, and training we can make money from nothing.
Emergency back up sink when you fill other one up with dirty crap. Designed to make you panic and hopefully do something about the real sink.
I've always hated double sink designs. They just use a bunch of extra space that could have been more sink.
No, it's an insinkerater - it's got a mechanical spinning/bludgeoning device (sorry for the crude imagery!) that reduces leftovers and carrot stubs and the like to a fine meal so it can go down the drain.
I think it's better than in the rubbish, was the thinking? Still not as good as compost, admittedly
Sure, some people like them. I'll take a bigger sink and throw a strainer in it for that sort of thing though.
Redid my kitchen a few years ago and threw in an obnoxiously large and deep rectangular pit of a stainless steel sink and it's the best damn thing I've done to my kitchen. It even has a seamless extension that is a flat drying rack so you cut an even gianter opening in the granite and put that part over the dishwasher.
That we can agree on. Having worked in commercial kitchens a bit I wish every kitchen could be huge and stainless steel. Might actually cook for myself if that were the case.
I had to replace my kitchen faucet and got a nice one. I installed it and was liking it until I looked at the insert that advertised some other products they had and then I wanted a whole new sink as soon as I saw a picture. Their sinks had ledges along the front and back so that you could place add-ons like strainer baskets or grills that would sit flush with the sink and could slide around. It also seemed so obvious that I can't believe these crappy sinks are the norm.
Though I do prefer having a double sink (kinda wish I had a triple one tbh). Then you can do dishes in one and use the other to rinse instead of slowly filling the single sink more and more. Or let dishes pile up a bit in one sink without having to work around those dishes to do other things before you get to cleaning them. Plus it takes more water to fill a giant sink to the same depth as a smaller sink.
Though a bowl inside a giant sink also works. Just give me those ledges and add-ons for whatever my next sink is.
I'm more fascinated by the countertop. Although thin and probably composite rather than natural stone, it's still stone and that can get really expensive. It might honestly get more expensive to do this and fix it later than just do it right from the getgo.
Looks like corian, so plastic. So long as those cuts don't extend past the basin, it can be fixed with a router and a couple bits. If they do extend past the basin, probably bottom right, then you could fix it with resin and make it pass anything but a close inspection with some skill.
It might be the type of basin that drops in from the top, which would be easier to fix and would be more likely to hide the bad cuts under the flange.
Repairs on marbled Corian can be pretty hard to match cleanly, so hopefully it isn't that. Whenever I've installed these we always cut the sinks out at the factory, but I guess you could use a router onsite 🤷
The repair wouldn't be perfect, that is why it would require skill and no close scrutiny. Even an OK job would at least stop water from going through and that is the bigger issue once the basin install is unfucked.
They why bit is, in my opinion, because the sink is meant to be dropped into the hole in the counter top to help keep moisture away from the underside.
It looks like acrylic, either some cowboys got a hold of some cheaper stuff and are wacking it in, or a tradie sent this pic back to his boss to give them a heart attack (the stuff is expensive af)
Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.
Yo, calm down there Holmes. I'm a pro. I put gravel in there to filter out the big chunks.
Hahahaha 👌
No. It goes to the piss drawer.
If razors can go in the wall, why shouldn't piss go in a drawer? I gotta do some home improvement work to make this happen.
I'm sure my landlord will appreciate the new piss drawer :D
That was pretty much my legit setup in my last rent house. I'm so so glad I finally got out of there.
What the christ dude.
It's called fashion look it up.
I like people who are fashionate about their work
Looks like you had your work cut out for you
Nah, looks like they did it themselves
DIwhy?
Let me get my pinking shears.
Apparently, the workers installed the countertop on top of the sink when the owner was not at home, and the wife signed the documents accepting the work.
The dude had to cut holes with improvised tools.
This is my version of what happened.
I'm thinking the workers drilled a couple of holes themselves while they were there. Just not in the countertop.
YOU'RE DID IT!!!!
So, what's the real story here?
Counters are installed whole like that sometimes. I can imagine that maybe the contractor's router broke or was lost or stolen and they had to come back the next day with the router to cut the proper hole but in the meantime he just rough cut a couple holes with the buzz saw so that the homeowners can use their sink.
My guess is that they followed the manual, skipping a few steps, glued the sink before cutting, panicked and then voilà.
What is the purpose of the little tiny sink on the left?
To be a sink.
/thread.
Don’t sink shame bro
I'm not shaming! Maybe it's something important? Maybe I need a tiny little extra sink next to my sink? What have I been missing out on???
The small one is to use as a sink when the big one is full of week old dirty dishes.
Ah, so it's exactly like the 2 sided sink I already have, but one side is smaller lol
You definitely need a tiny little extra sink next to your sink.
I don't know how I lived without one to be honest.
garburator
Note the bottle of Fairy, the UK equivalent of Dawn. It's not a waste disposal, it's a fucking useless sponge holder, in my experience
what does the Fairy bottle have to do with it supposedly not being a garburator
Waste disposal is a weirdly American thing. That's why when you go on holiday and chuck your food down the drain like a special-needs kid discovering toilet roll for the first time, you have to phone people like me to fix it for you
Where I live in the UK, food is placed in a compostable bag which are taken away weekly. They turn it into energy. Way better than blending it and putting down the drain.
Fun fact, burning biomass is not very good as far as emissions go. In the US waste water treatment byproducts are typically methane and fertilizer, both bottled and sold. a much better place for all that carbon, imo.
It's not burned. It goes to an Anaerobic Digester which produces electricity, gas and fertiliser.
San Diego collects compost bins from homes weekly and powers all the city buses from it
weird, it's common where I live (Poland, Europe)
edit: common may be an exaggeration, I could probably list like 5 or 6 homes of my family members and close friends which do have it
edit2: oh we also have Fairy so this may as well be in Poland lol
edit3: the label in the photo is in English so it's unlikely
This will be a fun new addition to my vocabulary.
They're not common in the UK.
The little sink is just that really. I use it for pouring liquids down the drain when washing dishes and the main sink is full of water.
Is that common in newer homes? Is it a regional thing? I've only ever seen garbage disposals installed in the regular sink drain, I've never seen one that had it's own dedicated little sink like that!
American here: never seen it another way. Always two sinks in one, and the one of them has a garbage disposal on it.
Rinsing sink, for kitchens with limited counter space. My kitchen is small and has one of these. It's just wide enough for one of these.
Have you got a link that isn't Amashite?
I proxy 4u
Ah, I see. Mine is like this, no fuckin idea what it's for!
I’ve seen that once or twice! Some debate:
Ha ha yeah it just ends up holding the sponge. Total waste of space, they could've made the sink that much bigger!
Ah yes the ol I have limited space so I will divide it in half. Do you by chance operate my company's budget? No money for raises but if we split it between hiring, decommissioning, and training we can make money from nothing.
Emergency back up sink when you fill other one up with dirty crap. Designed to make you panic and hopefully do something about the real sink. I've always hated double sink designs. They just use a bunch of extra space that could have been more sink.
No, it's an insinkerater - it's got a mechanical spinning/bludgeoning device (sorry for the crude imagery!) that reduces leftovers and carrot stubs and the like to a fine meal so it can go down the drain.
I think it's better than in the rubbish, was the thinking? Still not as good as compost, admittedly
You mean a garbage disposal unit (insinkerator is just one brand). I've never seen those in the side sink, I've only had them in the main one.
Yes, garbage disposal sink! That's what was stick on my tongue! Thanks, rando.
Dunno why we've only seen opposites
Some of us work hard and pay good money for a fine meal.. I'm not putting that down the drain!
Yes but you don't need separate sink for that.
It's not a separate sink, it's a dual-chambered sink, it's one big sink with a raised bit in the middle
The real reason for separate sink areas is that one is for un-dirtying them (this side has the disposal usually) and the other side for rinsing
Commercial sinks are usually 3-chambered (rinse, wash, sanitize)
I hear you - I don't know why it's never been in the main sink. I've just never seen it like that...
My parents have one like it but with a sort of driptray in it so you can use it to wash fruits and vegetables, for example.
Sure, some people like them. I'll take a bigger sink and throw a strainer in it for that sort of thing though. Redid my kitchen a few years ago and threw in an obnoxiously large and deep rectangular pit of a stainless steel sink and it's the best damn thing I've done to my kitchen. It even has a seamless extension that is a flat drying rack so you cut an even gianter opening in the granite and put that part over the dishwasher.
That we can agree on. Having worked in commercial kitchens a bit I wish every kitchen could be huge and stainless steel. Might actually cook for myself if that were the case.
I had to replace my kitchen faucet and got a nice one. I installed it and was liking it until I looked at the insert that advertised some other products they had and then I wanted a whole new sink as soon as I saw a picture. Their sinks had ledges along the front and back so that you could place add-ons like strainer baskets or grills that would sit flush with the sink and could slide around. It also seemed so obvious that I can't believe these crappy sinks are the norm.
Though I do prefer having a double sink (kinda wish I had a triple one tbh). Then you can do dishes in one and use the other to rinse instead of slowly filling the single sink more and more. Or let dishes pile up a bit in one sink without having to work around those dishes to do other things before you get to cleaning them. Plus it takes more water to fill a giant sink to the same depth as a smaller sink.
Though a bowl inside a giant sink also works. Just give me those ledges and add-ons for whatever my next sink is.
Can confirm the giant steel basin sink with ledges is fucking awesome. We just installed one and I will never go back.
You can have one filled with water and the other freely draining for different steps of cleaning
@BonesOfTheMoon wait, this isn’t a SovCit post!
Thought I'd try something new. I always have more sovcits though.
Well, DIWhy you holding out on us?!
Those are my favorites on the fediverse so far, but this is also funny, so keep branching out!
Who do you think installed the countertop?
Some hipster design shit right there.
It's rustic really.
Modern Meth Man approach.
The mythical meth man month
Perfect 👌
Any chance it's being held up by milk crates?
Any chance it's not being held up by milk crates?
It’s got that rustic look to it.
I'm more fascinated by the countertop. Although thin and probably composite rather than natural stone, it's still stone and that can get really expensive. It might honestly get more expensive to do this and fix it later than just do it right from the getgo.
Looks like corian, so plastic. So long as those cuts don't extend past the basin, it can be fixed with a router and a couple bits. If they do extend past the basin, probably bottom right, then you could fix it with resin and make it pass anything but a close inspection with some skill.
It might be the type of basin that drops in from the top, which would be easier to fix and would be more likely to hide the bad cuts under the flange.
Repairs on marbled Corian can be pretty hard to match cleanly, so hopefully it isn't that. Whenever I've installed these we always cut the sinks out at the factory, but I guess you could use a router onsite 🤷
The repair wouldn't be perfect, that is why it would require skill and no close scrutiny. Even an OK job would at least stop water from going through and that is the bigger issue once the basin install is unfucked.
Wash your dishes and slash your wrists in one easy step
But the tap is perfect
Any idea what material the countertop is made of? Looks like acrylic.
Would guess Formica?
Maybe Corian.
Yea that's my guess, or one of the cheaper brands like himacs if they are willing to fuck around with it like this haha
I'd actually love to know what kind of lightweight / cheap materials there are that hold up to at least 100°C heat?
Diwhy
I understand DIWhy is more for things that, no matter how well built they are, just shouldn't be done at all.
This is something that should be done.
They why bit is, in my opinion, because the sink is meant to be dropped into the hole in the counter top to help keep moisture away from the underside.
Most sinks are installed on top because it's easier and cheaper, but some are installed underneath because it looks better.
TIL!
Jesus Christ. Was there a shortage at the template factory or what?
"Don't worry about it boss, I already installed the sink myself."
Lol wtf
Looks like one of the apes that cuts the counter tops at the RV factory I work at got released from his cage and was let loose on someone's home
If it works, it works 🤷
If home improvements was a mental illness
Oh fuck. It's not even particle board. Get out the grinder
Yeah that makes sense - at first I thought it was vinyl, but the huge cutting lines sorta look like a grinder being driven by anger and frustration
It looks like acrylic, either some cowboys got a hold of some cheaper stuff and are wacking it in, or a tradie sent this pic back to his boss to give them a heart attack (the stuff is expensive af)
Lavate las manos!
This is why Flex Tape ™️ was invented.
the upper left corner of the sink hole looks a bit weird
Just a little.
Not seeing the problem here.
Is it that you forgot to install the garbage disposal?