I can find this out tomorrow when the workweek starts, but I’m curious enough right now to ask the question right here.
A Rohl “Shaw’s Original” fireclay sink will be installed in a new kitchen. It is an apron sink, with its front face sitting proud of the cabinet fronts, and about flush to the countertop’s front edge.
It is an “undermount” in the sense that the stone countertop laps onto the sink’s top edge on the sides and rear.
Our stone contractor has mounted undermount sinks for us on dozens of past jobs, but this is the first apron sink we’ll do. In past, the sinks go in after the counter is in place, fixed to the bottom of the stone with a combo of clips and structural silicone.
I’ve a feeling this one is going to be different. Am I right?
An image of the sink installation is shown here.
And here is a catalog clip of the sink.
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what's the mounting?
is there any attachment to the countertop? I'd think just silicon.
thinking I'd support the sink fully from below ... set it / shim it after cabs and before CT's. Keep it completely flush with the plane of the cab tops ... and keep it a hair low.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Thanks, Jeff. That is what I was thinking, too.
The only thing that gives me pause is the sometime mayhem that can come from carrying in and setting an irregularly shaped hunk of stone that weighs 550 pounds. That little sink is a pricey item at about $1350, delivered.
I'll get the answer tomorrow by asking my plumbing and stone guys, but let's see if there are other worthy comments here at Breaktime, today.
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"setting an irregularly shaped hunk of stone"
that's why I cautioned setting it low.
I'd go a hair low at it's highest point.
I did the cab's on a job where one was set a hair high.
think the plumbers set it.
they checked one point on each side ...
and those points happened to be the low points.
lotsa fuss and struggle to reset it a hair low.
if I were to do it "myself" ... if it did weigh over 500lbs.
I'd be thinking eye bolt into joists above and comealong it up and in.
be a nice excuse to buy the little Warn electric hoist I've had my eye on!
we've got other heavy / compact items into place by "walking" them up 2x ramps from the floor.
it's nice when there's room to lift and set but not always the case.
last big stone sink I just called my big buddy Brian.
wasn't for an install ... the delivery guys set it in an obvious space. Easy for them ... kinda in the way of the tile I was contracted to lay. Brian was there helping lay tile ... first order of his day ... the snatch and grab ... then strong man contest the sink into the garage.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Sometimes what seems so obvious to usGoes right over the heads of some plumbers.
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