Here is a plumbing question for ya. I won’t settle for “It’s always been like that”
Why doesn’t a stainless steel kitchen sink, or a laundry tub have an overflow? Why do bathroom sinks have them? There must be a reason!
If it wasn’t for the Bank Payments,
Interest, Taxes, Wages, and Fuel Costs,
I wouldn’t have to charge you!!
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So water won't flow over the top edge of the sink.
If a faucet is left on while the stopper is in place.
If the basin is almost full and you place something in it that would displace too much water, it'll go down the overflow hole.
To compensate for the earth rotating thru space and time...take your pick <g> ...Buic
OK but that doesn't answer my question.
Why does a stainless steel kitchen sink not have an overflow?
If it wasn’t for the Bank Payments,
Interest, Taxes, Wages, and Fuel Costs,
I wouldn’t have to charge you!!
Sorry, didn't read your post carefully, so my answer is... I don't know either! BUT now it's going to bother me... Thanks for that <g>... Buic
Edited 12/18/2005 4:50 pm ET by BUIC
Sorry. I didn't mean to yell.
If it wasn’t for the Bank Payments,
Interest, Taxes, Wages, and Fuel Costs,
I wouldn’t have to charge you!!
So you can accidentally leave the tap on in the bathroom sink and your OK. But if your filling the kitchen sink to do dishes and the phone rings and you walk away to have the sink keep filling - your hooped!
If it wasn’t for the Bank Payments,
Interest, Taxes, Wages, and Fuel Costs,
I wouldn’t have to charge you!!
Maybe because of it's size, it takes a lot longer to fill up than a lav sink.
Sorry, did not see the post from "sandleboy"
Edited 12/19/2005 10:54 am ET by pickings
Good question (s). BUIC answered the (obvious) last one. Here's a link which attempts to answer your first.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/03/HOGVNG0NDO1.DTL
Scott.
Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”
They dont have to since no codes demand it . Good reason.
thanks
Sure there's a reason.
The code doesn't require it.
I know that this isn't the reason, but it seems that most kitchen sinks are doubles or even triples, and will spill over into the other sink before overflowing.
Ok that explains the doubles and the triples. But what about the singles? How about the small bar sinks?
If it wasn’t for the Bank Payments,
Interest, Taxes, Wages, and Fuel Costs,
I wouldn’t have to charge you!!
I can think of a good reason why they SHOULD NOT have them:
Food particles. If you leave your faucet running, or have your dishwasher hooked into your sink drain (like I unfortunatly do) AND your garbage disposal/drail is clogged with food or a pile of dirty dishes...
Your sink will either overflow onto your floor and counters, which were made for getting food particles off of..
OR
The water will drain into the overflow port, carrying with it bits of food, grease, sauce, sugars, particles, etc. If the drain itself is clogged and your overflow is due to the garbage disposal hookup, then this gunk doesn't even wash away - it gets back fed into this inaccessable cavity.
An overflow feature on a kitchen sink is a recipy for a Stinky Sink!Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
One possibility is the size. It takes a lot longer to overfill a kitchen sink than a bathroom sink.
none of the vessel bath sinks i've seen have an overflow... so I'll go with the proven reason.... "always been that way"
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XXPaulCPXX was close.
Sinks do not have overflows. A sink is for preparing food, or cleaning up after, ie; plates, pots and pans etc. If there was an overflow, all sorts of nasty bugs could grow in there and contaminate your food.
A basin has an overflow. It is NOT intended for any sort of food prep or clean up.It is intended to wash your hands in. Think e.coli.
In addition to the codes not requiring an overflow on kitchen sinks, the size, i.e. depth, of the sink is also a code requirement.
We have small cafe' where I work. It had a wall hung lavatory intially installed because it was never to be used as a dish washing vessel. That lav was shallow and designed for hand washing only. All food preperation and cleaning was done off site. The depth of the sink was the defining factor in wheather the sink was suitable for use as a hand wash station or could be used to wash dishes. This is a commercial operations and other issue also come into play, but the health dept inspector did check the depth of the sink durring his intial inspection.
Dave