Help with new sink..

gabyjane

Ok we are finally going to buy a new sink for our kitchen. When we moved in the drainer was dented and dispite putting it on the defects list (new house) it never got done (along with the rest of the rd!) so we have put up with it as have a dishwasher. We then bought a hose to do our car and patio etc and tried to attach it on, nothing we bought fitted (think its the awful old fashioned taps they put in) and we wasted money buying more and more stuff..still unable to use the hose.

So now having bought a karcher washer dh thinks we should try to attach it using the hose as before but i don't agree, last time we did it it flooded the kitchen and took ages to clean up, he thinks if one of us stands there holding it on it will work..it won't! so have decided the only way is to bite the bullet and get a new sink and mixer tap.

I have found after a quick look this sink and tap set which looks nice (want black)..(can choose didfferent taps) i like the idea of getting it all together as we will spend hours looking in places for a tap and not agreeing so this is all done..(last one we liked was £98) seems silly as we rarely use..like i said first quick look but this is the kind if thing we want.

So question being...how do we know what size to get? measure the hole cut out where ours is now or round our current sink?

We have a cupboard underneath..is there any way of having a different sink with one of the middle bits in if the cupboard was cut down? has anyone done this?

How much roughly for a plumber to come out and fit a new sink/tap etc and poss have to cut some of the worktop away if the new sink is bigger?

Thanks for any replies x

Jonesya

gabyjane wrote: »

So now having bought a karcher washer dh thinks we should try to attach it using the hose as before but i don't agree, last time we did it it flooded the kitchen and took ages to clean up, he thinks if one of us stands there holding it on it will work..it won't! so have decided the only way is to bite the bullet and get a new sink and mixer tap.

Ask as silly question but why not get DH to install an outdoor tap? You can hook hoses/pressure-washers etc up to it with no problems, no leaks and you don't have to trail the pipe through the kitchen, plus it would cost a lot less than a new set of kitchen taps.

You can get kits with self-cutting taps to make it easier - for example:
http://www.screwfix.com/prods/10101/Plumbing/Water-Pipe-and-Fittings/Outdoor-Garden-Tap-Kit

CliffWalker_2

Hi, I used to be a kitchen fitter (for twenty years) so hopefully I can help.

Any sink can replace the one you currently have, as long its not smaller than the existing (cutting some of the worktop to accept a larger sink is a two minute job with a decent jigsaw). If you mean can you have a one and a half bowl sink, the answer is probably yes if the unit underneath is a 600mm or wider (but it depends on exactly how the existing one is sited).

With reference to your pressure washer, there is no kitchen tap that will accept a pressure washer hose (or even a garden hose) as the pressure of the water at full pelt simply forces it off.
While you're having the new tap (or sink and tap) fitted, get the plumber to put an outside tap on the other side of the wall from the kitchen sink (they have a proper threaded end that means the pressure washer connection won't fly off).
While they're under the sink anyway its not a major job.
Cheers.

CliffWalker_2

Ha! Looks like Jonesya answered the question while I was still typing my longer answer... I was a minute late!

gabyjane

Hi thanks for the replys. Ok not really what i wanted to hear grr!! the outside tap was our first thought but we live in a town house and the sink/kitchen is right at the front of the house as opposed to the garden right at the back! we are on a hill too so there are lots of steps running up which would mean a hell of a lot of hose and can see it being a real pain?

cliffwalker thanks very helpful..do we measure the sink as it is or the cut out bit underneath? also for the cupboard do we measure the width of the cupboard?
Thanks

phill99

Do you have a cloakroom or bathtoom at the back of the house? The plumber could take a feed off that for an external tap. If that is not the case, perhaps your plumber could put and 'outside' tap in the kitchen - say under the sink in the cupboard. Then at least you could use the correct fittings when you attache the hose and it wont keep flying off.

gabyjane

phill99 wrote: »

Do you have a cloakroom or bathtoom at the back of the house? The plumber could take a feed off that for an external tap. If that is not the case, perhaps your plumber could put and 'outside' tap in the kitchen - say under the sink in the cupboard. Then at least you could use the correct fittings when you attache the hose and it wont keep flying off.

Hi no we have no kind of water suppy at all out the back. The kitchen sink is a possibilty if not dh still thinks we should put out the front..my only concern is it freezing up or little brats turning it on and mucking about with it? are the lock covers a lot?

angelavdavis

gabyjane wrote: »

..my only concern is it freezing up or little brats turning it on and mucking about with it? are the lock covers a lot?

You can put a shut off valve inside to stop this happening. I have an outdoor tap on my doorstep - the shut off is in the downstairs loo. We just turn it on when we need it inside.

gabyjane

think we will get the plumber round and see what he suggests for the best thanks!