Having double sink with no drainer grooves?

BikingBud

Wes121708 said:

Most of our washing up is the kids plastic plates and dishes which I know won't be forever. We have a dish washer but still manage to have a sink full of washing up!
We have one sink at the moment and a bowl and I hate it l, never have one sink again.
Just now deciding in what material for the sinks. We live in a hard water area so not sure about stainless steel 🤔

Get the kids to wash and clean up after themselves, an extremely worthwhile journey.

sugar-walsh

tetrarch said:

Personally, I think that grooves are nearly a waste of time. They do not drain effectively and (if you live in a hard water area) they are impossible to keep clean.

I was considering this double belfast sink for the new kitchen...

https://www.tapwarehouse.com/p/rangemaster-cdb800wh?msclkid=d9b19cb7101413e24cb6ff6986ef5d50&gclsrc=3p.ds

...but maybe having second thoughts

Regards

Tet

I find Belfast sinks very unforgiving if you drop anything in them.

Emmia

Wes121708 said:

Most of our washing up is the kids plastic plates and dishes which I know won't be forever. We have a dish washer but still manage to have a sink full of washing up!
We have one sink at the moment and a bowl and I hate it l, never have one sink again.
Just now deciding in what material for the sinks. We live in a hard water area so not sure about stainless steel 🤔

You can scrub stainless steel, or use descaler - we have hard water and its no bother.

jennifernil

sugar-walsh said:

tetrarch said:

Personally, I think that grooves are nearly a waste of time. They do not drain effectively and (if you live in a hard water area) they are impossible to keep clean.

I was considering this double belfast sink for the new kitchen...

https://www.tapwarehouse.com/p/rangemaster-cdb800wh?msclkid=d9b19cb7101413e24cb6ff6986ef5d50&gclsrc=3p.ds

...but maybe having second thoughts

Regards

Tet

I find Belfast sinks very unforgiving if you drop anything in them.

They seem to be fashionable, but if I was in the market for a new house, and saw one that had a Belfast sink, I would not even bother viewing.

Our DIL has an inset ceramic sink, with drainer, not the Belfast type, and always uses a plastic washing up bowl in it so as not to damage sink  or dishes.   Seems a rather impractical type of sink!

GDB2222

Emmia said:

Wes121708 said:

Most of our washing up is the kids plastic plates and dishes which I know won't be forever. We have a dish washer but still manage to have a sink full of washing up!
We have one sink at the moment and a bowl and I hate it l, never have one sink again.
Just now deciding in what material for the sinks. We live in a hard water area so not sure about stainless steel 🤔

You can scrub stainless steel, or use descaler - we have hard water and its no bother.

We have stainless steel that we bought 30 years ago. We brought it with us when we sold the old house! It still polishes up, good as new. 

DullGreyGuy

We had a 1.5 sink plus drainer and went to a single sink that is 1.5x the size plus some groves and for us it worked so much better... could now fit in the largest of pans/double burner griddles and dont have the empty never used "half" sink. Have had rental units with a double sink instead and just not found a second sink more useful than a larger single sink.

You can buy drainers with a base built in to avoid the need for groves but they just seem so much more bulky for storing when not in use and if they are permanently out then why not just have a permanent drain? 

jennifernil

I like to have at least the half sink for emptying pots in and rinsing out stuff while washing up, having only one sink means one needs to be organised before washing up!

Half sink has the waste disposal fitted in it, another great gadget, would not want to be without one of those.

ChasingtheWelshdream

This is the one we have and I love it to bits. I have a drainer in one, wash up/soak in the other and rinse in the little one at the back. And it didn't need to be undermounted like a traditional belfast sink which was a big plus as we have wooden worktops.

Double-bowl sink Double-bowl sink Rectangle 632391M1 - Villeroy & Boch (villeroy-boch.co.uk)

Sistergold

Wes121708 said:

We're just designing our kitchen and I would like two sinks. I'm thinking of not having any drainer grooves and just getting a rack to go inside sink so that you can't really see the dishes drying. This is just to increase the worktop and I'm thinking drainer grooves will just take up space and not really stop the water from going everywhere anyway! 
Am I making a mistake? Should I get them anyway on one side or leave them off completely?

I chose a double sink. I also don’t have as much counter as I would like. I do have a dishwasher but I find there are things to was and the double sink is so useful. I chose not to have a drainer but bought this 

Also have a rack to put in sink and some draining mates. I would not choose permanent drainer.