Choosing A Sink
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Advice On Choosing A Sink

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What to consider when choosing a sink

Choosing a sink should not be rushed because alongside with the cooker, it is the sink that makes a room into a kitchen. If at all possible, there should be at least 18 inches of draining board or counter space on each side of the bowl.

It isn't necessary to have two drainers, one side can be a flat working surface. This can be used for food preparation as well as for standing dishes. The flat surface can be an integral part of the sink top, or of a sink cabinet unit.

Or even, if the worse comes to the worst, an adjacent separate work top unit, although sink tops are best made all-in-one so that there are no water or dirt collecting joints.

Almost all sinks can be supplied with the drainer on the left or right-hand side of the bowl. Most people prefer to wash up from right to left, so sinks in stock tend to be of the left-hand drainer type although alternatives can be ordered.

Bowls

Two bowls are ideal when choosing a sink, but not always practical because of space. Not only do they make washing up easier, they avoid the irritation of wanting to peel vegetables in a sink that is already full of dishwashing! There are some ingenious solutions where space is a problem - a conventional size bowl for rinsing or vegetable peeling; a slide-over chopping board or work top so that double bowl facilities are there when needed. Some units have round bowls that give the advantages of two bowls in very little more space than needed by a single bowl, double-drainer unit.

The size of bowl is important. It needs to be at least 7 inches deep to be really useful. If it is not easy to compromise between a size that will take the washing up and not use too much water, and one that is too small to allow, say, the large grill pan of a modern electric cooker to be washed up in it.

Taps

When choosing a sink top, look for the holes. They may be drilled at the back of the sink for taps of standard dimensions, or sinks may be undrilled so that taps can be wall-mounted or have holes drilled for particular taps. Tap holes already drilled make the plumbing cheaper but taps coming out of the sink top are difficult to keep clean. Some bowls have the overflow, others do not. If you are absent-minded an overflow is essential; if not, its absence means one less thing to keep clean.

Sinks are very rarely sold complete with taps, so they have to be considered. Where there are two bowls a swivelling mixer tap will have to be fitted, and another point to consider is if you have to fill buckets in the sink, in which case you want either a swivelling tap or taps that give enough clearance to enable you to lift out a full bucket without tilting it.

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