Stainless Steel Sink. Seperated From A Granite Countertop

I got a call from a plumber that I know and a customer of his had a stainless steel sink that had been stepped in and it seperated from a granite countertop.

I thought that the house had been broken into to because someone had crawled in through the kitchen window to get in. It turns out, it was just an impatient teenager that couldn't wait a few minutes for someone to come home and let him in.

This is probably one of those stories that teen will tell for years to come. I can just imagine how scared he probably was when that sink dropped. I don't know what kind of trouble he got into for that but I would have have been quaking in my boots knowing that I was going to have to face my Mom and stepdad after that one.

Anyway, the weird thing about it is how the sink was installed in the first place. The fabricator had adhered the sink to the countertop with a thin smear of cement that was smudged over the flange of the sink and that was all. There was no silicone for waterproofing and there were no clamps in place to hold the sink firm to the bottom of the countertop


Turns out, the fabricator had been out several times to reattach the sink and had finally ended up placing a piece of pvc pipe from the floor to the bottom of the sink to hold the sink up. All I could do is shake my head and get to work.



Here is the before .





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Here is the after.


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Stainless steel sink dropped from countertop.

Imagine, 1:oo am the night before Christmas Eve. Your in the bed with visions of gumdrops dancing in your head, all of a sudden you hear a crash in the kitchen. You rush in to see what the heck is going on and there is your kitchen sink laying in the sink base cabinet no longer attached to your countertop.

That is exactly what happened on this job. Fortunately the homeowner was a good improviser and was able to prop the sink back up temporarily until they called me to come fix it on the day after Christmas.

Now, most of the time a sink will not fall out. This one just happened to be installed with silicone and nothing else. That is never the way to install an undermount sink, with silicone alone.

After some extensive upside down modifications to the under side of the sink area I was able to get the sink reinstalled and it should never be a problem again.

This is the way it was when I got there. The homeowner had it propped with pvc pipes.

I had to remove the sink all the way so I could scrape the old silicone off and allow it to sit tight against the underside of the countertop.

Finished. While I was hooking the faucet back up I got water on the fresh silicone that I lined the sink with. That is what the blob is that you see just uder the faucet in the center of the sink. Since the silicone is still fresh I didn't wipe off the water because it would smear the silicone.


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