Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Top Mount or Undermount Kitchen sink? 6Oct 01, 2011 8:50 pm Building our custom design "Dream Home" Follow my Build - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46820 Contract Signed - 28/04/11 Siteworks Commenced - 20/06/11 Re: Top Mount or Undermount Kitchen sink? 7Oct 01, 2011 10:42 pm i have seen heaps of undermount sinks and the stone has chipped around the edge due to pans etc. most quartz has small rocks/chips in the resin that can come loose and chip away.. Building with Fairmont Homes NSW at Glenmore Ridge Lot 1007 Our Builder http://www.fairmonthomesnsw.com.au Our Blog http://drewandrenee.blogspot.com/ Re: Top Mount or Undermount Kitchen sink? 8Oct 01, 2011 11:17 pm I have been asking myself the same question... Hubby and I own a stonemasonry and we do a hell of a lot of undermount sinks. With recon you are less likely to chip it verus marble (which we are putting in now), but there are always risks of chips. Try to keep to one big polished cut out rather than two smaller ones. Good luck Re: Top Mount or Undermount Kitchen sink? 9Oct 01, 2011 11:43 pm Leni_82 I have been asking myself the same question... Hubby and I own a stonemasonry and we do a hell of a lot of undermount sinks. With recon you are less likely to chip it verus marble (which we are putting in now), but there are always risks of chips. Try to keep to one big polished cut out rather than two smaller ones. Good luck Agree with that comment 100% Building with Fairmont Homes NSW at Glenmore Ridge Lot 1007 Our Builder http://www.fairmonthomesnsw.com.au Our Blog http://drewandrenee.blogspot.com/ Re: Top Mount or Undermount Kitchen sink? 10Oct 02, 2011 8:47 am There is always a risk of damaging anything....it's simply a matter of how rough you are! In my last house the kitchen sink was fibreglass and it was great, but apparently 'everybody' damaged them and they leaked, then eventually they weren't being manufactured any longer. When I sold that house recently the sink looked like new and it was 20 yrs old....it was a display house for just over a year, then a couple bought it and lived there for just under a year until a job transfer took them to another town, then I bought the house and was there for 18 years. Everyone who saw that sink always commented now nice it looked and really it didn't need anymore maintenance than a stainless sink, which can also be damaged if things are thrown into the bowls. My advise is to fit whatever 'you' want into your house as you are the only person who has to live there, not a builder and not joe-blow down the road and definitely not someone who has never lived with the one item they are condemning, possibly because they can't afford (or didn't think) to fit it to their house. In the last couple of weeks I've had two people at the front door and both (separately) have commented how much time I must spend 'polishing' the porcelain floor tiles. Both 'assumed' I was on my hands and knees all day, every day with a cloth and polish working feverishly to get such a shine on the tiles!!! Neither of them realised this is how the tiles come from the manufacturer and didn't believe me when I said they are 'the' easiest flooring I've ever had to maintain. Now I'm sure if you asked them for their comments on porcelain tiles they would try and turn you off them because you would 'spend all day, every day, polishing the tiles'. While it's good to get opinions from other people, you also have to form your own opinion and go with what 'you' want! Re: Top Mount or Undermount Kitchen sink? 11Oct 07, 2011 3:25 am Thanks everyone for the advice. I agree that it becomes ones preferences, funny thing is even me and my wife could not agree which one to install. LOL. Prelim Contract to Build - 31/07/2011 Building contract and Plans - 21 Sept 2011 Pre-start - 13 Oct 2011 Settlement - 14 Oct 2011 Earthworks - 5 Dec 2011 SLABBED - 13 Dec 2011 Roof Framed -7 Mar12 Have had stone benches with undermount sink (kitchen) and drop-in (laundry) and top-mounted basin (bathrooms) for coming up 13 years and not one chip/scratch of any kind.… 2 9652 If what you describe is correct then the brick wall has been dry lined with villa board. That basically means that the villa board is glued to the brick wall with… 3 8274 Building Standards; Getting It Right! These can be easily filled and repaired and it doesn't cost them much to do. Id get the builder to do this first and if the repair is not suitable then a replacement is… 12 31225 |