Bathroom cabinet...

[Victorthesecond]

Hello all. My son has asked if I can help him. He's big into trying to avoid buying ready-made / IKEA type furniture and has asked me that, if he finds a bathroom sink at a reclamation yard, would I be able to build a bathroom cabinet / sink unit from reclaimed wood? I don't mind having a go at the cabinet, but could just do with some advice on how to "sink" the sink into the wooden top that it will have on it. I guess, if I bought a brand new sink, it would come with a template of some sort so I could cut out the exact size into a worktop but a reclaimed one won't have that luxury!

Any tips or advice would be very welcome, thank you!

Mike

 

[Doug B]

Put the basin upside down on the wooden top, draw round it, reduce the apature by the amount of overhang of the basin & then cut it out with a jigsaw etc.
If you don’t want to mark the top use masking tape prior to drawing round the basin.

 

[Cabinetman]

Just doing something similar, Mahogany sideboard type thing, people are giving them away here. I’m giving the top 3 coats of Yacht Varnish prior to fastening the basin down, it’s a new one so fixings come with it. Sort of a Neoprene gasket, I wonder if double sided glazing neoprene type strip could be used in your situation? Scarf joint the join though.
Ian

 

[HOJ]

The trend that I see a lot of now is for the sink to sit/perch on the top of the unit, rather than set in, all you need to do is cut a hole for the waste and the tap.

I did one last week for an oval bowl to be let in to a £££ Porcelonosa wall unit, did it just as @Doug B outlined.

Or the other option is have a cut out in the worktop top for a basin, like this:



But hopefully doing a neater job, not sure of the particular tool used in this instance but a chainsaw comes to mind, and no, it wasn't done by me, a pal of mine does insurance work and had "Chippy" do it, ended up replacing the whole unit by the time he'd finished mullering it.

 

[Victorthesecond]

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll see what the lad ends up buying and go from there.....