fitting a new sink

[disco_monkey79]

Hello,

Apologies if this should be in a different place, but...

We're re-doing our kitchen. I've got the new worktops and a new stainless steel sink and draining board (the cupboard carcasses are fine, and the doors are going to be revamped).

I've never attempted plumbing before, so apologies for the noddy question. I've just read that a new sink should come with an adhesive pad to form the seal between it and the worktop, and I don't recall seeing one in the box.

Is this correct, i.e. should there be such a pad supplied?

Many thanks

 

[Russell]

my new sink didnt just had quartz work tops and they used clear silicone to seal the sink (was an undermount sink)

 

[disco_monkey79]

Thanks for the reply.

When you say an undermount, do you mean the sink actually sits beneath the worktop, like a belfast sink-type arrangement? I've got a bog standard sits-on-top-and-the-bowl-sits-in-to-a-hole-cut-in-to-the-worktop*.






*as I believe they are known in the trade ;-)

 

[Russell]

Yes sits flush to underside of quartz work top

 

[eggflan]

Just use a bead of silicone (clear) under the sink where it touches the worktop and wipe any excess off with a amp cloth , this will keep the water from creeping under the lip and causing your new worktop to swell up.

The pad you refer to is just a sticky strip that sits under the lip and they are a nightmare to fit anyway , i usually throw them in the bin and use silicone .

 

[Karl]

You can buy them from B&Q as a separate item. Or use silicon (clean it up before it fully sets though).

Cheers

Karl

 

[speed]

dont forget to seal the cutout before fitting the sink. i usually rub silicone round, varnish will do also

 

[Sportique]

Very useful tips, thanks guys

Dave

 

[gwr]

what speed says :wink:

 

[Nick69]

Also baby wipes are great for cleaning up silicone :wink:

 

[Acanthus]

Have just done this in our revamped kitchen. Clear silicone is the answer, smear it over all of the exposed timber in the cut out, and then create a very generous bead all round the cutout to seat the sink. Use the clamps that are provided with the sink and lots of additional pressure to hold the sink down while the silicone goes off, (I had three buckets of water weighing the thing down) then next morning trim off the waste and get loads of admiration from spouse for a beautiful job at which you will be expected to do all of the washing up from now on.

Dave

 

[devonwoody]

The interior cut I have used waterproof pva glue to seal the composite and it has never failed me. Silicone bead under the stainless steel, and those flexible pipes that join to the iron connection of taps makes it a doddle these days. Silicone bead under the waste connection to sink worked perfectly for me the other month when fitting a waste disposal system.