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Please recommend a sink to go with this faucet for laundry rooms

12 years ago

I love this wall-mounted faucet because of its vintage styling and would ideally like to have an old-fashioned type of sink. I've been scouring salvage yards and cannot find a wall mount sink in decent shape. Kohler and American Standard make some cast iron options, but they are incredibly expensive for just a laundry room sink (we'll need two, actually). So, might a farmhouse sink work with this? Any better ideas to give a historic feel? Also, the plumbing walk-through is tomorrow--do I need to tell the plumber I want a wall-mount faucet? thanks.

Here is a link that might be useful: wall mount faucet for laundry rooms

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chicagoans

12 years ago

Are you going to have an additional side sprayer? If you have a large sink with that faucet, I think it would be hard to clean out the sink after cleaning something messy in it. (The faucet doesn't look like it has much reach.) Our basement laundry room has a small faucet with 2 handles, and one of these days I'll replace it. (I'm usually doing something with at least one hand and don't want to use 2 hands with the fiddly little faucet levers.) When that sink gets messy I have to cup my hands to catch the water and kind of throw it around the sides of the sink.

When we added a main floor laundry I used a pull down faucet with a built in sprayer. It's much more practical, at least for me.

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bevangel_i_h8_h0uzz
12 years ago
I think a farmhouse sink would look fine with that wall mounted faucet. Unfortunately, they tend to be quite a bit more expensive than metal drop-in or the undermount sinks that one usually finds in laundry rooms these days. And farmhouse sinks are a whole LOT more expensive than those plastic looking "utility room" tub sinks that are sometime put in utility rooms. I'm guessing that you DON'T want one of those!

For a real vintage sink, have you checked your local Craigslist ads? I've sometimes seen vintage porcelain covered cast-iron sinks posted on our Craigslist that might be just what you're looking for...folks sometimes pull them out when remodeling and the things are so heavy they don't want to sell them on ebay and have to deal with shipping. For the same reason, if Habitat for Humanity has one of their resale shops (ReStore) in your area, you should check there.

Oh, and yes, it is a good idea to let the plumber know you're planning on a wall mount faucet. The water line to a wall mount faucet has to go a little bit higher than the lines to a counter mounted faucet. Usually when they run the water lines, they cut them off and cap them a bit longer than they expect to actually need so it probably won't be a problem if the plumber doesn't know. BUT if he does, he can be sure to leave the lines long enough.
threeapples
Original Author
12 years ago
thanks, i've been scouring craigslist daily and only ever see severely cracked or rusted ones. our habitat store doesn't seem to get them, though i'll keep checking. thanks for the ideas!
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folkvictorian
12 years ago
Threeapples - are you anywhere near Wisconsin? Here's one on our local Craigslist. Feelin' like a road trip? LOL! :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Adorable CL sink
michoumonster
12 years ago
i was also looking for something like that for the laundry room. I would be anxious to know what you choose! i was thinking of going with the ikea farmhouse sink, the domsjo.
threeapples
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that's a great sink, but nowhere remotely near us! :( i'm thinking of doing a fireclay farmhouse sink and doing the wallmount faucet. i'll let you know what we decide--hoping to figure this out soon!

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