POLL: Who has gone from large single sink BACK to double sink?
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Changing from double bowl to single bowl sink - hard?
Comments (39)red lover, I bought the blancowave sink in the link for my pending remodel. Got a deal on ebay, so went ahead and bought it. After just looking at it lying there in the box for a few weeks whispering to me how much I would like to be using it, I finally caved and jerry-rigged an installation in the non-remodeled kitchen over the weekend. (It is an undermount sink, I have laminate counters, it is supposed to need a 42" sink base, I have 36 inches, the hole in the counter for the existing sink was totally the wrong size and shape, blah blah whatever. watch me make it work anyway). So far, I love it. The large side is big enough to hold my largest baking sheet, roasting pan, or largest skillet with handle; the small side is still big enough for a colander or stockpot. This is what I was doing with it Sunday. From January 26, 2012 Here is a link that might be useful: blancowave 42 double...See MoreChanging from double to single bowl sink - advice?
Comments (22)Sorry for not following this thread after the post. The sink in my picture looks extra huge just from the angle. Its similar in dimensions to rmlanza's (I see a glimpse of the famous towel pig in that picture!) Its also a blanco silgranite super single in anthracite only mine has the hole in the center. I don't have the exact dimensions but mine is in a 36" sink cab and if I remember right its around 33" wide. Please if you do decide to go with that sink read my finished kitchen thread about that sink and cracks. Its an absolutely wonderful sink in just about every way but based on Garden Web threads it must be close to a 50/50 chance that your sink will have a small crack in it and you want to check for that first. Once they are installed I have never heard of them getting any cracks - its something with shipping or possibly install. As far as my mention of access to the disposal with dishes in the sink.. yeah with the sink grid I can still run it and such but I mean say you have some pots and pans in there and you are cutting veggies - you don't have direct access to the disposal anymore - very very minor inconvenience - I just throw them in a bowl and grind them up later when I've cleared room in the sink. I did not have to get a special disposal but the guy doing the plumbing had to redo all the plumbing aroung the sink - even cutting the back of the cabinet open to lower where the drain pipe enters the sink cab. Just make sure your GC or plumber knows how deep the sink will be and you'll be OK. I love the sink grid. The sink doesn't look as sexy with the grid in it but the usefulness more than makes up for it: A) raises the bottom up AND the sink grid is level while the bottom of the sink is not so it can drain B) all the food bits and gunk fall through the grid so your stuff in the sink doesn't get so gross :)...See MoreGoing from double sink to single sink
Comments (13)"I am leery of getting one big side and one small side, because we don't have a disposal, making the smaller side seem less useful to me." FWIW, I keep the large side of the sink (where I have the disposal BTW) open for general use by DH, and in my previous home that's the side the dishes and pots went in to soak. I use the smaller, normal sized side for the prep side. Ours is 33" wide, with the large bowl being about 14x18 and the smaller being about 14x16, and both are 8" deep. My husband also puts lots of dishes in the sink--and they're usually teetering--drives me nuts! I can't imagine prepping in the 24" single sink with the dishes and pans in it. Even with a larger single sink, it seems to me that he'd still have it covered with dishes that I'd have to do something with. In fairness to him, he leaves them there because I like to load the DW myself. "I can't clean up after him because he stands right in front of the dishwasher, as that is where the prep area is in the corner next to the stove." Can you post the kitchen design and get feedback from the great people here on how you might rearrange some of the work spaces to avoid the problem you have here? Anne...See MoreDouble sink vs single sink which do you prefer
Comments (42)I lived with doubles all my life and couldn't imagine having a single bowl sink until I read about them here and it finally dawned on me that I could have the best of ALL worlds with a single bowl sink. I handwash a lot of things. I use a small tub in my sink and throw things into hot sudsy water while I'm cooking. If I need the full sink I merely lift the tub out of the sink (still full of small items and water) and place it on the counter next to my sink. The thing about a single bowl sink is that it can be configured any way you want and the configuration can change multiple times while cooking. The single bowl sink can be configured as a: SINGLE BOWL--this is rare for me because I generally have multiple tasks happening in the sink at once. But when needed I can put sudsy water in the sink for washing large items. The sink is deep enough that there is plenty of room for rinse water to flow into the sudsy water. DOUBLE BOWL--As I mentioned above, I usually use a wash tub (or the largest pot or bowl I'm washing instead of the tub) making the single bowl into a double bowl. The tub can easily be lifted out to leave room for any other tasks I want. Dirty items are confined leaving the rest of the sink "clean." TRIPLE (or more) BOWL--The way I tend to use the sink the most. Sudsy tub of water at one end (or sudsy water in pot or bowl, taking up less room than the tub), colander draining at other end, center drain still clear with plenty of room available for draining water from pots and washing/peeling veggies. Each task takes up only the space needed without a permenant divider determining the amount of space I can use. I prefer to dry dishes in a dishdrainer on the counter (since there is better air flow than a drainer in the sink. For those concerned about germs, air drying is supposedly better than towel drying.) My mother keeps a dishdrainer in one side of her double and the dry dishes are constantly being splashed which seems to defeat the purpose. Plus if there's soapy water on one side and clean dishes on the other, there's no place to drain dirty water from pots. I'm used to a big open sink and I get frustrated by the confines of her sink when I try to wash large pots since I end up banging them into the barrier over and over. The tub I use in the single bowl is quite short which still leaves lots of space above it for manipulating items. I do have a prep sink on the other end of the kitchen from the main sink but since the main sink is in my prep and cooking area, it gets used for all types of cooking tasks. At this point, the only reason a double bowl sink would make sense to me is if there is a faucet at each bowl so that it can be a 2 person sink (taking the place of a second sink) but I still think I'd prefer a single sink with faucets placed at both ends....See More- 8 years ago
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