The undermount sink should have been attached to the counter with a bead of silicone and cleats that screw into a depression on the underside of the counter. Faucet location has no effect on this. If it was installed correctly, you'll have no issue replacing it. If it was installed differently, you might have a problem changing sinks, and may want to have your sink repaired instead. You'll have to have a plumber take a look and give you an estimate. By quartz, you mean the manufactured acrylic and stone chip counter, correct? These are a little more rigid and tougher to repair (should there be a crack) than solid surface acrylic counters, but again, as long as the sink was installed properly your counter should be just fine. I've found both Ebay and Amazon.com to be good sources for sinks and plumbing supplies in general. If you're going to choose a stainless steel sink, go for the lower guage (16 vs. 18) if you can afford it, and check out the SS sink thread (below) from a week or so ago on this forum. I have never understood why anyone with a dishwasher would want a two bowl sink, so as far as your sister's comment, it's a little outdated. In the olden days these were useful for washing dishes on one side and rinsing on the other. Today we tend to use sinks for food prep and disposal before loading the dw. Two smaller compartments make the sink less useable: which side gets the garbage disposal? How do you wash large roasting pan with that wall in the middle of your sink? I'm sure you will find the single bowl much more useful. I doubt either will have much effect on resale. Here is a link that might be useful: Stainless

I have a stainless single-basin Vigo undermount that measures 32" wide by 19" deep...that will hopefully be installed today (by me). This style of sink doesn't have an island or an insert for the faucet to be mounted, so a 22" deep sink wouldn't work for "standard" installations -- our faucet needs about 3" of clearance behind it for the handle to operate fully. So, from the front of the counter, we have: 2 inches of counter lip (on the skinny side) 19 inches of sink 1 inch (approx.) between sink and faucet hole 2 inches (approx) for faucet body 3 inches (approx) rear clearance for faucet handle We had to make the counters 27" deep to accommodate -- adding another 3 inches of sink would make a 30" deep counter, which wasn't an option in our space.

La koala wrote- "Actually, I'm very intrigued by the idea of this Sink Setter. Do you think it would be viable/helpful in this situation: I want to have a 30 inch undermount single-bowl sink in a 33 inch cabinet. The Ticor description says the sink fits into the cabinet--but I think that the little clips that come with the sink aren't going to work in this case, and the sides of the cabinet will have to be scooped out to allow the sink to fit in the inside. I read somewhere on this forum that scooping the sides reduces the strength of the cabinet, so the support for the sink is less than if you didn't have to scoop the sides. So, do you think the Sink Setter would be a good solution for bracing in that situation?" We are installing a 25" undermount sink into a 24" cabinet-totally pushing it. It requires shaving the sides of the cabinet, and notching the top of the cabinet sides to make space for the flanges. The sink cabinet has been wood-reinforced along the front and back to compensate, and the sides of the next cabinets help too. Like you we don't have room for clips, and little room for many bracing systems. I found out about the sink setter on another forum oriented towards DIYers. We ordered ours online for CAN$28. My engineer husband was very pleased with the design of it because it fully supports the weight of the sink and plumbing - there is no reliance on caulking/epoxy for weight support. Here is a link that might be useful: a DIY thread that I learned a lot from This post was edited by feisty68 on Tue, Apr 1, 14 at 12:53

Wrote this once before signing up. Guess I have to start over.... So we got a new granite countertop (Monday morning) as our laminate one was falling apart. Planned to put our own sink back in to save on costs. We got it out the day before with much tribulation due to rusted clips and U channels. The countertop installers cut the hole for our old sink. But we had decided last night to replace that old sink. Found one the sane size and type at a good price to pickup Monday afternoon. So our new sink wasn't here for the installers. To our dismay, the new sink will not sit flush in the hole. The U channels must sit in a different place than on the old because they don't all fit in the hole. I didn't measure front to back but I did measure width. The hole is just under 32" wide and the outside of the U channels are just over 32" wide. So it doesn't fit. I figure, from reading the comments here, that we have 4 choices. 1) See if installers will come back out and enlarge the hole. 2) Figure out how to do it ourselves. (Granite?!) 3) Remove 2 U channels (I figure back and right side). 4) Return the new sink and reinstall the old one without clips.