Belfast sink affixing.

[Bogart]

Am going to fit a new Belfast sink into a new unit designed for one. Am unsure re fixing it in. Do I just rely on its weight to keep it there or maybe bed it onto a layer of mastic?

 

[parkview094]

I've recently fitted a double belfast sink. The plumbing and the weight of it means I'm pretty sure it's not going anywhere, so I didn't fix it in any way other than a bead of mastic between it and the worktop to make a neat joint.

 

[Bogart]

Thought as much as it is all I can do to lift it. Now it is interesting you used mastic between worktop and sink. All the Belfast sink jigs one sees has a channel to route a 'drip channel' groove on the underside of the worktop and around the outside of the sink recess, 5-6mm from the worktop edge. Now as one is supposed to position the sink so that the worktop overlaps by about 10mm I could put a mastic bead around the worktop too, so any water meets the drip channel first and then the mastic. Am loathe to spend about £50 odd pounds on a sink jig as a one off, am sure I can cobble up something else.

 

[CliffordPope]

Thirty years ago I fitted a Belfast sink in a tiled worktop, with the tiles just overhanging the top of the sink. It seemed the fashionable thing to do then.

But now, I'm not so sure I like the inevitably discoloured line as the grout or sealant gets that ageing mouldy look, and wish I'd set the sink traditionally on independent brick columns or an open wooden frame with shelf under, with a small gap between worktop edge and a moveable draining board overhanging the gap and the edge of the sink.

Pictures in modern popular magazines of "country kitchens" look phoney. But then worktops don't really go in a Period Property anyway.

 

[Bogart]

I would be interested in what you think does go then?