something is off - but what?

16 years ago

There are a lot of things going wrong with our kitchen remodel. Thankfully DH has learned that hiring friends/family is often NOT the way to go. The newest problem is the sink. Backstory: we bought a kitchen from an upscale house being renovated. It included, among other things, the cabs, corian counters, and sink. The cost to refabricate the corian is too much and we already had most of what we would need in Ikea butcherblock for the counters. We bought a couple more pieces last week.

The counters are 25.5" wide, giving us about 1 or 1.5" overhang. I assumed that was a standard width, was I wrong? We are using the same sink cabinet that was used in the previous kitchen. It has a tilt out drawer front. Our carpenter says he will have to make it a false drawer front because the sink doesn't fit. How can that be? It's the same sink, the same cabinet. Honestly it doesn't even look like my faucet is going to fit! Are my counters more narrow than normal? Is it because we don't have a backsplash (we're just painting the wall)?

I know what happened with all the other crap that has happened so far (often his fault. sigh). But I don't know what's going on here.

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remodelfla
16 years ago
I don't know why it won't fit but why can't you bump out the cab a bit to fit everything? A little creative carpentry work will cover anything to make it look seamless and purposeful.
eastbaymom
16 years ago
When our countertop installer got to the stage of cutting our sink hole into the countertop, he was concerned at first that the hinges for the sponge tilt-out were going to interfere with the sink placement. Somehow, though, he was able to install the sink with the tilt-out front removed, and then put the hinges back in a slightly different way so that everything just fit.

I'd encourage him to keep thinking.
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blackcats13
Original Author
16 years ago
Well, I no longer trust his "creative carpentry" skills. That's what caused some of our previous issues (like a 3 - 4 inch gap between the end of an upper cab and the wall). I will mention changing the hinges, but I think I'm going to have to take his "solution" or come up with one on my own. He also wanted my counter seating overhang to be 10, max 12". I had to insist on 15". Argh, I'm just so fed up and done!
chicagoans
16 years ago
blackcats, that's very strange about things not fitting together again. Counters at 25.5" deep is pretty standard. Unless the previous owners had a wall-mounted faucet, it seems like your faucet would just go into the hole that's already there.
blackcats13
Original Author
16 years ago
Yes, I thought so too! And it just occurred to me, what if we did have a tile backsplash? There'd be even less room. I'll have to ask DH to go over it with him tomorrow. Despite all his complaining about how long its taking he's not here again today. Wish I'd been tracking his hours so I could show him why its not done yet!

Yesterday I had to put my foot down over the placement of the cab for the peninsula. The way he had it the open door and pullout shelves blocked the dishwasher - something I refuse to deal with again. His complaint was that moving it caused the counter overhang there to be bigger than the overhang elsewhere! DH can deal with this one!