Undermount Farmhouse Sink With Laminate Countertop

We always put a bucket of glue on top of our sinks and let it sit over night to help bonding of laminate to the sink rim.

Undermount farmhouse sink with laminate countertop.

Using laminate bevel edging with high def laminate and a karran under mount sink you can easily fool the casual eye. If you are installing a farmhouse sink on existing laminate counters your best option is to choose a sink that is best suited for a retrofit installation i researched many different options and the best ones i could find are the kohler vault apron front kitchen sinks and i m not sponsored by kohler. A topmount farmhouse sink although it will work with any kind of countertop is a particularly good choice for a butcherblock countertop since you don t have to worry about water damage to the exposed edge of the countertop next to the sink. Undermount sinks these sinks sit completely underneath the.

When we decided to go with laminate countertops for our kitchen i thought my wish for an undermount sink was impossible. Installing a farmhouse sink on laminate counters. They can be installed on any type of counter surface. If you re pairing a farmhouse sink with a laminate countertop you will have to use a topmount.

I love the process that karran has developed to enable countertop fabricators to undermount sinks on laminate. Flush mount sinks they sit even with the top of the counter. This means an entirely different mounting procedure is necessary for an undermount sink with laminate countertops. The edge of standard mounted sinks can get icky from food build up and other grime.

Having the sink mounted under the countertop is brilliant clean and neat. They typically require a solid surface or custom made laminate top. Squeeze out of solid surface adhesive is critical to a good seal. To be undermounted to high pressure laminate a sink must have an approximately 1 wide rim that is made from a resin has been machined completely flat and meets the bowl wall at a sharp 90 degree angle.

Because the mdf under laminate countertops gets ruined when it gets wet you can t install a normal undermount sink. I am seriously in love with my undermount stainless steel sink. Water gets in there swells the mdf and warps your countertops. There s a flange that sits on the countertop just like a regular sink.

The sink installs flush to the laminate not below the surface of the counter to prevent water from soaking into the particleboard. They re the easiest to install.