They are meant to be installed in a corner.
I get it, but speaking as someone who used to design kitchen layouts for a living: Don’t put your sink in the corner. Just don’t.
Also, this has one major “feature” above and beyond the usual diagonal sink in a corner cabinet, in that you can swivel the faucet into the middle position and dispense water directly onto your floor. Genius!
swivel the faucet into the middle position and dispense water directly onto your floor
Or directly into a bucket.
How often I’m filling buckets vs. how often I’d accidentally spill water on the floor.
Would be a bad idea for me
I’m pretty sure you’d get used to it after the first few times it happens. We accommodate to the limitations of many technologies on a nearly constant basis, often without consciously making those adjustments.
I’m pretty sure you’d get used to it after the first few times it happens
You underestimated my ability to not learn from mistakes.
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Plastic floor bucket to sit on your floor.
$679
Ah. I see you found the “accessories” appendix of the KraftMaid catalog.
That’d be awesome for me. I’m always giving my kids hot baths in a little tub out in the backyard. They love it but I have to haul the water out there.
There are two things you never put in a corner: sinks and Baby.
If you have a faucet can swivel, you could probably always put it somewhere to spill directly on the countertop. Still ugly design, though.
The floor thing is awesome. You can easily fill a big barrel without a hose.
Just get a faucet with a hose. Helps with cleaning/rinsing dishes, too, especially if it has a good high pressure setting.
I was joking… Although maybe some people took it seriously.
I mean I guess in case of emergency as in I do not want to go to the store for a hose just for this one time thing…
Doesn’t the faucet travel over the corners so it wouldn’t spill on the floor (much anyways) without pulling the faucet out?
You just have to be very fast
No. Look at it in the picture. The gooseneck in it comes forward quite long enough to at the very least hit the countertop in the middle of the corner, and most of that water will either spill onto the floor if it doesn’t hit it directly.
The same gooseneck can spray outside the confines of the sinks away from the bench edge as well. There’s around 180° of movement the tap can make behind the sinks that would cause water to not fall into the sink as well. There are many wrong ways to use taps in regular sinks as well; I think spilling water between the sinks would be a self-correcting issue after the first few times it happens.
My ex has the regular sink diagonally in the corner- and she’s too short. It has to be farther back from the edge of the counter to miss the corner. However she’s 5’2” (and overweight) so it’s harder to reach, enough to be an annoyance every time she washes dishes.
Just don’t put your sink in the corner. There is no good solution
So what I’m hearing is that the corner sink causes divorces.
Yeah this seems like something you would do if the space didn’t permit anything else. Which is the case sometimes. But it’s not something to elect when you have other options.
That does tend to happen. Even without swiveling the faucet, moving dishes between basins causes a bit of a puddle to develop. Thankfully I have a tiled floor so it doesn’t matter too much.
Perfect for when you need to mop the kitchen floor-- no bucket required /j
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Go back to your basement since you obviously have never done any chores that include using the kitchen sink
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No, it’s a poor
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If someone is forced to use a tool in a manner that it wasn’t designed to be used in and a mistake happens, that’s neither the designer’s or user’s direct fault; it is the implementor’s fault.
You can be as careful and attentive as you can muster but that doesn’t change the fact that contrary design solutions were implemented and have rendered the use of the tool (the sink) both non-ergonomic and unintuitive. This will lead to accidents.
Words typed by someone who has never had to manage a child or teenager.
This makes so much more sense. Still wouldn’t want it, but I get it.
Yep, and they are actually awesome! I personally hate washing dishes when there’s a pile of them in front of you because of all the splashing. This layout makes cleaning so much easier. Additionally, you can put up some stuff for defrosting in the second sink
Finally, was wondering where exactly these things would have been used 😮
#oddlysatisfying
Yes, but that particular sink happens to be named “Baby”.
Could you just not put it there? I never known any sink in existence that is plumbed into the corner of the room, so presumably the piping has been redirected so that you need a corner sink, it’s literally the very definition of a solution looking for a problem and indeed a problem has to be created so the solution is required.
Probably thinking of bars applications too.
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Or just a cramped dive bar, that and a troth.
…trough
I’m a programmer and this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside 🫠
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Show us the plumbing under the sink!
Still not centered.
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I can just imagine the dad who ordered the wrong sink refusing to admit his mistake and just cutting the hole weird.
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This is probably it. Whatever was on clearance or fell off the truck is what they installed, logic be damned.
It does not matter if it was on sale or not. Somebody thought it is a good idea to produce this kind of sink, and they went ahead with it.
My guess is the handyman special. Bought the wrong hardware for another client months ago, and finally found a sucker that bought the “hey, I have a brand new sink that never got installed from another job collecting dust. I’ll hook you up”
Tetris themed kitchen +$150/month
Ironically they cut the corner that the sink was supposed to go to
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Unless they went to a scratch-and-dent or secondhand place, then I can imagine it’d be a lot cheaper
Probably has a Habitat for Humanity Restore in the area. (It’s a thrift store that specializes in residential construction donations, so you can find sinks, cabinets, doors etc there)
I was just about to comment about ReStore. We’ve gotten some neat furniture (and discount countertops!) at two of our local ones.
The fact that this sink doesn’t have a channel for overflow from one sink to the other and has no other obvious overflow control is really bothering me…
That defeats the purpose of a kosher sink.
This
Kitchen sinks don’t usually have an overflow
Edit: I was thinking about bathroom sink style overflow
They usually overflow into the other side of the sink. There is a raised rim along the outside, and the area between the two is very slightly lower. This means that the water will overflow into the other side.
Of course if both are full, all bets are off.
I was thinking about an overflow like you see on bathroom sinks!
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Sinks that are directly next to each other are usually separated by a divider that’s lower than the counter. I assume that’s what he’s talking about
Dunno about “usually”. Our last house was fairly nice, but didn’t have this sink feature. That said, you could walk around and see where the builder went for the cheapest option available.
That said, this kitchen sink feature should literally be the absolute minimum for consideration.
It’s getting less common because it looks cleaner and functions better to have the divider flush with the sides. My sink is flat on top and it’s better because I can set what I’m washing out of the sink. It does get scratched up over time though.
Cheap sinks have the rim they are describing. Expensive sinks usually have a low or no divider. It’s the mid teir that is going flush on top for some reason. It’s a completely useless feature IMO that makes the sink less useful.
This guy knows sinks.
While it would still be an abomination to me, it’s not impossible that the overflow holes are on the near walls which are not visible from this angle.
But it does… Both sinks are set into it slightly. It’s not fantastic but it should still work, assuming the counter is mostly level.
It’s actually called a Slayer sink cause it’s double basin.
If you took the corner sink (installed not in a corner like that) but with a 3rd triangular sink in between the others… it would be terrible in entirely new ways!
You can buy a second one, thats a big plus!
Yeah, that could be mainly used for washing hands and rinsing.
Thank god for the red line, I wouldn’t be able to understand this meme without it.
Cock-and-ball sink
Yeah some shitbird was probably abusing a contractor and said “I don’t care just get it done” at some point.
If there was a third sink in-between I could see this working.
Or it was installed in a corner
That looks like a right faff to use.
I’m imagining a contractor telling the previous homeowner that they got the wrong sink, and the previous homeowner screaming at them to “just do your job and fix it” lol
I put one of these in a Victorian which had a kitchen being brought up to code. Doors and windows cut up the kitchen wall space, leaving this as an elegant solution to have an efficient kitchen. I did have to reinforce the seams behind and at the chevron cut at the sink edge. I liked working at the sink. Dishes were easy to reach, and water did not splash when handwashing dishes, but making more room for modern appliances was nicer. If the kitchen was not destroyed in a flood, I would still have it. I liked it.
I have this one. It’s not that bad actually, once you get used to it.
I worked with one. Soap scum stays on that middle metal thing because you’re transferring plates from one to another, and it’s always get pretty wet. It’s weird but how it looks like in the photo is extra weird.
Yeah. It’s slightly messy, but it’s ergonomic enough. I’m not sure why you’d choose to install it not in a corner, though; I guess they liked the way it looks but never actually do the dishes themselves?
It’d be better to have the three-sink setup they have in commercial kitchens which are stacked next to each other so you can move a dish to the next without dripping water all over the counter.
I’ve only seen these and never used one. So I do not understand what is mildly infuriating about them. Is it just that water will spill if the faucet is in the middle?
