• Sticker@lemy.nl
    414·
    11 months ago

    Apparently, the workers installed the countertop on top of the sink when the owner was not at home, and the wife signed the documents accepting the work.
    The dude had to cut holes with improvised tools.

    This is my version of what happened.

    • Wes@programming.dev
      5·
      11 months ago

      I’m thinking the workers drilled a couple of holes themselves while they were there. Just not in the countertop.

    • pigup@lemmy.world
      60·
      11 months ago

      Counters are installed whole like that sometimes. I can imagine that maybe the contractor’s router broke or was lost or stolen and they had to come back the next day with the router to cut the proper hole but in the meantime he just rough cut a couple holes with the buzz saw so that the homeowners can use their sink.

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        I’m not shaming! Maybe it’s something important? Maybe I need a tiny little extra sink next to my sink? What have I been missing out on???

        • m0darn@lemmy.ca
          11·
          11 months ago

          The small one is to use as a sink when the big one is full of week old dirty dishes.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
          3·
          11 months ago

          You definitely need a tiny little extra sink next to your sink.

          I don’t know how I lived without one to be honest.

      • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
        13·
        11 months ago

        Note the bottle of Fairy, the UK equivalent of Dawn. It’s not a waste disposal, it’s a fucking useless sponge holder, in my experience

          • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 months ago

            Waste disposal is a weirdly American thing. That’s why when you go on holiday and chuck your food down the drain like a special-needs kid discovering toilet roll for the first time, you have to phone people like me to fix it for you

            • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              11 months ago

              Where I live in the UK, food is placed in a compostable bag which are taken away weekly. They turn it into energy. Way better than blending it and putting down the drain.

              • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Fun fact, burning biomass is not very good as far as emissions go. In the US waste water treatment byproducts are typically methane and fertilizer, both bottled and sold. a much better place for all that carbon, imo.

                • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  11 months ago

                  It’s not burned. It goes to an Anaerobic Digester which produces electricity, gas and fertiliser.

            • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
              41·
              11 months ago

              weird, it’s common where I live (Poland, Europe)

              edit: common may be an exaggeration, I could probably list like 5 or 6 homes of my family members and close friends which do have it

              edit2: oh we also have Fairy so this may as well be in Poland lol

              edit3: the label in the photo is in English so it’s unlikely

      • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        They’re not common in the UK.

        The little sink is just that really. I use it for pouring liquids down the drain when washing dishes and the main sink is full of water.

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Is that common in newer homes? Is it a regional thing? I’ve only ever seen garbage disposals installed in the regular sink drain, I’ve never seen one that had it’s own dedicated little sink like that!

        • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          American here: never seen it another way. Always two sinks in one, and the one of them has a garbage disposal on it.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      11 months ago

      Emergency back up sink when you fill other one up with dirty crap. Designed to make you panic and hopefully do something about the real sink. I’ve always hated double sink designs. They just use a bunch of extra space that could have been more sink.

      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        No, it’s an insinkerater - it’s got a mechanical spinning/bludgeoning device (sorry for the crude imagery!) that reduces leftovers and carrot stubs and the like to a fine meal so it can go down the drain.

        I think it’s better than in the rubbish, was the thinking? Still not as good as compost, admittedly

        • lunarul@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          You mean a garbage disposal unit (insinkerator is just one brand). I’ve never seen those in the side sink, I’ve only had them in the main one.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            It’s not a separate sink, it’s a dual-chambered sink, it’s one big sink with a raised bit in the middle

            The real reason for separate sink areas is that one is for un-dirtying them (this side has the disposal usually) and the other side for rinsing

            Commercial sinks are usually 3-chambered (rinse, wash, sanitize)

      • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        My parents have one like it but with a sort of driptray in it so you can use it to wash fruits and vegetables, for example.

        • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          11 months ago

          Sure, some people like them. I’ll take a bigger sink and throw a strainer in it for that sort of thing though. Redid my kitchen a few years ago and threw in an obnoxiously large and deep rectangular pit of a stainless steel sink and it’s the best damn thing I’ve done to my kitchen. It even has a seamless extension that is a flat drying rack so you cut an even gianter opening in the granite and put that part over the dishwasher.

          • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            That we can agree on. Having worked in commercial kitchens a bit I wish every kitchen could be huge and stainless steel. Might actually cook for myself if that were the case.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 months ago

            I had to replace my kitchen faucet and got a nice one. I installed it and was liking it until I looked at the insert that advertised some other products they had and then I wanted a whole new sink as soon as I saw a picture. Their sinks had ledges along the front and back so that you could place add-ons like strainer baskets or grills that would sit flush with the sink and could slide around. It also seemed so obvious that I can’t believe these crappy sinks are the norm.

            Though I do prefer having a double sink (kinda wish I had a triple one tbh). Then you can do dishes in one and use the other to rinse instead of slowly filling the single sink more and more. Or let dishes pile up a bit in one sink without having to work around those dishes to do other things before you get to cleaning them. Plus it takes more water to fill a giant sink to the same depth as a smaller sink.

            Though a bowl inside a giant sink also works. Just give me those ledges and add-ons for whatever my next sink is.

            • shuzuko@midwest.socialEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Can confirm the giant steel basin sink with ledges is fucking awesome. We just installed one and I will never go back.