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Published: 2012-05-10 01:38:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 3108; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 200
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Description A work sink I designed and built for our mud room. Boy do I need it! A nice place to clean my brushes and fill the dogs' water container. It will be installed soon. Edge detail will include wood and tile pieces. Top pieces are travertine. This is a very low budget project. Materials besides the sink are no more than 60 dollars. Many pieces came from scrap pile. All joints are mortise and tenon. Should last forever. I hope.
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Comments: 5

Chialupa [2012-05-10 16:13:25 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! That horizontal support beam on the right side looks great for hanging stuff to boot. I'de have that in my house!

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Built4ever In reply to Chialupa [2012-05-10 23:28:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I thought about that too. The dog's water tank may go behind that also, not sure yet.

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cannibaljim [2012-05-10 03:07:36 +0000 UTC]

Looks great! I love how the sink comes away from the counter.

I have a question about the slots on the back piece, the ones for the boards that support the sides of the sink. They look awfully shallow. How can you be sure they'll take the weight of a sink full of water? Personally, I would have cut all the way through the back piece, since no one's going to see it anyway and it would provide more support.

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Built4ever In reply to cannibaljim [2012-05-10 10:52:16 +0000 UTC]

Possibly the only thing I wanted to change during the project was those mortises. Here's how I dealt with a thin backboard (3/4" material simply make it tight and snug and then glue and screw it on a straight level surface using four 2 and half inch screws each, which sucks the back board to the sink side AND gets the slight cup (warp) out of the backboard (low-budget project, remember?) It's ridiculously strong now. I might have used a heavier backboard. The side frames, by contrast, are not screwed at all, just mortise and tenon, no pegs either, insanely strong. You can park a SUV on the side frame. Front lower rail is the only weaker point, necessitated by lower sink clearance. I put a dado and a second 3/4" strip into it to make an L-shaped "angle iron." You can see the piece in the pics. Final finishing today, and trim strip coming soon. Good observation though...

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normandy24 [2012-05-10 01:56:11 +0000 UTC]

sweet!

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