![]() With help I got the sink lowered off its crumbling stand onto a skid upside down. The height I hadn’t wrestled with in my mind, but the opening I knew would be perfect. 0:00 / 2:42 Installing our Vintage Concrete Sink in our New Laundry Room Traci BeneathMyHeart 7. If it is a steel tub sink with concrete, youll have to cut. The opening measured 12″ x 12″ with a height of 9.25″. If it is cast iron covered with concrete, you should be able to bust it all up with a sledge hammer. I have been scouring craigslist and eBay to see if I could find one somewhat close to me that is in pretty good shape. Valuable Contain high amounts of Portland cement and wire mesh reinforcing WATCH concrete epoxy video below Use Stain Solver oxygen bleach to deep clean concrete CLICK HERE to Get Tim's FREE & FUNNY Newsletter DEAR TIM: I have a 1938 Cape Cod stone house with a behemoth laundry sink in the basement. ![]() I have a love affair with them right now, and I am thinking of trying to hunt one down to put in our new laundry room. All I needed to do was find a drain that would cover both holes in my sink, something approximately 7″ x 7″ in size.įurther searches led me to an Oatey Floor-Mounted Utility Sink with 3-Inch Socket, which I was able to order from Amazon. WOOHOO Today, I wanted to talk about concrete sinks. With that my idea to salvage my sink was born. The pan had a hole in the center that connected to the plumbing. These sinks took a long linear trough like pan andĪttached it underneath the sink to capture all the water that fell through the slot of the sink, like this one shown to the left. It led me to sites of modern, slot drain sinks. The restorer in me couldn’t accept that, so not to be deterred I started doing Internet searches on vintage concrete sinks. ![]() Bust it up with a sledgehammer and buy a plastic utility sink was the consistent advice. The construction of those sinks was such that the metal drain was actually set in the concrete itself. I took these pictures and the broken piece to several plumbing stores and everyone told me the sink could not be fixed. When I removed the tape and hose, so that I could connect it to my plumbing the metal piece broke off. The drain holes for each side met and emptied in the center via a metal piece that was rusted and taped to a rubber hose that pointed towards a drain in the basement floor.
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