Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.
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What the christ dude.
Looks like you had your work cut out for you
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.
So, what's the real story here?
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.
My guess is that they followed the manual, skipping a few steps, glued the sink before cutting, panicked and then voilà.
What is the purpose of the little tiny sink on the left?
To be a sink.
Don’t sink shame bro
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???
The small one is to use as a sink when the big one is full of week old dirty dishes.
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
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.
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.
Rinsing sink, for kitchens with limited counter space. My kitchen is small and has one of these. It's just wide enough for one of these.
@BonesOfTheMoon wait, this isn’t a SovCit post!
Thought I'd try something new. I always have more sovcits though.
Some hipster design shit right there.
Any chance it's being held up by milk crates?
Modern Meth Man approach.
I'm more fascinated by the countertop. Although thin and probably composite rather than natural stone, it's still stone and that can get really expensive. It might honestly get more expensive to do this and fix it later than just do it right from the getgo.
Looks like corian, so plastic. So long as those cuts don't extend past the basin, it can be fixed with a router and a couple bits. If they do extend past the basin, probably bottom right, then you could fix it with resin and make it pass anything but a close inspection with some skill.
It might be the type of basin that drops in from the top, which would be easier to fix and would be more likely to hide the bad cuts under the flange.
Any idea what material the countertop is made of? Looks like acrylic.
I understand DIWhy is more for things that, no matter how well built they are, just shouldn't be done at all.
This is something that should be done.
Looks like one of the apes that cuts the counter tops at the RV factory I work at got released from his cage and was let loose on someone's home
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