Should wooden worktops be in one piece with belfast sink

by **Maggie66** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:59 am

I have had a new kitchen fitted with wooden worktops and a belfast sink. The worktops are in two pieces with a"tap bar" joining them, should this not be one workshop with a space cut out for the sink?

I really don't like it and the kitchen compny have told me that this is the one they are normally fitted.

Thanks

by **steve61** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:03 pm

Hi Maggie,

Would it be possible for you to post a picture so we can be sure what your query relates to?

If it's what I think you mean ( a jointing strip ) butting the two pieces together, then IMHO it's a bodge job - most fitters will butt a joint using biscuits/glue to give a neat finish.

Steve :D

by **matthew-1984** » Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:13 pm

Hello Maggie.

Sounds like the kitchen company are trying to avoid extra work by just cutting two straight edges rather than routing out a sink cutout.

Is this more what you were thinking of:

Google "oakworktops.com/worktops/oak-worktops.html"

the last picture in the gallery. It has the tap set into the worktop.

Matthew.