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Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.

Yo, calm down there Holmes. I'm a pro. I put gravel in there to filter out the big chunks.
- Hahahaha 👌
No. It goes to the piss drawer.
- If razors can go in the wall, why shouldn't piss go in a drawer? I gotta do some home improvement work to make this happen.
  I'm sure my landlord will appreciate the new piss drawer :D
That was pretty much my legit setup in my last rent house. I'm so so glad I finally got out of there.

What the christ dude.

It's called fashion look it up.
- I like people who are fashionate about their work

Looks like you had your work cut out for you

Nah, looks like they did it themselves
- DIwhy?

Let me get my pinking shears.

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.

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

YOU'RE DID IT!!!!

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.
- /thread.
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???
garburator
- 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
- garburator
  This will be a fun new addition to my vocabulary.
- 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.
- 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!
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.
- 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
- 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.
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.
- Ah yes the ol I have limited space so I will divide it in half. Do you by chance operate my company's budget? No money for raises but if we split it between hiring, decommissioning, and training we can make money from nothing.
- Have you got a link that isn't Amashite?
You can have one filled with water and the other freely draining for different steps of cleaning

@BonesOfTheMoon wait, this isn’t a SovCit post!

Thought I'd try something new. I always have more sovcits though.
- Well, DIWhy you holding out on us?!
- Those are my favorites on the fediverse so far, but this is also funny, so keep branching out!
Who do you think installed the countertop?

✨exquisite✨

Some hipster design shit right there.

It's rustic really.

Perfect 👌

Any chance it's being held up by milk crates?

Any chance it's not being held up by milk crates?

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.
- Repairs on marbled Corian can be pretty hard to match cleanly, so hopefully it isn't that. Whenever I've installed these we always cut the sinks out at the factory, but I guess you could use a router onsite 🤷

It’s got that rustic look to it.

Modern Meth Man approach.

The mythical meth man month

But the tap is perfect

Any idea what material the countertop is made of? Looks like acrylic.

Would guess Formica?
Maybe Corian.
- Yea that's my guess, or one of the cheaper brands like himacs if they are willing to fuck around with it like this haha
I'd actually love to know what kind of lightweight / cheap materials there are that hold up to at least 100°C heat?

Wash your dishes and slash your wrists in one easy step

"Don't worry about it boss, I already installed the sink myself."

Lol wtf

Diwhy

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.
- They why bit is, in my opinion, because the sink is meant to be dropped into the hole in the counter top to help keep moisture away from the underside.

Jesus Christ. Was there a shortage at the template factory or what?

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

If it works, it works 🤷

If home improvements was a mental illness

the upper left corner of the sink hole looks a bit weird

Just a little.

This is why Flex Tape ™️ was invented.

Oh fuck. It's not even particle board. Get out the grinder

Yeah that makes sense - at first I thought it was vinyl, but the huge cutting lines sorta look like a grinder being driven by anger and frustration
- It looks like acrylic, either some cowboys got a hold of some cheaper stuff and are wacking it in, or a tradie sent this pic back to his boss to give them a heart attack (the stuff is expensive af)

Lavate las manos!

Not seeing the problem here.

Is it that you forgot to install the garbage disposal?