I am looking to replace the sink in our kitchen and was wondering what would be a good quality replacement. We need a one and a half bowl unit with drainer on the left, the most important thing is the design of the waste outlets. The current cheapo sink seems to have flat bottoms to both bowls which means the waste outlets stand proud and water collects in the bottom.
So I am looking for a one and a half bowl sink with well designed waste outlets that do not allow water to collect. I would prefer if it were specifically a left-handed drainer (rather than a reversible) as I find the blanking plate for the tap hole at the front of the sink unattractive.
Are you looking to replace the worktop too? Because if not, you'll probably find that your choice of sinks is severely limited by what will fit the existing cut-out. Obviously that can be made bigger if need be, but not smaller!
I've been perfectly happy with the IKEA sink I've had for a couple of years. The sink is reversible, but has no tap holes at all. They supply a hole cutter to make a hole, but I prefer to mount the tap behind the sink in the worktop, which makes it much more rigid. The IKEA sinks had a much lower profile and better shaped rim around the edge than the others I saw. The one issue with them is that the waste kit doesn't match UK wastes, so I used about half of it, sawn off and coupled to a UK U-trap.
I fitted a Franke Papillion sink that matches your requirements: the draining board is on the left, then
1/2 bowl then full bowl. The sinks are 'handed' and not reversible. My wife liked the overall look of the Stainless-steel sink, And I was impressed by the design and quality. The draining board has grooves leading to its own drain. The half bowl has a central drain hole at the deepest part while the full bowl's drain is to the 'top-left' _ back_ of the bowl and is 'approached' by a sloping channel. All three water -sources drain beautifully and are serviced by a cunningly contrived Franke drain manifold which is five ports in and one port out. All purchased as a 'Designer's Kit' (off the internet). and much cheaper than other retailers (MFI -JLP) were asking for just the tap. The design meant that the drain manifold is tight into the top left-hand side of the 600mm cabinet leaving the central volume of the under-sink cabinet free. The drain manifold had port-adaptors for washing machine/dishwasher outlets but I don't utilise these and closed off the unused ports with the supplied blanking plugs. [The pipery supplied with the drain-kit did have to be (carefully) - offered-up, marked, and cut to. length after the sink was set into the worktop and the manifold connected to the waste pipe going through the wall.} The out-port consists of a U-Bend that mated onto standard bought-in-a-shed waste pipe.
I was really impressed by the excellent well thought out design and [Swiss] workmanship of the ensemble.
I'd definitely buy this sort of thing again .... and search out the 'Designer' package.
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