Kitchen Sinks

In fact, during kitchen remodeling, the kitchen sink is normally the first thing to go. Kitchen sinks come in many shapes, configurations and available in various materials. Selection of material largely depends upon your budget and the look you want. If you don’t have enough budget to change your old kitchen sink with the new one, you still can get new look of kitchen sink by simple tricks. All you have to do just changing your kitchen sink faucet. This is the key to making your kitchen sink look new.

Today there is a much wider choice in the type and design of faucets for the kitchen sink. Kitchen faucets evolve from basic on / off valves for delivering water to a sink into beautiful pieces of artwork. When choosing a new kitchen sink faucet, consider one with a functional “carbon block” filters. This filter can reduce common impurities such as chlorine and lead.

Replacing old faucet is easy remodeling project that you can do by yourself. The first step to replacing faucet is removing an old sink faucet. How to remove an old sink faucet:

1. To remove the old faucet, first shut off the water, either at the supply stop valves or at some other valves in the water supply lines.
2. Clear away everything from under your sink for a clutter-free workspace.
3. The hardest part of replacing a faucet on a kitchen sink is loosening the nuts that hold the faucet onto the sink (by Creative Publishing International). Spray penetrating oil on tail-piece mounting nuts and supply tube coupling nuts. Remove the coupling nuts with a basin wrench or channel-type pliers.
4. Remove the tailpiece mounting nuts with a basin wrench or channel-type pliers. Basin wrench has a long handle that makes it easy work in tight areas.
5. Remove faucet. Use a putty knife to clean away old putty from surface of sink. If reusing the sink, clean the surface with mildly abrasive non-chlorine cleanser.

Granite is a popular choice for kitchen sink material, as it is extremely durable as well as beautiful. Granite kitchen sink is expensive and require some periodic maintenance for optimal appearance, performance and durability. When you buy granite kitchen sink you will get maintenance instruction from the manufacturers. Follow maintenance instruction to keep your granite look beautiful.

Besides following maintenance instruction from manufacturer, you can also maintain your granite by simply do the following: Read the rest of this entry »

It seems that drains get clogged at the most inconvenient times, the fact is that drains warn us ahead of time with slow drain and we tend to ignore it until it’s too late. Follow these simple steps to keep your drains running freely in kitchen sinks and elsewhere in the house, these tips may save you a plumbing bill (by L. Baird and M. Moore):

Never pour used cooking grease down the kitchen sink. If your sink isn’t fitter with a garbage disposal, scrape food and grease off dirty dishes into the trash so that they don’t go down the drain. Read the rest of this entry »

At one time or another each of us has faced a clogged sink, usually after an afternoon of cooking something up in the kitchen. No plumbing problem is more common, more frustrating, and cause to the greater inconvenience to the entire family than a clogged drain.

Kitchen sink drains clog most often because of a buildup of grease, and food particles that get caught in the grease and gradually build up a deposit which, in time, closes the drain completely. Read the rest of this entry »