So, who has an undermounted sink?

[Mellin]

We are planning our new kitchen and undermounted sinks seems really popular at all the kitchen centre we have visited. They look nice and modern, but I am worried about practical issues (silly me).

Does anyone have one in their kitchen? Doesn't water go all over the benchtop when you put things out to drain? Do you get water/limescale streaks over the worktop? Are they worth the effort?

PS....Undermounted sinks being where the sink sits underneath the kitchen worktop. Usually in stone or Corian-type worktops as far as I can tell....

Do you mean a sink that's fitted into worktop?

We have one, in a granite worktop. Is fab. You don't get those manky bits round the edges that you do with surface-mounted ones.

We have drainer grooves cut into the granite. They're fine but would probably be annoyingly inadequate if I did a lot of washing up, which I don't. Most things go straight in the dishwasher.

When there is water all over the drainer section I am just careful to wipe it up quickly.

I have. Not had any problems with draining - the worktop is moulded to drain water. Even when I turned the tap on almost full blast without looking right over the drainer it was fairly contained and just ran off into the sink

Interesting, I do hate those manky bits around the edges of stainless tray we have now. And am always trying to get the limescale marks out of that I suppose.

Do you leave stuff out to drain on the worktop much?

Sometimes. Which sometimes means coming back later to little pools of water but I just wipe them up and it seems to be fine. If it was everyday there'd probably be a little limescale issue but I'd say as long as you are vigilant with not allowing pools of water to sit there on a regular basis you'll be fine.