Kitchen sinks

[Threesocks]

I am planning my new kitchen and want a 1.5 bowl undermount sink in stainless steel. The sink unit itself will be 800mm.

I am completely lost in the options! The prices seem to be vary wildly and I am not sure what is good quality/value. Can anyone recommend any particular brands to look out for?

Thanks

Franke are a good brand. We have a 1.5 undermounted sink in a 600mm unit.

Carron - Franke sister company

www.carron.com/sinks

we have the Fiji 200 in white, had it 5 yrs now looks the same as the day i put it in.
much more forgiving on scratches than stainless

i have one BIG franke undmounted sink which i am VERY happy with. just to throw that into the mix - i've had one and a halves before but rarely used the half and the one wasn't big enough to put bakiing trays etc in flat to soak. so i do have a washing up bowl (which DH leaves sitting full of cold greasy water) but that is the only downside!

Thanks everyone - I will take a look at the suggestions

Caple is good too

Another vote for a big (rather than 1.5) sink. I have a Reginox wide bowl sink.

If you have one big sink, how does it work when you're washing up and need to pour away left over liquid (eg if one person is washing up and another is stacking the dishwasher)? Do you use a washing up bowl so you can tip liquids down the side...?

yes that's right. would be too big a waste of water not to use a bowl. but it comes into its own when you have a big roasting tin or baking tray u need to soak

Hmm, yes I see. At the moment we have 1.5 bowls, so no need for washing up bowl but we do have to leave large items to soak on the side rather than in the sink (this doesn't happen too often as I deliberately use small roasting pans!!). Need to weigh up my dislike of washing up bowls against my dislike of dirty pans soaking on the side!

I use a washing up bowl. I bought an additional attachment for my Reginox sink that sits like a shelf/draining board over half the sink. The washing up bowl slips underneath this shelf when not in use so I don't even see it most of the time. Reginox also do cutting boards that fit over half (or all of) the sink but I liked the shelf/drainer.

My requirements in a sink is a bowl big enough to take your favourite roasting tin complete sitting flat in it so it can soak, and a half sink to take the scourer, brush and cloth. My undermounted franke does just that !

We have a Blanco 1.5 in an 800 I think ..can fit a whole full width oven tray in there ..it's perfect ..wanted the half bowl too and not disappointed

Franke is good. We have a stainless steel rangemaster one (came with the house), 1.5 bowl, very happy with it.

didireally I would love that too... but I don't have space for that plus a decent draining area. Decisions, decisions!

I have a blanco at the moment, it's decent quality but annoyingly shallower than many (18 cm deep vs 20/21 for other brands) It's fairly old so they may have changed but all I say is do check the depth as brands vary.

Not all France sinks are the same quality. Our reasonably priced one was awful, it lost its shiny new look in days and from then on looked really cheap and scruffy regardless how much I descaled / dried /scrubbed / polished it.

I am installing a double sink - no drainer as I want to use the second sink as a sunken draining board as we are too lazy to dry up immediately and I am sick of dishes (clean and dirty) piled on the work top. I am also installing an additional small veg prep sink with Quooker tap on the island, near the hob, so pans can be filled with boiling water, pots drained, veggies rinsed and tea made out of the way of our messy washing up zone

@another20 can I please ask which specific sinks you are installing?