Plumbing sink and dishwasher into kitchen island

[fishseddy]

I'm just doing some plans for a kitchen redesign on our new house, and would like to install an island with the sink and a dishwasher.

The floor is tiled with large stone tiles...seems like a daft question but I guess these would need to be dug up to install the plumbing..and so am I going to need a whole new floor? Gah!

We have the sink and dishwasher in the island in our kitchen. The floor is concrete so had to be dug out for hot and cold water feeds to be run to it and for drainage too. Concrete corrodes copper so the new pipework had to be lagged to protect it (the feeds previously came up through the floorboards in a different area of the kitchen). It depends where the existing feeds are whether you would need a new floor - if a few tiles can be lifted, channels dug out, pipework put in and the tiles relaid then it wouldn't necessarily be the case.

Gosh that sounds like a palava, I bet it's worth it now though :-) ok thanks hopefully it can be done without too much disruption. I hadn't really considered the idea that the could actually get the tiles off and relay them rather than smashing through them!

They may not be able to of course, but tiles which would end up under the island could perhaps be lifted and reused instead of changing the whole floor? Depending on how the channel for the pipework is dug out, it can be very messy/dusty.