How To Make A Sink Out Of A Ceramic Bowl

This post describes how to use a large bowl to make a sink.

How to make a sink out of a ceramic bowl.

Common examples are earthenware porcelain and brick. To naturally bleach your ceramic sink start by cutting a lemon into several wedges. Take each wedge and rub it around the basin of the sink making sure to squeeze out plenty of lemon juice on the ceramic. The crystallinity of ceramic materials ranges from highly oriented to semi crystalline vitrified and often completely amorphous e g glasses.

Turn the ceramic piece over onto a circular bat and place the bat on the potter s wheel. Remove the bowl make another pilot hole and use the steel hole saw to cut the drain hole out of the vanity. Then mark your sink location remember measure twice cut once and install the sink like you would in any other vanity. I made those spit bowls for a dentist supply business in the 80 s out of porcelain if you recall the water flowed around the bowl and one would spit into the small sink next to chair i must have throw 50 80 of these in a 6 8 year period i used mason stains for matching the formica colors.

Attach the sink drain check your cuts by placing the bowl and drain assembly on the counter to make sure everything lines up. Buy a serving bowl that you can fit your hands in you will look silly taking bowls off store shelves and sticking your hands in them just like i did for several months. Drill a hole in the base of the bowl. Trim a foot ring on the bottom with a loop tool.

Cut the scalloped edges from the rim of the sink. Bowls are commonly made out of clay or porcelain which make them perfect to use as a vessel sink. To make the vessel sink we used a serving bowl a chrome pipe kit similar to this and sink drain. I redecorated our downstairs in a southwestern style and used an old tredle sewing machine base to hold the sink.

A ceramic is any of the various hard brittle heat resistant and corrosion resistant materials made by shaping and then firing a nonmetallic mineral such as clay at a high temperature. Smooth the edges with a wet sponge. It describes the types of bowls that are suitable and mentions potential pitfalls in making it into a sink. Short and long of it.

Once you re satisfied use a waterproof epoxy to attach the bowl to the countertop. I had to make a top for it and a base to raise it up about three inches. One solution is to use a bowl as the vessel sink. You can use the tough skin of the lemon to scrub at stains or other darkened areas.

Keep in mind that the cost will differ between the bowls due to the quality of the materials used to manufacture them but they are equally easy to clean source.