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Back to stupid sink in wooden worktop chat again -
Viewing places today I spotted one of these that had gone wrong in the way @TW describes - black rotten sealant around the worktop and sink edge. It was fucked.
Looks like if you cut the worktop too close to the edge of the sink, and leave the water nowhere to go, the water gets trapped where the two are close together and sealant makes it worse by retaining the water.
Ours has no sealant, the worktop has about a 1” overhang with about .5” gap vertically before the sink edge. There’s a small gap around the sides and back of the sink. Water going up out of the sink and over the lip is going to drop down the side or back of the sink then run on the tiled floor behind, presumably where it can do less damage.
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