We want to remove our cultured marble vanity tops but want to re-use our
china sinks. We are not sure of the best way to un-attach the sink from
the marble without breaking the sink. Any ideas?

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On 11/23/2014 06:44 PM, Waid wrote:
We want to remove our cultured marble vanity tops but want to re-use our
china sinks. We are not sure of the best way to un-attach the sink from
the marble without breaking the sink. Any ideas?




Look underneath and it should be pretty obvious,

sinks generally clamp to the counter.

I'm presuming that this is a sink that "drops in" to the counter top. If so, there should be clips underneath it holding it in place as Philo says.

You need to remove (or at least loosen) those clips, then remove any caulking around the perimeter of the sink, and then pry it up.

Use this tool, which you should be able to find in every hardware store, to pry the sink up:

http://cdn3.volusion.com/kmj3v.qwgs5...jpg?1403533231

It's actually called a "bee keeper's bar" but it's typically sold as a combination pry bar and scraper. It's good for this kind of work because it's got a thin enough edge to get under the lip of the sink.

Also, your sink may have silicone caulk around it. If so, look in the caulking aisle of any hardware store for a product called "Silicone-Be-Gone" to remove that old silicone completely, Silicone-Be-Gone doesn't dissolve the silicone caulk, it just makes it swell up and get soft so that it can be removed by mechanical means. If you're throwing the old counter top out, it doesn't matter if you scratch it with razor blades, but I would use something less aggressive to remove the silicone from your china sink, like the WHITE Scotchbrite pads sold in grocery stores for scouring delicate objects.

Normally, Scotchbrite pads have an abrasive impregnated right into the fiber they're made of, but the white pads don't have any abrasive at all in their nylon fiber.

I'm not wanting to be critical, but this thread is a perfect example of how people think.

The OP didn't bother to specify whether his china sink is a drop in or an undermount sink.

That could be because he/she didn't realize there was such a thing as an undermount bathroom sink for a vanity, but more often than not, it's because it was obvious to the original poster what kind of sink it was, and so they felt there was no need to explicitly specify that in their post.

One of the hardest things for people to do is to recognize where something that is obvious to them won't be obvious to someone else. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone posted that they wanted to install "tile" in their bathroom, but didn't say whether they were talking about wall tiles or floor tiles. And, the reason for not specifying the kind of tile is that it's blindingly obvious to the poster what he or she means. They know exactly what they mean, and so they fail to recognize that someone else wouldn't.

I'm not being critical, I'm just pointing out that when you try to explain something to someone else, you pretty much have to go on the assumption that they know absolutely nothing about the situation, and so you have to specify everything, however obvious those facts may seem to you.