Window sill near kitchen sink

Ziad Ahmad · 20 Oct 2019

Hi Everyone,
I just had a new kitchen fitted , and now the problem it's that the sink it's near the window sill and the water just go in the gap between the sill .
I was thinking just to put some silicon in between ti resolve the problem but will not really look nice .
So please can anyone advise what I can do?
Should I till the top of the sill and cut little tiles to put in the between of the kitchen surface and window sill ? Or theres something else that I can do without mess around it?

bobasd · 21 Oct 2019

what type of sink is that - it should be a sit-on sink if the work top is laminate?
another difficulty might be that the edge rim of your sink is sitting too close to the edge of the work top and the splash back.

could you post well lit photos showing clearly the gap at the back of the sink
and then stand back and show the whole sink and window board?

Ziad Ahmad · 21 Oct 2019

Ok that's all the photos that I have for now.

chris1982 · 21 Oct 2019

Perhaps you could overclad the window board with an angled/curved piece of uPVC, and silicone that to the worktop?

bobasd · 21 Oct 2019

i would guess there's not much you can now do to prevent water getting into your laminate work top - because anyone who would install a sink so close to the splash back would usually not take the trouble to seal all w/t edges at the back of the w/t, and in the cut-out.
the installer didn't know what he was doing.
and i suspect that the sink is too wide for that depth of w/t?

your proposal for tiling the gap on the w/t and up the wall a little might help for a while - but it will need siliconing where the tile meets the sink and at the wall abutment.
you would have to renew the silicone every 18 months or so.

but the job is a thoughtless bad job, and whatever you do wont keep the water out eg that the base unit might be too high or the window board too low were not taken into account.

Ziad Ahmad · 21 Oct 2019

bobasd said:
i would guess there's not much you can now do to prevent water getting into your laminate work top - because anyone who would install a sink so close to the splash back would usually not take the trouble to seal all w/t edges at the back of the w/t, and in the cut-out.
the installer didn't know what he was doing.
and i suspect that the sink is too wide for that depth of w/t?

your proposal for tiling the gap on the w/t and up the wall a little might help for a while - but it will need siliconing where the tile meets the sink and at the wall abutment.
you would have to renew the silicone every 18 months or so.

but the job is a thoughtless bad job, and whatever you do wont keep the water out eg that the base unit might be too high or the window board too low were not taken into account.

Exactly your right its will not be a finished job.
I maybe use the upcv cover as Christian suggested .
Or the alternative it's to proper take out the window sill but will be another mess if I had to rent it maybe it's best but if I live there I can just do some maintenance with some silicone after a while.

bobasd · 22 Oct 2019

and where would you find this particular, curve shape piece of plastic - the length of the window board?
an L - shaped piece of plastic would work for a while but wouldn't be permanent, and would look weird.

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