Sink in Kitchen Island - What Does that Add to the Price?

11 years ago

IÃ¢ÂÂm interested in feedback as to what putting a sink and dishwasher in a kitchen island weÃ¢ÂÂre adding, adds to the price of the kitchen job. Complicating things is that we have nice hardwood floors and a nice tin ceiling in that room that we prefer to keep (the tin ceiling is higher priority, we could replace the floor if we had to). We just added a header over the future kitchen island after taking out the wall between two rooms to make room for the island, and weÃ¢ÂÂll need a column/post (and might have two posts for symmetry, book-ending the island). Can we keep the floor and/or tin ceiling if we add the sink in the island? I personally prefer an island with no appliances but the appliance/cabinet wall is 10 feet long if we leave an airshaft and fitting everything along 10Ã¢ÂÂ will be a challenge; so having the island contain one appliance would give us a better triangle and breathing room.

So for us itÃ¢ÂÂs a question of, do we cut into the air shaft and dumbwaiter for more space, or put an appliance into the island Ã¯Â¿Â½Ã¯Â¿Â½" and which one is a better value for the extra money. If we HAD to do neither, itÃ¢ÂÂll be one of the more crowded 10-foot-long kitchens running along one wall, with a nice sized island opposite the workhorse wall (basically no countertop other than on the island)Ã¢ÂÂ¦

Comments (5)

southerncanuck
11 years ago
This one of those it all depends answers. you will need water supply and drain from below. an air admittance valve is used to vent the plumbing. often if the sink and dishwater want to drain at the same time back ups can be a problem. you need a plumber on site to give a quote. The ceiling would remained untouched with this type of venting. As for the floor the drain lines and supply lines will come up through it. This is hidden by cabinets.

As for price kind of like asking " how much is a new car?"

If a engineered or steel beam is used for the new header under pinning the beam into each adjacent wall alleviates posts within the room, the posts are in the wall itself.
kirkhall
11 years ago
Are you on slab, basement, crawlspace or ??? That also greatly affects the price.
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brickeyee
11 years ago
What is under the floor?

If you have a basement (even with a ceiling installed) it is not usually all that hard to do some underfloor plumbing in the joist space.

If you are on a slab it needs to be cut.

If is is a post tensioned slab, cutting gets to be an issue.
dreamojean
Original Author
11 years ago
This is a parlor (2nd) floor and the floor below it is currently our kitchen/living space with a full bath and once the kitchen is in on the parlor floor it will be a one bedroom rental apartment, so we can't really hide things down there the way the prior owners hid pipes in the basement when they renovated the ground floor kithen. The ground floor has tin ceilings that I would hate to lose, same as the parlor floor. That said, we certainly have space between the hardwood floors on floor 2 and the ceiling on floor 1 to put pipes in, we would just need to pull up the floor 2 floor for that (not my preference but an option) - would just cost more than putting the new plumbing inside the utility wall where it is now (right now there's a washer, dryer and slop sink along the utility wall, instead of kitchen cabinets and appliances like there used to be and will be again).
kirkhall
11 years ago
This doesn't sound too difficult a job. They can pull up only a section of hardwood, and replace/patch it well (if needed, from HW "under" the new island).

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