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red cement sink

greta-inbaja - 8-18-2007 at 09:09 PM

Hello, this is an odd request. Sometime in the last few+ months I saw a picture of a very cool cement kitchen sink. It was stained at least mostly in red. I don't know if it was in this section or homebuilding, but I have looked an looked and can't find it. So if the owner of this sink or a friend know of what I speak please respond, I would like to show it to my builder. The sink was in a house "in progress".
Thanks , Greta

jeans - 8-18-2007 at 09:44 PM

This concrete sink?

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Bob and Susan - 8-19-2007 at 05:32 AM

trouble with these kind of sinks also is....

they collect DISHES!!! :lol:

edinnopolo - 8-19-2007 at 06:06 AM

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Originally posted by lencho

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Originally posted by greta-inbaja
Hello, this is an odd request. Sometime in the last few+ months I saw a picture of a very cool cement kitchen sink

Ooooh! Good looking, but an important consideration for the kitchen is that a LOT more glassware will get broken in a cement sink...

--Larry

Do you really think that more dishes break in a concrete sink then in a cast iron one ?? And why ??

amir - 8-19-2007 at 06:35 AM

These concrete sinks are beautiful and I admire them every time I see one. Native handmade sinks made with concrete and rebar (and a lot of skill), what a great idea, and inexpensive!

If you don't like them because they break your glasses, get plastic dishes! :light:

amir - 8-19-2007 at 07:02 AM

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Originally posted by morgaine7

... the tendency for deposits to form that are difficult to remove...

It makes them look aged, which they are by the time they get deposits. Get the color you really want. Pulido sinks, fixtures, floors and walls, to me, look better when they are "stained" or the color is uneven, rather than all even and shiny. The sink in the picture here looks very new.

--Amir

jeans - 8-19-2007 at 08:10 AM

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Originally posted by lencho
As with any other tool, I prioritize their function over form.

--Larry

Well...that certainly depends upon the tool! :saint:

Appliances, however are an integral part of the decor. Surfaces known as "Stainless" are a crime against nature and the ugliest things invented by man. Won't have 'em. Give me color & texture every time.

amir - 8-19-2007 at 08:12 AM

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Originally posted by lencho

... As with any other tool, I prioritize their function over form.

Pulido sinks are so much more than just a tool, they are also works of art! You give up a little function for a beautiful rustic handmade basin.

And if the problem really is the broken glasses, then, could one perhaps be a little bit more careful around these sinks? :light:

Or maybe just buy cheap glasses that are inexpensive to replace? :light:

But, hey, you can have any sink you want. But plastic? Maybe in a laundry room, or a shop...

--Amir

elizabeth - 8-19-2007 at 08:23 AM

Glasses and dishes break when you drop them on the counter and floor, or the patio, too...the only way to avoid it without going to plastic dishes (yuck) is to turn the kitchen into a padded room!

You can have a beautiful concrete sink, and put a plastic bucket in it when you wash the dishes...breakage problem solved!

Diver - 8-19-2007 at 08:38 AM

Home Depot carries a line of synthetic sinks in dark grey.
They are slightly flexible, very quiet and very nice looking.
I have seen them in use for over 5 years with no problems.
You can also mount them "under-counter" with concrete or other counters.
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Eli - 8-19-2007 at 11:00 AM

I have washed many a dish and broken a few glasses in the sink Jeans attached to her post, it has been in use in my daughters kitchen for years. Cost for this type of art compares with a cast iron piece, when done right, they are not cheap to build.

Also, I have found the lime deposit issue to exisit whiter it is concrete or stainless, but I don't think it would be an issue with the enamaled cast iron pieces, and I have no experinse with plastic. I found a product this year that deals with those lime depoists very nicely, it is made by the same folks that produce Easy-Off, (I think), racking my brain for the name of it, maybe BAM? I found it a CCC in La Paz.

Also, with the concrete sinks, if you have the opition of re-dyeing years down the line with an acid etching stain such as Litacrome, i.e. red can be retouched with blue, amber or terracota depending of the final color you would want, it is a great way to get a "new sink" if you are redecorating.

One of the things I loved about building was the diversty of what made people happy. I personally would go for a cast iron or dyed concrete, but stainless steel, well, there is the argument that it is more sterile, but I don't think I would have one, if I had the choice. Maybe plastic over stainless steel, I would have to see it and touch it to decide.

Anyway, this really is just a personal choice issue, what ever floats your boat.

Oh, by the way, I have also broken my fair share of glasses in stainless steel sink's too.

Bob and Susan - 8-19-2007 at 11:06 AM

we shopped for sinks recently...

plastic is the "NEW THING" and mostly what's out there now...

stainless steel is what home depot in ensenada sells...
enamaled cast iron is dissapearing fast...

most of our glasses break when the "hit" the floor :?:

Cypress - 8-19-2007 at 11:21 AM

Cement is used for urinals etc. in some places. Harder to destroy and easier to replace than the store-bought ceramic versions when some idiot goes on a rampage in the restroom.

greta-inbaja - 8-19-2007 at 11:57 AM

Thanks for all the opinions on sinks, and to Eli for reposting it for me. Here in Truckee we always have to deal w/mineral buildup on sinks, toilets showerheads. So that won't be new. That sink of ?Lencho's daughter is beautiful. Definitely falls into the art catagory. I hope I can find someone that can do that type of work in the eastcape. Broken dishes and glasses will not be new, my husband always says I have exploding hands. With tile or cement floors and counters stuff always breaks anyway. I don't get bumbed unless it had sentimental value.

greta-inbaja - 8-19-2007 at 12:03 PM

I messed up and mixed up names. Thanks to Jeans for posting the picture. I looked for tat least an hour for it. I could remember what it looked like but not well enough to draw for my builder. Eli, is this sink also in Chiapas?? Has it aged beatifully?? Nice cement work develops such a nice patina. It makes yo want to touch it. Even a cement sink. I really hope I can find someone to make one for me.
Thanks, again

amir - 8-19-2007 at 02:02 PM

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Originally posted by lencho

Oh, I don't care about the merchandise-- I just have very strong aversion to broken glass anywhere around food.

That's a very good kind of aversion to have!!! :saint:

toneart - 8-19-2007 at 03:24 PM

Jeans,
Nice red concrete sink. I want one too!....or should I say one or two?

Amir,
I was wondering when you two rehoneymooners were going to come up for air. :rolleyes:

Regarding breaking glass in the concrete sink, if it were mine I wouldn't worry too much. I'm accustomed to it. I have a talent for breaking glass all over the house...usually wine glasses as I am wildly gesticulating while elucidating a point.....now where was I?....Oh yes. Um, the point is long gone. Actually, maybe it is the wine causing the breakage and the verbosity. Hey, it's not my fault! :cool:

Eli - 8-19-2007 at 04:16 PM

greta in baja - the sink is in Los Barriles, Baja. And yes it has aged just fine, sometimes she gives it a good cleaning with bleach. This year we did a clean up with BAM(?), looks like new again.

Also, I have a dark wine colored one in my apartment up stairs at home, (home is Baja). I expect I will always go with the dyed concrete. One area where my daughter and I don't agree is she seals her concrete, I don't. All my old clients also always sealed, I think I am in the boat alone on this issue. Either way the concrete just gets smoother with the patina finish. Honestly, I still have not figured out why we seal except we are suppose to.

jeans - 8-19-2007 at 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by toneart
...gesticulating while elucidating..

...will get you into trouble every time, especially when you throw in wine and verbosity!

:lol:

THREE-WEEK-SIESTA

amir - 8-19-2007 at 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by toneart

Amir,
I was wondering when you two rehoneymooners were going to come up for air.:rolleyes

Toneart, hello to you, too! :bounce:

Gnome-Ad and I have been back in Todos Santos for three weeks now and she is done now with the first round of siestas; the first one was three weeks long...
A lot has, and is, transpiring, and I've been nagging her a little to start posting some of her new essays.
But indeed, for the last year, when anybody would ask her, "What is the first thing you are going to do when you get to Todos Santos?" Her reply: "TAKE A SIESTA!"

See you later on the Board,
--Amir