I have a kohler sink I want to install in a new vanity I’m putting in. It’s a nice sink, but I pulled it out of another house and I don’t have a template to make the cutout any longer.
I fought my really clever (but unethical) thought to buy a sink, photocopy the template, and return the sink. Or rather my DW talked me out of it.
Any ideas how I should pursue this? I did think about flipping the sink upside down, tracing the outline on paper and drawing another line an inch in, to create the template, but the faucet is still installed and I’d rather avoid taking it off, if I don’t have to.
Any ideas or sources to get a template quickly and easily?
thx
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If you have AutoCad...kohler.com has the templates you can download and plot out....But without Autocad it's useless...
Perhaps, a poster here who has access to a plotter can download/plot it for you and mail it to you...or if there are blue-print shops near you that will plot out e-mailed files...
I can download it but I would have to send it out to a blue-printer...That would not happen until tuesday...
Edited 2/18/2005 2:10 pm ET by MJLONIGRO
Take off the faucet.
Am I right to assume it is an undermount sink?
Take a pc of stiff wire, copper works. Take that around the sink flange. Lay it on a pc of laun, pattern it out, come in with your cut line. Try the sink in the ply template, adjust to fit.
I would go to my kohler distributor, take the sink and let them supply me with the template as they have done many times with sinks on order.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Buy a new sink, DW deserves it.
It's a rim mount, right? As you said trace the outline on a piece of thin cardboard and cut about 3/4" smaller depends on the width of the rim, needs not be exact. May have to cut less at the faucet again needs not be exact. Then with the sink upside down fit the template over the sink, cut more if you have to. With small pieces of the same cardboard and tape you can easily modify the template to fit aroung the faucet and do the final fit.
It takes longer to describe than to actually do it.
Then buy DW a nice piece of jewellery with the money saved.