The bathroom sink fell off in my overpriced shit build Toronto apartment.
The landlord and agent are both on vacation, so I might need to DIY.
I know how to use 2 part epoxy, but shouldn't there be braces for this?
The bathroom sink fell off in my overpriced shit build Toronto apartment.
Scrape the shitty dried up clear silicone off apply new stuff take the drain out and use a 2x4 and some threaded rod through the hole to "clamp" i t in place till it dries.
do canadians really glue their sinks in place? aren't they heavy? What about with 20 gallons of water. very strange.
Yes we do.
Yes they are.
It's also heavy.
Not to mention the dishes too.
>bathroom sink
>Not to mention the dishes too.
What
Oh we do it with granite countertops in kitchens too.
Canadians do their dishes in the bath after they've had a soak.
>but shouldn't there be braces for this?
Yes. The way they installed mine is with a metal strap like pic rel screwed in to the cabinet sides. But since they screwed directly into the MDF they tore out. So if your cabinet is MDF then I recommend screwing in a small piece of lumber first as an anchor to give a solid place to screw the strap itself into.
3m 5200 will glue it back
block it up underneatch and find the clips that broke off..
Just wash your hands under the bathtub faucet until they get back.
>overpriced shit build Toronto apartment
Oh, I missed that. Must be a walk-in shower with a knob that goes from 0 to full pressure in the span of 2 degrees.
>landlord
>agent
DO NOT touch it. Complain and get it fixed. If you fiddle with it you'll be blamed for the 2016 tsunami in Japan. It's not your problem, it's their problem. Don't make it your problem
Yeah I've decided to treat it like a crime scene, I'm not touching anything and be held liable.
The agent in particular is very high strung
In the UK this is taken quite seriously. I had my landlord fined by my local authority for taking 6 weeks to replace a bathtub. I immediately made some jerry rigged repairs so I could continue to wash but the landlord decided to go on holiday, their workmen were busy etc. Any excuse to avoid doing the work. At 3 weeks I submitted my case to the local authority (who license the landlord). They ordered the landlord to make repairs under threat of penalty. Landlord dragged their heels, got fined, still had to replace the tub.
In general it comes under "heating and eating" which basically means things essential to live, like flushing toilets, hot water, cookers etc should be repaired as soon as reasonably practical (usually 24 hours save for some exceptional cases). I moved out to my own home I bought a few months later. Landlord tried to take money for "damages" from my deposit. A quick 25 quid court claim later and it was all refunded before we even came across the desk of a judge.
Frick landlords. There are no "good ones"
there should have been undermount brackets, if not lmao
Nice black mould on the silicone.
Wong sealent.
As the other anon said, it’s also supposed to have clamps to hold it there.
Sad nobody knows how to do their one fricking job any more,
Called in two furnace guys because my furnace kept turning on and then it would shut off.
Both guys said I need a new furnace, like a few thousand dollars because winter is coming.
Every time it would cycle, it let out a bit of nat gas so you could smell it.
The city gas guy came, looked at it, and noticed the thermocouple had dust on it. Took a q-tip, cleaned off the dust and everything was working again.
I just checked mine, which I've never actually done. I have quartz and they drilled diagonal holes in 4 spots (red) and have brackets that fit into those holes and then set screws that pull the sink into the countertop.
They skipped the brackets on mine and just glued it on. Apparently it’s common in Toronto…
that's pretty funny, fricking canada
I install dishwasher for a living and I've seen hundreds of undermount sinks holding up with whatever stuff they use, although I've seen some installs where the extra that spilled out was obviously clear silicone, nothing fancy. I've always thought that a sink filled with water would be too heavy for just silicone, especially if for example you dropped a frozen turkey in it. However, once I saw picrel being used and I thought it was an excellent safety net, plus it holds the sink up while the adhesive is curing instead of having to prop up the sink with a block of wood or some jack and have to come back hours later to remove it.
look for a legal apartment next time not some shit a jeet LL threw together in 15 minutes for $20
say it with me rentcuck
DON'T
"FIX"
OTHER
PEOPLES
PROPERTY
because guess what? you fix it you're liable for the next time it falls down, and then guess who's going to pay for it?
Scrape the old silicone off. Add 1x4 so the sink basin is trapped in when you put it back, then silicone it all back in.
Or just silicone it back in place and put a chunk of wood as a post under it lol.