Sink with a worktop for the bathroom: how to choose its most

06-09-2018
Sewage

The bathroom is a place for daily hygiene. It should be, above all, comfortable, except for this - look aesthetic.

The countertop for the sink in the bathroom will mask engineering communications, hide the washing machine, provide easy storage of household and toiletries, detergents and cleaning products.

Such a sink can decorate the bathroom.

Types of designs

Countertops for bathroom sinks can have a different shape, length, width and be made of different materials. Having a closed surface, such structures are less polluted, which means that they are easier to care for.

Mounting methods and design

Suspended type of construction.

Sinks in the bathroom with a countertop can crash into the nightstand, it is used to store various accessories. Such designs are usually purchased ready-made. They have different sizes, and you can choose the one that is suitable for the room.

By the way of fixing distinguish tabletops:

  • mounted (on brackets);
  • floor (with legs).

By design, they are:

  • with surface sink;
  • with built-in sink;
Tselnolity version.
  • solid cast.

Note! Solid analogs are easy to clean and have a beautiful appearance. They are easy to install, because the countertop does not need to cut under the sink.

In a small room, the best option is to install the washing machine in the overall with the sink cabinet.

Original countertops

If the dwelling is only being built, then you have a great opportunity to make the countertop for the bathroom washbasin original.

In this case, neither the laid engineering communications, nor the clearly defined dimensions of the room will not interfere.

  1. For example, you can design and order a tabletop playing around the corners and ledges of a non-standard room. Thereby, you optimize and flatten the space. It is possible to make a solid construction not only under the consignment note, but also under the bath itself, beating the corners of the room and incorporating lockers into them.
  2. Non-standard look glass structures or analogues of transparent plastic. They make the bathroom space airy and bright and level its fullness with various equipment and objects.

Manufacturing materials

On the photo is a tabletop from a mosaic (base - GKLV).

Sink-countertop for the bathroom can be made of such materials:

  • natural stone (granite, marble, malachite, onyx);
  • glass and transparent plastic;
  • artificial stone (quartz or acrylic agglomerate);
  • wood;
  • MDF;
  • drywall (as a base) with mosaic cladding.

Stone countertops

The product is made of marble.
  1. Natural stone gives the bathroom a room of presentability and luxury.
  2. Marble is in harmony with almost all the materials presented in the bathroom: ceramics, glass, metal, plastic.
  3. Countertops are made of stones of different colors (black, pink, blue, almost white, gray, etc.), as well as vein texture. They may have contrasting or pastel colors.
  4. Modern production methods involve the manufacture of tabletops from solid pieces of stone on special CNC-controlled machines. They can be formed from stone blocks and sink and countertop at the same time.
  5. The price of marble countertops on the Russian market is from 10 thousand rubles per square meter.

The main advantages of marble:

  • acceptable strength;
  • resistance to mechanical stress;
  • UV resistance;
  • moisture resistance.
Granite counterpart.

Granite countertops are more common in comparison with onyx and the same marble.

This can be explained by the lower cost of the material and several advantages:

  • special strength;
  • resistance to temperature extremes;
  • resistance to damage by harmful microorganisms;
  • granite has a different grain, because of this, you can get a countertop, unique in color and texture.

Glass and artificial stone

Glass will give the bathroom airiness.
  1. Glass designs have recently become fashionable. They seem both durable and fragile. However, their fragility is deceptive, since such tabletops are made from hardened glass varieties. They just care for, they are not afraid of mold and do not absorb unpleasant odors.
  2. Wanting to set up a robust vanity washbasin with your own hands, pay attention to the quartz agglomerate. This is a special technology processed natural quartz.

During the production of the material, it is ground into small chips. Then washed, dried and divided by fractionation of grains. After that, quartz is mixed with a polymeric binder and the necessary products are formed from this raw material.

  1. The technique of producing acrylic stone is very similar to the previous version.. It makes it possible to vary different raw materials during production and to get a unique material as a result. It has a special strength, with external attractiveness.

The material is very plastic and allows you to produce from it products of different shapes, with sharp or smooth transitions. Monolithic structures can also be made from it.

Note! Thus, the molded sink with countertop for the bathroom has all the positive qualities of synthetic stone. It is lightweight, easy to install, resistant to mechanical stress. The cost of such products is two times less than analogs of natural stone.

Tree and its derivatives

Wood in the bathroom must be carefully protected from moisture.

To use tabletops made of wood and its derivatives, including MDF, with increased humidity in the room, we must be very careful. Such material in the bathroom swells and deforms, especially at the joints.

Topcoat products exfoliate. The instruction here advises to use products that are additionally protected from moisture with special impregnating and painting materials.

Important points

  1. Choosing sinks for the bathroom with a table top - for the bathroom, decide how you will fix the structure. It can be mounted or outdoor.
  2. Here it should be noted that the floor construction is not very convenient to use (legs rest against the cabinet), but it makes it possible to place all the household, toiletries and hygiene items in it.
  3. Suspended counterparts are comfortable to use, but have less usable area.
  4. When the bathroom is larger, the dilemma can be resolved by placing wall cabinets in it. Then you can not hesitate to choose a decorative tabletop.

Conclusion

If you equip a washbasin in the bathroom with a tabletop, you will greatly increase the convenience of using this sanitary device. There are several types of such designs. You can choose the one that is most suitable for your bathroom.

The video in this article will help you with your choice.

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