The old counters came out without too much of a fight. The sink, however, was old cast iron and HEAVY. So so so happy to be rid of that thing; if I so much as set a glass cup down too hard in the old sink, it would shatter.
Helping dad tighten up the mitered corner. The counter top would eventually be cut in this area to hold the sink. And yes, we did cut it in place.
Voila!
It was a learning experience for us, but thankfully, we learned quick.
We measured and remeasured and measured once more before placing our order. And we ordered the counters withOUT the sink hole cut so we could do that ourselves. Since we installed a used sink (off craigslist, better than what we had but a "for now" arrangement), we had to come up with our own template. Just to be sure we didn't end up with too big a cut-out, we (ie Jake) really took our time getting the cut-out larger and larger and larger until the sink fit snug. He hooked up the water and we're good to go! Hopefully this weekend he'll have some free time to hook up the still-portable dishwasher in its handy spot next to the sink.
AND these photos show the newly installed backerboard. We'll look at that for the time being until I decide what I want for a backsplash/we save up some more money.
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