Plumbers... Is this right?

[cagef15]

Have a vanity I'm finally installing (bought over a year ago) but when I flipped it over I saw this (photo) chip/ chunk "missing"

It looks like someone put putty on part of it - so... Is this supposed to be here to allow an air vent for the overflow? It's a thumb size chunk missing...

I'm thinking no... But...

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[Kaizen]

Nope broken.


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[Sawdustmaker]

Nope broken.

This^^^^

 

[PassnThru]

I'm not a plumber but yes to the above - that is in no way a functional part of the sink.

 

[The Cobbler]

yup, damaged

 

[Shawn S]

It's broken but that won't affect anything. Install it, no one will ever know about that broken spot and patch.

 

[BillK]

Hard to tell from your picture but it looks like it might go through to the overflow. If it does it will be a problem. If you blow air through the hole I have the arrow pointed to does it come out of the overflow ? If so you need to patch it somehow.

Not a plumber buts that is my opinion.

 

[Radix2]

I'll take the other side, looking at the left side of that "break", it looks like the edge is square cut or molded - perhaps this is a port used for the tooling to form the overflow passage, then a glob of putty is used to seal it up?

In any case if it looks good from the top, check it for seal and it is good to go.

 

[PassnThru]

The overflow is the square long fixture in the middle of the OPs pic. The patch is far from that. It is not connected.

 

[SALIV8]

Buy another one and return that one.

 

[jhelrey]

Seal it up with silicone and use it. It's just the overflow which will almost never have water in it, esp. that high up.

 

[58Yeoman]

What's funny is that both new vanities I installed have no overflow holes.

 

[CJ7VFR]

What's funny is that both new vanities I installed have no overflow holes.

I came across the same issue recently when I re-did our downstairs bathroom with all new stuff.

I wanted a sink that had the overflow hole in it, but holy moly it was hard to find one! I did eventually find one in the color I wanted, but it took awhile to find it.

Jim