Removing a stainless steel under mount sink from granite countertop. 

thank you excellent idea

Thanks for posting this - my undermount sink had to be uninstalled in a hurry this morning and although it was only silicone caulked, it would NOT budge. The putty knife did the trick! Thanks.

Thank you sir for being the guinea pig and letting us know you are a true hero

Thank you for sharing your experience and tips. I feel better now with having some options to remove mine.

It kills me the way some contractors do things incorrectly and cause so much grief for a future owner. Properly mounted clips with silicone between the sink and the granite seems like it would have been just fine. I'm about to start a project with replacing mine and the contractor literally put a glob of epoxy at each corner of the sink. They didn't even bother to use silicone around the sink so it occasionally leaks. The flip side is that I'm hoping that mine will be easier to remove. My neighbor (same type townhouse) had his sink randomly fall out during the night.

Great advice , lucky I found this . Spent 6 hours on on side of the sink. But an hour or so with your method

Thank you for great tips. Thank you for sharing

Worked like a charm...thanks!

Seems to me that the multi tool should work better than it did? Your blade might have been dull to start, and you would have to change blades a few times I'm sure. I've got an under mount quartz sink to remove that is just glued on to Corian. Think I'll give the multi tool a go first. Don't think heat would be a good idea, even tho the think is trashed already from cracks.

Good thinking on using the heat to work through that.

I ran into a problem yesterday at a clients house and could not unmount their undermount cast iron bar sink. I was able to use my isolating tool to make a 1 inch clearance. Then I attempted to use my reciprocating saw to finish the job. Nooooo Bueno. Not sure what type of epoxy or gorilla hair glue 😆 they used, but it was eating my blades for lunch. Have you ever ran into this? Or what blades do you recommend? Is it as heating it up like you demonstrated?

but how did you get the sink out after you got it lose ? ... the granite is still in place ?

Did you put another under mount sink in

Try a kitchen sink sandwiched between the plywood and the countertop granite. It’s a 6 year old house with your style of sink.

That is the exact reason I hate to under mount sinks. Bad bad idea

OMG I'm getting ready to replace a ceramic under mounted sink and this scares the heck out of me!!!! I bought a new oscillating saw JUST for his......ugghhhhhhhh

Would have been nice to see the before picture… 😮

That doesn't really look like a true epoxy.

That was smart using the heat on the surfaces to unglue it. Would it be possible to remove it if the sink is sitting between a concrete slab under and the granite slab? Got a new installation and the granite installer did a bad job. Image for reference ibb.co/gyK0PbG