Drilling a Hole Into a Stainless Steel Sink For a Faucet
Need to add a faucet to your stainless steel sink for your water filter? The easiest way is if the sink came with a spray washer for dishes. Then you can remove that and replace it with the faucet that comes with the water filter kit. Don’t want to do that? Then you need to drill a hole in the sink
Don’t worry, it’s not a scary as it sounds and you’ll only need a few tools. Most of the faucets require you to drill a hole that is 7/8 of an inch or 1 inch in diameter. By far the easiest way is to use what’s called a “step drill” that you can get at all of the home improvement stores or the hardware store. They look different than a regular twist drill bit. They kind of look like a pyramid. As you push down with the bit it keeps drilling larger and larger with each “step”. The advantage of using a step bit is that with a twist drill they sometimes get caught while drilling and can distort the area around the hole, making it not smooth or level. After you drill the hole the rest is easy, just drop the faucet into the hole and tighten and away you go!
