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Message: [QUOTE="tdrink, post: 3132137, member: 1331"] Probably closing in on fifty kitchen remodels. Sink material is relatively immaterial. That's mostly asthetics. Things like how well the bottom drains, or the configuration (double bowl, 3/4 bowl, single bowl) are usually more important functionally. If you aren't changing your counters (most people who ask about changing a sink are keeping their counters, otherwise they would ask about counters) then your biggest consideration is whether the sink will work in the existing configuration or not. If the old sink was undermount, then you will need a sink that has a nearly identical shape. If it's a drop in sink you might have a little more tolerance or could go a little bigger and field cut the counters to accommodate as long as the cabinet doesn't prohibit. I usually suggest aluminum for drop ins because the lip is pretty fat on composite sinks. (Quartzite is a composite that includes a high percentage of quartz aggregate.) But a lot of it comes down to trade offs. All of that said, I have done some very high end, very involved retrofits of interesting sinks. Those jobs were relatively expensive for my clients and came with a substantial risk to me. One wrong precision cut and all the counter tops would have to be relpaced. [/QUOTE]