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This piece of plywood will carry the load of the countertop to the vertical boards that I cut out to make room for the new sink. The plywood is held in place by pocket screws.
Note that the particle-board countertop substrate has been cut away from below with a SoniCrafter saw, but the original Formica laminate and the quartz overlay are still there. I'm going to tackle them with a dremel tool.
The DIY person who built this house in 1950 did not center the sink under the window. I'm making it more off-center by 3/8" because there is no way I am messing with the other cabinet that contains a dishwasher.
The electrical box was there in 1998 when we moved in. It is controlled by a duplex switch on the wall above the backsplash. The upper switch controls the light above the sink. The lower switch used this box to control the rat-feeder in the original sink. Although this house has a sandrock connection, and is less-likely to allow a rat to show up in a toilet than a conventional connection, I don't like rat-feeders. The rat-feeder was inop, so instead of replacing it, I removed it and tossed in the bin at the scrapyard. Without changing this box or the switch therefor, I simply plugged in the two power supplies for the two low-voltage lighting systems I installed under the upper cabinets. They are now LED tape-lights. The low-voltage wires are fished through the wall. Nothing shows to anyone unless they are so short that they can see the bottoms of the upper cabinets.