Narrow hand basins source

[Peter Riocreux]

In my toilet I have 700mm in which to fit a toilet cistern and hand basin. As a result, I am looking for a nice small hand basin so as not to have to end up having to spend a small fortune on a toilet witha small-enough cistern.

This is proving trickier than I thought, as really I want one 300mm wide or less. This is proving harder than I expected. I know bathstore.com have a restangular basin that is only about 150mm wide but much deeper (front t- back, not depth), but it is ferociously expensive and therefore not what I am looking for.

Does anyone know of any manufacturers/online dealers who have a narrow basin in their range?

Alternatively, if I could find one that was very shallow (front to back) and had the tap hole and overflow off to one side so it would not stick out from the wall very far then I could put it on a different wall, so any pointers to something like that would be gratefully received too.

Peter

[Bob Eager]

Have you seen the ones they have in some McDonalds branches? (Really). Very shallow front-to-back, partly let into the wall although that's probably optional. Have alook if you can; might be a maker's name on them...

[andrewpreece]

Utility white handbasin, 275mm front-to-back, 360mm wide, central waste, separate taps left and right. Probably not what you need, but I thought I'd mention it. £28 at Totem Timber, Plymouth: I don't think they're national. You know you can offset the toilet pan to only 12" ( from its centreline ) to the wall? I don't know your exact problems, but I had little space to fit a toilet, cistern and handbasin, so I used a slimline plastic cistern ( Wickes ) panelled in for appearance, a bog-standard ( ho-ho! ) toilet pan situated off to one side of the area I had available, the centreline being only 12" from the wall, and on the other side I had the small basin, wall mounted forward of the toilet. All very compact but it turned out workable.

Andy.

[Rod Hewitt]

Peter Riocreux wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Probably not much help, but I saw quite a few very narrow basins in French DIY places (M Bricolage, or whatever).

[Jason Pearce]

How about the Ideal Standard Space range - some of those basins are tiny !!

[Peter Riocreux]

Nice to know about, but I was hoping to find a single tap-hole one.

They seem to be SW only and are devoid of web site, alas. Thanks for the thought though.

A little ASCII art attempt ....

The cloakroom is a narrow room (width of the door frame basically) with a door at one end and a window at the other. The (boxed in) soil stack runs inside the room, down the left hand side of the window.

D = door, W = window and S = soil stack

------------------------------------ | D W D W D W D W D SSSSSSSS D | S D | S D ------------------------------------

The size of the soil stack is exaggerated in this drawing and the actual dimensions are 1900mm x 850mm for the room as a while and 170mm x 370mm for the soil stack. This leaves about 680mm for the width of the toilet and basin.

If I am prepared to extand the boxed-in-ness under the window then theoretically I could put a basin on the side of it that faces the door. Or if I could get a high-level cistern and pan to go with it, the toilet could I suppose go across the room, but really what I want is (here comes more ASCII art):

B = basin and T = toilet

------------------------------------ | BBBBB D W BBBBB D W TTTTTTTTT D W TTTTTTTTT D W TTTTTTTTT D SSSSSSSS D | S D | S D ------------------------------------

This would be possible with bathstore.com's Verso cloakroom basin () as it is only 250mm wide, but it is 169 quid in a promotion!

Bathstore.com also have a 300mm wide basin that is more sensibly priced at 59 quid (), but it has two tap holes.

Ho hum.

Peter