Removing Undermount Basin with Epoxied Clips

[WeeBob]

A Friday night error by a young lady, home from a party.

if that's not what you expected.)

Would be a relatively easy fix if the b'd that fitted the basin hadn't plastered the clips with epoxy (I think).

Sunday afternoon problem... how to remove the basin without damaging the plaster surround.

My plan at the moment is to use a Dremel to cut away the glue, but I'd really welcome any other ideas.

please!

[Dave Liquorice]

Well you don't want the current basin... Gently break that up a bit more to get better access from the top to the clips. The "glue" doesn't look that well adhered to the basin is it hard/brittle or soft(ish)?

[WeeBob]

Thanks. The glue is hard and brittle.

[meow2222]

Epoxy is killed by heat. Try a steaming kettle.

NT

[WeeBob]

Killed by heat indeed... a blow-torch though.

Chiseled off pretty easy after assaulting it with fire.

Thanks.

[Jeremy Nicoll - news posts]

How did that happen?

[The Medway Handyman]

I'll bet Adam had something to do with it :-)

[WeeBob]

The young ladies memory is uncertain. Her claim is that she simply dropped a perspex cup, half full of water.

Having now removed the basin, and having hit it very hard with a number of objects without it breaking, I think she encountered a fluke of nature.

[Jeremy Nicoll - news posts]

Hmmm, might be possible if the basin was flawed already.

Now if a whale's fluke had hit it...

[GMM]

A bit surprising nobody's suggested the application of an angle grinder yet.....