Shallow, wall-mounted sinks

Hi,

Does anyone know of rectangular profile, relatively shallow (but still usable) wall-mounted hand-basin for an proposed under-stair cloak room (read toilet)? The idea is to partly recess the basin into the studwork on one side of the cubicle under the stairs. It's all a bit tight in there and any centimeters saved will make or break the project.

Thanks

Clive

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Clive
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Yes.

I had a similar problem of a small dimension in one direction in a cloakroom so here are a few ideas.

I used a basin manufactured by Deca and available from several places. They make various rectangular basins in different sizes, including some cloakroom ones with a depth of 300mm.

For example

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one is a wall mounted version.

I went for a deck mounted one because I created a shelf with a granite top for that side of the room. The basin is certainly adequate for hand washing. It's possible to get versions with a tap hole for a monobloc tap at one side. I preferred to use that space for placing a soap dispenser and then used a wall mounted tap manufactured by Hansgrohe. There are basins with tap hole at the back but then they are an extra 100mm at least.

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used the satinox (stainless steel appearance) finish because I don't like chrome in bathrooms. UK suppliers are not a good source for taps etc. - they are much less expensive sourced from Germany from places like Megabad.

The Hansgrohe Axor basin waste is also very good. It's a push-push design which is very well made and seals properly. The tipping kind are not so good. Again I got that one in Satinox.

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final requirement was to hide all plumbing including any traps while still avoiding massive looking enclosures. I did this by using a HepVO trap for the basin arranged to run horizontally. The waste pipe runs horizontally from there to the end of the room underneath the granite shelf and the water supplies run in parallel. At the front, below the granite shelf, a hardwood skirt about 100mm deep hides it all. The result is nothing at or close to floor level on view.

I could have hidden the water supply pipes completely in the wall since it's a stud wall and the plasterboard was being replaced. It wouldn't have been possible for the waste however, so there was no point in doing that apart from the last section of supply to the taps which is buried in the wall cavity. I fitted a ply panel instead of plasterboard in the area of the tap and obviously took a great deal of care over the plumbing, waiting for several months before committing to tiling.

I used a wall mounted toilet as well, again as a means of not having plumbing on view.

The one concession to that was with the towel rail. This one was chosen to be able to sit to the side of the basin.

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wasn't really possible to hide the valves and pipes so I used matching valves and 8mm microbore with small compression fittings to complete the connections.

I spent quite a bit of time planning the project and did find as you probably have that choices are limited. It is do-able, but each component does have to be chosen carefully. There are certainly less expensive taps and radiators around. Basin choices are harder.

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Andy Hall

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of other options around, particularly on ebay. Slightly smaller taps like
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well with this size basin.

What dimensions is the space you have available?

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You might be able to find something here (or elsehwere in the same section):

But if not, you have now managed to exclude quite a lot of basins the easy way. :-)

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Rod

I'm interested in this too for my outside loo which was built without thought for a basin so is pretty narrow. I remember seeing a stainless steel one which was near entirely recessed into the wall - incorporating its own splash back - in a pub or similar but couldn't find out where to buy one. The smallest ceramic one I've found sticks out too far.

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Dave Plowman (News)

I showed some 300 mm ones. There are one or two 250mm ones but I think that those are getting a bit small to wash hands - unless your gardener is a petite lady of course.

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Andy Hall

This Roca one worked for me

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John Stumbles

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Andy Hall

Yes, despite its modern looks(!) it works quite well. Only dodgy bit was getting the tap (not the one shown but similar (though cheaper) from Toolfix or Screwstation) to stand vertical, since the flat bits at the sides of the basin slope slightly. I wonder how the one in the picture acheives this?

The space it fits into is about 200mm wider to the side walls so I'll make a tiled shelf each side to bridge the gap and give somewhere to put the soap etc.

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John Stumbles

Funny washer or Photoshop

I suppose that the way out of the issue would be to choose a tap that deliberately slopes rather more, then it's non-obvious.

Sounds ideal.

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Andy Hall

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