We have an old stainless steel sink which we can't afford to/don't necessarily want to replace at present. Trouble is, it has two holes for taps rather than just one. The existing two-hole mixer tap is very tatty, not really high enough, and needs replacing. I don't want to fork out on a new, but effectively obsolete twohole mixer. If I get a onehole mixer can I buy a nice blanking plate for one of the tap holes? If so, where?
TIA
Keith
stainless steel sinks are littering every skip in town, and can be had for under £20 in most sheds.
two hole mixers are a LOT more stable than monoblocs.
Try freecycle for another sink. I recently gave one away by that route. Two hole mixer taps are only about =A320 in the sheds. If your sink is that old, the tap holes may not take a mono tap. Mine didn't, I had to enlarge them. By the time you've done that and blanked off the unused hole, you may as well get a cheap two hole mixer.
John
Why is a two hole fitting 'obsolete'? And so what anyway - so is the sink, according to yourself. Two hole fittings are my preference - they are much more rigid in stainless steel. No problems finding nice looking ones either - or at least last time I checked.
Be aware too that one hole types are designed for high pressure water. If your hot comes from a storage system they will reduce the flow considerably.
Ooo, that is a usefull snippet. I *hate* the sink tops that the sheds se= ll with two monoblock a tap holes to save stocking LH or RH versions. A blanking plate not only looks ugly but is alomost bound to leak at some =
point.
I didn't want to buy a new two hole mixer (not cheap) and find I couldn't get (or would have only a very limited choice of) a two hole sink unit when I wanted/needed to replace the old one.
I take your point about reduced flow - that's useful to know. And also the previous point made about stability. I guess when we can eventually afford to renovate the kitchen I probably wouldn't go down the stainless steel route anyway, now I think about it. Can anyone recommend a good online source of two hole mixer taps please?
Keith
It depends on what you mean by 'expensive' the basic two hole kitchen mixer tap is £21 from screwfix.
the s/s sinks they sell come without holes so you hav eto make
I mounted [an IKEA] sink as far forward as I could, and drilled the tap hole in the worktop behind the sink. Much prefer this to drilling the hole in the sink itself; being fixed to the worktop, the tap is rock solid and doesn't wobble around at all. Makes the sink slightly easier to clean too.
Somewhere, I have an IKEA metal punch for making the tap hole, still sealed in it's packaging.
I didn't realise they were so cheap - I must have missed that page when I was searching! I was hoping to get something with a bit more height though - and they do come rather more expensive, but not as expensive as I thought.
Keith
Keith
They can still wobble around on bacofoil sink units. Copper rather than flexible pipe tails helps, though it strains the tap connectors.
Surely most twin hole fittings have 1/2 in connectors? Those coupled to well supported pipe give a *very* rigid mounting.
That's the problem with mono block types - the tiny pipes used give no support.
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