Blocking tap hole for stainless steel sink

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.