We have moved our downstairs shower room somewhat and have put a shower in the floor, plumbed it in, and installed a new loo. Now we’ve hit a problem - we wanted to reuse the old washbasin since it was in great condition and just the right size and shape. However, the holes in the back for mounting on a threaded rod or whatever, are only accessible on the inside via a neat circular hole in each side of the washbasin (i.e. at 90 degrees to the bolt/screw/whatever hole), giving (limited) access to the bolt. I can’t see that it’s big enough to get a spanner in there to fix the mount. Has anyone seen/installed one of these? We have 2 in the house, very similar and dating back perhaps 25 years.
My partner’s solution is to pass the bolt right through the wall and tighten it from the other side but I think this is somewhat extreme and can’t have been the original intention.
Were there special hooks or something? All idea gratefully received and I shall be polite and grateful even if the ideas are barking
Thanks @mark and @chrisell . That’s certainly the sort of thing we had been planning on using. However, the hole through which the bolts go is completely enclosed by the ceramic basin and the only opening through which we could tighten the thing is a circular hole of about 2cm diameter at a 90degree angle to the bolt. However, I hadn’t thought of a ratchet ring spanner but that might just be possible if the circular bit is small enough to pass through the hole - we’ll give that a go and report back!
Thank you so much!!!
(Reporting back tomorrow as we are just off out (to recover from plumbing) at the village repas dansant - we’ve been practising our moves…)
What I like about the dance class we go to is that lots of people go on their own - quite a few of the dances are of the line-dance type so you don’t need to be in a couple. It’s surprisingly fun!
That was, in fact, our first thought and it might work if we found something suitable…
Sorry about the delay with the photo @mark - not being a modern young person, photos take me quite a while! Anyway, here it is - upside down so that you can see the two holes.
Oh yes - forgot to mention - from what my partner said,it looks like it was originally supported by the pedestal and stuck to the wall with something like NoMoreNails.
I’m a belt-and-braces person.,.
My basin does fix on the wall with metal thingies but it
also fits snugly onto a pedestal…
Thus when/if I have a bit of a wobble and try to stop myself falling by throwing myself onto the basin…
I know it won’t let me down…
OH’s basin has a perfectly matched, stylish pair of legs…
Me too and it will indeed sit on the pedestal. The problem is how to fasten it to the wall when the attachment holes don’t allow for access. We could always solve the problem with a new washbasin of course but I don’t like the design of most of the modern ones - too shallow!
You need to seriously consider at minimum new flexy’s from rhe sink tap. Even the better quality ones are only guaranteed for 10 years and looking at yours they are well past their sell by.
Last thing you want is to dismantle the sink soon after refitting.
New taps usually come complete with flexy’s.
I’m struggling to conceive of a tool which could get to a nut via that hole - much less do anything useful with it - even with a flexible drive there doesn’t seem to be enough room.
Edit: One of these perhaps? possibly with the addition of a flexible drive as well, for the ultimate in “round the bend” nut tightening…
Lidl.fr has those sets in 1/4in, 1/2in, 3/8in and mixed ,- with wobble and extenders and one of them seems a bit more ie 270 degrees (wobble seems usually 10 degrees). Not expensive mostly.
jeu de douilles, some smaller sets also with cliquet (ratchet wrench)
, if so you can use fittings like these
, (or if you did I can’t see it)
blame the after effects of last night’s repas dansant - didn’t get in until nearly 2am 
