Forum for residents of St Georges Park and Long Leys Road Lincoln

[emmagary]

hi everyone

I was wondering for any tips or any help. Yesterday a glass pot with lovely smelling hand cream fell out of our bathroom cabinet and flew inbetween my hands and crashed into our sink...... and cracked it!!!
Although our sink is an ideal standard (we are hoping all the houses were fitted with the same style) and so were
a) wondering if it has a certain name
b) wondering if anyone knows a relatively cheap place to buy one
c) know if without getting a plumber out we can fit it ourselves (lack of funding)

any comments, advice (not on buying hand cream in the future in a plastic pot) or any other info would be so so so so appreciated

many thanks Em & Gary

[SteveW]

Firstly, you will find these sinks are easy to replace and reasonably priced, approx £30.
Usually white ones tend to be cheaper and not worth claiming on your household insurance. Being Ideal Standard you can identify them by going onto their website, type Ideal Standard BLUEBOOK which is the tradesmans link into Ideal Standard. Search Basins rather than Sinks. If you want to replace like for like and can identify your model, order from somewhere like Travis Perkins. If you can't identify it from the hundreds available, photograph it and take to Travis Perkins, I'm sure they will be able to identify. Remember there's a good chance it's from an economy range. Avoid places like B & Q, they may look the same but the quality is nothing like.
Once you have all the necessary materials, turn off your water both hot & cold, remembering to turn off your Central Heating, disconnect the pipework, take off the taps & waste and refit with silicone sealant or plumbers mate. Assuming your sink is on a pedestal, you will not need to replace that, which WILL SAVE YOU about the same price as the sink. The sink should be secured underneath with 2 screws (unless you had the same plumber as me, he didn't bother. Amazed he had the cheek to move onto the same estate!!)

You will surprise yourself how easy it is. Just take your time and allow a good 4 -6 hours to do the work .

Best of Luck

[emmagary]

thank you so much Steve for your help..... we saw one in B&Q and very nearlly bought it and then read your comment so glad we didn't bother

thanks again Emma & Gary

[GDStimson]

Hi Emma / Gary

You've probably sorted this by now, but just in case it's helpful, I had a similar incident when a wall mirror fitted by the previous owner of the house spontaneously slipped through it's mounting brackets and went through the sink in the downstairs WC (the bloody mirror survived though!).

Ours was was a plain white Ideal Standard Princess 56. This is one up from the economy series and was £51+vat and delivery = £66.39 (for the sink only) from http://www.discountedheating.co.uk, based in Plymouth, which was the cheapest I found.

Having said that, the sink was actually delivered by the local Plumb Centre. Don't know how that works as I tried the Plumb Centre direct and they wanted alot more money for it!

As SteveW said, fitting was a pretty straight forward job and took 3-4 hours, including putting in some hollow wall anchor fittings to screw the sink to the wall (no, the plumber didn't bother with screws on mine either).

Regards
Gary