In article om,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:56:54 GMT, John Stumbles wrote:
You'll need to enlarge the hole to take a monobloc mixer. The ideal tool
to use for this is a sheet metal punch: IKEA do them for about £10 since the s/s sinks they sell come without holes so you hav eto make
your own.
Ooo, that is a usefull snippet. I *hate* the sink tops that the sheds sell
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 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.

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Andrew Gabriel
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