Basin and toilet in or basin and toilet out. What's it to be.

[elliesdad224]

always take them out, its quicker, neater and by far easier. the plumbing is pretty straight forward and if you can do it you should be charging for it, if your unsure always get a professional to do it, good luck in the future pal

 

[Grace'sDad]

Those self drilling plasterboard plugs are good but I really wouldn't recommend them for securing the weight of a basin. They'd be fine for securing a pedestal basin against a wall, but I doubt very much that the plasterboard would take the weight without a pedestal.

If it's a stud partition, cut out a section of plasterboard (say 2" x width of basin as minimum - making sure you expose 2 studs) secure a baton of good wood onto or between the studs and then fix the basin to this - it will be much stronger. The same technique is used to hang kitchen units on stud walls.

If it's plasterboard dot n dab onto brick - drill straight through and use some heavy duty anchors.

As for public liability - I'm with Zurich (£90 for £2m) and they include ANY work associated with my profession (apart from Gas & Elec) - as long as I'm not over 8m (and I'm only 5'11":25
Great cover!