The Toilet Sink

This was a great solution to a small problem. Our house is over 100 years old and it has all the weirdness/awesomeness that comes with age and change. When it was built there was no plumbing, no electricity and there was no basement. Thankfully, over the years it now has all three.

In fact it even has plumbing in the basement. Right out in the open sat an old toilet, the tops was cracked in two and there's was no sink to be found. Given that we are a family of three sometimes that basement toilet became lifesaver.

Now, I like hygiene and I like saving water.  With a little sheet-rocking, a door and a toilet-sink we now have a fully functioning second bathroom. It still needs work. Currently, it's lacking the trifecta (no electricity -> no lights) but there's a window.

Here's how the toilet sink works. It only "runs" when you flush. That perfectly clean water that comes out of the pipes normally goes straight into the overflow tube.  We basically detoured that water to the sink. The sink then drains into a funnel set in the overflow tube. That water then fills the toilet bowl.

I threw the sink as two separate pieces; the basin and the drain. They were then joined together and glazed as one piece. The drain continues down past the wood to make leaks impossible.