Combined WC/washbasin

My bathroom doors all open outward. Having experienced a patient collapsing in the loo and having terrible difficulty getting to her, as she was across the door on the inside, I had all the ward bathroom doors changed to opening outward. I then did the same at home. It was quite reassuring when my husband became ill.

I have seen pictures on Fb of the washbasins supplying the flushing water for the toilet. Apparently, they are quite common in Japan. (Never having been there, cannot speak from experience).

I do not understand why our drinking water, amongst the cleanest if not the cleanest in the world, is used for flushing the loo.

I had one fitted in my downstairs loo - long and thin, no room for a basin, however small - three years ago. It's great, and has been very useful indeed. Several friends have had them fitted after seeing how well mine works

How am I this ancient and well travelled yet have never encountered one of these ever? Superb idea. I'm off to investigate right now. Thanks everyone.

Yes we live in a 1930s semi which had an upstairs separate toilet to the bathroom (not next to the bathroom) and was too small for a basin. Had one of these fitted - combination WC & sink - close coupled, hot and cold water feed to the basin. It's a brilliant solution.

PS forgot to say - ours looks identical to the photo posted by LyWa except that we went for a smaller tap.

I've never seen one but seems like the best idea ever, especially in houses where the loo is separate from the bathroom so you need to go into the other room to wash your hands. I always thought if I bought a house like that I'd knock the wall down as I hate a loo without a sink, but this solves the problem, as well as re-using the grey water. My in-laws had a sparate loo and if you went, then found someone was in the bathroom, you had to wash your hands at the kitchen sink! At least it was a bungalow so the kitchen was close! I always think having no sink in the loo encourages people to not bother washing their hands at all - gross!

I have one of these. When I moved from a house with 3 loos to one with just 1 upstairs I was determined to get a loo downstairs somehow. I had to ask quite a few people but finally one agreed and it was put in my understairs cupboard. It’s small and bijou but does the job and it’s the best thing I’ve done here. I’m very proud of it!!

This post reminded me of a loo on Crete which was a hole in the floor. When I washed my hands in the wash basin the water ran straight down the plug hole into a channel running along the floor to the hole. Not quite as sophisticated as the one Dotty 123 has in mind but along the same lines

I have sent you a message Dotty.

NotSpaghetti: thank you so much - have replied.

Many thanks to everyone for taking the time to comment. What a lovely lot you are!

Have no experience of these wash basins above the loo concept, but I have heard of them. I do have a smallish downstairs loo, but with a very small sink. Some people have mentioned having an outward opening door, but how about one of those concertina doors to give you a bit more room in there and then you may be able to accommodate a small wash basin?