ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Basin wrench

A basin wrench is a very helpful tool that helps us fix things in our bathroom or kitchen. It looks like a long stick with a funny shaped head at the end. The head is made to fit around the nuts that hold the faucet or the pipes under the sink.

You know how sometimes the faucet gets leaky or there is a problem with the pipes? Well, a basin wrench can make it a lot easier to fix those problems. When we need to tighten or loosen the nuts that hold the faucet or pipes in place, we can use the basin wrench.

Imagine you are playing with a really cool toy with lots of small screws in it. But those screws are really tiny, so you can't use your hands to turn them. Instead, you can use a special screwdriver that fits just right and helps you turn those small screws easily.

The basin wrench is like that special screwdriver but for the pipes and faucets in our bathroom or kitchen. The funny shaped head of the wrench can fit perfectly around the nuts because it can open and close like a mouth. This means we can use the wrench to reach tight spaces and turn the nuts to tighten or loosen them.

Sometimes it's hard to reach the nuts that hold the faucet or pipes because they are in a tight space. But with a basin wrench, we can reach those nuts easily. It has a long stick part that helps us get into small spaces.

So, when there is a leaky faucet or a problem with the pipes in our bathroom or kitchen, we can use a basin wrench to fix it by turning the nuts. It's like having a magic tool that helps us solve those problems and make things work properly again!