{ "id": "pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer", "sku": "pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer", "title": "Pop Up Sink Plug with Strainer Basket", "slug": "pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer", "price": 22.99, "currency": "EUR", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "sink-and-bath-plugs", "category_label": "Sink & Bath Plugs", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "0.1 kg", "images": [ "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/main-pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer-2.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer-3.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer-4.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer-5.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer-6.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/sink-and-bath-plugs/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "Brass construction, a lift-out filter basket and a set of rubber rings that let one plug fit most basin drains, with no tools and no plumber needed.", "description": "The small part that causes the most annoyance\n\nNobody buys a house and thinks about the basin plug. Then one morning you fill the sink to shave and by the time you have finished, half the water has quietly disappeared. Or worse, the water that should be disappearing is not, because a decade of hair has built up in the trap and the basin now drains at the pace of a slow puncture.\n\nBoth problems trace back to the same little component. A plug that has lost its seal, and a drain with nothing stopping hair from going down it. A pop up sink plug with strainer fixes both at the same time, and it does it without a plumber's visit or a trip under the basin with a torch between your teeth.\n\nHow a press-action plug works\n\nOlder basins used a pivot rod. You lift a lever behind the tap, a bar under the sink pushes up on the plug stem, and the plug rises. It works until the linkage corrodes or slips out of adjustment, at which point the plug either will not seal or will not lift.\n\nA press-action plug does away with all of that. The whole mechanism lives inside the plug body. Press the cap down and a spring-loaded catch holds it in the closed position against the drain seat. Press it again and the catch releases, the spring pushes the cap back up, and the water runs away. Nothing passes through the basin wall, nothing needs adjusting, and nothing hangs under the sink waiting to seize.\n\nThat self-contained design is also why fitting takes a minute. You lift out whatever is in the drain now, wipe the seat, and drop the new plug in.\n\nWhat the strainer actually does\n\nThe filter basket is the part people end up most grateful for. It sits inside the plug body, below the cap and above the pipe. Hair, soap fragments and the odd bit of grit land in the basket instead of slipping past into the trap.\n\nThe reason that matters is simple. Hair is the root cause of most blocked bathroom basins. It wraps around itself, catches soap residue and toothpaste, and gradually forms a plug of its own in the bend of the pipe. Once that happens you are into drain rods, caustic cleaner or a call-out charge.\n\nWith a hair catcher for bathroom sink use, the mess stays where you can see it and reach it. Lift the basket, tip it in the bin, rinse under the tap, drop it back. Ten seconds, once a week, and the problem never builds.\n\nSizing, which is the one thing worth getting right\n\nBasin drain openings are not standardised in the way you might hope. Different manufacturers, different decades and different basin styles all vary. That is why this plug ships with a set of rubber rings.\n\nThe plug covers inner diameters of roughly 25mm to 46mm. The rings let you build up the outside of the plug body until it sits snug in your particular hole. Fewer rings for a tighter opening, more rings for a wider one.\n\nTo measure, take out the existing plug and measure straight across the inside of the metal drain opening. Not the ceramic rim, and not the outside edge of the chrome collar. The inside, where the plug actually seats. Write the number down before you order and you remove nearly all the risk of a mismatch.\n\nIf your measurement comes in under 25mm or over 46mm, this is not the plug for you, and no amount of rings will change that. A loose plug cannot seal, and a plug that is too wide will never sit down into the seat.\n\nMaterials and why brass turns up so often in bathrooms\n\nThe body of this plug is brass, finished in silver. Brass is used across plumbing for a straightforward reason. It handles constant wetting and drying without the problems that catch out cheaper metals, and it machines well enough to make a precise seat.\n\nThe parts that do the sealing are rubber. There is a pad under the cap that makes contact with the drain seat, and the sizing rings around the body. Rubber is the right material for a seal because it has a bit of give, which lets it conform to small imperfections in an old drain opening.\n\nKeep that in mind when you clean. Bleach and strong drain products are hard on rubber. They make it brittle, and brittle rubber is exactly what causes a plug to start leaking. Warm soapy water is genuinely all that is needed.\n\nWho this suits\n\nRenters get a lot out of it. Nothing is cut or drilled, the original plug goes back in a drawer, and the whole thing reverses when you move out. For a few minutes of work you get a basin that holds water properly and a drain that stops blocking.\n\nFamilies with long hair in the house are the other obvious group. If you have ever pulled something horrifying out of a bathroom trap, you already understand the value of an anti clog bathroom drain plug. The basket means that mess never makes it past the plug.\n\nIt also suits anyone who has inherited a basin with a broken pop-up lever. Rather than dismantling the linkage, you simply remove whatever is left and fit a self-contained plug in its place.\n\nFitting it, step by step\n\nStart by taking the old plug out. Some lift straight away. Some with a pivot rod need the rod unscrewed from behind the basin first, which is usually a knurled nut you can turn by hand.\n\nWipe the drain seat with a cloth. Old soap residue and limescale on the seat are a common reason a new plug does not seal, and thirty seconds of wiping saves a lot of head scratching later.\n\nTest the fit without rings first. If the plug drops in loose, add a ring and try again. You want it snug enough that it does not rattle but not so tight that you have to force it.\n\nPress the cap down and fill the basin a couple of centimetres. Leave it five minutes. If the level holds, you are done. If it creeps down, lift the plug, check the pad is seated flat and the seat is clean, and try again.\n\nLiving with it\n\nDay to day there is almost nothing to think about. Leave the cap up and the basin drains while the basket catches debris. Press it down when you want to fill up.\n\nOnce a week, lift the basket and empty it. The best time to do this is when you are already cleaning the basin, so it becomes part of a routine rather than a separate chore.\n\nEvery few months, have a quick look at the rubber rings. If one has shifted, reseat it. If the seal starts letting water past and cleaning the seat does not fix it, that is usually the rubber telling you its time is up.\n\nThe short version\n\nA basin plug is a small part doing a job you rely on every day. When it stops sealing, or when the drain behind it starts to clog, the fix does not need to involve pipework.\n\nThis plug presses down to hold water and presses again to release it. The basket inside catches hair before it becomes a blockage. The supplied rings let it sit properly in drain holes between about 25mm and 46mm. It is brass, it is 6.2cm across, and it goes in without tools.\n\nMeasure your drain hole, order the plug, and spend two minutes fitting it. Then forget about it, which is exactly what you want from a basin plug.", "llm_summary": "The Hibbent SD25-C is a pop up sink plug with a built-in strainer basket, designed to replace a worn basin plug without tools. The body is brass with a silver finish, measuring 6.2cm wide by 5.8cm tall and weighing about 0.1kg. Pressing the top cap seals the basin, and pressing again releases the water. Supplied rubber rings adapt the plug to basin drain holes of roughly 25mm to 46mm inner diameter, and a rubber pad helps the seal sit flat. The removable basket catches hair and debris before it enters the waste pipe. Country of origin is China. Exact colour of the strainer insert, packaging contents beyond one piece, and warranty terms are not specified by the maker.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "14-day right of withdrawal from delivery under the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU, buyer pays the direct cost of return; two-year legal guarantee of conformity under Directive (EU) 2019/771 for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Drains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://drains.eu.com/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/", "canonical_url": "https://drains.eu.com/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer/", "json_url": "https://drains.eu.com/api/products/pop-up-sink-plug-with-strainer.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }