{ "id": "silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack", "sku": "silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack", "title": "Silicone Floor Drain Cover 20cm (5 Pack)", "slug": "silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack", "price": 17.99, "currency": "EUR", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "floor-drain-covers", "category_label": "Floor Drain Covers & Odour Seals", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/floor-drain-covers/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack/main-silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/floor-drain-covers/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack-5.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/floor-drain-covers/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack-6.jpg", "https://drains.eu.com/dropship-images/floor-drain-covers/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "Five 20cm matte grey silicone mats, each with a gripping underside for smooth floors and an odour-resistant design for bathrooms, kitchens, laundries and ensuites.", "description": "The smell that keeps coming back\n\nYou clean the bathroom properly. Tiles scrubbed, grout done, everything rinsed. An hour later there is still a faint sour note hanging around the floor, and it gets worse when the heating comes on or the window has been shut all day.\n\nThat smell is usually not dirt on the surface. It is air coming back up through the floor drain.\n\nFloor drains rely on a water trap, a small bend in the pipe that stays full of water and blocks the air behind it. The idea works well when the drain is used daily. It falls apart when it is not. In a spare bathroom, a laundry, a holiday house or an ensuite nobody uses, the water in that trap slowly evaporates. Once it drops low enough, the seal breaks and the pipe is open to the room.\n\nPouring a cup of water down every week fixes it temporarily. Most people forget. A silicone floor drain cover handles the same job without you having to remember anything.\n\nHow a silicone cover works\n\nThere is nothing clever going on, which is part of the appeal. The cover is a flexible silicone mat that lies over the drain opening. It overlaps the grating and rests on the floor around it, and because silicone is soft it settles down rather than bridging across like a rigid lid would.\n\nThat close contact is what reduces the odour. Air needs a path to move. Narrow the path and far less gets through.\n\nWater still drains. When it pools on the floor, the weight pushes under the flexible edge and it clears away. For normal shower runoff and splash from the basin, that is enough. If you are tipping out a mop bucket or running a very long shower, you are better off lifting the cover for a minute and putting it back after.\n\nThe underside on this one is textured. That grip is the difference between a cover that sits where you put it and one that migrates into the corner every time someone showers. On smooth, damp tile the texture holds well.\n\nWho gets the most out of it\n\nAnyone with a drain that does not get daily use. That is the clearest case. Laundries, second bathrooms, garage floor drains and ensuites in guest rooms all go dry and all start to smell.\n\nRenters are the other obvious group. You cannot alter the plumbing in a place you do not own, and a lot of rental bathrooms have older traps that do not hold water well. A cover is removable, leaves nothing behind, and comes with you when you move. For a rental bathroom drain cover you want exactly this kind of no-fixings solution.\n\nApartment dwellers often notice the problem more sharply, because floor drains in multi-storey buildings can share a stack with other units. When air moves through that stack, it has to go somewhere. Covering your own opening is the part you can control.\n\nFamilies with small kids and pets have a different reason. An open floor drain is somewhere toys, hair ties and small objects disappear forever. A flat cover stops that.\n\nChoosing the right size and style\n\nStart with a tape measure. Measure the full drain opening including the metal frame of the grating, not just the holes. Then measure the flat floor around it, because the cover needs somewhere to rest.\n\nA 20cm square gives a generous overlap on most standard floor drains. If your drain is a long linear channel rather than a square or round opening, a flat square cover is the wrong shape and you will not get a useful seal.\n\nThe floor surface matters as much as the size. A smooth tile or a smooth shower base is the ideal. Heavily textured anti-slip tile, pebble floors and rough stone all leave air gaps at the edge, which cuts down how well any flat cover works. If your shower floor is textured but your laundry is smooth, use the cover where it will do the most good.\n\nMaterial is the last call. Thin plastic covers warp in hot water and go brittle. Metal ones rust at the edges and rattle. Silicone stays flexible, handles heat from a hot shower, and does not corrode. That is the main reason a silicone drain cover tends to be the better long-term buy in a wet room.\n\nWhy five is a sensible number\n\nBuying one cover sounds efficient until you look around the house. Most homes have three or four drains that could use one. Shower, laundry, second bathroom, sometimes a balcony or garage.\n\nHaving spares also changes your cleaning habits for the better. When a cover gets stained or you want to give one a proper soak, you can swap in a fresh one straight away instead of leaving the drain open for a day. Over a few years, one or two will go missing in a deep clean or get thrown out by mistake. Spares cover that.\n\nIf you have fewer drains than covers, the extras are worth keeping for sinks. Over a plughole in a kitchen sink or a rarely used basin, the same mat does the same job.\n\nLiving with it day to day\n\nFitting takes seconds. Clear any hair from the drain, wipe the floor dry, place the cover textured side down, and press it flat from the middle outward so no air is trapped underneath.\n\nCleaning is the part people skip and should not. Hair, soap scum and body oils collect under any cover, and left alone they turn into their own smell. Lift it once a week in a shower, less often in a dry laundry. Rinse both sides under warm water, give the textured side a quick scrub with mild dish soap, and rinse again.\n\nDry it before refitting. A dry underside grips better than a wet one.\n\nKeep bleach soaks and scouring pads away from it. Both shorten the life of silicone, and neither is needed for routine cleaning. If hard water leaves a film, a mild diluted bathroom cleaner and a thorough rinse handle it.\n\nOne honest limitation. A cover deals with air coming up through the opening. It does not clean the pipe. If you have a blockage, a biofilm build-up or something decomposing further down, you need a proper drain clean first. Cover a dirty drain and you have simply put a lid on the problem.\n\nThe short version\n\nFloor drains smell when their water trap dries out, and the usual advice to pour water down weekly only works if you actually remember. A flexible silicone cover sits over the opening, cuts the air path, and keeps working whether you think about it or not.\n\nThis pack gives you five 20cm matte grey covers in silicone, with a textured underside for grip on smooth wet floors. No tools, no adhesive, nothing permanent. Measure your drain and the floor around it, make sure the surface is reasonably smooth, and spread the covers across the drains that get used least.\n\nClean under them regularly, clear any real blockage properly, and the bathroom should start smelling like a clean bathroom again.", "llm_summary": "This is a five-pack of silicone floor drain covers from the brand anyuan boy, model number FCD05. Each cover measures 20cm by 20cm, is made from silicone, and has a matte grey finish. The maker describes the product as odour resistant, with a flat flexible form that sits over a floor drain and a textured underside intended to grip smooth wet surfaces. It is made in China. The covers are suited to bathrooms, showers, kitchens, basins and laundry drains, and can be lifted off for rinsing and refitted without tools or adhesive. Product weight, exact thickness, packaging dimensions and any certification details are not specified by the maker. The maker does not state warranty terms.", "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/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack/", "canonical_url": "https://drains.eu.com/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack/", "json_url": "https://drains.eu.com/api/products/silicone-floor-drain-cover-20cm-5-pack.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }