{ "id": "stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack", "sku": "stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack", "title": "Stainless Steel Hair Strainer 75mm (2 Pack)", "slug": "stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack", "price": 9.99, "currency": "GBP", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "shower-drain-hair-catchers", "category_label": "Shower & Bath Hair Catchers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/shower-drain-hair-catchers/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/main-stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/shower-drain-hair-catchers/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack-2.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/shower-drain-hair-catchers/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack-3.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/shower-drain-hair-catchers/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack-4.jpg", "https://ezydrains.co.uk/dropship-images/shower-drain-hair-catchers/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack-5.jpg" ], "description_short": "A two pack of brushed, rust resistant steel sieves, roughly 7.7cm across and 1.4cm deep, shaped to sit over most sink, bath and shower drains with holes small enough to trap hair and food scraps while water keeps moving.", "description": "The problem nobody notices until it is too late\n\nA blocked shower drain never announces itself. One week you are standing in a shallow puddle by the end of your wash. A fortnight later the water is over your ankles and taking five minutes to clear. By then the blockage has had months to form, and it is almost never one dramatic thing. It is hair, bound together with soap scum and the oily residue from conditioner, slowly knitting itself into a mat inside the trap.\n\nKitchen sinks follow the same pattern with different materials. Rice, coffee grounds, tea leaves, bits of vegetable peel, a scrap of pasta that slipped off the plate. None of it seems like much. All of it ends up in the same place.\n\nThe frustrating part is that this is one of the easiest household problems to prevent. A flat piece of perforated steel sitting over the drain opening catches the material before it has a chance to go anywhere. It costs less than a bottle of drain unblocker and it does not need replacing every few months.\n\nHow a drain strainer actually works\n\nThere is no clever mechanism here, and that is a good thing. The strainer is a shallow dish of stainless steel with holes punched through it. Water passes through the holes. Anything larger than the holes stays on top.\n\nThe engineering question is the size of those holes. Make them too large and hair slips straight through, which makes the strainer decorative rather than useful. Make them too small and they clog with soap film within a week, turning your sink into a slow draining basin and defeating the whole point.\n\nThis strainer sits in the middle of that range. The holes hold hair and food particles while still letting water run at a normal rate. When you see water starting to pool, the usual cause is a full strainer, not a design fault. Lift it, empty it, rinse it, put it back.\n\nThe second design factor is profile. This one is about 1.4cm high with an item depth of roughly 0.55 inches, which means it sits low in the drain rather than standing proud of the floor. In a shower that matters, because a tall strainer is something you feel underfoot and eventually kick loose.\n\nWhy stainless steel instead of plastic or silicone\n\nWalk through the bathroom aisle of any hardware shop and you will see three common materials for this job. Each behaves differently over time.\n\nPlastic mesh is cheap and it works at first. The trouble is that repeated hot water and cleaning products make it brittle. Within a year the edges crack and it starts discolouring to a yellowish grey that no amount of scrubbing shifts.\n\nSilicone is soft and seals well, but it attracts a greasy film that bonds to the surface. It also tends to trap hair in the material itself, so cleaning becomes a proper chore rather than a quick tip into the bin.\n\nStainless steel sidesteps both problems. It does not absorb anything, hair lifts off cleanly, and it handles hot water without any change. This strainer is listed as rust resistant with a brushed finish, and the brushed surface is a sensible choice for a wet room because it disguises water marks far better than a polished one. If you are hunting for the best shower drain hair catcher for a drain that is visible, a brushed metal disc looks like part of the fitting rather than an afterthought.\n\nGetting the size right before you order\n\nThis is the one step worth two minutes of your time. Take a tape measure to your drain and measure the opening across its widest point.\n\nThe compatible groove diameter listed for this strainer is 1.8 inches, and the supplier describes it as suiting drains from roughly 1.8 to 2.5 inches. The strainer itself is 7.7cm across, so it overlaps the opening and sits on the surrounding surface rather than dropping inside.\n\nA few things to watch for. If your drain has a raised grille or a domed cover that cannot be removed, the strainer will not sit flat. If the opening is square or rectangular, a round strainer will cover the middle but leave corner gaps. And if you have a very wide floor gully in a wet room, this is likely too small for the job.\n\nFor standard basins, baths, shower trays and kitchen sinks in most homes, the size works out fine.\n\nWho gets the most out of one\n\nHouseholds with long hair are the obvious group. One person with hair past their shoulders can shed enough in a month to meaningfully narrow a pipe. A bath plughole hair trap is cheap insurance against a call out.\n\nRenters are another good fit, because there is nothing to install and nothing to undo when you leave. You lift it out and take it with you.\n\nPet owners who wash dogs in the bath will find it useful too, since animal fur binds into mats even faster than human hair.\n\nAnd anyone who cooks a lot will appreciate a sink waste strainer in the kitchen. Catching rice and coffee grounds at the surface is far less unpleasant than fishing them out of a trap later.\n\nLiving with it day to day\n\nThe routine is quick enough that it barely registers. After a shower, glance at the strainer. If there is a visible clump, pick it up by the edge, tip it into the bin and run it under the tap for a second or two. That is it.\n\nOnce a week or so, give it a proper wash. Warm water, a drop of washing up liquid, a soft brush worked over the holes to shift any soap film that has settled in them. Rinse it, dry it with a cloth, and put it back.\n\nAvoid two things. Do not use steel wool or scouring pads, which will put fine scratches across the brushed finish. And do not soak it in strong chemical drain cleaner, because those products are formulated to attack organic matter and are not kind to metal finishes.\n\nBecause there are two strainers in the pack, you have a sensible option here. Keep the second one in the cupboard, and when you deep clean the first, swap it in so the drain is never left unprotected while one dries.\n\nA few honest limitations\n\nA strainer prevents problems, it does not fix them. If your drain is already slow, clearing the existing blockage comes first. Fitting a strainer over a clogged pipe just means you now have a clean strainer sitting on a blocked drain.\n\nIt also blocks the plug. If you like a bath, you will need to lift the strainer out to let the plug seat, then drop it back in before you pull the plug. That is a small habit to build, but it is a habit.\n\nFinally, it does not stop everything. Very fine grit, soap residue itself and dissolved fats all pass straight through. A strainer handles the bulk material that forms the core of most clogs, which is the majority of the problem, but it is not a filter.\n\nThe short version\n\nA stainless steel hair strainer is a small, cheap, no install fix for a problem that gets expensive if you ignore it. This one is a pack of two, roughly 7.7cm across and 1.4cm high, made from rust resistant brushed stainless steel, sized for drain openings in the 1.8 to 2.5 inch range.\n\nMeasure your drain first. If it is in range, set one over the shower drain and one over the kitchen sink, empty them when they look full, and give them a soapy wash now and then. That is the entire commitment, and it is the difference between a drain that runs clear and one you end up taking apart on a Sunday afternoon.", "llm_summary": "The Stainless Steel Hair Strainer 75mm 2 Pack is a set of two drain sieves from ILLUVA, sold as a bathroom and kitchen plughole strainer. Each unit measures approximately 7.7cm wide by 1.4cm high with an item depth of about 0.55 inches, and is made from stainless steel with a brushed finish described as rust resistant. The listed compatible groove diameter is 1.8 inches, with the supplier noting suitability for drain openings between roughly 1.8 and 2.5 inches. The perforations are designed to catch hair and food particles while allowing water to drain. The strainer sits over the drain with no installation. Product weight, colour code, exact material grade and country of origin are not specified by the maker.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "14-day right to cancel from delivery under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, buyer pays return postage; the refund may be reduced if the item has been used beyond normal handling; Consumer Rights Act 2015 rights for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "EzyDrains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://ezydrains.co.uk/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/", "canonical_url": "https://ezydrains.co.uk/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack/", "json_url": "https://ezydrains.co.uk/api/products/stainless-steel-hair-strainer-75mm-2-pack.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }