Bath and basin plugs, and only two say which hole they fit
The short answer
Prices in GBPUSDEUReach row carries the day it was read
Twenty seven plugs and stoppers from one search and the order export, none of them handled here. The thing that keeps the water in a basin, a bath or a kitchen sink.
Two tell you which hole they fit. Eighteen give the plug’s own size, and seven give nothing.
Which you are buying
| What the photographs show | Listings |
|---|---|
| A plain plug, rubber with a ring, a chain or a steel top | 10 |
| A universal silicone shape, a cone, a bung or a flat disc | 3 |
| A pop-up plug with a hair basket, dropped into the waste | 3 |
| A click clack cap, or a whole click clack waste | 2 |
| A tip toe or pop-up stopper for one kind of bath drain | 3 |
| A kitchen sink strainer or stopper | 4 |
| A hair catcher, which does not stop water | 2 |
The plain plug is the one most homes need: a rubber stopper that pushes into the hole. Pop-up and click clack plugs live in the waste itself and open and close with a press. Kitchen sinks take a steel strainer basket instead.
Measure the hole
Measure straight across the plug hole at the top, inside the metal ring. A stepped rubber plug is narrower at the bottom than the top, so it wedges in as it is pushed down. The hole should be bigger than the bottom and smaller than the top.
Most listings here print those two numbers for each size. One does better and prints the hole each size is for, nine ranges from 25 to 55mm. A pop-up plug marks its hole as 34 to 40mm. Everything else leaves the arithmetic to you.
Pop-up and click clack
A pop-up plug with a basket underneath sits in the waste of a basin and opens when pressed. Three listings sell one, and they need a waste with nothing in it to sit in.
A click clack waste is the push button plug fitted to many basins. When its chrome cap comes off, a 66mm cap is sold on its own. One listing sells the whole waste instead, slotted for a basin with an overflow or unslotted for one without, which is a plumbing job rather than a swap.
Kitchen sinks
A kitchen sink usually has a steel basket strainer that lifts out. Three listings sell one, measured at 7.8cm, 80mm and 84mm across the top, so measure yours before ordering. A fourth sells a black stopper 8.7cm across that sits in the outlet.
What was left out, and why
The two hair catchers stop hair, not water. The three bath stoppers suit only the drain they are made for. Of each pair of identical listings the cheaper is the one to look at, and a white silicone plug only 25.5mm across sells itself for stopping an overflow. The flat silicone disc gives no size, and the conical bungs sold in many sizes from 14 to 172mm are a workshop item more than a bathroom one.
Side by side
Prices in GBPUSDEUR. Each row carries the date its price was read.
| Product | Price | Why it is here | Where to buyLink |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best overall, the size chart that names the hole Kitchen Bath Floor Drain Plug With Hanging Ring | £2.85$3.80€3.36checked 18 Oct 2026 | White rubber stepped plugs with a steel ring to pull, in nine sizes, and its own chart labels each one with the range of holes it fits: 25 to 28mm, 28 to 31mm, 30 to 33mm, 37 to 39mm, 39 to 41mm, 41 to 44mm, 44 to 47mm, 48 to 49mm and 50 to 55mm, with the top and bottom of every plug measured as well. Measure your hole and read off the size. No chain | Check opens in a new tab |
| Steel on top, for a basin 1pc Bathroom Washbasin Stainless Steel Sink Plug | £1.08$1.44€1.31checked 18 Oct 2026 | A stainless steel top on a black rubber plug, with a short steel knob to lift it by rather than a ring or a chain. Three sizes measured in its own photographs: 37mm across the top and 34mm at the bottom, 45 and 42mm, and 55 and 53mm, each about 22mm deep. It looks like part of the basin, which a white rubber plug does not | Check opens in a new tab |
| On a chain, the British bath plug Kitchen Sink Drain Plug Rubber Strainer Stopper | £2.77$3.69€3.26checked 18 Oct 2026 | A stainless top on a wide black rubber rim, the flat plug that sits over a bath or sink hole, on a chain with a ring at the end. Two versions by its own photographs: one on a link chain, 7.5cm across the top and 5cm underneath, and one on a beaded chain, 6.4cm and 4.3cm. Shown in a bath and a kitchen sink | Check opens in a new tab |
What you can settle before you buy
- Measure the hole, not the old plug. Measure across the plug hole at the top, inside the metal ring. A stepped rubber plug needs its bottom a little narrower than that and its top a little wider, and most listings here print both.
- One prints the hole each size fits. Nine sizes, each labelled with the range of holes it is for, from 25 to 28mm up to 50 to 55mm. That is the easiest page here to buy from.
- A pop-up plug needs a waste to sit in. The push-to-open plugs with a hair basket underneath drop into the hole of a basin waste that is already there. One marks the hole it suits as 34 to 40mm.
- A click clack cap is a spare part. If the chrome cap of a push button basin plug has come off, a 66mm cap is sold on its own. Check how the old one fixed on before you buy.
What to read twice
- A plug's size is not the hole's size. Most listings print two diameters, top and bottom, for each plug. Buy by the size of your hole falling between them, not by the bigger number.
- Two are not plugs. Two silicone hair catchers lie over a drain and let water through. They stop hair, not the bath running out.
- Three fit only one kind of bath drain. Two tip toe push stoppers screw into a drain made for them, with brass adapters, and a brass pop-up sits in what its own panel calls the drain shoe, naming the lift and turn, tip toe and trip lever drains it replaces. Check which drain you have first.
- Two pairs are one plug. The same rubber plugs in the same photographs are sold under two listings, and so is a tip toe stopper, at very different prices.