{ "id": "pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm", "sku": "pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm", "title": "83mm Pop Up Sink Strainer Plug", "slug": "pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm", "price": 41.99, "currency": "SGD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "kitchen-sink-strainers", "category_label": "Kitchen Sink Strainers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/main-pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-2.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-3.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-4.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-5.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-6.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-7.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm-8.jpg" ], "description_short": "Stainless steel body, silicone seal and a chrome plated brass shaft let you press down to fill the sink or lift up to drain while the mesh grid traps food waste.", "description": "The small part that causes the biggest mess\n\nNobody shops for a sink plug until something goes wrong. The rubber one perishes and stops sealing. The plastic basket cracks and starts letting rice through. Or the kitchen drain backs up on a Sunday night and a plumber quotes an eye-watering call-out fee for ten minutes of work with a drain snake.\n\nThe irritating part is that most kitchen blockages are preventable. They are built slowly from food scraps that slipped past the outlet, caught on a bend in the pipe and then collected grease until the flow slowed to a trickle. A decent strainer sitting in the hole stops that pile ever starting.\n\nA pop up sink strainer plug goes a step further. It catches the scraps when you are rinsing, and it seals the bowl when you want to fill it. One part, two jobs, no swapping between a strainer basket and a rubber stopper that lives in a drawer and always goes missing.\n\nHow the two-position design works\n\nThe mechanism is simpler than the name suggests. The cap sits on a shaft that runs down through the body of the strainer. A ball bearing inside grips the shaft just firmly enough that the cap stays wherever you put it.\n\nLeave the cap up and the gaps around it let water drain away. Solids cannot follow because the grid in the cap holds them back. Press the cap down with a finger and a silicone gasket presses against the outlet, sealing the hole so the sink fills.\n\nThat is the whole operation. There is no pull rod running to a lever behind the tap, no linkage to adjust, nothing to go out of alignment over time. Traditional pop up wastes in bathrooms use exactly that kind of linkage and it is a common source of complaints, because the rod slips and the plug stops seating. A self-contained unit avoids the problem entirely.\n\nThe other advantage is that it lifts straight out. Mechanisms bolted to a lever need unscrewing from below when you want to clean under the cap, which is why so many of them never get cleaned. This one you just pull up.\n\nMaterials, and why they are not a detail\n\nSink wastes get the worst of everything. Hot water, fat, dish soap, the occasional slug of bleach down the drain, and constant wet-dry cycling. Materials decide how long a fitting survives that.\n\nThis strainer uses stainless steel for the body and cap, silicone for the gasket and chrome plated brass for the shaft. Stainless shrugs off hot water and detergent without pitting or staining. Silicone keeps its flex far longer than cheap rubber, which goes hard and then stops sealing. Brass is the traditional choice for anything that turns or slides inside a wet fitting, because it will not seize.\n\nCompare that to a budget plastic strainer. It works fine for a few months, then the cap warps slightly from hot water, the seal goes soft, and you notice the sink empties itself overnight while you were soaking a pan. Most people replace plastic ones two or three times before giving up and buying metal.\n\nThe finish here is polished silver, which suits almost any stainless sink and does not look out of place in a bathroom basin either.\n\nGetting the size right\n\nThis is the part worth slowing down for, because it is the single reason strainers get returned.\n\nThe fitting is made for sink outlets with an 80mm hole. The strainer measures 83mm across the flange, which is what sits visible on the sink surface, and the total height is 47mm. The manufacturer lists a compatible groove diameter of 83mm.\n\nTo check your own sink, take a tape measure and measure straight across the circular opening in the bottom of the bowl, from inside edge to inside edge. If it reads roughly 80mm you are in the right territory. Small variations of a millimetre or two are normal in manufacturing and not a problem.\n\nIf your measurement comes back notably smaller, around 70mm, or larger, around 90mm, this is not the right part. Older sinks, imported sinks and some designer basins all use their own sizes. A quick measurement saves a return.\n\nOne other check. If your sink has a food waste disposer fitted, the outlet is a different and much larger design, and no standard strainer will fit it.\n\nWho gets the most out of it\n\nAnyone who cooks from scratch benefits most. Chopping vegetables, draining pasta and rinsing rice all send small solids towards the drain, and those are exactly what the grid catches.\n\nRenters find it useful too, because it fixes a blocked-drain problem without touching the plumbing and can be taken out when the tenancy ends. Landlords and property managers often buy several at once for the same reason, since the best kitchen sink plug for a rental is one nobody can break by over-tightening.\n\nIt also suits anyone tired of hunting for a loose rubber plug. Having the seal built into the strainer means there is nothing to lose. People searching for the best pop up waste stopper are usually solving exactly that annoyance.\n\nShared kitchens are another good case. In a house with four people, nobody wants to be the one clearing the trap, and a strainer that catches scraps saves that argument.\n\nLiving with it day to day\n\nThe routine is short. After you drain the sink, lift the strainer out, tip whatever has collected into the bin and give the mesh a rinse under the tap. Put it back. That is it.\n\nOnce a week, give it a proper clean. Warm soapy water loosens the grease that builds up on the underside of the cap, and a soft washing up brush clears the grid. Rinse it off, dry it and refit. Drying matters only for looks, since water drying on a polished surface leaves spots.\n\nWhat to avoid is simple. Skip abrasive scouring pads and gritty powders, which scratch polished stainless. And do not leave it sitting in neat bleach, because while the materials are described as resistant to detergents and bleach, nothing benefits from a long soak in undiluted chemicals.\n\nIf the sink ever starts draining slowly with the strainer in place, the strainer is almost always the thing that needs cleaning rather than the pipe. Grease closes the mesh gradually and you may not notice until the flow drops.\n\nTwo small habits that help\n\nScrape plates into the bin before they hit the sink. A strainer catches solids but it cannot do anything about volume, and a cap full of leftover bolognese just slows the water.\n\nPour cooking fat into a jar rather than down the drain. Hot fat is liquid and runs straight through any mesh, then sets solid in the cold pipe further along. This is how most serious kitchen blockages actually form, and no strainer prevents it.\n\nThe short version\n\nA pop up sink strainer plug replaces two things, your strainer and your plug, with one fitting that stays in the sink. Press the cap down to fill the bowl, lift it to drain, and empty the grid when you are done.\n\nThis one is stainless steel with a silicone gasket and a chrome plated brass shaft, in a polished silver finish. It measures 8.3cm across and 4.7cm tall, and it is made for sink outlets with an 80mm hole.\n\nMeasure your outlet first. If it comes in around 80mm, this drops in and takes thirty seconds to fit, and you can stop thinking about your drain for a long while.", "llm_summary": "The pop up sink strainer plug (model 80839) is a two-position sink waste fitting for outlets with an 80mm hole. It measures 8.3cm wide by 4.7cm high, with a compatible groove diameter of 83mm. Lifted, it drains water while a mesh grid in the cap catches food solids. Pressed down, a silicone gasket seals the outlet so the sink holds water. Construction is stainless steel with a silicone gasket and a chrome plated brass shaft, with a polished silver finish and a removable design for cleaning. Supplied as a single unit. Weight, country of origin and packaged dimensions are not specified by the maker.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; your protection under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 for faulty goods is unaffected. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Drains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://drains.asia/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/", "canonical_url": "https://drains.asia/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm/", "json_url": "https://drains.asia/api/products/pop-up-sink-strainer-plug-83mm.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }