How important are sink hole filters?

[purpleroad]

Go these filter things in my kitchen sink and bath. In my old place when I didn't have one of these the shower plug hole got blocked with hairs I think and I had to pour this strong unblocking stuff down there.

In the kitchen how important is it to stop food going down there?

 

[Mottie]

As long as whatever goes down the hole goes round the u bend I can’t see that there will be a problem. No different to a waste disposal unit, surely?

Only problem I can see is if your sink flows into an open drain - the food may lay in the open and stink especially if it gets blocked by leaves or other debris.

 

[Scarum]

They stops the spiders coming up in to the basin / bath.

 

[Mottie]

Lol. Would these be the spiders that can swim round water-filled U bends? Any spiders that come out of plug holes went in them from the sink side in the first place.

 

[dilalio]

The filters are to stop you having to claw food morsels out of the waste with your fingers - or being tempted to push them through where they can get stuck and block the waste.

 

[Hot&Cold]

fooking maggots in your sink

 

[Mottie]

That's rice. Wet maggots can climb anything, dontcha know!

 

[durhamplumber]

sink is fekin mingin!!probably do need a filter

 

[purpleroad]

sink is fekin mingin!!probably do need a filter

Yeah it needs a clean for sure.

 

[purpleroad]

As long as whatever goes down the hole goes round the u bend I can’t see that there will be a problem. No different to a waste disposal unit, surely?

Only problem I can see is if your sink flows into an open drain - the food may lay in the open and stink especially if it gets blocked by leaves or other debris.

Don't plumbers u do the u bend to unblock it sometimes?

 

[Dan Robinson]

Don't plumbers u do the u bend to unblock it sometimes?

Que?

 

[Hot&Cold]

Its a wind up,fecking disgusting pictures thou,

Thank **** we have the nhs

 

[45yearsagasman]

Clean the effing sink

 

[dilalio]

If that’s your sink, what’s state is the bog in????

 

[Mottie]

It’s like this - I saw it in one of his earlier posts.