Sink Plugs help needed

[jswillia]

I want to replace my bathroom sink mixer tap. It currently has a popup plug which you push up with a lever on the tap. Most of the taps im looking at don’t have the hole for the leaver to go and come with plugs which you push down and the click shut then you push them again to open. Would I be able to replace the plug with one of this push shut ones without having the change the waste pipe?

[XanderH]

Yes.

[Gingerbread Man]

Your tap has a pop up style waste to it. A lot of taps come with these, I'm surprised that you haven't found many.

If you replace the pop up waste with a clicker waste, apart from having to take one out and fit a new one in the basin (bathroom sink? ;-)), the trap will most likely still line up. It not, due to keeping the same basin/ sink, it doesn't normally take much to extend it via an adjustable P trap or a slight modification to the pipe work.

[jswillia]

Cheers GBM! Ive been looking at taps like this on Ebay: and not many seem to be compatible with popup waste so clicker waste seems to be the way to.

[Simpo Two]

Plugs aside, be careful that the tap you choose is suitable for your water pressure. A high pressure tap on a gravity fed system won't impress.

[jswillia]

I live in a flat with a boosted water system and the water on all the taps is very powerful, would the above tap be a good choice for this type of system then?

[Gingerbread Man]

Most taps are high pressure rated these days. If your cold water is mains fed, pumped or your hot water is pumped or unvented, you'll be fine.

Your choices will be;
Plug.
Clicker.
Or my personal choice - Crosswaters flip top basin waste, (google it).

Unless the basin is quite rounded at the bottom, like a bowl for example, I think clickers look a bit odd sitting so proud.

[Simpo Two]

jswillia said:

I live in a flat with a boosted water system and the water on all the taps is very powerful, would the above tap be a good choice for this type of system then?

I should think that design will shoot you straight in the bks!

[Gingerbread Man]

Simpo Two said:

I should think that design will shoot you straight in the bks!

The blade of water it creates cuts through you like Oddjobs hat.

In reality, with experience of the Crosswater 'Love Me' tap, they're a nice tap. The flows deflected into a nice waterfall, dare I say?

[jswillia]

I really like the look of those flip top ones. Will I have to remove any part of the current waste pipe or will I be able just to take out the old plug and put a flip top one in? Cheers

[Gingerbread Man]

jswillia said:

I really like the look of those flip top ones. Will I have to remove any part of the current waste pipe or will I be able just to take out the old plug and put a flip top one in? Cheers

What ever waste you choose, you'll have to remove the current one and put a new one in the basin.

The waste pipe and traps should be able to stay the same.

[jswillia]

OK thanks

[Rotor]

That tap would be great after a month of young kids spitting toothpaste on it and a bit of scale build upon it, great in a showhome though.