My wife and daughter have such beautiful hair. But as the ersatz plumber in our family, I would like to convince them to stop cleaning their bathroom sink. No luck so far.
Instead, every couple of months, when the flow inevitably dwindled to a trickle, I would put on a pair of gloves. So I began the tedious task of disassembling the plug and then digging out the dirty, sticky mud that accumulated around its stem like fuzzy pond scum.
Drain snakes didn’t help my situation much because even the thin and flexible ones didn’t quite fit into the narrow holes around my drain plug on the pull rod. When it comes to chemical drain cleaners like Drano or Liquid Plumr, I think of them as a last resort (due to the risks they pose to my home’s plumbing, as well as the safety of any drain service professional I might have to call to help me out of a really stubborn clog).
Then the algorithm reminded me of an alternative: a mesh drainage catcher. As a category of drain traps, it’s as old as home plumbing, and I counted about a half-dozen reliable options (on Amazon and other retailers) that might fit my sink. But the Juka SinkShroom Ultra Edition seemed to stand out, with the best user ratings of any bathroom sink hair filter and tens of thousands of five-star reviews.
Giuca says the SinkShroom Ultra should fit in almost any bathroom sink drain to catch stray hair and keep it out of sight and away from sensitive, clog-prone parts of the drain line. The SinkShroom still needs to be cleaned from time to time, but Giuka promises the process is much faster and less messy than the status quo.
To help with testing, I recruited a couple of colleagues who also suffer from slow wasting (and both have long hair). And I bought some SinkShroom Ultras so we could try them out at home for a few weeks.
This easy-to-clean, hard-to-clog hair catcher can replace existing stoppers in most bathroom sinks.
We’ve all found that SinkShroom Ultra works as advertised and makes our lives a little easier and less disgusting. This chrome fox caught a lot of hair and kept the drains from flowing. And when it came time to detach and untangle that hair trap, it wasn’t too cumbersome. For an inexpensive bathroom sink accessory, this is the best option.
We all found it quite easy to install. If your sink has a built-in drain plug (most do), you will have to remove it before inserting the SinkShroom. It’s not that difficult. My fellow testers rent their own apartments and don’t do much DIY work. However, they both completed this step in less than 15 minutes. If your sink drain is between 1 and 1.5 inches in diameter and you or someone you know can hunch under the sink for a few minutes and turn a wrench a couple of times, you’re in business.
Once the SinkShroom is wedged into the drain line, the toadstool-shaped edges of the lid rest on the sink and the hidden rod passively catches long hair.
This allowed our drains to flow freely. My fellow testers were used to dealing with almost daily slowdowns and drain clogs. SinkShroom has been a huge improvement for both of them. The water flowed at full speed for about 10 days before they had to pull it out and clean the hair.
Cleaning is faster and less messy than before. Instead of crouching next to the vanity and fumbling with a wrench to undo the retaining rod, I simply yanked the SinkShroom straight out of the drain. I then wrapped a paper towel around the stem, removed the dirt, and rinsed the residue off under the tap. The whole process took me about two minutes, and my colleagues said the same.
After several weeks, the resulting woolly mixture of hair, toothpaste and soap was still a little unpleasant (and is one of the main complaints in user reviews). But I didn’t find it as repulsive as the smelly dark brown goo that formed a few months later on the crossbars and in the cracks of my old traction stop. Test logistics assistant Fiona Corcoran (one of my testing colleagues) said that since she switched to SinkShroom, her drainage doesn’t start to come back on every few days. This way the sink bowl remains noticeably cleaner longer.
Looks great. Like the utilitarian design of many other practical, well-designed accessories, the design of the SinkShroom can clash with carefully considered bathroom decor. Looks like a mini pasta strainer (ah fungus) upside down at the bottom of the sink, and if you don’t like the look, you’re not alone.
Writer Joel Santo Domingo said he had great success using the SinkShroom stopper on a builder’s grade sink he previously owned. But after he and his wife upgraded to a designer vessel sink, they decided not to reinstall the SinkShroom stopper because they didn’t want to ruin the look of the sink with metal fungus.
You may need a separate plug. Here’s another downside to the SinkShroom: If you’re filling your sink with water for shaving or hand-washing clothes, this model doesn’t have a built-in plug or stopper like pull or push-button plugs. The version of the SinkShroom Ultra we tested came with a separate rubber plug that somewhat resembles the end of a miniature piston. In my limited testing it worked fine. But if you regularly plug your sink and fill it with water, I think this awkward workaround will soon start to get on your nerves.
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