Inspiring basin plugs

[Joeninety]

Hi all. Was wondering what is de rigueur nowadays in relation to bathroom basin plugs/popups. We have a chrome plug on a chain that's served well for 20 years, but the chain is always in the way. Looking for something more inspiring, but 'popups' seem so social housing bathroom. Anyone any ideas ? Thanks.

I'm crying with laughter at "social housing bathroom", because how in any way is that related to a pop-up basin plug? This has got to be a troll post

A plug seeming ‘social housing’. Are you serious? 😧

We have this sort of “click-clack” system on our hand basins. They’re 10 years old now and because the rubber seal is constantly wet I’m finding I have to de gunk it quite often.
So not the most hygienic.
And if you’ve been soaking very dirty stuff you have to plunge your hand into murky water to open the plug. Not recommended for bidets!
Much better to have a push-down lever behind the tap. But they come unhooked on a regular basis…
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What have I just read?

Perhaps to make the pop up more inspiring, you could glue a nice little figurine on top. A dolphin perhaps, or a squirrel.

What the fuck does a plug have have to do with social housing?

I’ve seen rotating disks in Premier Inn basin plugholes. Or is that too “social housing” for you?

Next time someone complains on here about their mental load (seems to happen every 2.67 minutes), remember that there are people who actually have the time and the headspace to post about the class system of bathroom plugs.

I live in social housing, my basin plugs are on chains. No pop-ups. I feel short changed…..

@Joeninety YABU for being such a snob

@Joeninety Plugs on chains aren’t a great look. We have flip round ones. Upright for letting water out and closed flat for keeping water in. I’m not a massive fan of lever operated ones from behind the tap. We don’t have push down and pop up ones. If you retro fit, I think you could get the flip round ones that just sit on the waste.

Then there's the issue of how does one arrange one's chain after plug use..
Do you stretch it and wrap it around a tap?
If so, which one? Left or right, hot or cold?

Or does one affect an artistic loop with the chain and place the plug dead centre, for symmetry and class, or does one affect a devil-may-care off centre placing, for a more bohemian vibe?

Letting the chain just subside into an unruly pile is definitely déclassé (looking at you, DH)

De rigueur. Social housing. Inspiring washbasin plug.

Righty ho.

Inspire you to do what exactly?

I have clicked clack plugs, but then, I’m very common!

Maybe inspire is the wrong word. But I feel people still know where I'm coming from.

I wasn’t aware that a plug chain was seen as ‘non-U’.
I think I prefer them in fact, as it’s surprising how often one has been foxed by some newfangled sink tech in the Ladies’ in posh department stores!
A plug on a chain is at least human, as Holden C. might say.

But an ‘inspiring’ plug setup is a very far out concern there, OP.
(I imagine the Elle Deco or Living plug vibe would be something pretty inspired, but probably inspired by Class A’s)

Mine are like this. Drawback is you put your hand into the water to open it. We like them though as we don’t fill basins often.

No, no we don’t. Please explain further.

Our chain affair is classy, but with the passing of time, I'm getting more and more frustrated with it always dangling about. To the point of impending nervous breakdown. That's why I need a replacement, but something pretty yet functional and not gauche.

“Classy” has always seemed like a weird concept to me, as if the word implies the exact opposite.

What would a gauche bath plug look like? And do you think the likes of ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ is inspiring?

@GarlicBreadStan I'm in social housing and my bathroom plug is on a chain.... never ever had a pop up one! 🤣🤣

Took me about 10 minutes to work one of those out, first time I came across them.

I was partially brought up in social housing, though. Probably explains it 🤣

And I'm in private rented at the moment, but I've also owned before and all of the houses I've lived in have had at least one pop-up plug 😂

OP is showing their classist side

“Classy”?
Oh, you’re one of those.

A very pretty smaller china bowl that fits inside the basin and can just be tipped out?
A marble or quartz egg, that fits the plug hole? Or (and this would be my choice) a glass eye?
A long decorative wand or stick that is fixed on top of the plug and can be lifted without wetting hands?
An adapted fancy candlestick, with the base being the plug?

@GarlicBreadStan definitely 🤣🤣🤣 can't believe the original post tho....🤣🤣