When the plug is too tight for the plughole.......

[lisalisa]

This sounds a bit kinky but it isn't - honest!!!!

For some reason my bath plug must have got bigger ( swollen in heat?) or plughole smaller as now can't get bath plug out!

Problem has been getting wrose for a whilet and using finger nails and then knives to open. Now its well and truly stuck after I've had a bath too . To make matters worse I'd had fake tan on and the bath water is a lovely brown colour!!!
Anyone know what I should do - both short term to get the plug out and long term - replace plug presumably but are they one size fits all? Plug is metal btw not rubber.

Lakeland sell plugs that somehow fit into any size hole.

Make a hole in the plug using a screwdriver (not an electric one though) and flick it out. Then just get a new plug.

Thanks scrooged - got the plug out.

But re new plug - how to stop it happening again and why did it happen? this plug had been fine for years so if I buy lakeland plug how to know it won't just get stuck straight away?

Metal expands in heat, so the hot water plus the weight of the water is probably why you had trouble getting the plug out just now, but why its growing I have no idea

Until you get a new one, I would find a rag, (thin material) or perhaps plastic (sandwich bag?) to put over the plug hole before you put the plug in, that way you will have something to grip to remove the plug.

OOh whoingodsnameami - what an absolutely fabulous idea! That's why I post these dilemmas on MN you know. For people with common sense where mine simply fails me to enlighten me !!!

But - all - what if new one also gest stuck? Just need to know really why old one decided to get stuck after 10 yrs of good service.

the same thing happened to us !!

No advice but the thread title made me laugh

Lakeland sell ones that are a weird shape (like a disc) and will fit into any size plug so it's not a traditional plug IYSWIM.

Put it on a chain. Builders broke our chain, I am using a fork (until swanky new bath arrives )

hoorah for whoingodsnameami and her suggestion of plastic bag over plug!! I would never have imagined that it would have slipped out so very easily after that.....could'nt find bath plugs in lakeland....

ladyofwaffle - how do i insert a chain in it ? I can't drill holes or anything like that - am useless at diy!!!