Review on Say Goodbye To Clogged Drains With KES Anti-Clog Sink Drain And Hair Catcher, Brushed Nickel Finish by Mike Pedroza

This drain and strainer appear well made and durable. The installation is quite easy, however, you may find the push button inoperable in certain sink configurations.I'll explain.If your sink has a pronounced depression for the drain hole, it is likely the new push button will not be able to be depressed enough to be able to lock and unlock without taking the entire assembly out (which is a design feature of this drain, but only to clean the strainer, not to operate the push button.) This may only be a minor inconvenience for some, but when you are buying this to operate as a one handed push button, do you really want to pull the the thing out of the drain, operate the push button and then place it back in? Yes, that will work, and it's not difficult, but it keeps this from being a 5 star review.I bought two of these for Kohler sinks with fairly deep depressions for the drain holes. As I said, these are quite easy to install, thankfully because there are barely any directions. Once it was installed, I tried to operate the push button and nope, I could not push the button down far enough to activate the clicking mechanism, and I immediately saw the reason, as I explained above. The outer edge of the drain cap hit the raised sides of the sink drain, and could not be pressed down far enough to "click". Being a consummate do-it-yourself-er however, I was not going to give up and send these back without at least trying to make them work. And I found two techniques while doing so, since I bought two of these, which both worked.The first sink, since it was already installed, got the "screw the strainer basket back (down) as far as it can go to increase the overall length of the assembly enough to make it work" technique. This in fact increased the length of the assembly by about a 1/8 of an inch. I did also take the strainer basket off the assembly entirely and "bent" the threads of the strainer ever so slightly so the fit would be tight, and not come loose over time. I'd say this is probably a good thing to do, even if you choose the second technique as well.The second technique was to replace the supplied (fairly thin) silicon top gasket with the bottom gasket from the old drain. In my case it just happened to be a perfect fit, and the much greater thickness, raised the entire drain assembly high enough in the drain hole to reduce the "depression" effect of the sink hole. My guess is you can get something suitable at the (unnamed) hardware store of your liking, in your town.If your sink is more flat at the drain hole, you will likely have no issues at all, and you will find this a 5 star item.Overall the new drains look very nice and modern. It has the obvious benefit of removing the sink stopper mechanism from the inside of the down drain that naturally catches hair and grime and eventually gets plugged up and is #1 reason plumbers get called to clear a stopped-up drain for those not comfortable taking the drain apart and cleaning it out every so often. The strainer basket seems rather constrictive and could possibly get clogged even faster than the traditional drain stopper, but since it only requires pulling it out of the drain and dumping the contents into a trash can and rinsing it off, I'd say those plumber callers mentioned above will be happy with how easy that is.Lastly, my wife loved it and how it looked, so big win for me, and I'm glad I didn't let a minor design flaw stop me.oh, iGanja!