How to Choose Shower Drains

How To Buy Shower Drains?

There are five indexes to choose the shower drains, they are deodorization, water discharge, filtering capability and occasions.

  1. The shower drains could have deodorization function under any circumstance, the deodorization function reply on the sealing, the customers would choose different sealing according to different situations.
  2. The displacement has to satisfy the function requirement, that would be big enough, even your house is empty with water pipe burst, that also can drain away water. We can check displacement according to the specification and test report, we can choose the proper drain according to the size of drain and different occasions.
  3. The filtering has to be complete, since that would block the dirty, it is very troublesome to clean up, if size of filtering net is not proper, that would cause the interval time is too short, that would also cause the burden of customers, the best size of filtering net is 5-8mm, that would prevent the dirty fall into the pipe, it almost takes 3-5 months to remove the dirty.
  4. It takes too much time to replace the drain, some mechanical drain to use plastic to make the core, the special of plastic is fragile, use the drain in high frequency, then the drain is not steady, that may have various problem, we need to replace it.
  5. Choose the shower drain according to occasions, for example, the defrosting volume is big enough, we can ensure not ponding to keep water fall down, in addition to, there is much stream flow in the washing machine, there is large pressure for the pipe, if it is available, I think we don’t need to use the drain, and use the professional pipe, or we can choose the drain, then set the bumper besides outlet, that could install the bumper and then we can choose the professional drain.

Five Methods To Choose The Drains

1. Check The Host Material

The shower drain is made of brass, stainless steel, PVC, zinc alloy, brass alloy, ceramic, wrought iron and etc, at this time the stainless steel and brass alloy are moderate, pretty and practical, the whole performance is perfect.


Brass
Pvc Shower Drain
Pvc Shower Drain

Stainless Steel

2. Check Speed Of Drain Away Water
There is large room in the drain, and has fast drainage speed, we can choose when purchasing.

3. Check Deodorization Effect
The deodorization effect is the main function of drain, the history of sealing drain is very long, its advantage of drain is easy to have effect and easy to have germ, so we had better choose the drain combined with physical oder – proof and deep water deodorization, the physical deodorize would reach the switch gasket through hydraulic and permanent magnet, that could deodorize.

4. Check Anti-blocking Effect
There would be mixed to have hair, so as to the drain we have to choose the drain to prevent blocking.

5. Check Surface Finish
The surface finish could improve the anti-corrosion and beauty, there is the protecting layer on the surface, there is stainless steel, bronze, brass and etc, we can choose the drain according to decoration style and budget.

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