{ "id": "square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack", "sku": "square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack", "title": "Square Silicone Shower Drain Cover 2 Pack", "slug": "square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack", "price": 15.99, "currency": "CAD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "shower-drain-covers", "category_label": "Shower Drain Covers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "200 g", "images": [ "https://ezydrains.net/dropship-images/shower-drain-covers/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/main-square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack.jpg", "https://ezydrains.net/dropship-images/shower-drain-covers/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack-2.jpg", "https://ezydrains.net/dropship-images/shower-drain-covers/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack-4.jpg", "https://ezydrains.net/dropship-images/shower-drain-covers/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack-5.jpg", "https://ezydrains.net/dropship-images/shower-drain-covers/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack-6.jpg" ], "description_short": "Two flat silicone mats, each 5.51 inches square and only 0.04 inches thick, grip smooth tile with corner suction cups and lift out in one motion for cleaning.", "description": "The slow drain nobody notices until it is bad\n\nA shower drain rarely fails all at once. It fades. First the water takes a second longer to clear. Then there is a shallow puddle around your feet by the end of a wash. A few weeks later you are standing in two inches of grey water wondering what happened.\n\nWhat happened is hair. Everyone sheds some in the shower, and a single strand is nothing. The problem is what hair does once it is in the pipe. It wraps around the trap, it snags on anything already there, and then soap, conditioner and body oil coat the whole lot into a dense grey mat that water has to squeeze past. That mat is why drain blockages feel sudden even though they took months to form.\n\nYou can deal with this two ways. You can wait and then fight it, with a drain snake, a hand auger or a plumber's bill. Or you can stop it at the surface, which costs almost nothing and takes about ten seconds a week.\n\nWhat a flat silicone cover does differently\n\nMost hair catchers are domes or baskets that sit inside the drain opening. They work, but they stick up, they catch toes, and they are fiddly to empty because the hair tangles around the mesh.\n\nA flat cover takes the opposite approach. This one is a square of rubber and silicone, 5.51 inches on each side and 0.04 inches thick. It lies on top of the floor rather than inside the drain. Hair collects on the upper face where you can see it and pick it off in one piece, usually without even getting your fingers wet.\n\nBecause the cover is wider than the drain opening it overlaps onto the surrounding tile, which is where the corner suction cups come in. Press the four corners down and the cover grips. Water runs across the floor, through the cover and away, while the hair stays behind.\n\nThe thinness matters. At 0.04 inches there is barely anything standing proud of the floor. No toe stubbing, no awkward lump to shuffle around, no visual clutter in a nicely tiled shower. If you have ever pulled a tall strainer out because it kept getting in the way, this is the alternative.\n\nChecking it will fit before you order\n\nThis is the one step worth doing properly. The cover suits drain openings up to 4.7 inches across, with a compatible groove diameter of 4.7 inches.\n\nTake a tape measure and measure the widest part of your drain opening, outside edge to outside edge of the hole itself, not the metal trim around it. If that figure is under 4.7 inches, you are in range. The cover will overlap and seat properly.\n\nThen look at the floor surrounding the drain. The suction cups need smooth, flat tile to grip. Four things will weaken the hold:\n\n1. Grout lines running directly under a corner cup\n2. Heavily textured or anti slip tile\n3. A sloped or sharply curved floor section\n4. Soap film left on the tile from previous washes\n\nNone of these are dealbreakers on their own, but if several apply you may find the cover sits in place without really gripping. On a flat glazed tile floor it holds well. Picking the best flat drain cover is mostly about matching it to the surface you have, not about the cover itself.\n\nFitting it in under a minute\n\nClean the tile around the drain first. A quick wipe with dish soap and a rinse removes the invisible film of body oil and shampoo residue that stops suction cups from sealing. Dry the area with a towel.\n\nPosition the cover so it sits centred over the drain opening and so each corner cup lands on solid tile rather than on a grout joint. Press each corner down firmly with your thumb. You should feel the cup flatten and bite.\n\nThat is it. To remove it, lift one corner and the rest releases.\n\nIf the cover drifts the first few times, the cause is almost always residue on the cups. Wash them, dry them, and try again. People sometimes assume a cover has failed when it has only needed a clean.\n\nWho gets the most out of it\n\nHouseholds with long hair feel the difference fastest. If someone in your home sheds visibly in the shower, a hair catcher is not an accessory, it is maintenance.\n\nRenters like it because nothing is fixed, drilled or glued. It lifts out and goes with you.\n\nShared bathrooms benefit for a different reason. When hair is visible on a flat cover, whoever caused it tends to deal with it. When it disappears down the pipe, nobody deals with it until it comes back as a blockage.\n\nPet owners washing dogs in a tub or shower get a lot of value too, since dog hair is exactly the kind of debris that chokes a trap. And anyone who has already paid once to have a drain cleared tends to buy the best reusable hair catcher they can find and never think about it again.\n\nWhere the second cover usually ends up\n\nTwo covers come in the pack, and most people split them. One stays in the main shower. The other moves to wherever the next problem is.\n\nA bathroom sink is a common choice, since sinks collect shaving stubble and hair from brushing. A kitchen sink opening works as well, keeping food scraps out of the pipe, though it needs rinsing more often. A laundry floor drain is another good home for it, because lint and fibre wash straight off a washer and head for the pipe otherwise.\n\nThe only rule is the same in every spot, the opening needs to be under 4.7 inches and the surrounding surface needs to be flat and smooth enough for the cups.\n\nKeeping it clean\n\nThis part is short because the job is short.\n\nLift the cover. Pull the hair off and bin it. Rinse the cover under warm running water, both sides. Press it back down.\n\nOnce a week or so, add a little dish soap and a soft cloth. Soap scum and body oil build up on silicone and, more importantly, on the suction cups. A clean cup grips. A greasy one slides. That single habit is the difference between a cover that stays put for years and one you keep repositioning.\n\nSkip the scouring pads, bleach and strong solvents. Silicone does not need them and they shorten its life. There is also no need for chemical drain cleaners here, since the whole point of the cover is to stop the problem that would otherwise call for them.\n\nLet both faces dry before replacing the cover if you can. It is not essential, but a dry cup seals better than a wet one.\n\nThe short version\n\nHair is what blocks shower drains, and the easiest place to stop it is on the floor rather than in the pipe. This pack gives you two square silicone covers, each 5.51 inches across and 0.04 inches thick, that press onto smooth tile with corner suction cups and sit almost flush with the floor.\n\nMeasure your drain opening and check it is under 4.7 inches. Make sure the tile around it is flat and smooth. Clean the cups now and then. Do those three things and you get a hair catcher that quietly does its job, one you lift and rinse in seconds, and a drain that keeps running the way it did when it was new.", "llm_summary": "This is a two pack of square silicone shower drain covers. Each cover measures 5.51 inches wide by 0.04 inches high and is made from rubber and silicone with a smooth finish. The design is flat and removable, with suction cups that press onto smooth tile to hold it in place over a drain opening. It is listed as fitting drain openings up to 4.7 inches across and a compatible groove diameter of 4.7 inches. The pack contains two items with a stated item weight of 200 g. Hair and debris collect on the surface of the cover and are pulled away by hand, then the cover is rinsed and pressed back down. Colour, material origin are not specified by the maker.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; provincial consumer protection law for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "EzyDrains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://ezydrains.net/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/", "canonical_url": "https://ezydrains.net/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack/", "json_url": "https://ezydrains.net/api/products/square-silicone-shower-drain-cover-2-pack.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }