I have just spent an unpleasant time trying to clean the hair trap under the shower drain. The water goes down through holes in the middle of a wide round removable drain cover (looks good, and looks easy to clean - ha ha) Under the holes is fixed a bottomless plastic cylinder about 3 inches across and four deep, with cross-bars to catch the hairs. With the drain cover in place, that cylinder sticks down into a circular pit underneath, and the water goes down past the cross-bars into the pit, rises up the sides between the cylinder and the pit and spills over and down the drain.
Still sounds good - hairs and debris caught, water escapes. But there are screws holding the cylinder to the drain cover - inside it They have gone rusty. The hair and soap residue cling around the screws and round the joins of the various parts. The cylinder is too deep and narrow to grip the caught hairs, even with tweezers. The soap makes the whole thing slimy and revolting. The pit is always full of manky water and has hairs sticking to it that have to be removed with a finger, while kneeling on the damp shower base with your head under a dripping shower head.
Every time I clean it I curse. Why can't they design a trap that can be taken apart to clean?
