Jabon Bagno has added four stainless steel drains: two 6x6 inch square floor drains and two linear shower channel drains in 300mm, 450mm and 600mm lengths. They are the first floor drains in the catalogue, which until now carried drainage hardware only for basins. What separates them from one another is the cover — whether the drain is meant to be seen in the finished floor or to disappear into it. Prices run from ₹900 to ₹3,750.
What is actually new here
This is not a new finish of something already on the shelf. Until these went up, the only drainage parts in the catalogue sat in a wash basin — the waste coupling range, from ₹420 for the chrome WC01002 to ₹1,575 for the gold and black pop-ups. None of those deal with water leaving a floor.
They arrive as two pairs, and in each the body is the same and only the cover changes. The square pair is JTIFD001 and JTIFD002, both 6x6 inch, both ₹900. The linear pair is JSCD001 with a plain cover and JSCD002 with a wave-pattern cover, both at 300mm, 450mm and 600mm.
One thing in the pricing runs the opposite way to what you would expect. The wave-pattern JSCD002 is the cheaper of the two channel drains at every length: ₹1,350 against ₹1,875 at 300mm, ₹2,025 against ₹2,815 at 450mm, and ₹2,700 against ₹3,750 at 600mm. The plain cover is the dearer option, not the decorative one.
Within each pair the size, the material and the fitting work are identical. You are choosing between a drain that shows and a drain that hides, and in the channel pair the one that shows costs less.
The two square floor drains
Both are 6x6 inch, the size cut into most Indian bathroom floors, so they drop into many existing openings without the tile being disturbed. Both bodies are stainless steel rather than chrome-plated brass or plastic, which matters here: a floor drain sits in standing water and detergent daily, and plating is the first thing to lift.
JTIFD001 has an exposed steel grating. The face is flat and smooth, it lifts out, and it wipes clean without catching hair and grit on a raised pattern.
JTIFD002 replaces that grating with a shallow steel tray. You set a cut piece of your own floor tile into it, and water leaves through the slot around the edge of the insert. Done properly the drain reads as a tile joint and the steel nearly disappears. The tile is cut on site and is not supplied, which is the thing people miss when ordering it.
The two shower channel drains
A channel drain is a different idea from a square one. Instead of a point in the middle of the floor that tiles slope towards from four directions, the channel runs along one edge of the shower and the floor falls in one direction only. That is the practical reason to use one: large-format tiles need not be cut into a four-way slope, and a wet room floor can read as one plane.
JSCD001 carries a plain cover — a flat, unbroken steel face, for anyone who wants the drain to be the least noticeable thing in the room. On JSCD002 the wave pattern cut across the cover is the drainage opening itself rather than decoration over one, so the channel reads as a patterned strip rather than a steel bar. On both, the cover lifts out so the channel can be cleared.
Specifications
| Model | Type | Size | Cover | Material | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTIFD001 | Square floor drain | 6 x 6 inch | Exposed steel grating | Stainless steel | ₹900 |
| JTIFD002 | Tile insert floor drain | 6 x 6 inch | Tile insert tray, tile supplied by customer | Stainless steel | ₹900 |
| JSCD001 | Linear shower channel drain | 300mm / 450mm / 600mm | Plain | Stainless steel | ₹1,875 / ₹2,815 / ₹3,750 |
| JSCD002 | Linear shower channel drain | 300mm / 450mm / 600mm | Wave pattern | Stainless steel | ₹1,350 / ₹2,025 / ₹2,700 |
The square drains suit bathrooms, shower areas and utility spaces. The channel drains are for shower areas and wet rooms.
Installing them
Swapping a 6x6 inch square drain is the small job. Measure the opening already cut in your floor before ordering. If it is 6x6 inch the drain drops in. If it is smaller, the tile has to be broken back, and you are into tiling work rather than a change of fitting.
A channel drain is not a retrofit. It is set into the floor screed with the floor laid to fall towards it, so it is planned before the floor is tiled, not fitted afterwards. If your bathroom is already finished, a channel drain means lifting the floor.
Have ready before delivery: the measurement of your existing cut-out for a square drain; the shower width, to choose a length; and for JTIFD002, a spare piece of floor tile to cut the insert from. Set an offcut aside during tiling — finding the same tile two years later is the hard part.
- Agree the drain position with your plumber before any screed goes down, and for a channel drain agree which way the floor will fall.
- Have the waste pipe run and connected to the drain body, and that connection tested for leaks while it is still reachable.
- Have the body set in the screed at the height the finished tile will sit, so the cover finishes flush with the floor rather than above or below it.
- Have the waterproofing dressed into the drain body, not stopped short of it. This step is invisible afterwards and expensive to get wrong.
- Tile up to the drain, keeping the fall towards it uninterrupted.
- For JTIFD002, cut the tile insert from your offcut and set it in the tray.
- Fit the cover, run water for several minutes, and check the floor drains fully with nothing standing at the edges.
The pipework and screed are a plumber's work, the waterproofing and tiling the tiler's. None of these is a job to take on yourself unless you are already doing the floor.
Leave accessible afterwards: the cover, on all four, must stay liftable. That is how grit is cleared, and a cover grouted or siliconed down turns a two-minute clean into a repair. Do not seal the JTIFD002 insert in permanently either.
Who should not buy these
If your floor is finished and you do not want it lifted, neither channel drain is for you. Both are planned into a floor build; a square drain swap is the job you can do in a finished bathroom.
If your existing cut-out is not 6x6 inch, JTIFD001 and JTIFD002 will not simply drop in, and you should price the tiling work before ordering.
If you want the tile insert look but have no spare matching tile, skip JTIFD002 for now. An insert cut from a tile that nearly matches looks worse than an honest steel grating.
And if you are matching a bathroom out in gold or matt black, all four are stainless steel and only stainless steel. There is no plated option in this range, though the waste couplings do come in those finishes.
Before you order
- Measure your existing floor cut-out, in inches, before choosing a square drain.
- Measure the shower width before choosing 300mm, 450mm or 600mm.
- Decide whether the drain should be seen or hidden — the only difference within each pair.
- For a channel drain, confirm with your plumber that the floor is still to be laid.
- For JTIFD002, set aside a spare floor tile now.
- Check current availability on the product page before committing to a fitting date.
All four sit in the floor drainer range: the square JTIFD001 and JTIFD002 at ₹900 each, and the JSCD001 and JSCD002 channel drains from ₹1,350. If you are specifying a shower at the same time, start with the showers collection.