How do I remove the pop-up plug from basin in Bailey Vigo?

[brissle]

Advice please,
We have come away in our 2020 Bailey Unicorn Vigo caravan and have found that the pop-up plug in the bathroom basin will not seal. So water runs away as soon as we turn on the tap.
Research tells me that I can replace the washer, but at the moment I cannot discover how to remove the plug.
Various websites tell me to turn the plug either clockwise or anti-clockwise, but neither will let me turn the chromed plug, by hand even when gripped with a cloth.
Before I put an adjustable spanner on it, can someone please tell me definitively, which way to turn the plug?
Many thanks

 

[Mr Plodd]

ANTI-clockwise

 

[brissle]

Thank you. That worked.
Now another question, please.
I had imagined that the whole mechanism would come out with the chrome cap, but the cap has just unscrewed from the pop-up stem.
Should there be a seal round the underside of the chrome cap - an O-ring or something?
At the moment there's nothing there. Photo attached.
Thanks for your help.

 

[birdman101]

They usually have a seal around the outer on domestic ones. Have a look at Screwfix

 

[toad a caravan]

Try Toolstation also,,check in their plumbing section

 

[brissle]

That seems absolutely logical - thank you again.
I'll try Screwfix if there's one nearby to where we are staying (Cullompton, Somerset) or maybe a local caravan dealer. Time to research.
Thanks again from sunny Somerset.

 

[Jcloughie]

I changed my troublesome home waste with this nearly universal click clack one. Cheap, and really worked well. Suits from 32 to 42mm. So might do for a caravan.

Amazon.co.uk

John

 

[Dustydog]

Another disastrous caravan manufacturers design ignoring functionality😵‍💫
All you need is a very simple ( see pic) plus the simple waste part.

 

[Woodentop]

Sadly the only way is to replace the complete click-clack unit by unscrewing the body underneath the basin (in a cupboard?) and take the unit out from above. A replacement unit costs about £18 - or it did when I looked at replacing mine. You CANNOT get a spare washer, neither will you find another that fits as the original is a ring with a skirt and the skirt is sectioned below the ring.

 

[brissle]

Wow!
That's appalling.
So Bailey are deliberately installing a fixture in the vans which has a limited life and cannot be repaired - just replaced in its' entireity. at considerable cost.
Shame on them.

 

[JTQ]

Is the one being discussed here just a tapered plug, with either the tapered fit or a seal in the sink fitting doing the sealing job?
If so, and you only need the pop up "mechanism", those for the domestic ones are an available item.
For example only see LINK

You would need to do a bit of homework to buy the right size one.
Note the "spanner" flats machined on riser stem for unscrewing the whole pop up assembly.


As a temporary solution;

In days past, when life involved travelling around the world I used to have a purpose made cup sized circle of rubber sheet, about 1 mm thick that would "seal" those basins that frequently had no plug.

Place it over the hole and hold there till water weight takes over, shave etc done, use finger nail to break the seal.

eBay still seems to have these sort of things.

 

[brissle]

Good idea.....