BLANCO, Café Brown 441099 SILGRANIT-Matched Kitchen Garbage Disposal Flange, 3.5"

************IMPORTANT NOTE! This flange is designed to SNAP INSIDE of your garbage disposal's flange!!! In other words, your garbage disposal will come with an aluminum/silver colored steel flange. You will snap this Blanco flange inside of that flange and it will hide the ugly aluminum/silver color. Then, you pop this into the sink and it will match the sink. THEN, you get underneath the sink and connect the garbage disposal to the aluminum/steel flange. ***Your garbage disposal will most like NOT CONNECT directly to this plastic Blanco Flange because it fits better onto the aluminum rim flange.Lots of bad reviews saying it won't connect. Directions were poor and it took us some time to figure this all out.

Well, the item picture and description are worthless. Included are pictures of what actually arrives, which is basically a beautiful plastic drain and flange to cover up the stainless steel Insinkerator drain. Look for the Youtube video that explains how to install, which involves snapping it onto the existing/previous Insinkerator drain. It is plastic but the seals are tight and it matches the sink.

Color matched our new (as of 2015) Blanco sink perfectly. Installation was pretty straightforward, though the white foam (?) gasket between the rim and the sink showed a little and tends to capture a bit of gunk over time. But overall really improved the look of the disposer drain. After about 4 years, the rubber splash guard has started to degrade (bubbling, leaving black smears as the rubber breaks down). I contacted Blanco with the item number listed here, and they were very unhelpful. They claimed that this was not actually a Blanco product, that they did not have any record of item # BL441099, that they did not carry replacement parts for any such product, and were not interested in assisting me in identifying a splash guard that would work. Not a pleasant experience on my part. After a few hours of careful measurement of the opening, I ordered a LASCO 39-9057 Replacement Splashguard via Amazon which appears to fit perfectly. I'm very pleased with Blanco's products (including the fantastic Silgranite sink we bought from them) and their previous customer service for that sink, but this time my experience was very disappointing.

It's black, not Anthracite. I thought that was the purpose, to match the color of the Anthracite Blanco sink? The flange is obviously black next to the dark grey sink. And it's PLASTIC! Listed new for FIFTY bucks!? I'd assumed (I know, I know) it was metal based on the price and somehow missed that fact in the reviews.Also - It doesn't fit the Insinkerator Evolution model I bought......which has a standard connection flange that's the same size as every other Insinkerator disposal. This Blanco flange is both slightly too small and plastic so it won't hold the disposal compression ring in place that secures the disposal to the underside of the sink. Such a simple product and great idea - which failed miserably.

We bought this specifically to be used in the Blanco sink and Insinkerator garbage disposal for which it is made (we actually bought an Insinkerator brand disposal to be certain of compatibility). Aside from the black rubber splash guard, the brown part is actually two pieces—the inner piece is the strainer with the holes and lift knob, and the outer flanged piece is an open sleeve that you push down into your disposal opening to cover its silver rim. Although the flange is plastic and the sink is a marble composite, it's a perfect color match.When I first installed it, I replaced the black splash guard that came with the disposal with the one that came with this flange kit. Then I inserted the outer sleeve into the opening and pushed down until it laid in perfectly. Then we placed the strainer in there and, if the water was running, the sink would fill up even with the strainer in the open position (you turn it one way to drop closed, the other way to lift open). When we turned off the water, we'd have to wait for the water in the sink to drain because it went through very slowly.Upon close inspection of the strainer it seemed obvious what the issue was: The holes allow the water to drop down onto a disk, and the disk is made so the water falls off the outer edge rather than through the hole in the middle. With the strainer laying in the opening, the edge of that disk touches the sides of the opening. The water can't drain off the outer edge of that disk because the disposal opening blocks it, and it can't drain through the inner hole in the middle because that hole is molded with a little "wall" to force the water to the outside. On top of that, the hole in the black rubber splash guard is...you guessed it...in the middle. So the water is expected to fall off the outer edge and the hole in the black splash guard is in the middle, together making drainage very slow.The directions say that it is VERY difficult to remove the flange once it's in there, and that is absolutely true. I called Blanco customer service to ask what the heck I was doing wrong to make the drainage so slow, and the person I spoke to had no idea what I meant when I described the disk and the walled off hole in the middle (at her request I even sent her a picture). After what was an obviously frustrating call for her, she agreed to send me another kit. Good thing, because that VERY difficult to remove flange wouldn't budge and we had to pry it out with a screwdriver which, of course, broke the flange.When the new flange arrived, we couldn't even get that flange to seat all the way down into the opening no matter how hard we pushed down. After all the frustration, my wife decided the silver disposal opening didn't look so bad after all. Now this flange kit sits in the cabinet under the sink, but I don't think it serves any purpose there.

I returned this item as it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. Stayed with the standard insinkerator stainless steel ring.

Worked well

only compatible with garbage disposal, i guess i didnt notice that.

Nice, does the job, just do not understand why so expensive.

Cheap plastic Junk