Haha ... only joking. 😄
It's actually been rather nice waking up to daylight and occasional sunshine this past week. In fact yesterday morning I was quite disappointed when the sunshine didn't make an appearance, it seems she was kidding us into what Spring could be like without rain, before going back into hiding. 🌞
I think I jinxed it by washing a few of my more Summery tops in readiness ... sorry!!
I had a white sink reset day yesterday.
A bit of bleach in and under the bowl with the washing up cloth soaking in it, then a good wipe down of all the sinks surfaces and edges, then transfer the bleachy water from the big bowl into the middle section, put the cloth back in and then an hour later finally pull the plug out, wiping everywhere down again with now sparkly white bleachy cloth.
It's a good multi-use of bleach, something that is not the best for the environment but that does the job well when used sensibly. I learnt all this from when we had our septic tanks in various previous properties. Put too much bleach into a septic tank and you kill all the good bacteria, so plan ahead when you want to use bleach.
And my biggest tip of the day ...don't put a white sink in your kitchen if you eat a lot of turmeric containing curries and red pasta sauces. I've learnt this lesson now. 😄
Sue xx
Totally with you about white sinks I’m planning on going back to stainless steel. Heather
ReplyDeleteYes, our new one will be stainless steel. Lesson learned. 😄
DeleteSmiling about the white sink, but thinking I have never seen an orange one offered anywhere!! It reminded me of when we moved into Ynyswen and there was an olive green bathroom suite upstairs. When we replaced it with white, there was soon a regular turquoisey/green tidemark after a bath. In fact I have just seen a house in the next village offered for sale, with a huge old white cast iron bath with the biggest bottom of the bath tidemark \I've ever seen. Do they think it is a talking point or something?!
ReplyDeleteOh I'm glad that there aren't orange ones, it's Alan's favourite colour, it might have caused a bit of a disagreement. Stainless steel will do nicely. 😄
DeleteOoh, the previous owners might have gone from white to green for that reason. 🤔
We moved into a house with a BLACK kitchen sink! Some sort of non glazed, stony composite material. In a hard water area. Needless to say, it was one of the first things to go!
ReplyDeleteAnna.
I can just imagine the white scale deposit lines. 😬
DeleteHaha! Our first house back in 1970s had a white sink. It was an old 1890s 2up 2down terrace and barely modernised. At least we had a proper bathroom built on from the kitchen. Old Mrs C in her late 80s next door still had the outdoor toilet in the yard which was flushed when you emptied the sink. Her husband had converted it ti an indoor toilet by putting a roof over the gap between back door and toilet and a new door to the yard! Another house along the way still had original earth floors and only gas lighting. Our house and Mrs Cs are boutique airbnbs now.
ReplyDeleteI grew up with a white Belfast sink with just a cold tap. Luckily being glazed they were quite easy to keep clean. Unless of course you had hairline cracks in the glaze. 🫤
DeleteStainless steel for us again too after a couple of fancy sinks. It’s not a thing of beauty but It cleans up well. Catriona
ReplyDeleteExactly, sometimes the simple, older designs are the best. They were prolific for a reason. 😃
DeleteWe inherited a stained white sink here... But changed it for a better shaped stainless steel one. So much easier to maintain
ReplyDeleteHaving had all kinds of sinks in my twenty different houses, I agree that stainless steel is the easiest to maintain. It's like my whole life has been a sink survey. 😄
DeleteWe used to live in an old mill worker's house and it had a huge old white pot sink, in a cupboard in the corner, that needed regular cleaning. As we didn't have central heating in those days and our farmhouse kitchen was the warmest room I would bath the children in there when they were tiny rather than use the fridge of a bathroom.
ReplyDeleteI bet they appreciated that. Growing up our shared bathroom was like a fridge too. 🙂
DeletePS I managed not to bleach the kids though!!
ReplyDeleteHaha ... I bet they appreciated that even more. 😄
DeleteWe have a stainless steel sink here too. We didn't have a choice but I do prefer it especially, as you say, curry and pasta sauce stains my plastic washing up bowl! Our daughter has a black sink and I really don't like it. It never looks clean even when it is :0/ And sometimes only bleach will do won't it. I still use it down the loo.
ReplyDeleteAngie x
Alan is very tempted to get bathroom fittings in black for his en-suite, I might show him some of these comments before he takes the plunge. 🙂
DeleteWe’ve got stainless steel here and it suits me fine 😀 previously had to try to keep a beige plastic type stain free!
ReplyDeleteI like your sensible bleach routine - must try and remember that x
Alison in Devon x
I love that bleach water can be used over and over without losing any of its potency. I do something similar in the bathroom, where its last job is the toilet. 😃
DeleteI wish I'd thought about cooking stains before I got talked into a white sink when we refurbed the kitchen about 18 months ago 😢 The curry, or tomato sauce is bad enough, but the worst is coffee, as that is every day 🥺
ReplyDeleteYes, and I'm a black coffee drinker. ☕️ 🫤
DeleteSorry that last Anon was me! Didn’t realise I wasn’t still logged in 🤯
ReplyDeleteTry again .....
DeleteAnd I’ll try agin 🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteYay ... you did it. 🎉 😄
DeleteMy son and his wife have a huge copper kitchen sink. I neither love it or hate it. I do like my big white sink because there's nothing quite like a clean, sparkling white kitchen sink.
ReplyDeleteIt must look impressive, but I don't think I would like a copper sink for me. 🤔 Oh mine looks lovely when it's spotless, but I'm past the stage in life ... and the ability to be able to ... to have to put so much effort into keeping it that way. 🙂
Delete'Making tea in the sink' used to fox me every time I heard it.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard that phrase. 🤔
DeleteGosh imagine making tea in a white sink. 😬
Stainless steel sink here.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It's definitely a nice safe, timeless option isn't it. 😀
DeleteYour sink looks sparkling white after the bleach treatment. :) My kitchen sink is white, too; I chose it over stainless steel.
ReplyDeleteIt comes up well, but not again ... I am returning to stainless steel. 😀
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