Today I am going to share with you a quick cleaning tip that is going to change your life. How to Clean a Porcelain Sink is not just easy but super quick! Let me show you!
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Now, as part of our kitchen makeover we contemplated the idea of replacing our old porcelain sink.
We love our sink. It is huge, it has a lot of character but after having our home rented out for two years
we found it stained BADLY. Sick!
I tried different ways to clean it and I came up with one that brought it back to pure white again.
If your sink is not as bad as mine you may be able to clean it using just one product: Bar Keepers Friend.
You can find it HERE.
If your sink looks really bad and has very messy stains this additional steps will take care of it!
It took me three steps and just a few minutes to complete the process.
{ Come on! Pretend you are excited!}
1
The first thing you want to do is to wash it with dish soup or dishwasher detergent using a sponge and warm water.
When we moved into our house as you could see the sink was in pretty bad shape so dishwasher detergent worked better for me.
After you are done, rinse it thoroughly.
This is how our sink looked after this step.
A lot better… but far from perfect.
2
Spray bleach or a bleach product all over the sink.
Let the bleach sit for a few minutes while you try to wash off the little bit of bleach that went on your shirt.
Darn it!
I hate when that happens.
Gently give a general scrub all over and rinse thoroughly again.
After this step the yellowish color was gone but the black stains were still there.
3
Apply a small amount of Bar Keepers Friend directly on the areas where you see stains.
I like to scrub those areas in a circular motion…
I don’t know what this product has but you’ll see the stains disappear before your eyes.
Check this OUT!
look at the before and after pictures…
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There you have it… a perfectly clean porcelain sink!
Amazing! Huh!
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Thank you so much for visiting with us!
Besos
Desiree
OMG THANK YOU DESIREE!!!! I cleaned my sink your method way and I don’t think I even recognized my sink LOL !!! I’ve never seen it sooo clean HAHA .
Yay Kelly!!!
I felt the same way the first time a did it… It is like you have a new sink!
Thank you for sharing the good news. I love to hear from our readers!
xo
Hi! My sink is far worse than this! UGH! is right! I’m going to try this. Is it possible to find that Barkeeper’s friend stuff at a store or does it have to be ordered? Any idea?
You can also find it at WalMart
I also got mine at Canadian tire. If you have one around you!!
If you can’t find it at Walmart, Lowes or Home Depot carries it.
Amazing Trick, thank you…
i recently discovered that the ultra super fine grit sand paper (is usually black/charcoal colored) works wonders! It sands the spots off but didn’t hurt the porcelain. A friend suggested that to me and i was shocked! Plus, no awful bleach/chemical smell
BEWARE! Actually, Bar Keeper’s Friend will eventually fog the glaze on a porcelain sink, because BKF contains oxalic acid as a rust remover (the same is true for Zud cleanser). BKF is designed for cleaning stainless steel surfaces; the oxalic acid removes rust stains, but it also dissolves away a little of the porcelain’s glaze. For this reason, Kohler’s recommends against using BKF on Kohler porcelain sinks.
FWIW, our kitchen sink is a 1938 enamelled, cast iron farm sink, 4.5 feet long, 250 lb, with a tall apron and a high splash. It has about 10 sq.ft of white porcelain for us to clean. I use Bon Ami on it.
I use natural products like baking soda and hydrogen peroxide.
Bonami works exactly like bar keepers friend in case someone can’t find bar keepers friend. I use the powder version. I also use both on my glass cooktop.
http://www.bonami.com/index.php/products/powder_cleanser/
I sprinkle bar keepers in my dishwasher and run through a cycle and …voila…..sparkling clean interior!
That’s great, I’m going to try that!!
Emily, it works!
Thank you so much for stopping by!
Toilet bowl cleaner on porcelain sinks. Works awesome and is quick and easy.
OMG!!!!! This is amazing!! && to think I thought I was going to have to resurface my sink?!?! Thanks so much!!!!! :o)