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
I use the powder form of Bar Keepers Friend to get rust spots out of clothing. It works great for that. Now I’ll have to try it on our tub!
Bleach will eat tiny holes in whatever you pour it on for cleaning. Notice how decanters and vases etc get a sort of bloom-haze after a while? It isn’t dirt at all but where bleach has etched the surface. If you rub sweet almond oil onto surface it will fill the microscopic bubbles and leave the glass looking lovely again – use it on your shower screen and it will also be easier to clean.
And only use bicarbonate of soda and vinegar for cleaning it (that Bar Keepers Friend (where is the apostrophe in that stuff????) is probably mostly bicarb soda so you are paying a lot for a cheap product…) Here, in Australia, there is an absolute Domestic Goddess – Shannon Lush who has written books on cleaning using natural products etc and I learned all this from her! http://shannonlush.com/ (No affs at all, nor kickbacks but just a satisfied customer).
Lovely sink, lovely website, too!
Jasmine,
Thank you so much for your tips. I will give them a try!
Have a great day!
it worked on my iron ore stained sink!!!!!!!!! I was very skeptical. Nothing had ever worked. I was ready to rip the darn sink out! Thank you thank you!
I am so glad!
It is pretty amazing!
Hello Desiree` what a fabulous job you did on that lovely sink. I also am crazy about your spring wreath! it makes me want to go pool-side with fresh fruit smoothie…. My cleaning secret is to put a slice-or-wedge of lemon with a small amout of the juice into a cereal sized bowl of water (3/4 full) into the microwave. turn it on for about 2-3 minutes and all your spaghetti splashes and bursting pintos will wipe away super easily!! If you don’t have a microvave with spaghetti or burtsted beans type of dirty well thats GREAT!! Its still perfect for disinfecting from the lemon and for odors as it leaves a nice scent. =)
What a beautiful sink! I’m partial to the older, bigger sinks that once were. I happen to have a stainless steel one, but hope to change out to a porcelain one if & when I get to renovating. I will, however, be trying your method to clean my porcelain tub. Thanks!
No Way! Wonder if I can get that here in the UK? I have a huge old dublin sink in my utility room which I though I would have to rip out but I’ll maybe give this a try first. Thanks
Susan
I’ve gotta say, that is a pretty darn fabulous sink. Not only the transformation, but just the shape and style of it. I’d definitely want to keep it too.
I’ve got to try that bar keeper’s friend stuff on my white plates that have grey scratch marks on them. Thanks!
I swear that if you use the old standby green scotch scrubbing pad with the bar keepers friend, you can even skip steps 1 and 2. I brought back 3 tubs and 4 sinks in our 1939 fixer with just those two tools. You are right, it is amazing, and MY friend too for so many reasons. In fact, I just posted on my blog about it’s ability to remove carpet stains yesterday.
I have used the powder for of this for years!!! It is magic that is for sure…It will take rust off of plates as well…and well just about anything I have tried it on it works.
thanks for sharing
charlene
Your sink is so beautiful and big!! I have a porcelain sink…uggh, it’s awful to keep it looking nice! I like how well yours turned out. Believe it or not I use NO bleach products in my home {it’s just my own choice and we have severe allergy sufferers, etc.} but I have used the scour paste by Shaklee and it’s actually the best {natural} product I’ve found to get it really white, too {I also use an all natural anti-germ product so no yuckies}! You did a great job – that bar friend cleanser looks pretty good though! You have my sympathy for a porcelain sink…I hope to change ours out one day for stainless steel 🙂
Oh, and I second the other comment about GFC – it’s still working for all my blogs I follow!
Becky B.
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I use the scour paste by Shaklee also and it cleans my porcelain sink perfectly every time! And it’s all natural made from cherry pits so you don’t have to worry about it being unhealthy for you. Great product.
I should give it a try!