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
Hi Desiree – We have a porcelain sink in our camp that is in need of a facelift. Can’t wait to give this a try. Thanks for sharing.
Suzanne
Your sink looks fantastic! But all that bleach is toxic for you, your home and your family. Yuck!! You are breathing in all those toxins and even if your family is not home when you clean, the toxins are in the air, when they get home. 🙁
Hydrogen Peroxide is the “natural” bleach. Try it instead of using toxic chemicals in your home. I bet you could even find pinterest a good source to find better solutions for cleaning our homes without putting our families at risk. Good Luck with your cleaning! 😉
Thanks for the tip! I bleach my sinks regularly to get the coffee stains out, but I didn’t know about bar keeper’s friend. Will definitely be picking some of that up to try.
First of all THANK YOU for posting this! We have a “lovely” harvest gold porcelain sink in our kitchen and its so ugly right now. I’m stopping on my way home today to look for the barkeeper’s miracle stuff at our Lowe’s! Here are a few of the cleaning tips we posted on our blog that we use regularly now…love them!
http://ourcloverhouse.blogspot.com/2013/01/cleaning-he-washer-with-household.html
http://ourcloverhouse.blogspot.com/2012/11/diy-carpet-cleaning.html
http://ourcloverhouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/diy-laundry-detergent.html
Barkeeper’s Friend is amazing stuff. I have never used the soft scrub version, just the powder. It gets the tarnish off of my copper pots, removes those little silver marks from corell dishes, and gets all the marks off of my porcelain sink.
I just bought some Bar Keepers Friend, the dry powder was all that I could find. I am trying this on our farm house kitchen sink, bath tub AND toilet now that I’ve seen your post! I’m hoping for results like yours although our porcelain is in much worse shape.
Crystal, you are going to love it!
how much is liquid bar keepers frienbd? is it better than powder one, i have a stain ridden porcelain sink
I have never used the powder one so I can’t help you with this one!
I think Barkeepers Friend is the best cleaning product evahhhh… worth its weight in gold…. Love your sink… so glad you could save it.
What a refreshing website! Good tips, pleasant people…made my day! Oh, and I definitely have a gray tub that will be getting a scrub with Barkeeps Friend! Thanks, everyone.