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, thank you, thank you for this! I love my old porcelain sink, but have been unable to find ANYTHING that will return it to its former glory! I’m so excited to give this a try!
Used this today and it worked great! Thank you for sharing! 😀
Yay! I am glad you gave it a try!
this stuff works really good the first time we tried it it worked really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when lemons are cheap I buy a bunch, quarter them and put them in a ziplock in the freezer. Once you throw them in the garbage disposal if it’s stinky, but by freezing them and turning on the disposal you will sharpen the blades also. Will have to try the Bar Keepers stuff, have those metal sinks, which I hate, but if that stuff will shine them up nice, then maybe I won’t hate them so much.
Oh my goodness Karen, I love this idea… Do you mind if I share it?
Since I have moved many times and sold many homes, I consider myself a bit of an expert on things like this. For porcelain sinks I use Bar Keepers Friend in powder form which can be found in nearly any grocery or hardware store. I sprinkle on liberally then scrub with a brush or sponge and rinse well. Then I spray with; Pledge and dry with large terry cloth dish towel. Wipe metal rim of sink and faucet as you go. Looks great smells great! p.s. If your garbage disposal is stinky, throw a lemon in the garbage disposal and run it before you start the above process. I do this before company arrives too 🙂
Great ideas Kay! Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
Bar Keepers friend is one of my best friends. Wouldn’t want to face cleaning without it!
I use Soft Scrub which works really well but doesn’t get all the black stains. Will try the bleach and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip.
The bleach really helps get funky stains out, but it’s the Bar Keepers Friend that gets the black stains out. I like the powder form better than the liquid form, but I’ve used both. Walmart recently started carrying Bar Keepers Friend, so you don’t necessarily have to go to the hardware store anymore. The regular sizes are about $2. I love BKF!
Thanks for the tip on cleaning a porcelain sink, I have a tip that works for me. When after cleaning my sink I still smell an Oder coming from the garbage disposal, so I fill it with ice from the refrigerator and pour in about a cup of comet. Turn on the disposal and watch it foam up, clean as a whistle.
Great tip! Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
Wow,
I always wanted to know the formula for making the sink brand new. I used to wonder how the apartments were able to keep it so clean between renters moving out and new coming in. Finally it works. Thank you so much. My sink looks brand new.
Yay! I am glad you gave it a try 🙂