Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Testing: Vinegar and Baking soda on stainless steel sink

I decided that the bathroom has had enough love lately and it's time the sink got to shine.  Today I'm testing just a spray bottle of undiluted vinegar and a sprinkle of baking soda to clean a sink that hasn't been cleaned with a product besides a scrubbie and a spray of simple green to disinfect in....oh...at least a few months. It's not so much that I don't want to clean it, but it's usually full of dishes before a load is even finished making it a bit hard to clean. So here's the starting point.




Apparently I have some focus issues when taking pictures.  Oops.  Anyhow, I sprayed everything down with the vinegar then went a watched an episode of Dr. Who with hubby.  I know, so hard working.  When I came back I put on my gloves and started to wipe down the sink.  The original plan was just to use the vinegar but it really didn't do the job I was hoping for so it got a sprinkling of baking soda for some added oomph.  Because I was worried about it scratching the sink I made sure to only scrub with any force with the grain.  I did rub lightly in circles also.  I'd say it took about 20 minutes of "elbow grease" to get the sink, plugs, soap dish (that I use to hold the metal scrubbers to avoid rust), and little drain catch thing that I had to install because I'm special and actually broke the metal trap part in the sink while trying to pretend a butter knife was a garbage disposal causing many things to plug when they were dropped down...including the occasional utensil. Anyhow, I was pretty happy with the results for the effort.



Nice and shiny,  didn't quite get rid of the water spots on the fixture though.  Still need to figure out something for those. If you have any suggestions on things to try, please let me know.  Happy shiny sink day!

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