
A guide to cleaning the kitchen sink!
, by Zure Australia, 4 min reading time
, by Zure Australia, 4 min reading time
Make sure you haven’t been cleaning your kitchen sink wrong the entire time by reading our detailed guide on how to perfectly clean the grimy kitchen sink.
If there is one portion of the kitchen that requires the most amount of regular maintenance, and is also ironically fated to be ignored the most, it is undoubtedly the kitchen sink. We tend to overlook to thoroughly clean the part of our kitchen that holds the leftovers and after-effects of everything that goes on in the kitchen and is likely the most germ-ridden part of the whole affair. Why do we do this? It is perhaps because we cannot wait to get our kitchen duties over with as long as our stomachs are filled, and go and scroll on our phones till the next meal. Thus, today we want to give you a little reality check and remind you to take care of your lovely little kitchen sink.
If you wanted to go a bit funky this year with your kitchen renovation, or changing up your kitchen accessories, you perhaps bought a kitchen sink white in ceramic or cast-iron, or a kitchen sink black. If you have a kitchen sink black in colour, things are not only quite easier to clean regularly, but also sleeker in look and feel. Who wouldn’t want that? However, you might have gone a teeny bit high-maintenance if not absolutely gorgeous, if you went with the first option. Where you only need a detergent and a cloth to clean the regular old stainless steel sink, you need acidic cleaner like baking soda for the ceramic one. As for most kitchen sink taps though, they only need some soapy water and a brush, and are soon squeaky fresh. If it is a white kitchen sink doubleor single, you also need to make sure that post-wash it has no stains, which you can get rid with lemon juice, or a microfiber cloth if it’s a plastic sink. Therefore, cleaning methods are specific to the material they are made of. A crucial factor that is often overlooked is the rinsing and polishing part of a kitchen sink cleaning, because that’s how you get unwanted spots and stains when left for long unnoticed. If you have a low water pressure kitchen sink, the rust stains will be lesser compared to a high water pressure one. Olive oil and lemon oil are great polishers of kitchen sink and tap surfaces.
If you just spent all your time cleaning the kitchen sink and tap and ignored the drain, not even half the job is done. The drain has the potential to be the filthiest, especially if you are a careless dishwasher and throw out greasy oil, food and other fluids around the sink and thus, down the pipe. This not only increases damage to your pipe and drainage system manifold, but also makes sure you have an extremely hard time cleaning the drain. It will also be the source of foul smells in your kitchen and just stink of mess. Therefore, be mindful of throwing leftovers in the garbage and not in the sink. Now to come to the actual cleaning, it is pretty simple: in a 1:2 ratio, pour one part of baking soda down the drain, followed by slowly pouring two parts of white vinegar. Wash it all away after 15 minutes with boiling water. When you install a kitchen sink drain, one of the first things you have to keep in mind is correct expulsion of water from a thoroughly well constructed hole. This will make sure you do not experience frequent clogging or even water overflow.
Baking soda is one of the most popular items used to clean practically any surface. Mixing it with the correct ratio of water or white vinegar, and combining it with the goodness of a lemon at the end is just about all you need to get a spotless surface, especially that of a kitchen sink’s. We have already mentioned baking soda a couple of times for being one of the most effecting methods of cleaning the kitchen sink drain, as well as the kitchen sink and tap, especially the white kitchen sink, mixing it with some hydrogen peroxide.
It is absolutely vital that you deep clean your kitchen sink, kitchen sink taps, and the drain, at least once a week, and twice if you have ceramic, cast-iron or granite basins. This will make sure you have a long-lasting sink that will not catch rust or have white stains, souring your entire space. Be gentle with your dishes on the sink and also try to have a low water pressure kitchen sink for similar reasons. If you have a kitchen sink blocked situation, do not panic. Follow the steps we have illustrated. Otherwise, you always have our tasteful catalogue to fall back on!
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