Scum around sink

Zend · 29 June 2005 at 12:16PM

I have ceramic sinks and no matter how hard or often I clean them I always seem to get a thick greasy white scum around them. Does anyone know of a good way to get rid of it?

squeaky · 29 June 2005 at 12:43PM

Oo-er, sounds nasty!

Try a mild solution of distilled vinegar (white wine or malt for preference - otherwise any type you have to hand) with maybe a bit of lemon juice and / or a drop of essential oil to mask the smell of vinegar, not that it lasts long.

I usually use an old spray bottle and depending on the strength I want I do 1-2 tbsps vinegar plus 1-2 tbsps lemon juice plus a couple or five drops of oil then fill it up with water.

Spray and leave it on for a few minutes before attacking it with the magic sponge scourer

If that doesn't do the trick come back to us and we'll try something else for you

Loadsabob · 29 June 2005 at 12:56PM

I use Ecover cream cleaner (because I've not yet got myself entirely sorted on the natural cleaners!). This is naturally abrasive (though I guess Bicarb is, too), with chalk, and I find that makes my white ceramic sink absolutely gleam, and squeaky clean. I only give it a going over with that about once a week, and that's enough.

telly-addict · 29 June 2005 at 12:57PM

Are you in a hard water area? Is it the kind of soap you are using? I am not very green when it comes to cleaning products and use Viakal/Limelite/Cillit Bang as our water is so hard.

Loadsabob · 29 June 2005 at 1:39PM

My water's soft - Cornwall. I know my brother has terrible limescale in Norwich, really hard water, I remember it from Uni! I wonder whether cheap cola would work in kettles on limescale? Just wandering off the thread a little, but I know it's recommended for down the loo, so I wondered whethe rit would fight limescale if you filled a kettle with it overnight?

squeaky · 29 June 2005 at 2:05PM

Vinegar works well for this but doesn't smell quite as nice

but if you rinse and then do a boil with a tbsp of bicarb added to the water it should all be nice.

Chris25 · 29 June 2005 at 3:10PM

Astonish cream is pretty good - you can get it from either Bettaware or the other door-to-door catlogue (begins with a K?), Lakeland and sometimes Poundland. It's also great for mirror-finish oven doors.

Chipps · 29 June 2005 at 7:38PM

Agree - Astonish is good. So is Barkeepers Friend.
Also borax or bicarbonate of soda applied on wet cloth will do the trick.
Bicarb & vinegar works, too (besides having the entertainment value of the "fizz")
I usually put a small amount of vinegar in the sink and leave it for a little while, this removes the limescale from round the plughole.

newkidontheblock · 25 December 2006 at 8:45PM

Does anyone know if any of thsese methods talked about above would work on a stainless steel sink? We are in a hard water area and have a terrible limescale probelm on our sink.

LJM · 25 December 2006 at 10:53PM

ive used borax on my mums and it came up fine

V.Lucky · 26 December 2006 at 10:09PM

I use vinegar on my stainless steel sink and it removes the scummy marks from hard water, we live in Staffordshire.

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