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| Okay I was blessed with this white 1920's kitchen sink that's ceramic or is it porclein (sp?). I used to use Bartender Best Friend or something along that line to keep it white and clean. Can't find it in Franklinton any more. I took comet to it one time but it did not turn out as bright. Does any one have a suggestion on how to clean this sink and mainly how to keep it pearly white? Thanks.
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C have you tried CLR kitchen & bath cleaner or Kaboom? Sis & I have been using both to clean the in-law apartment my daughter & son-in-law were living in here (pigs are cleaner than these 2 people were) and she's been real impressed with both
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| I thought CLR was for a calcium, lime or rust problem. My sink after a while gets all scratched up and loses that pure white color look. But I will get a bottle of it when I go to town next week and try it.
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That is what the CLR stands for but we bought some that comes in a squirt bottle just for cleaning kitchens & bathrooms it gets rid of soap scum ect. and does a really good job of it.
Lord keep you arm around my shoulder & your hand over my mouth If God brings you to it, He will see you through it 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
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| I'll try it out next week. I got found some 20 mule team by the washer and was solid as a brick took a hammer to some and put it one dry and scrubbed like then dekins and I'm letting it stand as we speak. May be it will help with the markings. Thanks.
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All I can say is you have the sink of my dreams LOL and they're porclein. I was looking at a small one at an old house parts store that is near me and he wanted $450 for a small single basin (approx. 12 X 12 and 15 deep) a few years ago I was eyeing an old slate sink he had and it turned out he wanted $2500 for that. Needless to say I still have my double basin stainless sink
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| When Hubby wanted to redue the kitchen and I said that he HAD to put the sink and the oven BACK. But P2's health went down south in 2007, so the only thing that we redone was the kitchen doors. It reminds me of my Great Aunt Nan. Just want to keep it nice and not give Hubby a reason to replace it with something that will rust like the gas stove he put in (2006). Stainless steel my rear end. If it was why is it rusting. More like a brush finish...LOL...
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My Uncle was a contractor before he retired (never said he was a good one though...just a contractor) and he hired me to help him work on this house one time. Well here in Maine the houses can get kind of old and the house we were working on was at least 200 years old...nice pumpkin pine flooring, siding that was put on in 1914...I know because the "insulation" was newspapers stuff between the boards. These were of 1914 vintage describing the new fangled areoplane, the Great War and other news of that time period.
But in the upstairs part of this old barn across the road was the orginal slate sink. It had all brass fittings, but the sink had a huge crack in it. The owner (a long time Mainer) wanted to repair the slate sink, but my Uncle wanted nothing to do with it. He said go with a stainless steel sink because it was easier for him to install of course.
In the end the guy sent the slate sink to the quarry it came from, and they rebuilt it for him by epoxing the crack. When they were done you would never know it was cracked. (Up in Monson Farmermom) He then had nice slate counter tops installed, and in short the kitchen came out incredibly well. I am glad he did not listen to my Uncle as the stainless steel sink would have looked like pleather on a rolls royce! :-( It was a beautiful country kitchen when he was through.
As a side note...and please don't kill me Farmermom, my sheep's waterer is a porcelin bath tub my Grandfather ripped out of their home some 40 years ago. He always used it to water his sheep so I figured I would carry on the family tradition. I never gave it much thought until you mentioned it. Who knows maybe the tub is worth more then the livestock drinking out of it? (LOL)
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| Hey DrawBar, we've got a claw foot bathtub for the weaning calves, too.
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I didn't dare look at the price tags on the claw foot tubs after the sinks I think it might have scared me  DB down here people use them for livestock waterers & lawn ornaments with flowers planted in them or tipped up on end half buried with a Madonna in them. I've got to admit though I miss the clawfoot my grandparents had in their summer cottage you just can't get a good long soak in the tubs they make these days. The slate sink I was looking at (until the price scared me away) I had planned on making a garden water feature out of using the faucets as the water spout with it circulating back thru the drain. I dropped that idea fast when I saw his price on it. DB I'm surprised all you found in the walls for insulation was newspaper, down here they used papers & seaweed both, but the further inland you get the less seaweed & more paper.
Lord keep you arm around my shoulder & your hand over my mouth If God brings you to it, He will see you through it 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
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