The Sinks

When this house was built, these sinks were the luxury of laundry!!! They are in the basement in my new laundry room. You can see how disgusting they are... the furthest sink was victim to an overflow or back up or WHATEVER... I just praise the Lord for cleaning gloves... you know - the bright yellow ones that go up to your elbow... I've never used them until now.

In cleaning these sinks, I needed them.

These "before" shots were actually taken after I'd already rinsed the sinks out pretty well... yeah... they had layers of who-knows-what in them. Yuck. I actually had to scoop whatever was in them out into a garbage sack...

This is the NASTY one...

So I grabbed the bleach and Softscrub and Ajax with bleach and Scrubbing Bubbles - thought I'd do an experiment... Yeah... then realized that the only thing that was going to put a dent in any of it was the Ajax and good ol' elbow grease with a scrubby sponge - oh and a little toothbrush...

And here's the "After" shots!

They're still not fabulously clean but definitely clean enough of utility sinks in the basement, don't ya think?? And what an improvement, eh?

This one is still sporting some cleanser -- thought I'd try some Softscrub with bleach after I scrubbed the NASTINESS out... it didn't make ANY difference.

Still much work to do in cleaning this basement - anyone have a powerwasher I could use to clean the walls???

Note: I did remain focussed enough to complete the cleaning of these sinks but you must know that the reason I cleaned them was because I decided to switch from primer to regular paint in the room upstairs... so I cleaned the sinks so I could clean the painting supplies... but I refrained from cleaning the walls above the sinks... until I get my hands on a powerwasher...