A beautiful yet sustainable house is everyone’s dream, but once you finally have your dream house it is really hard to keep it under maintenance, I mean you have to tidy up the rooms, clean them, buy new decorations, nothing is permanent here, and you would have to keep on improvising if you want your house to sustain over the years. Now that being said, you need to every space of your house clean and tidy, rooms may not be that much of a problem but what about your kitchen or your bathroom. You will need to go into the most thorough of details, so let us give you a guide on how you can clean and take care of your kitchen and bathroom sinks.
You need to know the problem here first, even if your sink walls or drainage pipes need cleaning or not is the main stepping stone here. So let us give you an overview first, these sink walls or pipes often get clogged because there are foreign instruments trapped within them which make the flow of water difficult, and because of that there is a huge gap in cleanliness. The pipes and walls can be disturbed because of a variety of reasons, they could be over-excessive water, insects of different sorts (Although cockroaches are your best bet here), and in the case of floods, these sinks may suffer damage.
Before we really dive into the guide here, you need to listen to some advice first.
Tips and Tricks from the Professionals
When you are cooking, you must throw out the residue waste oil, which has been utilized, there may even be grease sometimes, now what most of the individuals do here is this that they, throw all of that oil waste in the sinks or the drain, this is really damaging for those walls because those materials later on get clogged in the walls and make the outflow really difficult. What else you can do to keep these sinks safe? Well try to dump out the used oil by storing them in jars or boxes, this can be really helpful here and when it is time to throw the trash out, get rid of that oil too.
Peeling off fruits and vegetables, the first thought that comes to your mind would be to dump them off in the sink, that indeed looks the quickest and easiest way, but you have no idea what kind of damage you would be putting your sinks in. When you throw this amount of garbage in your sinks, they get overburdened and chances are that their pipes may even burst at some time. So put the trash at their rightful place, which is the disposable bin and you would be really fine here.
You may notice that your sink is sometimes dripping even when it is closed, chances are that because of the foreign items in it, it has been clogged and is probably leaking. Don’t ever ignore them, when you see or face even the tiniest of problems, call the plumber and get it done, this will save you precious money and time in the future.
In the age of this technological advancement, many people are providing guides over YouTube on how to fix the everyday problems themselves, although it can be definitely agreed that they are indeed helpful, but you cannot always take the matters into your own hands, so whenever the problem arises, be sure to call the professionals and let the problems be solved effectively.
Considering the scenario that you moved into a very olden house, probably the cosmetics in the house would be of the civil war era, now although the exteriors can be changed without any hustle, the interiors would need a lot of attention here, so do yourself a favor for the long term and fix those pipes, even upgrade them if they need upgrading. Trust me, you would be doing yourself a very big favor here.
Natural disasters have a tendency to do long term damage to your sinks and drainage walls, so why not be prepared at this moment. The moment there is an indication of any sort of problem, it would be better to close off the water supplies entirely, for this you will have to turn off the main water valves.
Cleaning those Walls
Cleaning those sink and drainage walls shouldn’t be that much of a problem, especially if you have the right amount of tools with you. You firstly need to have the proper kind of sinks installed here, stainless steel may be the best option available. For any types of marks in the areas surrounding the sink, you will be needing some fresh cloth and different types of alcohol. The stronger the alcohol is, the more effective results would be, plus lighter fluids also seem to do the trick here. These two are the choices that you can effectively utilize for marks and rusts of any kind. When you throw out the unnecessary food, chances are that there would be some residue left behind which would later transcend into germs, so in order to clean them off, you will be needing the strongest of vinegar here and some water, mix them to make a solution and see those germs peeling off in no time. Either use the solution on a cloth or a spraying bottle, both will do just fine here.
Regular maintenance of your kitchen sink walls are very necessary but for them, you would have to make a solution, try some water and some powerful chlorine, the damaging particles of chlorine would help eliminate those rusts and germs in the walls.
So these were some of the tips on cleaning and taking care of your sinks and drainage pipes.
