Laundry sink, before-and-after
The laundry sink in our house is horrible. Nasty. Icky. Although AnoneeDad said that it looked like cement had been poured down it, I always assumed it had done the rusting equivalent of stainless steel. On a whim one day I took a pot scourer to the sink, and found that the “rust” did indeed peel away. I am really struggling to maintain enthusiasm for pretty much anything right now – it’s my end-of-year energy slump, I think – so this was an obvious quick-and-easy morale boosting project. Hmmm. Not so quick-and-easy. I tried my old stand-by, paint-stripper, with no results. Scrubbing with a pot scourer was only effective when working from the edges and chipping the layer of cement off the stainless surface. Rough sandpaper and my electric sander helped, but I eventually brought out the big guns - my drill (I got custody of the power tools as part of my birthday gift) and a grinding attachment. In retrospect this wasn’t the brightest idea, as it left some marks on the sink, but the end result is a sink that looks clean and useable – a huge improvement.
Once I’d started, it seemed silly to put up with the ugly black paint that had been slapped over the splash tiles behind the sink, so some paint-stripper and scraping later I had the tiles back to their original gray. It took another 10 days before I got around the repainting the wall that had been damaged by the masking tape I’d used, but here it is: Project 12, completed.
