KEEPING your kitchen sink clean can be a grim task – but here’s four great tips to make it shiny and smelling fresh.
A cleaning fanatic on Instagram has shared her hacks to stop your drain stinking out your kitchen.
Blogger Courteney gave four tips to her followers to help clean your sink in a recent video.
Firstly, Courteney unscrews the plug and cleans the grime hidden underneath.
She gets to work with an electric toothbrush and some Pink Stuff bathroom foaming cleaner to get rid of the dirt.
Commenting on the state of the plug, she says: “How disgusting is that? I’m so embarrassed.”
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Once she’s scrubbed off all the residue, she gives the plug a good rinse and screws it back into place.
Next, she puts a dishwasher tablet in the centre of the plug hole and pours boiled water on top from her kettle.
The third tip sees Courteney put a mix of bicarbonate of soda, white wine vinegar and Zoflora.
Lastly, the cleaning whizz added soda crystals to the drain before pouring water down afterwards.
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Viewers were loving the hacks and said they wanted to try them out for themselves.
One commented: “That's like a proper skincare routine for your sink.”
“My sink kept smelling and I assumed it was the drain. When I did this it was vile and I realised what the true cause was. Never a bad whiff since,” someone else shared.
Another added: “The satisfaction is real 😍 I haven't done this for agesss, this has reminded me to get mine done! Thank you.”
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An Instagram user shared: “Omg didn’t even know you could do this! Defo doing it now lol.”
She was warned by several viewers in the comments not to use so many chemicals in one go as it could be damaging to the pipes.
However, Courteney reminded those watching that this was not meant to be a frequent exercise and that she didn’t do all four things at once.
She commented: “Guys this is recommended to be an every few months thing, only too much usage is damaging.
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“I would also like to make it clear I don’t do all these things at once.
“Please make sure when removing your drain cover you are mindful of making sure it’s correctly and carefully reattached to avoid leakages. Lots of love,” Courteney wrote.
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