Sunday, November 13, 2011

The utility sink


I cleaned my utility sink today. It really needed it. It has been used and abused from the various projects at our house over the past few years. It is just a cheap plastic sink, but it has had quite a road with us.
It's story began at our first house. It was an old house (read "built in 1896" old!). It had had a laundry area built on off the kitchen, but it didn't have a utility sink. We really wanted a place for Mike to be able to clean up from the many (read "unending") projects on that house. We had NO extra money, and really no place to put a formal utility sink, so we bought the cheapest of cheap sinks that could be bought. We hoped to work some way to have it in the round basement of the house (yes, the original basement of the house was a round brick area with a dirt floor. Turns out that was pretty common in the era the house was built. What wasn't so common was that this particular round basement ended up having a river run through it in the Spring because it was at the base of a large hill).
Anyway, I digress...we never did work out a way to have it hooked up in that fantastic basement before we bought our current house and moved. The utility sink sat in a shed at our current house for many years (why we moved a cheap plastic utility sink neither Mike or I really know at this point, but for whatever reason, we did).
Our new house did have a utility sink in the laundry room, but it was pretty old and yucky. At some point, my dear husband decided to take out the yucky sink and put in the cheap plastic sink that had been neglected for many years. It was still an improvement! Cheap or not, I now had a nice "new" clean sink to use in the laundry room.
Problem: we use our utility sinks really hard. We have done LOTS of destruction, construction, painting, landscaping, and who knows what else, that have involved the sink being used pretty harshly. The sink had gotten to the point that just a regular scrub  wasn't going to clean it anymore.
So this weekend I cleaned it.
Get ready to ooh and ahh!!







What? Oh, maybe I should have included a "before" picture. It is just a cheap plastic utility sink after all!

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