"How frequently do you clean the plughole and connecting pipe in your kitchen sink?"
 

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...quiz/index.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P

I never clean the plughole. What does this mean and why do I have to
do maintenance on it?

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at



http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...ouse/quiz/inde
x.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P

I never clean the plughole. What does this mean

Nothing. What on Earth is the point?

Whole "quiz" is stupid.


I dont know, but I wouldnt mind betting the advice from the oldies (no
offence intended :o) would be a good swill with bleach now and again. When I
replaced a waste pipe a while ago it was full of gunk and didnt look
pleasant.

On 26 Oct 2004 10:10:23 -0700, (ggg) wrote:

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at

Pah !

Mere amateurs
http://www.network54.com/Realm/Squal...bathrooms.html


I'm just about to clean the insides of my bathroom plughole. Pulled
the plug out a couple of days ago, and the whole thing came apart ! A
non-stainless screw in the middle seems to have been the culprit, so
it's new plughole time.

I'd always wondered why the tiny en-suite shower-room had two
washbasins in it. Clearly forward planning for having used rubbish
pulgholes....

ggg wrote:

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...quiz/index.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P

I never clean the plughole. What does this mean and why do I have to
do maintenance on it?


I clen mine very regil;arly - all of them, and often sluice some bleach
down as well to clear out accumulated gunk.

I take a bottle brush to teh overflow in the belfast sink too.

Not to mention a bog brush to teh nasty rear end accident the cat had in
the bath yesterday...thank go its got a shower head in it. (the bath,
not the cats rear end, but now I think about it..)

On 26 Oct 2004 10:10:23 -0700, (ggg) wrote:

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...quiz/index.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P

I never clean the plughole. What does this mean and why do I have to
do maintenance on it?

Sometimes I pour a kettle full of almost boiling water down the
plughole. If I remember, I follow up with half a bottle of ASDA
SmartPrice bleach, then leave it to stew for an hour before using the
sink again. I don't know whether it makes any difference.

MM

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at




http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...ouse/quiz/inde
x.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P

I never clean the plughole. What does this mean

Nothing. What on Earth is the point?

Whole "quiz" is stupid.


I dont know, but I wouldnt mind betting the advice from the oldies (no
offence intended :o) would be a good swill with bleach now and again. When
I
replaced a waste pipe a while ago it was full of gunk and didnt look
pleasant.


oh, this was on a kitchen sink btw - not a bathroom one!

On 26 Oct 2004 17:21:55 -0700, Jan Wysocki wrote:

[*VOT - FWIW Insular britons and yanks think it finished in 1918,
but the German and Russian armies were still at it in 1919.]

So were the British expeditionary forces assisting the White Russians,

"ggg" wrote in message
om...
I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...quiz/index.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P

Would you have told us, had you been rated disgustingly filthy?

I never clean the plughole. What does this mean and why do I have to
do maintenance on it?

You don't have to, but I find mine collects grease if I don't occasionally
treat it with caustic soda.

Colin Bignell

In article , a wrote:

About some "filth quiz".

I dont know, but I wouldnt mind betting the advice from the oldies (no
offence intended :o) would be a good swill with bleach now and again. When I
replaced a waste pipe a while ago it was full of gunk and didnt look
pleasant.


Pah! Savvy oldies wouldn't want to consolidate the filth with bleach!
Bleach might reduce the smell temporarily, but if and only if you
need to clean your 'plug hole' (waste trap surely?) chemically,
then use washing soda or caustic soda (in order of efficacy and
nastiness). If you failed O level chemistry then stick to reliable
mechanical methods:-)

Chlorine is nasty stuff. The amounts used in the 1914 - 19*
war were greater, but a nasty lung rotting gas is still a nasty lung
rotting gas when it's in your sink.

[*VOT - FWIW Insular britons and yanks think it finished in 1918,
but the German and Russian armies were still at it in 1919.]

--
Jan

nightjar nightjar@ wrote:

"ggg" wrote in message
om...

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


http://www.channel4.com/life/microsi...quiz/index.jsp

and got rated clean but not pristine :P


Would you have told us, had you been rated disgustingly filthy?


It seems to take so little to be considered pristine.

Andy Dingley wrote:

On 26 Oct 2004 10:10:23 -0700, (ggg) wrote:


I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


Pah !

Mere amateurs
http://www.network54.com/Realm/Squal...bathrooms.html



my new homepage til the end of October at least

ggg wrote in message .. .
Andy Dingley wrote:

On 26 Oct 2004 10:10:23 -0700, (ggg) wrote:


I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at


do maintenance on it?


Sometimes I pour a kettle full of almost boiling water down the
plughole. If I remember, I follow up with half a bottle of ASDA
SmartPrice bleach, then leave it to stew for an hour before using the
sink again. I don't know whether it makes any difference.


Very bad idea |:-(( Porclein sinks easily crack if filled with a
lot of too hot water. Hand hot generally seems OK.
Better a grimy plug hole than paying to replace the whole lot as I had
to do. Same thermal problem applies to toilet bowls.

luggsie