My sink
Product: Fiberglass Kitchen Sink
Purchased at: Ebay
Price: $50
Recommend: NO
It’s not that I needed a kitchen sink. I had a perfectly good, heavy duty porcelain sink. But about 1 year ago I started doing a lot more cooking and when this happened I started noticing that certain things in the kitchen, if modified and/or upgraded, could make my life as a stay-at-home Mom much easier. One of those things is my sink. I had two, equal sized bowls. That may sound fine to you but to me they were useless because neither bowl fit anything. Forget about trying to wash a cookie sheet, our waffle iron, a roasting pan, my crock pot, or basically all of the things that I use regularly. And by regularly I mean every single week. I’d have to tilt these things on end to wash them. The problem with that is that the water would end up EVERYWHERE, except in the sink. I think I’d get more on the counter and the floor than would end up in my sink.
This, my friends, is how I came to buy a fiberglass sink. I started by looking at my local Home Depot and Lowes Home Improvement stores for options. My only requirements were that 1.) it had to be white, and 2.) it had to be an above-mount, and 3.) it had to have at least 1 large (and deep) bowl. I didn’t care if it had a 2nd smaller bowl or if it was just one large bowl. I was totally flexible in that respect. I had my first heart attack when I saw that the prices started at around $200ish. Â And those sinks didn’t even come in the style that I was looking for. To get what I wanted I was going to pay upwards of $300. Yeah, right. With our one-income family budget this wasn’t going to be an option. There had to be a better way. So I let my fingers do the walking. They walked right to Ebay.
That’s where I discovered fiberglass and acrylic sinks. I had never even heard of them, nor do I think that I’ve laid eyes on one before. It looked perfect in the picture and the price was phenomenal. Lots of them actually sold for more than I wanted to pay but I started watching a few and doing some research and it sounded too good to be true. I’d actually be able to get a kitchen sink that fit my needs without breaking the bank. Hooray for me! The info that I found on the internet all said that fiberglass sinks stain easy if you don’t take care of them and clean them properly. But that seemed like no big deal. I’m super clean in the kitchen and never leave dishes in the sink. How could I go wrong? ;o) Hmmmm….read on.
When it was all said n’ done I had bought myself a brand new, white, fiberglass sink in exactly the specs that would make my life in the kitchen better. And for the small price tag ($50 + $20 shipping) it was worth cutting a few corners to justify the expense. The sink showed up a week later, my husband installed it for me right away and I was in cooking heaven. Until a few months went by, that is, and I started noticing that it was starting to stain right around the drain. The soft cleansers (that were recommended) didn’t lift the stain out at all. My next step was to get one of those gel mats that you can buy at Bed Bath & Beyond. It fit right into the bowl and protects it from scratching and staining. Although I think that has helped significantly I still have to regularly spray the bowl with Soft Scrub Deep Cleaning Foam cleanser with bleach. That does the trick for a few days but then it wears off and starts to look stained again. It’s made for bathrooms but hey, most tubs are fiberglass right?
The moral to this story, children, is don’t buy a fiberglass sink for your kitchen. Never never never never. Yes, I do love having the large bowl, but I wish I had just waited until I could afford a porcelain sink. Hey, you get what you pay for right? That’s my hard lesson learned. Now you can be the smarter one and learn from my mistakes….just like your Mom and Dad used to tell you.
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