One gripe I have with my new house is the kitchen sink which is of the hard plastic (Astralux?) variety. This stuff is actually very horrid indeed. I am used to stainless steel sinks, or recently one of the IKEA Butler-style ceramic ones. Both were dead easy to clean, especially the latter. But cleaning this Astralux piece of crap, branded Leisure, is not a leisurely process at all. You have to scrub away at the surface very intensively to get rid of the stains. And the surface is so rough that you wear out scouring cloths in no time. I have resorted to using copious amounts of bleach, but as soon as I can that sink is coming out.
DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE!
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