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

[ggg]

I took the HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE Filthometer test at

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?

[Huge]

Nothing. What on Earth is the point?

Whole "quiz" is stupid.

[a]

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.

[Andy Dingley]

Pah !

Mere amateurs

'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....

[The Natural Philosopher]

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..)

[MM]

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

[a]

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

[Andy Dingley]

So were the British expeditionary forces assisting the White Russians,

[nightjar]

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

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

Colin Bignell

[Jan Wysocki]

About some "filth quiz".

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.]

[ggg]

It seems to take so little to be considered pristine.

[ggg]

my new homepage til the end of October at least

[luggsie]

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