new kitchen, white sinks

Give me a nice white ceramic kitchen sink any day.

sandye

Moving shortly to a park home and it needs a new kitchem. The kitchen planner has put a white sink on the plans and it looks lovely. Would just like some feed back please by anyone that has one, do they stain easy and are they easy to clean, Thank you in advance.

If given a choice, I'd choose stainless.

Zero effort to keep clean. Doesn't stain.

Are you allowed to choose?

MT62

We have a white ceramic in the kitchen & composite in the utility.
Told my husband to wash his paint brushes in the kitchen sink as it’s easier for me to clean.
I do use bleach but rinse off straight away because I have a chrome plug hole & overflow.
If it’s a white composite sink dilute your bleach & rinse straight away.
Ciff did a cleaner with bleach but I haven’t seen it for sometime in the shops.

Flash do a kitchen cleaner with bleach.

I am putting one in my new kitchen to be, I had one before from IKEA and put a grid in the bottom to stop people dropping heavy pots in and chipping it, it was a double and I loved it,also stopped bits of food sticking to it and staining it, sometimes things could be left in the sink by the then kids till evening time with me out working, its choice I don't expect it to look brand new forever ,but if you don't have masses of people using the sink ,just you it should be ok

I had a white composite sink installed and wish I had had grey instead. It marks and stains but I've just had to 'man up or woman up' with bleach and water once a week or those white eraser blocks are vg plus pink stuff in a big tub is good too.

I have a black composite sink which looks very stylish but because we live in an area with hard water the limescale spoils it leaving the drainer looking cloudy, even though I regularly use a limescale remover spray. We previously lived in Wales with wonderfully soft water and never had a problem there with the black sink.
Just a warning if you fancy a black sink but live in a hard water area!

I have a white composite kitchen sink,just over 12 months old - I thought it might be difficult to keep clean but being white, I could always bleach it.
In fact, it doesn't seem to stain at all although I have a stainless steel one round the corner in the kitchen, & that's the one used for painting, emptying teapots & DH washing oil off his hands.
I use a kitchen bleach spray occasionally, never had to soak, scour or rub marks out (yet).

We've got an ancient Belfast sink in our utility room and it's fine, copes with all sorts with minimum maintenance. We have a black kitchen sink which sounds weird but it's on a very sunny position & a white one and then a stainless steel one we had afterwards started DH's migraines when the sun caught them! The black is surprisingly easy to look after & no sun issues!

I have a white sink . It is not ceramic. You can sometimes use bleach if it stails badly but generally Barkeepers Friend or Astonish cream will clean it well.

I live in a very hard water area. Stainless steel always showed marks. Recently replaced with a white Blanco Silgranite 1.5 bowl sink. It does stain quite easily but Cif cream does a good cleaning job. The manufacturer recommended hot water and a dishwasher pod soak and this works very well.

Good tip though if buying a composite sink (I think we have the franke Kubus) in a coffee colour, is to go for the one with out the half bowl.
I can soak the whole grill tray in the sink now.
Usually in soda crystals which has never affected the colour.

I don’t like stainless steel. Especially the cheap tinny ones.
Read about a woman that was stood on hers cleaning her window & went straight through it, so it makes me cringe to think about that.
But I would not recommend a white porcelain sink if you have a family. If I was to throw a metal fork into my sink it would mark it.
No I am afraid there is only me that goes near it for that reason, apart from hubby cleaning his fence brush.

I worry about chucking in bleach and dishwasher tabs then very hot water. What it is doing to the surface on the long term. I had a speckled cream one long time ago and hated it looked disgusting when we moved and yes I used bleach to make the best I could

Over the years I've had a couple of stainless steel, a beige composite one, a ceramic white Belfast type sink. I currently have one which is Belfast type ceramic but has a drainer too. This is great I've had it ten years it still looks almost new. I occasionaly use a kitchen cleaner with bleach if it gets stained. It always looks good after a quick wipe. I do used a silicone mat in the bottom to stop anything landing a bit heavy breaking or scratching. I hated stainless steel always scratched and water marks.

Grew up with white sinks and first house in the 60s had white sinks. What I don't like about them nowadays is that they are inserted into the worktop and usually have a "lip" type edge underneath. To me it's a forgotten trap and seal may be problematic. Also, some people I know who have them place a tea towel on the worktop as the grooves draining are generally too shallow to cope with water. I'll stick with good quality stainless steel.

I have installed a white ceramic sink and drainer at the last three properties I have renovated and I find them much easier to keep clean than stainless steel. I use Bar Keepers Friend white powder, I'm sure other powders can do the same job, even bicarbonate of soda but nothing too abrasive. I know it shows stains but at least you can see where you need to clean!

I had a ceramic white sink in my last place. I loved the look of it, but it did need regular cleaning to keep it looking nice. It wasn't composite but still needed bleaching every now and then. I chose to have a stainless steel one in my current house, and have not regretted the decision. It is much more forgiving in terms of looks when it's in use. 'Scratches' have never bothered me - ours had a satin surface when new, and that's how it's stayed. If it ever gets stubborn marks round the taps (we are in a hard water area) I just have a go with some Barkeepers Friend or Viakal. Job done! There is a reason why professional kitchens always have stainless steel sinks.

Love my white sink, it needs cleaning often but I just didn't notice how dirty my previous stainless sink was. Top tip, half fill with very hot water (boilled or from the tap) sling in a couple of dishwasher tabs, leave to cool and rinse.

I've had sinks made of all materials over the years, and the worst by far were the composites which scratched, wore down, stained and even melted on one occasion.
Ceramic sinks such as Belfast do look lovely but you have to take great care of them, I had one in a holiday home and always used a mat in the bottom which didn't look great and actually eventually didn't stop damage either.
Even stainless steel can be difficult, my latest one has an unattractive finish which is slightly matte and always looks grimy. Draining boards tend to look grubby over time too.
I'd suggest a stainless sink, with a slighly burnished brushed finish, ideally undermounted with draining grooves cut into a quartz worktop.

I'm with Gwyllt and other GNs here. Stainless steel all the way!

I am not keen on ceramic. It looks great but you only have to put a glass down a little bit clumsily and it smashes. I like the more forgiving bounce of stainless steel.

Years ago friends of mine had an expensive kitchen fitted, and a white sink was fitted. It chipped quickly and easily. I have no idea what it was made of. I have always had stainless steel and never a problem and so easy to clean.

I remember back in the 60's council houses had white sinks and they chipped very easily, nothing you could do about it

Ha FHLH (love the name). TBF he does but you know what fellas are like 🙄

I have had white ceramic sinks in the past including Belfast ones and they were always fine and cleaned easily.
I have a stainless steel one now for years and that’s fine too.