Clean up your Sink the Easy Way!
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Im 22 and never had any health problems physically or mentally, but within the last week or so I have felt like i am more and more "out of it". Today I was going to strain some noodles and grabbed the strainer and started walking to the sink but i dumped the water on the floor instead… I also stopped at a green light for no reason within the last week. I also dropped some pool balls through the rack in mid air some reason thinking i could rack them in mid air but obviously they dropped to the floor. This kind of stuff doesn’t happen to me on a regular basis and its to the point where i think something may be wrong I also seem like i am losing my train of thought more but that may be just because i think something is wrong… I do these things and instantly i was like what in the world was i thinking. Any ideas to what may cause this to happen?
Im not under a lot of stress at all. I am extremely easy going.
I put my plates and cups in a plastic holder to dry next to the sink and after a couple of weeks/months this stuff builds up in the strainer underneath. What is it?
Hello!
My husband & I are ready to just call a plumber but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask here…
The water pressure on our kitchen sink (faucet AND sprayer) has been steadily declining for a few months. It’s almost down to a trickle now. The rest of the house seems fine. We have very hard water, so we knew to check the strainer(?) on the end of the faucet for buildup, it is clear. Strangely, it also seems like it takes that sink much longer to get hot. Is that possible?
Is there anything else we should check? Do we just need a new kitchen sink? (That wouldn’t break my heart.. Then I could pick one out that I like better!) 
Thanks in advance for your help!
Wow thanks so much.. You all have already been a huge help. It does make sense now that it would be something in the faucet & not an individual line since both hot & cold are low.
I’ll talk to my husband.. Thankfully he is very skilled with tools & home repair so he should be able to handle switching out a faucet. He’s never done it before but he’ll figure it out.
And we do need to look into a water softener for the whole house. I HATE all the crap that hard water leaves everywhere. Never knew what a pain it was until we moved here.
Thanks again!!
Experts say the strainer is dirtier. What liable to be in a strainer, some vegetable matter and detergent? If you had to choose which would you consume?
We planted some "micro greens" a few months ago and totally let them get out of hand. Now our raised bed gardens are bursting with a variety of lettuces.
Also we have a side garden that we planted with carrots and kohlrabi, but instead we got a bumper crop of curly endive (which we planted from starters 2 years ago, then let it bolt and go to flower then to seed before ripping it out…)
This is the first year we are more serious about actually EATING everything our garden produces for us, so for the past week we’ve been aggressively harvesting both the curly endive and the lettuces for salads.
But it is taking SO MUCH WATER to wash this stuff!
First of all, some of the lettuces have aphids. I know they’re probably not harmful to eat, but all the same I’d like my lettuce aphid free. Also there’s bits of mulch mixed in with the leaves, and little tufts of fibrous seed floaty things from the eucalyptus trees across the street. Add in the occasional slug (this IS organic gardening, after all) and some fruit flies (WTH are they doing in there?) and I definitely want my greens SERIOUSLY CLEAN before I eat them.
But it takes SO MUCH WATER to wash them.
So far the best method I’ve come up with is to half fill the sink, then dump in a batch of greens and add a cup and a half or so of vinegar. (To try to kill any nasties in there.) Then I massage the leafy mass in the sink and transfer the leaves into a strainer and find that the water left in the sink has thousands of aphids, little bits of dirt and sand, etc.
A couple more rinses this same way (except without the vinegar) and the water starts to look pretty clear, but how can I do this without wasting so much water?
Also, I’ve read that you shouldn’t soak lettuces. Why not? It doesn’t seem to do much to the lettuce’s texture, and it makes me feel a lot better about removing slugs.
On the other hand sometimes the water gets a little bit bubbly like there’s a tiny amount of soap or something on the leaves of the lettuce. Is there a compound in lettuce that acts like soap? Or is it >yuck< slug slime or something?
HELP! I don’t want to abandon my gardening. All these greens seem like free food. I don’t want to waste it, but it’s also a lot of work and a lot of water to prepare it. Buying heads of lettuce from the grocery store never prepared me for my own home grown greens.
Rainwater collection would not make much difference where I live… it just doesn’t rain that often, except for some unusual winter rains. In fact we don’t water our garden at all during winter. The occasional rain and the consistently wet morning dew seem to be plenty for our winter leafy greens.
At first I WAS a lot more "dirt can’t hurt" but really a few bits of sandy, gritty lettuce sort of ruins the whole salad. Also, when I do the "sink" rinse method I always find 3 or 4 little slugs in each batch. It’s not like I’m not careful when I harvest; just can’t help that they’re in there. I don’t want the slugs. Period. If you read up, apparently eating slugs (or slug slime!) can infect you with rat-lung larvae, which can give you meningitis and kill you!
Even if that weren’t the case, we like to give some of our nice lettuce to neighbors and I’d be mortified if a batch of salad we gave them had slugs in it!
So, yeah… I DO want to clean the greens, but I DON’T want to wast
…or shouldn’t?
Okay, you all know I am a Multitasking Domestic Engineer (stay at home Mom) and my husband works full time. He is also the cook of the house. I like to bake.
Here is my issue ~ shouldn’t he clean the kitchen up after he is done with dinner?
I would like to say, don’t you dare leave those dishes for me………
Last night dishes consisted of a frying pan (for hamburger), a large pot (for boiling pasta), another pot (for sauce) and the large strainer. Also all the dishes we ate off of. He just puts everything in the vicinity of the sink, not even just soaking something. I walk over and want to scream! Do you feel I have any right to or do you think I should just be thankful (which he knows I am, very much) and keep my Mugsie mouth shut?
The sink I am looking for is tan. The cover folds open for added work space and is green. It is also a double sin with a strainer.
I’m wondering if my new shower drain (for a tiled shower floor) needs to be caulked? The lip of the weep rim is set to floor level and the strainer is about an inch higher which screws on.
Does this strainer portion need to be caulked (under) after it is set at the correct level? So basically, I instrall the drain, the tile is already set, screw on the top strainer portion. Does that portion also need to be sealed onto the tile? Thx in advance!
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