Folks,
Have bought a house & the stainless steel kitchen sink is ok, but plastered in limescale around where the mixer tap goes through the body of the sink itself.
I will be replacing the tap, but in the meantime want to remove the limescale.
As ever, many contradicting opinions on the net about what works – either home made remedies (vinegar & water mix) or specific products.
Anyone used either to,particularly good effect please ?
Thanks
J

lemon juice

If there’s any left after tonight, obviously 😀

edit just seen your name!

Thanks kormoran. My name nothing to do with plastic lemons – but I like your thinking

Used cotton wool soaked in neat white vinegar and left overnight on the lime scale with good results

proprietary descaler spray – lime lite is the one we usually go for. But it can only clean the bit it touches so if you have a build up you may need to spray it, leave it, spray some more, leave some more, and so on

mild acid like vinegar or lemon juice is all you need

Excellent. Thanks all. Think I will try the ‘au natural’ method first, then nuke it with with spray afterwards if needed

Cotton wool soaked in nitric acid.

Stand well back* and throw a match** at it.

*down the street
**you ain’t seen me, right?

EDIT – I misread as “LARGE scale removal”

Drink 12 cans of Strongbow and pee on it first thing in the morning. Only way to be sure

Viakal from tesco or a tub of citric acid from the chemist works for me. I use the viakal to clean limescale from our shower and citric acid for the toilet cisterns. Get funny looks at the pharmacy buying the citric acid….Apparently it’s used to cut/bulk drugs. 😯

Any acid will do the job. However avoid anything Hydrochloric Acid based on stainless.

If you are diluting vinegar or making a citric acid solution then use hot water as the resulting solution will work far quicker if applied when hot

There’s always the cola option! Used some to free a seized seatpost ~20 years ago, after turning bike upside down and leaving it for a day or so.

Cola contains phosphoric acid, which will also work. Any acid WC cleaner will also do.