Recent content by katya

Yes it is a Belfast (or Butler's) sink. I'm not sure what the difference is. It's pretty old. I have opened the flap in the fireplace and removed, pro tem, the firescreen, and I have to say that the surface does seem to be drying out and I'm not getting any more mould, but people are being...

I'd actually prefer to carry on with the boiled linseed oil, but it just doesn't seem to 'take' on areas that have been consistently wet/stained/bleached. However, perhaps the wood was resisting the oil because it was still damp. The bleach has been quite effective in deaing with the mould, by...

PS. Surely the mould is caused by the water spillage, e.g. from the tap and drying rack, more than from humidity/cold. wouldn't spillage have done this anyway, even if the kitchen were warm and dry?

I have a sink pretty much like yours, but salvaged, in our kitchen, with a beech worktop surround from Ikea - same blueprint as yours. It was fitted and treated with boiled linseed oil 4 years ago by a carpenter who has since moved away, and I immediately started religiously treating it with...