# Scratched porcelain sink **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 14, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501 "2008-01-14T18:19:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/1 "2008-01-14T18:19:35Z")
I shaved off my beard this morning, and in doing so found the need to rinse off my razor often and thoroughly. Upon finishing I noticed that somehow I’ve managed to scratch the hell out of the sink with the back side of a plastic razor. My girlfriend is none too pleased. How can I fix it? ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/2 "2008-01-14T18:27:51Z")
You can get porcelain repair kits at most hardware stores. They will fix small scratches quite well, in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/3 "2008-01-14T18:30:13Z")
You might want to try some pumice (carefully). I had a toilet bowl that I thought was scratched beyond repair, and some rubbing with a pumice stone removed the scratches. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/4 "2008-01-14T18:36:23Z")
Mods, feel free to close this one. I’ve been dreading her calling me all day to bawl me out, but it turns out that I didn’t scractch the sink, my razor leaves marks like a crayon on the sink and they scrub right off with some Soft Scrub. Apparently this isn’t the first time I’ve done it either, but it was the first time I noticed. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/5 "2008-01-14T18:48:11Z")
Alternatively, they can move it to the Pit so we can tease you about it for a day or two. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/6 "2008-01-14T19:11:21Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] Alternatively, they can move it to the Pit so we can tease you about it for a day or two. 😉 [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s cool too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/7 "2008-01-14T19:24:14Z")
But just think of the points you can score by removing the scratches anyway… 😛 Chicks really dig that stuff. And if it’s easy, so much the better! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/8 "2008-01-14T19:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Mods, feel free to close this one. I’ve been dreading her calling me all day to bawl me out, but it turns out that I didn’t scractch the sink, my razor leaves marks like a crayon on the sink and they scrub right off with some Soft Scrub. Apparently this isn’t the first time I’ve done it either, but it was the first time I noticed. :smack: [/QUOTE] I was about to say exactly that… I’ve done the same thing, but after a moment of sudden realisation on the relative hardness of the materials in question (“M’oh!”), realised they couldn’t be scratches, and indeed they come right off. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scratched-porcelain-sink/433501/9 "2008-01-14T19:38:08Z")
I’ll admit that I was absolutely baffled as to how a cheap plastic desposible razor from Target was able to just destroy a Kohler sink in a matter of minutes, but it was first thing this morning, I had 6 or 7 beers watching football last night and so was a bit fuzzy first thing and accidentally destroying things is kind of a hallmark of mine. It’s totally plausible that because that’s just my luck.