Mum claims her sink was destroyed after using a popular supermarket cleaning buy: ‘It was so scary to see’
- Mum shocked when her glass sink shattered
- The bathroom vanity cracked after it was cleaned
- The Pink Stuff insist there’s no ingredient that could cause it
A house proud mum has been left with a shattered bathroom vanity after using a popular cleaning product with a cult-like following to ‘make it shine’.
The mum said she put The Pink Stuff, a cleaning product which has skyrocketed in popularity over the past two years, on the bathroom cabinet.
She scrubbed the white glass vanity and then rinsed the cleaning chemical off with some luke warm water. Then the glass started to shatter.
‘It was so scary to see,’ the mum admitted. ‘I thought it was an earthquake or something. Because It was cracking for few minutes.’
However, a spokesperson from The Pink Stuff told FEMAIL there is nothing in the paste that could cause a bathroom vanity to shatter.
A mum has been left in shock after her bathroom vanity cracked moments after it was cleaned
The paste is extremely popular across Australia, the UK and the US
The mum later ‘agreed’ she didn’t think it was the paste but had no idea what else could have made her sink crack.
She added she has used The Pink Stuff to clean her sink before, and not had a problem.
She had just left the bathroom with her toddler when it started to crack.
And others mentioned there own problems after cleaning, including after using the $6.95 ‘miracle cleaner’.
Conversations online reference ‘hundreds’ of people’s oven doors smashing after using it while another claimed it ‘took the black colour’ out of her vanity.
‘Did you was use hot water, it isn’t supposed to be used where heat will be applied,’ another said.
She said it was cracking for a few minutes and was ‘scary’ to watch
The whole sink cracked, but hundreds of people rejected the idea the cleaning product ‘had anything to do with it’
‘The Pink Stuff is a mild abrasive with huge cleaning power, but it’s non-invasive. There’s simply nothing in the paste that could cause glass to crack,’ a spokesperson said.
‘Millions of tubs have been sold worldwide and this is the first mention we’ve heard ever of an affected bathroom vanity. Even the poster herself does not think it was caused by The Pink Stuff, which she says she’d used before on the exact same area.’
‘We do of course care deeply about all our customers, so have reached out to Vini. We also have experience in the building sector and would guess the shatter is most likely caused by an unlevel install that stressed the glass.’
And most people who use the popular paste agreed the sink must have been the problem.
‘I had a completely glass sink and it exploded randomly when I was cleaning it,’ said one. ‘Apparently if there is any imperfections in the tempered glass this can happen.’
‘Cheap glass or a bubble in the glass has caused it to be unstable contact installers, as this is not caused by the paste,’ said another.
‘I think there have been glass sheets shatter in ovens due to the abrasive nature of the product so perhaps tiny scratches caused the issue.’
One woman said she once had a glass vanity which ‘smashed into a thousand pieces’ in the same way.
Experts told her it had been secured to the wall ‘too tightly’ which caused it to break.
Natural cleaning hacks
* Add one cup of boiling water and one cup of vinegar to a tray, put it in a hot oven and leave it for 20 minutes. The use the scraper to remove the tough food build-up with ease. Then pour dishwashing liquid onto the glass oven door and use a scour to remove any remaining grease
* Mix dishwashing liquid and bicarbonate of soda together to make a paste then coat the inside of oven in the solution and leave it, then scrub the surface with a scourer and wipe the excess paste away with a damp cloth
Mix dishwashing liquid and bicarbonate of soda together to make a paste, coat the inside of oven in the solution and leave it to eat away at the grime then scrub it away
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