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Sink cabinets and chemical storage
Think about what’s typically located in your sink cabinets: the underside of metal sinks, garbage disposals with metal casings, copper water supply pipes, and plastic or metal drainage pipes. Both plastic and metal are affected by corrosive chemicals, and continued corrosion and rusting can eventually result in leaks. Unfortunately, most people store common household cleaning products and supplies in the sink cabinets without realizing the possible consequences of doing so. Sink cabinets is absolutely the wrong place to store cleaning chemicals because, by their very nature, they are inherently corrosive. So, do not store chemicals in sink cabinets! Additionally, children won’t be able to gain access to harmful and dangerous chemicals if they are not in those low sink cabinets. And no one ever takes all those chemicals out of the sink cabinets to inspect the cabinet floor and the water and drainage pipes—unless they’re moving, a significant leak is noticed, or a child is injured after gaining access to the chemicals. |
Water supply and drainage pipes should be monitored regularly, and here’s how to do it virtually on a daily basis with no effort at all on your part: Store dry materials (towels, bathroom tissue, boxes, etc.) in sink cabinets. This type of storage allows one to check for leaks in sink cabinets each time something dry is removed.
Poor storage of chemicals in sink cabinets. |
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