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restoring our vintage kitchen back part 5 of our kitchen renovation We're restoring our 1940s Youngstown kitchen in our 1886 Victorian house. After many months of painstaking DIY's, we're finally at the finish line. One of the reasons we fell in love with this kitchen was the huge double sink with drying space on the sides. The sink is so nice but it's very dinged up and we just can't get it clean because of scratches that are causing the discoloration. So, reglazing. And after much scouring of the internet and YouTube University, Cody found this product called Ecopel 2K. The first step is prepping the sink. So we did a light buff with a Dremel hand sander and very intricately taped off the drains and the edges. Since we have all these ridges, we were super nervous about this, but we finally bit the bullet and poured the product. It's self-leveling, so basically you let it do its thing while gently rolling it into the center of the basin and so on and so forth. Once there was little to no excess left, we removed the tape to start the drying process. Since it's self-leveling, the excess builds up in the drain, which needs to be wiped out every 30 minutes or so. And at the 4-hour mark, it should be set, which is when we removed the drain tape. In 24 hours, we'll be able to run the water and in 72 hours, we can safely use it. It felt so weird to be using a perfectly clean white sink after a year of using the dirty old one. This has been one of the most nerve-wracking DIYs we've ever done because we really wanted to preserve the sink and not ruin it. But honestly, it turned out to be one of the easiest. So guys, this is your sign to not let an old dirty sink deter you from embracing the charm. So guys, we're so close to finishing up the kitchen. Stay tuned for the final video.