To Clean Or Not To Clean?

budgetflyer

We left our last house spotless and also flowers and champagne for the new owners.
Im not a bible basher but
"do unto others what you'd like done to you"
NOT
"what others do to you"

Destiny33

Totally agree with everything, clean the house Imagine walking in to what is your new home and being met with dirt.

When we moved we were at our old house until about 7pm after we had moved in to new place we went back to clean. It was a long day with a baby but defintatly a matter of pride. We also left a good luck card and a bottle of wine in the fridge. Old prude here but as the saying goes "do unto others"

Good luck with the move and have many happy times in your new home. Hope its clean when you move in

socks_uk

I'm moving on Wednesday and have started the cleaning. I've washed the skirting and hoovered up along the wall where I've started stacking boxes. We're lucky enough to have a through-lounge that we can use the front half to store all the packed boxes.

I know the house we're moving into won't be clean because the deceased owner's son is selling it and he lives about 75 miles away, but he might surprise us.

Jill

dander

I couldn't leave a house dirty for the sake of my own pride. I'd hate to think of the new owner moving in and thinking that I was someone who lived in squalor.

in_my_wellies

I cleaned MILs house from top to bottom when we cleared it. Then a final clean the day before they moved in. The day after they moved in a skip appeared on the drive and all the carpets, curtains, kitchen units and bathroom were all thrown in it.

Even if I had know I would still have left it clean - wouldn't want them to think we were sluts.

toria

I know cleaning is hard work, especially the thought of doing it twice (your old house & your new one) but just think how much easier it will be for you to do than the new owners, because at the end of the day it's only your own dirt!

Helen_from_yorkshire

Yes I would definitely clean the house before I moved ... most you can do in the days/weeks leading up to the house move which leaves just the essentials to do at the last minute (run round with the hoover, wash kitchen floor and clean bathroom).

When my MIL moved, hubbie helped her move ... hardly anything packed when he arrived so before packing the van, he had to pack her belongings into the boxes. Thing is, it was my hubbie's house so we then had to go about cleaning the place before we could sell it and this was made worse by the house being over 3 hours drive away. The lazy b***h hadn't even swept the cupboard under the stairs for what seemed like years, full of cobwebs, absolutely filthy !!! All the carpets had to be ripped out (she had 3 dogs) and we had to spend every weekend for months driving through and cleaning her muck - it makes me sick to think about it now !!! I don't know how she dared leave it like that for us to clean, some people.

Any news from Haveitall re what he/she intends to do now.

vicki98_2

i recently swapped properties with another tenant. I spent a whole week cleaning EVERYTHING - even leaving the vacuum out of the removal van til last so i could go over the carpets once evrything was out.

On arriving at the new place I was horrified, the carpets were filthy, there was a pile of rubbish in the middle of the kitchen floor that this horrid woman had left behind and it smelt something rotten ... so after a week of cleaning in one place, i spent another week cleaning in another. Just like fannyadams says above it is depressing to move into an unclean place, so i'd give it a clean but i wouldn't go over the top just in case you gotta do it all again in the new place

Dora_the_Explorer_5

As every house I've ever sold has been subject to the purchaser chiselling something off the price by making an offer - on once occasion just £100 less than I was asking so they felt big and clever - I NEVER CLEAN when I move out. If they don't like it they can spend the money they saved by paying less than I was asking to hire a gang of cleaners. Guess what - no-one ever complained and I suspect that many never even noticed.

Woby_Tide

they just wee on all your post before forwarding it...;)