Moving House - Thorough Clean required

Thriftylady

the best oven cleaner I have ever used is Ovenmate which can be bought from the Lakeland catalogue. Its not cheap (I think its £7.95 a bottle) but it gives amazing results, gets rid of all that burnt on stuff and leaves the shelves and glass gleaming. Also it doesn't have a strong chemical smell either....

nickinoo

I have this same problem too, the house looks clean but I dread moving the wardrobes etc.

Icemaiden

I would get a good oven cleaner for the inside but for everything else just a bucket of water and some stardrops, it will clean all the things you have listed including the oven hob. For prolonged use get some rubber gloves as I find my hands are quite sensitive after using stardrops.

tim_n

having moved house more times than I can remember, the state I always move into makes me feel very frustrated that I bothered with my own house. I'd just give the floors a good hoover and leave it at that! *grumbles*

honey28

tim_n wrote:

having moved house more times than I can remember, the state I always move into makes me feel very frustrated that I bothered with my own house. I'd just give the floors a good hoover and leave it at that! *grumbles*

I know the feeling Tim. I have moved twice so far and each time have left the house spotless, mopping the floor behind me as I have closed the door so as not to leave footprints etc. I have never moved into a spotless house, all have been filthy :mad: One even had the remains of a broken jar of jam all over the inside of the kitchen cupboard and the other hadnt see the clean side of a mop or duster for quite some time. I gave off about the owners for ages to everyone I knew :rolleyes: and so would hate to leave the house a tip for fear of my name being slated about - sorely tempting though!!

roguelawyer

Hi!!

It's been a while since I posted. In an effort to clear my debts and not be so stresed any more I have bitten the bullet and am moving from my one bed flat into a shared house. I'm therefore downsizing from five rooms to one:eek::eek:

I am gumtreeing and ebaying to the hilt to clear things, but I am also working on cleaning up after 3.5 years in my flat, and thought I would ask for help from the experts.

On my list are:

Pots and pans that have black marks on the outside and underneath, they are non stick pan
Stain on the walls which include mould the landlord refused to clear and a coffee stain I have just found behind a piece of furniture. I've used a bleach solution but they won't go!
Yellow marks on the skirting, I'm sure I didn't cause them but they won't budge. The stains are almost sticky, which scares me

If anyone has any tips, I have stardrops, lots of antibacterial spray, oven cleaner, bicarb and would look for cleaning solution as cheap as possible as moving month is a tight budget!

Thank you so much for all your help in advance :-)

RL

Penelope_Penguin

There are a lot of tips in this thread It's a bit old, but moving tips don;t go out of date I'll merge this later, unless I can find a more recent thread.

Don;t know if you like Flylady, but she has Moving Home Tips here

ClaireLR

You can use cola on the pans, just the cheapo stuff, just put it in the pan and heat it up and let it sit, the black stuff should come off easily then. Fabric conditioner is good for loosening sticky stains before wiping away

bexster1975

Im afraid I have to agree with Tim, what seem like nice, friendly people are often dirty tramps when they move out. I have never seen the like when I moved into my current place 5 years ago. I bought it and the young couple I got it off were friendly and seemed very respectable.

Well, it took 4 of us 3 days to clean the kitchen! The tiles had never been wiped, oven never been cleaned etc, etc. It was as bad elsewhere. Windows, skirting boards, on and on. Filthy dirty. Only funnier when the guy who sold it to me came over to pick up un-redirected mail 4 days after we moved in and told me his girlfriend and her mother had cleaned the kitchen with a fine toothed comb! :rotfl:

I said nothing, just wiped out the drawer in the kitchen I was cleaning and rung out the almost black water into the bowl. Shame people have no manners, not to mention any desire to live without food poisoning!!:)