Would you clean a house you leave?

PasturesNew

tbs624 wrote: »

Have done exchange/completion on the same day (which was gut-churning) but why leave the countdown sort out until the very last minute? Even if that sale hadn't gone through, you would have been trying again presumably so could have allowed yourself more time and had less stress

I'd already had one sale fall apart at the last minute, so I didn't want to be sitting in a completely empty house if this one fell through.

It wasn't a sort out - it was "stuff", I was getting rid of everything. Everything. Plan was to walk away with nothing, so it all had to go - but if it'd all gone and the sale fell through I'd have literally been sitting on a beanbag without a cooker, washing machine, fridge, freezer, bed, drawers, wardrobe, plates, kettle, chair, sofa, TV... everything.

And I had it all organised ... 3x over. It's just that all three parties to my masterplan systematically let me down.

G_M

young_money_saver wrote: »

the house is out in the countryside and its not to far from my house just now so when im out cycling I sometimes go past it and I have noticed it has the same old lock on the front door (the house is right on the country lane which is why its so visible). another bad security point.

Most people don't actually change the whole lock. They take the barrel out of the centre of the lock (this is the bit the key operates) and change that. Much cheaper, but you still need a new key for the door!

I did this 20 years ago on my first house, and kept the old barrel and keys. Next time I moved, I used that barrel in the new house, again keeping the barrel I removed. I've kept doing this every time I move. Only ever bought one yale and one 5 lever mortice barel in my life.

citizen11

I always leave a place looking spotless though have to admit when some of the cleaning supplies have gone, the same cloth that wiped the bog then wiped the worktops.........

firstaspect

young_money_saver wrote: »

the house is out in the countryside and its not to far from my house just now so when im out cycling I sometimes go past it and I have noticed it has the same old lock on the front door (the house is right on the country lane which is why its so visible). another bad security point.

When I move I'd only be changing the lock barrels so it wouldn't be visible from the outside as to if I had made that change or not.

OP - I would definately clean myself, we are moving soon and I would hate for the first thing we have to do when we reach the new place is clean it all, so I'll be cleaning our house in the hope we receive the same treatment at the other end.

cheap_charlie

citizen11 wrote: »

I always leave a place looking spotless though have to admit when some of the cleaning supplies have gone, the same cloth that wiped the bog then wiped the worktops.........

I think I'd wipe the worktops first and then the bog

Badger_Lady

I certainly clean when moving out (including professional cleaners on the carpets). However, it's amazing how dirty a place can still look after you've moved all the furniture out - scuffs on the walls, dirty marks under the fridge, it was all hidden before. And now that you've started moving out you don't have time to go back over those things particularly as some of it requires redecoration!

As you said, a quick mop over and the area under the fridge was gone. So it can't have been filthy.

tbs624

citizen11 wrote: »

I always leave a place looking spotless though have to admit when some of the cleaning supplies have gone, the same cloth that wiped the bog then wiped the worktops.........

Have you worked for a budget hotel at some point?;)

firstaspect

Badger_Lady wrote: »

And now that you've started moving out you don't have time to go back over those things particularly as some of it requires redecoration!

That just reminded me that when we move soon there's going to be a big rectangle of wall not painted as our fish tank is too heavy to move when full so we just painted as far as we could reach around it.

seven-day-weekend

We did not have to 'move out' of our UK home when moving to Spain as son was going to live there, so cleaning did not apply.

When we sell our Spanish home, we will clean it (or arrange to have it cleaned) before moving out.

We moved everything out of my mum's sheltered flat when she went into care, but did not clean it (it was clean anyway).

Our investment property was cleaned before it was sold.

xmaslolly76

I paid a cleaner to go round my old house once we had moved out it was already clean but it was just to make sure i hadnt missed anything as i knew i wouldnt have time once everything was out on the road to the new house and knew the carpets would need a going over with the vacumme with everything being moved. She charged me £30 and did a fantastic job i would be embarrassed to leave a house dirty x