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Moving into a house that needs a major clean...

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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    My house was disgusting when I moved in..

    Bottle of bleach tipped on the kitchen floor and mopped off.. that took 4 bottles of bleach and 3 mops.. I eventually tiled over the terracotta tile floor it was so dirty!

    ALL paintwork and walls.. Sugar soap and a yard brush/scrubbing brush..

    Naked treated wood (hand rails on the stairs) Was cleaned with meths.. make sure it is well ventilated, we were all *high* for a week lol.

    Carpets were simply binned

    Curtains were taken down, washed and some dyed and rehung.

    Microfibre cloths, scrubby sponges and several buckets and bottles of bleach .. I redecorated ASAP.. cheap tubs of white paint are a waste of money.. we got the B&Q own one in the rectangle tub.. that is like spreading cheese, it covers from naked plaster in 3-4 coats (I just did my kitchen ceiling about an hour ago) and is pretty cheap.
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • pollypenny
    pollypenny Posts: 29,439 Forumite
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    Our house was so dirty, that we didn't let the kids see it in either viewing.

    The owner was a pharmacist, too.
    Member #14 of SKI-ers club

    Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.

    (Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
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