Is it important to clean on completion?

ifiwerearichman123

Hi All

We are completing on our sale and purchase on Thursday - very excited and nervous! It will be a very busy day and I can't see how I'll have time for cleaning. Is it very important to clean before leaving? Our home isn't filthy but it's not spotless either... Advice welcome! Thank you

duchy

Would you want to move your furniture straight into your new home -or would you want to clean it first because your new home was too grubby to put everything straight in ?

Of course you clean - you don't have to do it all on the day - start now and you'll only need to do the minimum once your van is loaded. There's two of you I assume as you said "we" so you can both clean surely ? Presumably most stuff is boxed by now so it's only floor cleaning, wall and shelf washing down and bathroom/kitchen cleaning - all of which will be easier to clean now the clutter is cleared and thrown or boxed.

If you wouldn't want to move into a dirty house yourself -then why would you leave your old house dirty for the new people ? Was your home clean or dirty when you moved in ?

It can be a bit of a shock how grubby usually hidden parts can be once you've moved furniture out so if you get the accessible bits done beforehand then you'll only need to clean the newly revealed bits. Frankly if you don't think it's really clean -then other people will think it's dirty too.

robotrobo

ifiwerearichman123 wrote: »

Hi All

We are completing on our sale and purchase on Thursday - very excited and nervous! It will be a very busy day and I can't see how I'll have time for cleaning. Is it very important to clean before leaving? Our home isn't filthy but it's not spotless either... Advice welcome! Thank you

When i think about it !, im so relieved im not moveing in to your place, get a grip & dont be so blxxdy lazy.

Lioness_Twinkletoes

ifiwerearichman123 wrote: »

Hi All

We are completing on our sale and purchase on Thursday - very excited and nervous! It will be a very busy day and I can't see how I'll have time for cleaning. Is it very important to clean before leaving? Our home isn't filthy but it's not spotless either... Advice welcome! Thank you

Yes! Clean it! Start now and clean behind things as they're moved. When I last moved the house I left was spotless. The house I moved into was absolutely filthy. It was disgusting - literally bogies on the walls and the cupboards were filthy. Disgusting.

good_advice

Yes, def. clean!
We had every thing out of the kitchen cupboards a few days in advance and wiped over. Cleaned the oven. Bathrooms.
Hoovered as furniture was moved out on the day.

Thankfully, the people in the new house did the same

andybenw

I would say as everything should be at your standard of clean anyway it's just a matter of clearing the detritus from moving.

Brushing out kitchen cupboards, pushing hoover around shouldn't take too long.

laurahester

You absolutely need to clean. As others have said, start now and then on completion day you should only have to whizz the hoover around areas that boxes were stacked on.
I remember when moving out of my husbands 'batchelor pad' I spent two days cleaning with my mum so that the new owner could move their things in straight away - windows/skirting/walls - probably went over the top but I left it as I'd hoped to findmy new house.
You guessed it, I walked into my new house (the first I'd ever bought) and cried. It was a pig sty! They hadn't even bothered to hoover never mind clean the fridge or oven out of all the yucky food stains.
Be nice, leave as you would hope to find your new place.

AdrianC

Ever heard the phrase "Do unto others as you would be done by"?

As far as I'm concerned, it's the only golden and inviolable rule for life. Everything else is just a variation and restatement of it.

walwyn1978

Yes, it's important. Not only is it 'do unto others what you want to happen to you' but it's the kind of thing that can colour how you see the previous owner. When we bought our last house having been messed around plenty by the seller, we moved in to find it filthy, rotting food in cupboards, spilt dried food/milk all over the kitchen, a garden covered in cat feces (he had a cat), piles of rubbish in corners that he'd not got rid of and damage where he'd ripped fixtures off the wall, against what we'd agreed on contract. That's a very extreme case possibly but it didn't exactly encourage us to forward his post, parcels etc or give out his new telephone number when his clients called round as he had run a business from home.

Pay it forward, basically. It doesn't take long to tidy up, Hoover and wipe down surfaces.

Rain_Shadow

AdrianC wrote: »

Ever heard the phrase "Do unto others as you would be done by"?

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Actually I haven't.


I've heard 'Do as you would be done by' and 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' but never the AdrianC mash up version.


I prefer 'Do unto others before they do unto you'.

2gorgeousgirls

I remember when I moved panicking because they shut our electric off an hour early and I couldn't vacuum. I hated the thought of someone moving in and thinking I kept a dirty house. It's inevitable there will be mess from moving and I think it's only decent that you clean it - it's your mess after all.

In my case my very kind neighbour came to the rescue with an extremely long extension lead. A small kindness which was hugely appreciated.