Is it important to clean on completion?

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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

Cannot actually believe you are asking this! Of course, leave it clean!

SnooksNJ

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

I think only you can answer that. If you are a decent human being you will clean. If you are a trash bag you won't clean.

cloo

I would say always clean up as much as you can, it's simple politeness and will reduce the stress of the buyers. Our vendors did a nice job tidying and we cleaned our place thoroughly even though we knew the buyer was going to totally refurbish it before anyone moved it (which he finally started last week, 8 months after completing! - we moved further down the same street)

CathA

I've always left my houses spotless when I've moved. However, I've never moved into a clean house yet!! The latest house looked alright ish on the surface, but when I looked in the kitchen cupboards some were clean, some were filthy-why/how? The sale was delayed for a week for some reason and the Virgin TV chap turned up the day we moved in (was supposed to be the week after originally) and when he pulled the sofa out, there was a massive cobweb attached from the wall to the settee. That's when I knew I was going to be doing a LOT of cleaning that weekend!

Do the cleaning, hire a company, get friends round, do a bit at a time, whatever, but DO IT! Good luck with the move.

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I am afraid I've always left a house totally clean..,and always moved into a house that needed a good clean. But I still clean before I move. With my last move (from a rental), I started cleaning ages before I moved (steam cleaned all the walls, and just carried on as I got more stuff out and things were exposed. As has been said, on the day of the move (and this move was complete chaos), all I had to clean was the floors. The kitchen cupboards /fridge had been packed up and scrubbed a few days before I moved.

Jhoney_2

There is no good reason why this should not be done - if you don't feel you will personally have time, get a cleaning company in for goodness sake!

Or are you hoping the buyers prefer the adage, "where there's muck there's money"?

If you clean/tidy even once or twice a week generally, why the panic. I'm sitting here trying to imagine moving in a week or two and what beyond the odd sock/toy and a bit of dust I could find and i'm blank.

Clean the cupboards now and replace the crockery etc including under the sink. Deep clean any white goods being left as part of the sale or unwanted (which I hope you have the curtesy to remove too) and the entire bathroom.

Everything else is a wipe down, duster and a vacuum.

What makes you think the new owners will have time to clean up after you when going through the same experience?

duchy

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you can't, you can't.

But you should at least do it as much as you can in the week leading up to completion.

If you're the person in charge of removals day, then you'll be all over the place answering questions, managing the removals team, checking all the keys/information are laid out, keeping an eye on the time, answering random questions.... and you've got to get your key delivered to the EA and pick up your new key from another EA before dashing to the new house before the removals men and then directing them box by box and room by room at the new place (even if you painted all the boxes different colours for different rooms they'd still ask!).

So, one person, moving on their own, can't also have a hoover up their 4rse.

This isn't can't ...more like can't be bothered .
And the OP refers to "we" so doesn't appear to be a single person moving alone anyway.

kinger101

Last house I moved into was filthy. And they left me a forwarding address expecting me to send on all their mail as well.

Rain_Shadow

AdrianC wrote: »

If you prefer, we could refer back to the original Aramaic.

it was actually a joke. LA



It's a fine line between getting your retaliation in first and starting it.

See above

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stokesley

Am I the only person who moved into a house and found it considerably cleaner than I could ever aspire to?


It's been downhill ever since:o