Is it important to clean on completion?

ifiwerearichman123

Ha ha I was busy cleaning Duchy and also waiting for the original Aramaic to be posted - but disappointed not to see that. For the sake of clarity, I feel like I've either misrepresented myself in the original post or that some people delight in criticising (perhaps both, or somewhere in between!) At no point did I say the place is a hovel - it is, in fact, a beautiful home that I've had the pleasure of enjoying and maintaining for a period of time, and now it's time to move on. It was more a question of "what does clean mean?" - judging by the number of people saying they left their homes spotless and moved into dirt, seems like we may all misjudge ourselves actually... Anyway, thank you all for the responses - I enjoyed reading them! Now back to the cleaning ;-)

AdrianC

ifiwerearichman123 wrote: »

At no point did I say the place is a hovel - it is, in fact, a beautiful home that I've had the pleasure of enjoying and maintaining for a period of time, and now it's time to move on. It was more a question of "what does clean mean?" - judging by the number of people saying they left their homes spotless and moved into dirt, seems like we may all misjudge ourselves actually...

You wait until you look behind the furniture that hasn't been moved in years...

penguingirl

We cleaned in the days beforehand, but after the removal men had left we did a final whizz round with the hoover and transported all the cleaning materials in our cars. Left things like spare loo rolls, bottle of bubbly, plastic wallet with takeaway menus/drs leaflet/ bin rota. The bins were emptied on the morning of the move.

Moved into our current house to find they'd not really bothered. Which was surprising as we'd seen them a couple of weeks earlier and they'd said they would leave it clean for us. Plus they'd moved into rented a mile down the road the day before completion so they could have easily come back to do it. They also left the bin overflowing, and omitted to tell us that bin day was on the Easter Monday (we moved the Thursday before)- we never expected it to be on a bank holiday and hadn't got round to researching it. We were very annoying to take binbags of their rubbish to the tip. Especially as they were very heavy with bottles at the bottom and one split all over the drive! Best moment was when I realised that I could clean the mould in the bathroom off as they had painted over the white tiles (and dirt), truly disgusting.