Cleaning etiquette

BecsMags

The house we moved into Monday was grim, this very question crossed my mind. Previous owners chain smoked inside, it's in everything. In the past 5 days we've gutted and cleaned, everything was sticky and yellow. Thankfully we have another 5 weeks cross over with our current rental. 

Irishpearce26

The thing is define clean. Ones interpretation of clean will be far different to another. As long as no junk was left then its a case of get those elbows deep. Not nice but that's house ownership.

We cleaned our house as best we could with boxes etc everywhere plus having a young child. The house we moved to was empty for a week and the previous owners did clean but it was lazy, dirty mop, ignored the oven etc. No big deal because you will always clean to your own standard.

Irishpearce26

Silvertabby said:

Ex Armed Forces married quarter occupant here.  If the house wasn't parade spotless when you moved out, you were fined (the cost of the cleaning bill).

Pity that wouldn't work on civvie street.

Of course but also the accommodation is heavily subsidised and they aren't usually under the same pressures of simultaneous completion.

Drawingaline

I clean as my job so I made sure the kitchen and bathrooms were done to how I leave a clients. I dusted skirting boards and made sure it was cobweb free.

However the actual move day was in Jan. It was raining, we had all four kids off school due to lockdown and we had to keep the two cats out of the way in the bathroom. Once I had dropped the keys off I had to take hubby, cats and two children to the new house then dash back to pick up the teens and cleaning stuff. Everywhere was hoovered and mopped, but it wasn't to a standard that I like, but we had no choice by then, it was no longer our house and we had to leave it as is.

House we bought had been empty for six months, so was dusty, but had obviously been left spotless when they left. 

Slinky

We moved to our current house several days before completion of the old one, as we were moving some distance I paid for a cleaner to go in and give it the once-over after we'd gone. Ours on the surface looked pretty clean, but my vaccuum was picking up long hairs which weren't ours for several weeks.

I recall somebody I worked with years ago did a house swap with somebody. My colleague cleaned hers to within an inch of its life, when she got to her new home, it was filthy, so she had to clean that one too, knowing that the dirty mare she had swapped with had moved into a nice clean home. And my colleague was heavily pregnant at the time.