Mr. Clean

Posted in General by Cujo
January 2nd, 2006 - 10:2 PM

If anyone has been paying attention to Jes’ Blog we’ve been cleaning the house for the past 4 days getting the “yuck” out and also preparing it for the sanding and refinishing of the hardwood floors that her dad is going to do.

The cleaning was simply crazy. It honestly seemed like the people living there prior (renters) never cleaned the place and they were heavy smokers. It was simply disgusting. Some walls had to be washed 3 or 4 times just to see a “faded nicotine yellow” colour. The ceiling in the large living room had to be done twice.

The house is honestly looking 50 times better than when we bought it and all we did was clean which is pretty crazy. I can’t wait to see it when it’s done.

Now for some tips to homeowners to follow incase someone else intends to buy your house in the future:

  • If you smoke.. please clean your house SOMETIME.
  • If there’s giant smoke bubbles which looks like syrup on your ceilings, please clean your house.
  • If you have fans in your house and you can see a layer of “dust” or other grime on them, please clean your house.
  • Packing tape is used for packing. Not to hang posters on the wall or carpet to HARDWOOD FLOORS.
  • Hardwood floors are nice, don’t fuck them up by taping carpet to them
  • If you’ve installed a stick to the wall “air freshner” in the late 80s chances are in the mid 2000s that it isn’t useful anymore.

I’m sure there’s more but those seem to be the main complaints that I contiually had throughout the weekend. So yuck, so nasty.

The good part is (I guess) our ceiling looks somewhat white again which definitely made that part of the house look a lot better than the nicotine yellow colour it was.

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One Response to “Mr. Clean”

  1. Jes Says:
    January 2nd, 2006 at 11:00 pm

    Here are some additioal rules:
    -Blow out your candles before they leave giant wax puddles on the hardwood floors
    -Flush your toilet if you sell your house (to avoid the new owner being welcomed with a bowl of piss)
    -Put your stickers on books and binders and pieces of paper, not on the back of doors
    -Install a doorbell that doesn’t sound like death
    -Wear glasses when picking out linoleum, or bring someone that isn’t blind like yourself
    -Try not to kick out the glass to the front door on your way out