You already know what they say about moving house
Posted by Vincent on Saturday, May 29, 2010
Under: Cleaning
Scrubbing your range tops is going to use a heck of a lot of degreaser
It always appears that you have more stuff than you remember when you have to place it all into a truck and drive it away. When I first moved into my small house, it only took me one trip, and I was done . Three years later, two trips with a U-haul along with a few more trips with the brother in laws Nissan, we still have enough garbage left to fill up the dumpster outside. How did I acquire so much junk over the past three years? It is not like we went to IKEA or to garage sales every two weeks. I am amazed by the way all this junk seemed to increase over a short space of time.
After all that challenging work, there is still all the cleaning up I had to do in order to get back my security deposit back. I am also amazed at how dirty everything seemed now the clutter had been cleared away. There were grease stains on the carpet from my bike, very small little nail holes in the dry wall that needed filling in, mildew on the tiles and around the taps in the bathroom and the kitchen. I don't even want to mention those little drip pans that were caked with grease from three years worth of dinners
My theory on ovens was that they are all sort of self cleaning. I figured if I turned the burner on blast and let it burn long and hot enough, that it would magically incinerate all the muck beneath it. How wrong was I? In fact, apparently the longer you go without cleaning those drip pans, the more impossible they become to clean. I tried soaking them in heavy duty degreaser overnight. It kind of made it easier to clean, but not to my satisfaction, only removing about one year's worth of crud off. I really should just have bought new ones.
It always appears that you have more stuff than you remember when you have to place it all into a truck and drive it away. When I first moved into my small house, it only took me one trip, and I was done . Three years later, two trips with a U-haul along with a few more trips with the brother in laws Nissan, we still have enough garbage left to fill up the dumpster outside. How did I acquire so much junk over the past three years? It is not like we went to IKEA or to garage sales every two weeks. I am amazed by the way all this junk seemed to increase over a short space of time.
After all that challenging work, there is still all the cleaning up I had to do in order to get back my security deposit back. I am also amazed at how dirty everything seemed now the clutter had been cleared away. There were grease stains on the carpet from my bike, very small little nail holes in the dry wall that needed filling in, mildew on the tiles and around the taps in the bathroom and the kitchen. I don't even want to mention those little drip pans that were caked with grease from three years worth of dinners
My theory on ovens was that they are all sort of self cleaning. I figured if I turned the burner on blast and let it burn long and hot enough, that it would magically incinerate all the muck beneath it. How wrong was I? In fact, apparently the longer you go without cleaning those drip pans, the more impossible they become to clean. I tried soaking them in heavy duty degreaser overnight. It kind of made it easier to clean, but not to my satisfaction, only removing about one year's worth of crud off. I really should just have bought new ones.
In : Cleaning