A Pre-move Scrub-up of My Apartment, My Oven, and Myself
posted on 15 August 2011 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
There's nothing like having to clean up before moving house, except having to clean up before moving to a house in a different country. I've done a lot of professional cleaning jobs in my life - from tank cleaning services to pressure washing pathways, but it's house moving that I find the toughest sort of cleaning jobs - let me give you one example.
I had been living abroad for five years, and now it was time to return to my native land but first, I had to clean out my apartment. It's not that I'm particularly messy, or dirty, but it's funny how stuff builds up. There were those corners of the closet that seemed to have obtained an incredible amount of dust in a couple of years. There was the floor underneath the refrigerator, that I kept thinking I needed to get around to cleaning, but hadn't quite made it to. And then there was the stove. The oven alone took me two days of scrubbing, with liberal application of baking soda and vinegar, before I could even consider it close to being in the condition I'd started in. I emerged from that first day of cleaning covered in grime, swearing that I was never going to cook anything in an oven ever again. In any case, before I did any more cooking, I was going to have to scrub myself off in the shower!
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