House cleaning

mare54 · ‎08-14-2011

I recently did a remodel and there is dust everywhere. SO I’m treating myself by having someone come in and deep clean my house. Never had it done before. Feels weird not to be helping. I could get use to this. 🤣

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

Right now a handyman is in our kitchen putting in a new counter and sink. Next week he will remove some carpeting in our hall and replace it with laminate. Unfortunately, I'll be doing the clean up.

LexPex · ‎03-29-2010

We built a new home two years ago and the contractor hired a cleaning company that specialized in cleaning newly built homes and condos since there was construcion ****** all of the place.

Before we sold our other home, we hired profession cleaners to get our place in perfect ready to sell condition.

Wish I could afford to hire cleaners but my DH and I clean

mare54 · ‎08-14-2011

We’re empty nesters now so we clean as well. But I had 4 daughters and they all learned to clean!

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

Remodeling is such a messy business!

When I'm having work done, I try to anticipate what all will be affected, and remove as much stuff to other rooms, cover furniture with sheets or new tarps, shut the doors to rooms in other places in the house (as dust really travels!) and even hang plastic in big open entry/doorways that don't have doors.

A little pre planning will make it easier to clean up, and not get everything dirty.

Nice idea to have someone come in and do the initial clean up. Be sure to supervise or plan on getting in the cracks and crevices, nooks and crannies after they leave, because I've never seen professional cleaners that get as 'down and dirty' as I can!

pattypeep · ‎06-06-2011

@mare54 Good for you !! I fully support spoiling ourselves as we can afford it. We have a really large yard and my dh recently said he wanted to hire the mowing done. So, we do. We don't want to move and decided many years ago that as we aged we would hire some of our work out. Go for it, girl !!

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea-Robert A. Heinlein

mare54 · ‎08-14-2011

@pattypeep that is one thing we do too! Again when our girls were home, they did yard work with their dad. We live in a fairly well do to suburb of Houston. Most people have their yards done by professionals. When our daughters friends found out they did yard work, they couldn’t believe it. A few of them still love to do it now that they have homes of their own. Doing yard work in Texas heat in the summer is brutal! We’re too old for it. Haha. I will do my own housework however.

mare54 · ‎08-14-2011

@Mominohio I thought my contractor would do that, he didn’t. I had dust everywhere. He said he would clean it, but there were other issues so I was just glad to get it done. We just updated one of our bathrooms.