How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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I moved into my new homeThe old lady who used to live there had died/gone to live in an old people's home/been abducted by aliens.
The house had been empty for some time and I attributed this as the cause of the musty smell which wouldn't go away. I moved in during November and sitting in the house shivering with all of the windows wide open for several days only brought temporary relief, the smell kept coming back.
First I tackled the bathroom, I threw out the carpet which was a bit piss-stained and scrubbed the floorboards and the toilet. The smell remained. The downstairs carpets were old and grubby so I replaced those, also the stair and landing carpets, I wasn't exactly rich and the bedroom carpets looked clean and quite new so I left them. Still the odour lingered. I gave a lick of paint to all of the walls and the woodwork but my house still stank.
I was now at the point where the only thing that I hadn't scrubbed/replaced/decorated were the bedroom carpets. They looked clean and quite new but I couldn't think what else to do so I moved my bed and furniture out of the way and peeled back the carpet in the main bedroom. There was a plastic sheet underneath between the carpet and the underlay. "Funny" I thought as I continued to pull the carpet towards the opposite wall. I kept going and revealed a puddle sitting in the middle of the plastic sheet, my eyes began to water as a blast of ammonia hit my face. It was a puddle of old dear wee and it was still wet. Somehow it had been trapped betwixt the carpet and the plastic sheet and hadn't evaporated. I had never noticed any damp probably because my bed had been placed directly over said puddle from the day I moved in. I think the relatives of the old biddy must have had the carpet cleaned as like I said previously, several times: it looked clean and quite new, there was no big crusty, pissy stain.
I carefully removed the old carpet, plastic sheet and underlay, scrubbed the bedroom floor, put down a new carpet and finally!
My house smelt good.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 17:05,
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