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6:11 pm

omg I don’t even know if I have the energy to move my fingers to type.

First I gotta question for all y’all. Have any of you hired a “move out” or “move in” cleaning service? If you have, how much were you charged?

I waaaaaaay undersold myself. I just charged my usual hourly rate. Yeah. I worked my fucking ass off. I should have gotten double, if not more.

Looking at google the price obviously varies. And of course it also varies by how big the house is. So I need to take a closer look at these places, ask how many square feet, and what they exactly expect from me. Then I’ll have to math. I hate having to math.

Learned my lesson today in that respect.

Remember the dog shit on the floor? Well there is a crawl space under the stairs. I knew I was going to have to get under there so I brought my flashlight. So I crawled in through cobwebs, and picked up I don’t know how many piles of dried up dog shit. It was a lot. I really feel bad for the dog that was locked down there. I really do.

So I did that, then awkwardly swept the crawl space. Lots of mouse shit, too. Then I dismantled the chewed up dog crate, dragged it up the stairs to the garage (huge crate. Wonder what kind of dog this was), Dragged this massive TV box full of trash (and maybe a dead body. It was heavy.) up stairs to the garage. Swept the laundry room, moving the washer and dryer, then poured water on some stuff that was stuck to the floor that wouldn’t sweep up. I let that sit and then went into the kitchen.

There are no words for that area either. Between the laundry room and the kitchen it took me three hours. THREE FUCKING HOURS. omg. If I got hungry, there were several dried up cherry tomatoes stuck in the back of the fridge. That fridge was nasty.

After I got the shelves of the fridge clean, I went back to the laundry room and scraped up what was stuck. Then mopped. While that was drying I tackled a microwave that hasn’t been cleaned in 10 years, the top of the stove that probably hasn’t been cleaned in that long, too. the oven wasn’t that bad on the inside, but the outside of the oven door… I don’t know how many times I wet it down, let it soak, wiped, soak again.

The counters were… gooey. Just… every inch was sticky.

Went back to the laundry room and sprinkled carpet refresher on the concrete and let it sit to get rid of the smell.

Hit the bathroom. The one down there wasn’t too bad.

Went into the hall bathroom.... ::sigh:: It was nasty, but not as nasty as the master bath. THAT one was gag worthy. And I didn’t have any bleach with me. The cleaner has bleach in it, but that tub needed to seriously soak in bleach water. When I go back I’m going to re-clean that one.

Tried to clean the ceiling fans. The fans were supposed to be white. You couldn’t see the white because of the dust. I used the swiffer to knock the dust off, but they were just plain dirty. As many times as I cleaned it (using my awesome degreaser that totally cleaned the oven) it just wouldn’t clean. It just smeared the dirt around. Went through several rags.

I sent the client a message about the wax I couldn’t get up, and about the fans. The only way you’re going to get them clean is if you take them off. There is no other way.

So because I couldn’t clean the way I want to clean I feel like I did a shitty job. ::sigh::

Saturday I meet with another guy who wants a move out clean, so I have to figure out a rate. I think I’m going to give him a call tomorrow to ask how big the place is so I can get a general idea.

omg I can’t type anymore.

I’ll catch up with you guys tomorrow.

See ya.