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| Sun room cabinets |
We just bought my MIL a trailer, in the 55+ park,
down the hill from us. As she has expressed a desire to nEver live through another Chicago winter!
Its
a basic trailer nicely laid out with a sun room in the front, moving
into the kitchen to the living room down a hall with, 2 bedrooms and a
bath. A nice little cozy nest, for an 87+ year old lady, to putter in.
Close to shops/doctors and transit to get around or us to drive her and it puts her a mere mile away instead of the 2010, in case
she needs us.
The trailer park is snuggled into a nice wooded space, with manicured walks between trailers and a waterfall! Very pretty and very clean. I've even met a few of the neighbors, in the process of cleaning up. I think Mom will like it here.
*WARNING!*
*RANT IN PROGRESS!*
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| Kitchen cleaning in progress |
My youngest DD and I have spent the better part of 5 days cleaning the sucker out.
Bless her fuzzy little soul, for helping out with her step-grannies new place.
The
husband/wife we bought the trailer from, seem to have never heard of the
concept of cleaning under/around/behind things, or in fact to have ever moved anything TO clean.
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| DD#2 washing walls and a wood stove! |
Not that they left much behind except a few things scattered in random drawers, which you would expect, the dirt on
the walls, shelves and that old "cooked chicken" smell, in the
fridge, which I didn't.
Owing to the assiduousness with which the wife sprayed fabreez EVERYWHERE.
I now understand why. *deep sigh*
How does one get rid of thAt smell?
That smelly, smell. That smells,.........smelly.
ugh.
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| View from the hall |
Though It took most of the day the Fridge is now clean and free of the crusted on dry "stuff" that was under/between the holders for the glass shelves. Yeccchhh!
Then there was the christmas wrapping paper and in one case, part of an
old pick-nick cloth, with the fuzzy side elmers glued to the shelves!
The
stovehood has been HOT GLUED o0! in places,
there is that expanding foamy stuff under both the kitchen and bathroom sinks
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| Oh! your taking the picture now? Really? |
and the "new" shower surround has been repaired with caulk. o.0!
I expected a degree of deep cleaning was gong to be in order and a bit of things that need to be fixed, It is a 45 year old trailer after all.
But not having to scrub down the walls/ceiling of the cruft of years!
You know your in trouble, when the walls change color as you clean.
When the pine-sol your using makes runnels that are a different shade of grey from the one you are currently working on, Eeeeew!
Did I mention they had 2 yappy dogs and a parakeet? No? Well they left us Something too in the way of a few feathers and enough dog hair, dug so deep into the carpet and the rugs they left behind, to make another dog.
ThAnk goodness for the rug cleaner we got, years ago, to tackle the 20 year old carpeting in our own house!
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| Bedroom #1 small |
I used 2 bottles of carpet cleaner on what amounts to 4 rooms of carpeting.
And I still have to vacuum one more time, to get rid of the dog balls left behind by the carpet cleaner.
This all amounts to what my
Ex-hubbs used to call "Turkey-bird" engineering and has me muttering
dire things under my breath.
All that being said, It's still a very nice trailer.
I would live in it.
Having had to clean a myriad of apartments in Chicago before moving into them this one was a 3. On a scale of, 1 being very clean to 5 being, OMG! fuck you people!
So all in al not too bad.
Sorry for the rant but I needed to vent,
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| Bedroom #2 |
or I'd explode all over someone who, probably won't deserve it.
This is when you start sizing up all the things you don't "get
around to"at home and just how much does it bother you that you've never
cleaned behind/around/under that?
I have come to the conclusion that other peoples dirt bothers me way more than mine
and Id rather sew.
