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Nov. 24th, 2011 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supermouseI got up at 4am this morning. Then I hoovered and wiped down the whole house. It had been done before, but since then things had been moved out and cleaned. Hoovering, as ever, made bugger all difference to the horrible, fluff-clinging, dust-holding light-tan-cum-dark-grey carpet (originally a pleasant but horribly easy-to-mark light tan). Having done that, I jetwashed all of the slabs in the back garden, if only to get off the puddles of gooey cat litter left over from moving out. The back garden, before I washed it, looked as though someone had eaten a large bag of porridge oats and then been terribly, terribly ill.
I then packed up all my camping gear and camped out in the kitchen. ChemClean (of Bolton) came to clean the horrible carpeting (the same carpeting throughout the house). They looked it over and told me, quite frankly, that it would be a miracle if their system could clean it without ruining it - the carpet was loose-laid without any grippers, and can thus ripple and warp. I told them to do the worst one anyway, since it was a write-off.
They did a brilliant, brilliant job. There are some pale marks, but no more than three years of 'wear and tear' will allow for. For the most part, the carpet is immaculate. The only problems are where the cats tore at the carpet around the doors. Most carpets I've lived with can cope with this, but the tan carpet frayed immediately. Horrible stuff.
So, now I am DONE with that house. Done with scrubbing every hidden bit of it. The jetwashing also got me back in practice for doing this house - the back decking rather urgently wants to be sprayed and creosoted (well, equivalent, since we have cats). And the lawn needs raked and mowed. I have gardening to do!
The only blight on my life right now is the fact that some of my things are STILL locked in the Delica from several days ago.
And so to bed.
I then packed up all my camping gear and camped out in the kitchen. ChemClean (of Bolton) came to clean the horrible carpeting (the same carpeting throughout the house). They looked it over and told me, quite frankly, that it would be a miracle if their system could clean it without ruining it - the carpet was loose-laid without any grippers, and can thus ripple and warp. I told them to do the worst one anyway, since it was a write-off.
They did a brilliant, brilliant job. There are some pale marks, but no more than three years of 'wear and tear' will allow for. For the most part, the carpet is immaculate. The only problems are where the cats tore at the carpet around the doors. Most carpets I've lived with can cope with this, but the tan carpet frayed immediately. Horrible stuff.
So, now I am DONE with that house. Done with scrubbing every hidden bit of it. The jetwashing also got me back in practice for doing this house - the back decking rather urgently wants to be sprayed and creosoted (well, equivalent, since we have cats). And the lawn needs raked and mowed. I have gardening to do!
The only blight on my life right now is the fact that some of my things are STILL locked in the Delica from several days ago.
And so to bed.
