Here is the update from this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/comments/1wsli84/brother_lived_in_this_room_for_10_years_then/

This is roughly an entire week, 40 plus hours of sanitizing and cleaning. I sanitized everything there was to sanitize, scrubbed all there was to scrub and used wood bleach on the floor to (unsuccessfully) remove the stains.

Its not perfect but I'm damn proud of the results.

**Update: **

A lot of you have asked if he's going to move back in (or attempt to) and the answer is no.

I've also changed the lock on the door to a key only I have, on the slim possibility he did try and get back in, he's not!

I woke up at 1am cuz my stomach was rumbling so i decided to heat up some frozen food but my brain forgot it's an oven not the microwave and now theres melted plastic everywhere 😭

Hi everyone,
Moved into a pre war apartment in NYC. I received the apartment in disgusting conditions. Not clean, stove sparking (separate issue), not painted. I’m pretty pissed lol but anyway! I really want to focus on this bathroom floor. The previous tenants were there for 10 years and I don’t think they cleaned once with how disgusting and stained the floor is among other things found in the apartment.
Does anyone have any tips to clean this floor? I’m tempted to do peel and stick tile to cover but I know that may cause mold.

So far I have tried

- Peroxide Baking soda paste
-bar keepers friend powder
- bar keepers liquid solution
-bleach

Thank you so much

A few months ago I purchased a 1700 square foot home. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. I have 4 cats, 2 cockatiels, and 2 small dogs. I also work full time. Usually 50-65 hours a week.

The extra space is awesome for the pets. It's just a lot harder to keep clean. I decided to make a deep cleaning schedule with daily, weekly, and bi weekly tasks. I'm going to do one weekly and 1 biweekly task every day and see if I can keep the house clean this way. Do you guys think I can keep up on this? Or am I going to burn myself out, stop cleaning for 2 months, and then have to burn down my new house because it got so dirty?

Anything I'm missing? I basically want to be guest ready every single day. My elderly grandmother is going to be moving in with me in the spring so I also want to get in the habit of keeping everything super clean now. The goal is to spend under an hour every day cleaning.

Biweekly

Clean the microwave and descale all pet dishes if needed

Clean the baseboards in kitchen and living room

Clean the kitchen cabinets

Clean the bathroom cabinets

Deep clean the mudroom

Clean all window sills

Clean kitchen island and lights

Scrub all showers

Clean wash and dryer and surrounding area

Clean TV stand and living room shelves and tables

Clean living room furniture

Vacuum and wipe down staircase

Spot clean the carpet

Wipe out cabinets and drawers

Once a week

Clean the front of all kitchen appliances

Clean and sanitize the kitchen sink and surrounding counters

Sweep and mop downstairs

Vacuum downstairs

Wipe down all toilets and bathroom sinks and mirrors

Wash bathroom rugs

Wash a load of pet stuff and human bedding

Daily Morning

Spot clean the bird cage and change the paper

Brush Luna

Vacuum if needed

Wipe off the sinks

Daily Night

Load the dishwasher

Spot clean the mudroom

Brush dog/ cat teeth

Had a difficult time getting decent pictures of this design for some reason . But enjoy!

I was told it was in the trunk in a shed for the last 50 years. I was able to purchase it for $10 and took it home. It stinks of nicotine and fuel. I have given three borax baths. It is now sitting outside in the rain and still reeks. Any ideas on how to get rid of the smell?

I'll start. I really dislike cleaning the windowsill. Also I hate cleaning the inside windows. The water everywhere and dirty water in my windowsill gives me so much dread that it gets done once a year. Please advice.

Hello! For the past week, there has been a buildup of fruit flies. They usually hang around the kitchen area by the sink but never in the drain. Just hovering over the faucet and anything nearby. I have put up several traps including the infamous apple cider vinegar and dish soap as well as buying the Terro apple. With the ACV + dish soap, i put it in a little container, cover with saran wrap and poke little holes for the flies to enter. The little apple has worked slightly. But there is no solution that has actually gotten rid of the problem. Where did I go wrong? What has actually worked for you guys? Are they a new breed of fruit flies out there that are "allergic" (for a lack of a better term) to the apple cider vinegar?

I live in a 1700 sf condo 2/2 and I like football. Ok folks, I clean during commercials. Between college and pro I can get everything done.

MNF laundry/change sheets

TNF bathrooms

Sat dusting and floors/ vac

Sun kitchen cupboards, ss appliances

Once/mo. Clean fridge.

It's unreal how much I can get done during commercials. I liked the cleaners I had but with the economy I had to adjust my budget. No animals.

I’m tired of sweeping everyday, I feel like (not only feel—it’s actually true) there’s so much dust, and hair, and just idk. And every time I broom, there’s so much.
I’m doing it everyday and I hate seeing floors dirty.
So please help?

Anyway to maintain it
I’m thinking of investing in a robo vacuum.

Fyi: it’s just me and my husband and no pets. Also we live in Canada and it’s not a huge space and even then it gets so dirty that it irks me
We don’t wear shoes in our house, only home slippers. Drives me nuts really.

I love walking around barefoot at home. I recently got a robot vacuum and have been letting it run daily, which has been nice.

What's your usual floor-cleaning routine if you walk barefoot at home? Do you have any tricks for keeping the floors feeling clean? Do you just clean more often, or eventually give up and start wearing slippers?

Help! I made this necklace for my costume and the chain I used tarnished super bad. It's a cheap chain. Is it possible to clean? I have tried dish soap and a soft toothbrush but it's not making progress. I only have a few hours! No time to replace the chain

i've just gotten over the flu which wiped me out so hard i was bedridden for two weeks, and now i have all my veggies rotting away in stainless steel containers. i've looked it up and it seems stainless steel will be fine with a good scrub and hot water but what about the lids? can i keep them if they haven't touched the mouldy food directly? how should i clean them (will a bleach bath be enough)

thank you guys

My husband and I have just bought our first house. It's wonderful, but the previous owner had three large dogs, and the entire place reeks of them. We're wondering how to get rid of the odor.

There are no furnishings. There are no carpets. The floors are laminated wood and paving tiles. The walls throughout show stains from dogs wagging against them. There's no evidence of urine, the whole house just smells strongly of Dog.

We're cat people, and our cat is extremely skittish and is certainly not going to be thrilled.

We plan to have most rooms repainted before we move in (a couple need to wait for an infusion of cash to come next year because we're making changes to the existing kitchen and converting a storage room). I'm not sure the paint will be enough.

I believe it has been professionally cleaned already, so I really don't know what the next step should be. My husband deployed air fresheners throughout when he visited this weekend, bbut I know those will be of limited use.

Any suggestions would be welcome. My parents had a dog when I was a kid, but he actually got washed regularly and the smell wasn't like this. I'm at a loss.

I have what I think is vinyl flooring and the suction cups from the treadmill made these…

How can I remove them? I tried bar keepers friend and a mixture of water, soap, hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. Please help!

1-2 years ago, I had a bunch of my stuff contaminated with mouse urine and poop, some of this stuff is very difficult to disinfect, and I'm really struggling to get it done. Poop is easy to see, but the urine blends in often, so it's not always easy to see what's actually contaminated, so I just assume it's all contaminated. Before you comment it, no I'm not just gonna throw it all out, throwing stuff out is easy, but things cost effort to regain, some of these items are very hard to part with for various reasons.

My goto disinfector is bleach, but that's too aggressive for certain things (such as electronics, anything on paper, dvds, books, etc), and leaves behind residue that I may not be able to easily remove. On items that bleach is a bad idea for, I thought about using isopropyl alcohol sometimes (on electronics for example), but I don't think that's able to kill all the pathogens that mice carry.

On a side-note, is it possible that it's been long enough that most pathogens are dead by natural causes?

Also I'm concerned about unwanted chemical reactions between the disinfectors and the items, which could leave behind toxins. I'm also concerned about remaining residues from the disinfectors and how toxic those might be.

So the next best thing I can think of, is to throw all the stuff in a gas chamber and hit it with ozone gas for a bit. That's alot easier and simpler, but I don't know the pros and cons of that, or how destructive it might be to some items. AFAIK ozone won't leave residue, but I assume it still has the risk of creating unwanted chemical reactions.

TBH I just want to find a place I can take all this stuff to hit it with high energy radiation. Some kind of gamma irradiator, or electron beam sterilizer, something like that. If such a solution was available, it could resolve this crisis in no time at all, with minimal side effects. This is the silver-bullet solution, no toxic residues, no time-consuming disinfection processes that may or may not damage items. But that's probably an out-of-reach solution... is it?

In-case it's relevant, I live in the US.

So i was gifted this vintage Balenciaga bag from a friend, but the catch was this damn leather has a stain from spilled vape juice made with vegetable glycerine. First pic has stain circled on the darker leather.

My friend said she tried a few things to remove the stain but eventually gave up. Honestly I still love this bag, but if any miracle workers out there have a solution I’d love to hear it.

Doing an all-over dye is a last resort at this stage, the white stitching is cotton though so that would need to be considered..

The first 2 pics show the ink stains that were on this purse when I purchased it off of Depop. The last 3 are it now. Took a long time to slowly get these stains out. I used angelous easy cleaner to do it. It took almost a month and a lot of patience on my part to get it cleaned and I wanted to show it off because I'm rather proud of the results. 💜

Hi

How do i safely use hydrogen peroxide 3% to clean?

Including the following:

- Clothes

-carpet

- can I use it for drains or is boiling water better?

Thanks

Hello! I really need help, I moved here in 2020 and for the past year after that, my place would have lots of spiders, as in, I found them hiding among old furniture and items that needed to be thrown out. I went online to get help, and read that lavender essential oils on walls and surfaces work, sadly it never did.

So, because of that, every wall in my apartment is overly covered in essential oil stains :( It wasn't until 2 years ago, that I decided it was time to find a way to remove the oil stains, I was dealing with severe depression, so it is also a factor in me not pursuing help sooner. I tried dish soap, and baking soda, and even tried to use 90% rubbing alcohol on the walls, nothing worked. So, I am here to ask for help in solving this issue. I feel really awful that I used that method to get rid of spiders, but I had to, due to having an overly fear of spiders, the anxiety was so bad, I had to get on medication to help my anxiety.

Anything outside of having to have all the walls repainted, and I can't ask my landlord, so I went to reddit for help. Is there anything that can deeply penetrate the oils on the wall?

Please help!

I bought this beige bouclé couch off FB marketplace, i’ve been cleaning it with a Bissel for two days, but progress has been slow. Any tips on how to clean / revive the color?

We've got hard water and 50's vintage ceramic tile and tub. I was thinking blue Dawn, but should I be diluting it? Mixing it with something else? What's your favorite solution?