Context here:
Okay. I'm renting a house and it's my landlords' first time renting. The house was built 8 years ago and had one set of owners. Landlords didn't get it professionally cleaned before we moved in. Big mistake. I like the house (we aren't buying since we're just here for 2 years) but just...I'm getting frustrated.
Things I'm not sure have ever been cleaned since the house was built:
Windows. Seriously, I spent hours cleaning the windows to get the grime off. I know I missed a lot, so I'll probably circle back to those once I get the rest of the house looking a little better.
Blinds. We have crappy 1" mini-blinds that have never been dusted. The dust has turned to grime and won't wipe off. We actually convinced the landlords to pay to replace all of them but haven't gotten them installed...yet. 8 years of dust. Ugh.
Baseboards, at least in the master bedroom/bathroom. The baseboards are an off-white color...now. I went after them with window cleaner and rags yesterday and again today with Clorox wipes.
Tops of doors/door frames. Also, the inset panelling in the doors. I really don't get why every door made has to have those stupid inset rectangles that just catch dust in the inset thingies.
The edges of the carpets. The carpets weren't installed right in any of the bedrooms (rest of the houe is carpet-free, thankfully!) so they aren't stretched flat. This means that at the edges of the rooms the carpets suddenly plunge downward to go under the baseboards...so a normal vacuum cleaner can't get dust around the edges. I'm going to have to pull the shop-vac out of the shed and get all of those parts when I have someone to help with the infant who is terrified of the shop-vac.
The shower surround and jacuzzi tub. I got the red grime out of the Jacuzzi ports in the tub and a lot of the black mildew stuff but I don't have any mold/mildew spray right now so the rest will have to wait. But the part that was the worst for me was on/under the soap dish things on the shower surround. You know, the textured areas on the shelves for bar soap? Yeah. There were soap stalactites forming below those shelves and in the textured areas there was still bar soap residue! Maybe it's just me but why would you use bar soap knowing that every time it gets hit with water in the shower little bits of soap will flow off of the bar and end up depositing elsewhere in the shower? SO GROSS.
The top of the light fixture in the bathroom. The light is one of those shiny panels with 8 globe bulbs on it. I pulled almost a quarter inch of dust off of the top of that panel.
The water intake hose and shutoff valve for the toilet. 8 years of toilet paper dust sitting on that thing. So much dust.
So, please, make me feel better about this house I'm living in with stories about places you've lived or cleaned. Or, if you have any other places I should look before I finish the deep clean and move into the normal maintenance cleaning routine I have...please let me know.