AIBU to think that I'll be able to clean behind the packers / movers as we move out?

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Have done a fairly comprehensive clean this week, scrubbing most of the cupboards and chucking a lot of stuff out. We have packers coming one day, removals the next- AIBU to think I can just go round spraying/ bleaching / hoovering as they clear out each room?

We are only moving a short distance so no need to consider travel times, and planned to get cleaners in to do the new house before we get there. Am I being too ambitious do you think?

I think most people would clean the house they were selling. I scrubbed my kitchen to death in the full knowledge that the new owners were ripping it out straightaway.
My own vendors had kindly left me with grease-stained walls and a filth-encrusted cooker. There were icky bits dangling off the cooker hood, eeeew. Cheers, guys. They also had the cheek to ask if they could keep the keys to the garage for a couple of days after completion as they 'still had stuff in there'. Er, no. OP, your plans are a tiny bit OTT but by far the preferred extreme.

Another Army wife here... I do it the same as Soggy - and can also say it's definitely possible. Army March Out standard that we clean to is ridiculously high too (think cleaning INSIDE window frames, tops of doors, tops of light fittings, inside and behind radiators, no marks at all on walls, floors, ceilings, no hooks left in walls, all holes filled and painted, all curtains washed, ironed, rehung in pleats and clipped at the bottom, - and not a mark on your cooker or racks even if it's 20 years old and condemned lol)

We've done it loads of times - most people drive to their new house with kettle, cups etc in the car. Mine always has Dyson, Vax, mop and bucket and a vast array of cleaning products hehehe!

You'll be fine :)

Yes to squash/juice. The younger generation of removal men don't drink tea/coffee.

Your nice! When we moved in to our house, the owner had left a half assed note saying that unfortunately they had been too busy to clean as time had run away with them . We spent the first day dpi g an intensive deep clean - that included having to flush toilets with floating turds that they had been too busy to flush clearly.

I was absolutely disgusted. I think you should do a good clean in the week before YouTube and then a final vacuum/clean before you leave. There's no way you'll be able to get it all fine properly on the day. Just cleaning the fridge etc (if its included in the sale) will take an hour

Sorry - ignore typos but I have to correct "your" to " you're"

Oh heck, it won't be army standard. Have already done the oven though, so that's one less PITA job . It really is mainly cleaning behind furniture I can't get to now.

Just counted up and in the last year I have lived in 4 different houses (including a move to the shetland isles and back) so moving is more second nature to me.

But it really isn't that difficult and it will be very easy to clean as you go especially if you say it's just the behind furniture stuff you have left to do.

Good luck and enjoy your new home.