Advie pleeeease for housework idiot: cleaning behind fridges, cookers etc

[madamez]

How do you pull the things out? And do you have to swtich them off at the mains first? ANd how often do most people do this?

(mutter mutter, hate housework, but have got to purge everything because of farking mice.)

you have to clean behind these things?

Just literally pull. Hold on tight, and sock your weight into it. You won't need to unplug unless the lead is very short.

I do this occasionally.

If pulling doesn't work, sort of wobble them out. A bit to one side, a bit to the next.

I would never shift the cooker unless necessary (though mouse crap would count as necessary)

Fridge get shifted to wipe up drips cos I'm too effing lazy to fix it.

Occasionally is more than good enough for me. But there are mice so it's obviously got to be done at least once till the horrible furry enemies are dead.

Hmmm, how often, well the fridge, when ever something falls down behind it and I get the crud on my fingers.
The Cooker, Hmmmm, When we move house and I use industrial cleaner with a scraper.

the washing machine when the kitchen flooded and we had to pull it out.

the fridge when it was being repaired and the workmen had pulled it out.
(said, ooh, while it's there....)

and er, that's been about it for the last two years.

Washing machine - when we move / get a new one

Fridge - as above

Cooker - once a month - gas, but just pull out as it's got a long hose thing.

Isn't fairy liquid on the floor meant to help with pulling out?

A machine-fixing man once showed me a trick an elderly lady showed him: spray some furniture polish on your kitchen floor at the front of the appliance first and it slides out no problem.

In the interests of health and safety, don't forget to clean the floor afterwards or you will be like Bambi on ice.

I used to clean for an elderly lady who had me wax (beeswax at that) her kitchen floor (lino) twice a week. It was bloody leathal, but dead easy to clean.

You can buy 'appliance rollers' that go under your heavy appliances so you can wheel them in and out easily. I have bought a new fridge which comes on casters(sp?) rather than clean under the old one