How clean do you leave your house?

[SweetHoneyBeeeeee]

We are part exing our lovely first house for a brand new grown up house closer to work and with room for babies . When we moved here it had to be gutted, completely replastered, new kitchen, new bathroom etc. It is now a lovely move into with no work first time buyers house. It was filthy when we moved in . Just been packing the kitchen and started to spray down and wipe out empty cupboards and dh looked at me like he thought I was mad. This is the norm surely? Not all day deep cleaning for the week before we go but at least clean bathroom, kitchen, cupboards wiped out and hoover run round? This is common courtesy yes? Obviously no one is moving straight away as the builder is looking to sell on...but someone will move in eventually and they won't want to move into a house that isn't clean right? Tell me I am not wasting my time - am I right and this is normal?

My house is pretty clean anyway, but yes I would do a proper clean before I moved out. Our house was filthy when we moved in and my goodness I did judge the people that had moved out!

Yes it's a common curtesy to clean the house. Your dh needs to pick up the duster!

Haha, thanks both. Our house is generally clean as well but the amount of dust created by packing boxes / tissue paper / clearing out loft and shed is unbelievable! I also judged when we moved in here Will give dh a kick

It depends! If they paid the asking price then really well. If they were appalling when they came round and really took the p* with the price and then dropped it at the last minute and cause you all sorts of aggro and then turn up demanding to be let in 3 hours early then not at all!

I'd definitely leave it sparkling.. (And have!)

There's nothing more disheartening than being excited and going into your new house to find it dirty.

I always leave a house ready to move into and unpack.

Sadly I am yet to move into one where the previous occupants have shown the same courtesy and I have moved 13 times.

BastardDog - yep me too!

We just completed, and got a lovely clean house and a bottle of wine . X

Oops, I put an X like that was a text message .

How very unMN.

Haha, don't worry I'll take the unMN kiss! I would have left it sparkling and with a bottle of fizz if the buyer hadn't pissed us about and cost us an extra few grand, as it is cupboards wiped and carpets hoovered will do

We moved in a week ago and the place was sparkling! With a bottle of champagne and a card!

FTB here so we will definitely do the same for when we move!

It doesn't matter how much you clean, the new people will always call you a scruffy twat. But yes I do the same anyway.

I cleaned when I left my last house and my family have too, we even.left them a letter telling them how to use stuff and things, my family moved into the new house and I dont think the cooker had ever been cleaned!

I expect to clean when I get to a house but thats because I like things particular, makes it a lot easier if you're just doing a surface clean rather than a deep clean against the movers lackeys you have putting boxes on things you're about to clean!

Hmm, we are also thinking of leaving a few bits for the next owners, like oil to treat the worktops, paint to touch up walls etc, is this an ok thing to do? If not we can bin it but seems a waste...we thought we would stick it all in a box plus manual for the cooker, boiler etc...the contract says the house has to be empty but seems silly to throw goods stuff away and we are not going to breed it at the new place. Any thoughts on this?

The people we bought from also left us a folder with useful info on where things were like metres, stopcock, etc. the folder also had info about bin collection days, manuals for all PpliNces, details of where the floors, kitchen, bathroom, boiler and conservatory were procured.

When we moved out, we went through each room as the removal men cleared it and gave it all a proper clean. I left a bottle of wine and some takeaway menus along with details about bin collections, stop cock etc. we also heft a couple of tins of paint in case they ever wanted to touch anything up. I thought it would be useful and would have been happy to receive the same.

The place we moved into was spotless but they had left a shed-full of paint, tiles and other things, which was a pain because we couldn't put anything in it till we'd cleared it. They may have thought they were being helpful, but it just felt like one more thing to do.

We've been left paint etc, and we're pleased.