The vendors of the house we are buying have SEVEN indoor long-haired cats plus the house is around 450 years old and other than the kitchen and bathrooms is pretty medieval looking still so no easy to clean bits (all the floors are original oak boards so at least no carpets to deal with).
The place is pretty filthy (old dried cat shit in cupboards) and the smell is unbelievable.
To top it all off, DH is severely allergic to cats.
Somewhere underneath it all is a lovely house.
It will no doubt take months to completely de-catify, but we'd like to kick-start the process by hiring one of those crack-den/murder scene clean-up squads to come in and do what they can.
Has anyone done one of those? Do you get them to work round the removal boxes? Is it v v expensive (in SE England).
Our vendors are moving abroad, so there is the chance that the property will be empty before completion date. Is it normally possible to arrange for a company to go in and scrub the place before you have the keys in your hands?