Geez...4 freakin' hours to clean the bathroom....

[BiggJawn]

OK, so I let it go too long.

Well, that included washing the lightbulbs and taking the vent fan apart to clean/lube it, too...

Martha doesn't live here, I do.

[MercutioATC]

1. Ok...washing lightbulbs???? I'm lucky if I replace them when they die...

This is either really impressive or really scary. I can't decide which.

;)

[madmax]

2. Wow BiggJawn do you know how many woman

would luv to have a guy like you ;) I'm lucky mine remembers to put the seat down! Cleaning the light bulbs and the vents. Now that's what I call CLEANING!

[BiggJawn]

13. Yeah, NONE!

Like I said, I let it go too long. There were dust bunnies hamging by their ears from the exhaust and the 100W bulbs were putting out 40 Watt's worth of light.

[mitchtv]

3. and when will you be arriving in So Cal?

never cleaned the ceiling fan before.

[bubblesby2002]

4. I admire your stick-to-it-iveness

and that bathroom must be sparkling, and huge too.

[ironflange]

5. How long has it been?!?!?

Though I'm a fine one to ask, sometimes it takes me about 4 hours just to do the litter boxes.

:puke:

[BiggJawn]

14. Oh, it's been a while....I kound tampons on the shelf.

And my daughter moved out 3 years ago.

But that was the top shelf, which even 6'4" me needs a step-etool to reach....

[lovedems]

6. Hey, that's a cake walk

I have 4 boys, a husband and a cat and dog that drink out of the toilet! (They have water bowls so don't ask me!)

My boys are 7,6,5, & 3. We have lived in our house for 7 years and they still don't know where the "toilet is" (or the hamper, or the garbage can, or the toy box....)

[Redneck Socialist]

7. 4 boys and a husband that drink out of the toilet?

You really need to do something about that. Try keeping the lid down.

[lovedems]

9. I try!

We have excellent drinking water in our city too! I told you they all had water bowls! They just can't make it easy! :)

[freestatevet]

18. Wow!

Four boys from 3-7! You need to get cable fast!

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. No way?

4 hrs? You're kidding, right? How big is your bathroom? Nevermind that, how big is your vent fan? Did ya have to manufacture the grease to lube your vent fan?

[put out]

10. My method of cleaning a small bathroom in 4 hours.

Go in. Then leave and pour a cup of tea.

Return. Gather all soiled clothing, bathroom carpet doo-dads, towels, washcloths, empty shampoo containers, empty toilet paper rolls, and fill the grunge can with other things which you do not want to touch. Then leave and pour a cup of tea.

After you have decided what you will wash and what you leave in the grunge can, return. Pour toxic chemicals into the toilet and put the lid down. Spray toxic chemicals onto the mirror and sink. Use a solution of 10:1 water:bleach on all contaminated surfaces. This includes almost everything. It takes 10 minutes to kill viruses, so go have a libation of your choice.

Return, and notice that there is no toilet paper, no soap, no shampoo, and no clean razors. No wonder everyone smells funky. Replace the toilet paper, shampoo, razors and soap. By now, you are washing the carpet doo-dads and towels and washcloths. This will take a while. Go have a libation of your choice.

Return, and be temporarily overcome by the fumes. Note, do not mix bleach and ammonia (Wind ex) and I am not kidding. Open a window. Go find paper towels. Realize in a hurry that they fall apart, so go get the grunge can. But you need to empty that first. So do that, then try to find some good cleaning rags. But don't find the ones used to polish furniture. Now you have smeared greasy polish over bathroom surfaces. Curse. Go have a libation of your choice.

Return with the Windex. Work diligently to wipe the grease and paper remnants from the mirror, faucets, and counter. Go have a libation of your choice.

Return. Realize you should probably have started with the floor. Find the broom. It is in the garage with the beer. Sweep. Or vacuum. The vacuum bag is full. Do not now drive to three different places looking for new vacuum bags. Just sweep the stuff where nobody will notice for a few hours. Then, wipe up the unmentionable stuff. Go have a libation of your choice.

Return. Take a look at the toilet, where you have poured toxic substances. It can't be any worse, but still try not to breath much. Close your eyes, and just wipe it out. Don't forget the sides and top of the tank, nor the base. Change the bathroom laundry from the washer to the dryer. Don't forget to put a dryer sheet in so the towels and stuff will be soft and absorbent. Go have a libation of your choice.

Return. The tub is a mess, but you may have damaged your brain already from the toxic chemicals. If you are, however, intent on doing a thorough job, use everything you can get your hands on to clean up this "holding pond" everyone is calling the bathtub. If I had to use it, I'd be standing on one leg like a pelican. Never mind. If you are being thorough, the bleach should make it easier to use a toothbrush to clean the grout. It will take a more abrasive cleaner to get the grunge off the bottom. Of the tub, I mean. By this time, you should put your clothing in the fireplace, along with the clean rags you found. Go have a libation of your choice.

Get the bathroom doo-dads out of the dryer. Replace them. Get a clean towel. Take a bath. Bring a libation of your choice.

Live there. Forbid all interlopers from entry. That is all.

Four hours is not seeming like much to me.

[populistmom]

11. Do you have boys?

Mine seem to have perpetual issues with dribbing. (And one is in potty training mode). Not pleasant for us bathroom cleaners.

[BiggJawn]

15. I'm an empty-nester.

And not as young as I used to be....

[Interrobang]

12. It took me two and a half to do mine...

I don't have a very big bathroom, but when I pulled the cat's litter box away from the wall, I discovered that some water had leaked in behind there, mixed with some dirty kitty litter, and there was funky, uriney-smelling stuff clumping (growing?) on the floor/baseboard in the corner there. I also had to wash it down by hand, then spray it a couple of times with Clorox spray to kill the smell. I also had to scrub all the friggin annoying little corners (my bathroom is *not* a nice regular square) by hand -- I couldn't believe how much cat hair there was on my sponge! Plus, I was cleaning all my pretty woodwork (dark-stained Edwardian vintage "mock oak"), so I had to wash the door with Murphy Oil Soap.

My bathtub also takes a dog's age to clean, because not only is it a clawfoot, but it has a wooden surround on it that someone patched inexpertly with regular caulking that gets tremendously mildewy very fast (and I'm allergic to mould), so two scrubs and then rinse, then another big spray of Clorox (then open the window at the faucet end -- pebbled glass! -- to clear the air!!), bleah.

[arwalden]

16. Joan Crawford Would Be So Proud Of You!!

Scrub, Tina, SCRUB! Clean up this MESS! I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the DIRT!

-- Joan

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Let me give you some great advice for cleaning:

Clorox bleach products ROCK. Lysol helps crap grow. We did this really fun experiment in Biology that proved this, and it was not pretty. So, clorox Bleach for everything...and after you get everything clean, spray some of that Clorox tephlon stuff on and clean it a little again...It'll help repell dirt. Again, Clorox good, Lysol bad. That is all. LOL
Duckie

[Bertha Venation]

19. Any tips for my family back home? You see...

They're taking Grandma to Quaker Gardens tomorrow. Grandma's 87 and suffering from increasingly severe dementia. She hasn't cleaned the house in probably at least five years, maybe longer.

After the exterminator's tent is removed and the house fumigated, the carpets and drapes will be ripped out. After that . . . . ????

[BiggJawn]

20. did she own cats?

If so, out comes the flooring AND the plaster...

[Bertha Venation]

21. Yes, Kitty.

Kitty's a girl, though, so I think the walls are safe. Yes, they're pulling up all flooring, right down to the concrete, and they might have to do something to the concrete, too.

My sister Chette is moving in, but not for a few weeks. I told her she might need a chisel in the bathroom.

[BiggJawn]

23. May need a sealer on ther concrete at the minimum...

Let the pros handles it...

[Ellen Forradalom]

22. Oh, it was YOU who cleaned our bathroom?

I was wondering who my fairy godmother was! Thanks!