H.I.P. 7 – Cleaning
I was fortunate to marry into a family who loves to clean. OK love may be a strong word but they appreciate keeping your house clean. I’m not talking about a light dusting and saying you cleaned or painting over dirty walls, we’re talkin scrubbing floors and windows on a regular basis. Not because we’re dirty but just “that’s what you do”. You clean ceiling fans, bathtubs and scrub scrub scrub.
It should come as no surprise that when we have moved anywhere we scrubbed down after the previous residents. When you think about it you don’t know what the people before you did and honestly it helps give a fresh start. The house we’re moving into has taken 4 days of scrubbing down and painting with the basement still to go. That bucket pictured above was 1 of several from washing down the bedroom walls and bathroom. The bathroom alone took hours of cleaning before I even got started on removing the shower doors (more later on that task).
Next up for me is the basement which I’ll go into detail in the future. There was a fair amount of stuff left over from the previous owners that I need to go through and from what my brother told me, its the traditional Pittsburgh basement. In other words, hella dirty which was similar to most I grew up with before my dad had this crazy notion to make the basement a man cave. Thankfully the bro has a shopvac that I can use before we start moving since I want to paint before we suck up all of the storage. I should make chalk outlines on the floor.
Disorganization drive me nuts and I need to learn to be patient when it comes to a new house. I know that I can’t fix everything before we move in so my list of things to do will be long. Finding time to balance that, family time, school and my craft beer work will be an interesting feat. This week I’m going into each room and around the yard to make a master list of things I see that need fixed/updated.
Oh and don’t you worry about that beer cellar, I have an area scoped out 
