This weekend was spent getting our “to-do” list done!
Saturday we woke up semi-bright and early to get the house cleaned literally inside and out. I started out by moving all the furniture and vacuuming from top to bottom. I turned all of the chairs upside down and vacuumed the felt slider things on the bottom of all the legs. I vacuumed the sides and backs of the couches. I vacuumed the hallway runner and got on my hand and knees to pick out the little pulls of material.
Vacuuming is stupid.
Then Hubby mentioned what a nice day it was outside and that is was probably a really good day to power-wash the house. I had been hesitant to let him and his Dad do this because I wasn’t sure if any of the paint, or stucco, etc would come off the house with this powerful washing. We are having a large BBQ next weekend and I really didn’t want our house to look like poop when people came over to see it. Well, I said to go ahead and give his Dad a call and only start on the side of the house farthest away from where people would be – to test it out.
This is our house looking a little kruddy.
This is what you need to wash a house.
Both of the guys went to work. First they squirted the Krud Kutter on, and then they power-washed away the krud.
After a trial section of the house was cleaned it was determined that our house isn’t painted and is in fact a stucco with a bit of quartz mixed in so it literally sparkles now. Little flecks of quartz really glisten and gleam when the sun hits them — something we hadn’t noticed before because they were all covered with krud/gunk/grunge. They finished up pretty late so I don’t have any final final pictures – yet. These however was halfway through the process…
Meanwhile after vacuuming the entire house, cleaning the bottom (and tops) of chair legs, washing weeks worth of dishes, putting weeks worth of dishes away, planting a bed of hostas (post coming soon), putting paint stripper on an old dresser, and making lunch (hotdogs, grilled chicken, caesar salad), I finally got the chance to open the boxes of glassware we got for our wedding and put them all neatly organized into the cabinet.
And this was just Saturday — wait ’til you see what fun we had on Sunday.