Cleaning Day is Over....Hallelujah!

We have finished our cleaning. Here is a sample of what we had to do. Clean and sanitize the bathrooms. In the kitchen take things out of the cabinets and clean all shelves. They even took the stove apart to clean the parts and then put it back together again. I walked in to get water and Claudia was standing on top of the stove cleaning the hood! We stripped the beds, flipped the mattresses, sanitized them and remade them. Washed all the towels & linens including duvet covers, vacuumed, mopped, cleaned the windows, washed the walls, turned off the hot and cold water in the empty areas, scrubbed down the big dining room and walls, floors, tables, etc. We had at least 5 different buildings to clean and get ready for the next group coming. Teamwork got it done and everything is now sparkling and ready for the next session. Wish my house was this clean! As one of the workers likes to say: "We clean the clean around here!"

Here are some cleaners we have used while we were here:

oxygel (basic cleaner....love it) We use it for just about everything from cleaning door knobs to washing walls.

Suma-calc ( for cleaning build up on faucets, etc. from hard water...it is very strong and can't be used without gloves)

bleach- water for sanitizing

Tofix for room spray in the bathrooms

Lysoform for sanitizing

Tenn (like comet for cleaning sicks, showers, etc.)

CIF (an all purpose spray cleaner)



The toilets here are very strange....hardly any water in them at all. This is a very conservation minded country. They recycle EVERYTHING including dryer lint! They use it for starting the campfire if you can believe that! We have learned to recycle and not throw much away for sure! We have compost pots out for banana peels, tea bags, etc. every meal. They don't use paper towels much either...rags are used and washed to be used again. You don't drink out of paper cups much either...use glasses that can be washed and used again. It has opened my eyes to just how wasteful we Americans are!

Tonight we go out to an authentic Austrian restaurant and tomorrow we go to Vienna to check into our hotel. I may not have internet access as much but will post when possible.