Before moving in to your apartment or house..

How did you disinfect it?? Is there anything special to get...or should I just look for something with ammonia??

AND did you replace the toliet seat covers...I deperately want to but FMIL told my FI this will ruin the toilet...is that even true??

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In my first apt. I cleaned the place top to bottom before moving in. I used lemon-scented bleach in the bathroom/Kitchen. I was lucky because the place was brand new.

Yes, you can replace the toilet seat. It does not ruin the toilet. You just need the manufacturer of the toilet and go to Home Depot, Lowes, etc. and match the seat to the manufacturer of the toilet if it's not a standard round bowl. If it is you should be able to get any toilet seat.

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also remember to change at least one lock on the front door!

Good luck with moving!

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Posted by PiyoPika566

also remember to change at least one lock on the front door!

Good luck with moving!

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Thanks for all of the advice ladies...I am off to clean

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we used bleach and lysol (not at the same time )... replaced the toilet seat (never had a problem doing this, and it had no effect on the toilet). and we also painted when we moved. wanted make it nice and 'fresh'.

also- windex works well on cleaning the inside of the refrigerator, and Easy-Off for the inside of the oven.

for the carpets, i just used woolite oxy magic to make that feel 'fresh' also (i was too lazy and tired at that point to steam clean them- but thats an option too).

good luck today- its perfect cleaning weather- you can actually open the windows

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Cleaned top to bottom. Then hired a cleaning person to keep it up.

I didn't change the toilet seats although I bought them. They were the wrong ones and then I just forgot about it. I didn't die...I didn't get poisoned so I said-screw it.

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We cleaned mostly with lysol...everything, even the walls and moldings. We too bought a new toliet seat but the wrong one, left the one we had, but scrubbed that sucker with bleach till I was sore

Scrubbed most of the bathroom with bleach.

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DEF CHANGES THE TOLIET SEAT, BLEACHED TEH ENTIRE APT. KITCHEN, BATHROOM, CLOSETS. NEEDLESS TO SAY THE APT SMELLED LIKE BLEACH FOR A DAY BUT ITS WORTH IT

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My brother and sister, BIL, DH and I scrubbed the hell out of the place before we moved in. it wasn't too bad. The toilet was brand new, so we just disinfected that, too.

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we changed the toilet seats and also every light switch. I never realized how dirty a light switch gets.

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I think we cleaned for like 4 days straight. The man who lived there before us was clean, but you know how it is when it's not your home, you just want to be extra sure everything is sanitized.

We used a lot of Magic Erasers and a lot of ammonia. Two rounds of oven cleaner.

ETA: We also rented a carpet cleaning machine for the small carpeted area in the basement.

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I cleaned everywhere with those lysol wipes and steam shampooed and vaccumed the carpet. I also got those liners for all the drawers so that none of my stuff would touch the cabinets. I had the entire house painted before we moved in and we changed all of the locks.