[miss_thrifty]

Got Question Margery,
I've been cleaning for a few days now and I thought maybe you'd have agreat fix for me. My washer and dryer just fit in the bathroom upstairs.Their is only a few inche s on either side and the middle. To clean between which looks pretty gross at times. I've been taking my swiffer handle and taping a sheet to it to get in between. It's not working out. It just fits and doesn't do the job. I can't move the darn things until this fall beacause of the tiny short connecting pipe to it. It took alot of work with door off to get in there. So hubby said only 1 a year U can take off then we have to get new piece of pipe every time to make sure its tight.
So can u help with Idea of something small enough to get through and do agreat job too. I'm a clean freak, can't help it. Don't like dust balls lol lol

Charlene

 

[canadian gardener]

OK so it has to be slimmer than a swiffer handle.

How about a yardstick? If it were me I'd be duct taping some cloth just like you did or some nylon netting (my favourite, it sort of scrubs stuff as it moves along without scratching a thing) and the netting doesn't take a lot of room.

I have this big long bottle brushy contraption from the clean team that I adore. I use it to get into spaces like that especially the bits behind and underneath the fridge.

I also have an old baby bottle brush that gets a lot of use when that thing won't fit.

One thing I don't recommend is a tip I tried once with a sock taped to the end of the yardstick. If you are going to try that, staple it in several places. Mine fell off in behind one of my appliances (forget which one) and it was a terrible job trying to retrieve it.

 

[canadian gardener]

the other thought I have is a LONG strip of nylon netting, and kind of pull it thru and back and forth like dental floss. Treat the W+D as if they were 2 extra big teeth and the netting or cloth as dental tape.

 

[Darlene]

My fav, the yardstick. :thumb: Cat thinks it's fun time when I use mine under the fridge.

 

[miss_thrifty]

Thanks Margery, i will try the yard stick, I have to borrow the neighbours, I don't have any. U think my hubby being acarpenter would, but nope lol I don't sew much either. lol sorry
But i will borrow and try with the netting, good idea. I git face cloths stuck ther from falling behing lately, had a dang hard time getting it out. Why do they have to make the bathroom just big enough to get in and thats it, the bathroom downstairs is large enough. LandLords. lol Sometimes there so cheap they squeak !!!!llol

 

[canadian gardener]

I think it's all an evil plot by builders heheheheh

but I know whereof you speak, and in some of our houses it just doesn't make sense how they do things.

Or how about this one, where the dryer outlet and the washer machine pipes are set up exactly backwards to the way that all the dryer and washer doors open?

 

[miss_thrifty]

the dryer is agianst the left wall and the door swings to the right, and the washer is on the right. The dryer outlet is right behind it, but I meanits just enouight o catch the main pipe of it, so hubby won't take it but once ayear. I would like it twice to be out, so i can vacumn inside the back of it, incase of fire. Did I tell you the time I had afire with my old one 2 years ago, thats why I'm alittle scared of dryer lint . lol

 

[miss_thrifty]

Oh the yard stick worked, thanks. I used achair so i wouldn't put all my weight on the dryer(I'm not to small any more lol).
Just wish he would before fall buy new piece of that pipe,it would give me more peace of mind.

 

[canadian gardener]

Oh I'm glad it worked. Old fashioned wooden rulers and yardsticks are worth their weight in gold around the house. I've lost track of ours, and I need to dig them up again. The slim profile means you can slide them in and fish out all kinds of lost objects, dust bunnies etc.

I also know what you mean about the lint behind the drum. Dh and I do it nowhere NEAR as often as we should. We did it last year, but the time before that was 6 or so years ago just after we moved in. I was getting twitchy about it so he and ds opened it up and vacuumed. It wasn't bad at all. I'm pretty good about defuzzing the filter when I put a load in, before cranking it up so that may be why.

so if you do the filter thing regularly you probably aren't building up a bad load.

I also think washing the screen is important. Somebody here mentioned it last year, and I did that. Amazing, because when I did the tap test (run water, see if it can get thru-- looked open but it wasn't!) it failed.