Four-bedroom house, Fern Ridge
A family kitchen after the holidays
Ten days of family visits, three ovens' worth of cooking in one. The cabinet doors degreased one by one, the hob back to black, the floor mopped twice.
- What we found
- Ten days of cooking for twelve: grease on every cabinet door, a burnt-on hob
- Team
- Two cleaners
- Time
- 5 hours
- Cost
- $310, oven included
The family had hosted twelve people for ten days and the kitchen showed every meal. We started high, with the cabinet tops and the hood filter, and worked down: every door degreased and dried by hand, the hob soaked and lifted with a plastic scraper, never steel wool.
The oven took an hour on its own. The floor was mopped twice, once to lift and once to rinse, so it dried without a film.