01/21/2025
Learning lesson ....and also why I prefer to work solo dolo.
I had a fairly big job over the weekend. 3 apartments in 2 days. For those that don't know I work with a realtor company in flipping their units. Most of them are battery plant workers. So they are ran as B&Bs.
Anyways the company sent a few "kids" to "help" me out. I tell one kid to take the bottle of KRUM KUTTER and go ahead of me and spray the ovens , stovetops, showers, toilets, basically anything that needed it. That way when I got there it should be a quick wipe and done. ....simple enough? You'd think so!
Instead...he grabbed the bottle of TSP SUBSTITUTE. For those that don't know, TSP is trisodium phosphate. It is used to clean yuck off walls before painting. It's VERY strong. If left on glass to dry or any other hard surface it can "etch" the surface. Well me thinking he sprayed what he was supposed to, didn't think about it being a problem it dried!
This kid sprayed it on EVERYTHING!! The toilets, the sinks, the MIRRORS, the countertops, the STOVETOPS, the microwaves, the cabinets..... The floors!!! And it all dried. Completely dried. So what was already a big job, now turned even bigger.
Not only were these apartments gross to begin with. I now had to get this filmy, white, shiny, possibly destructive residue off everything. The ONLY thing that would take care of the white marks this stuff left on everything was by using Cerama Bryte. So I basically had to wax and polish 3 apartments in 2 days.
Needless to say I did complete the job. But it was not fun and I am exhausted beyond measure. Here are some pics of what it looked like before I cleaned it. I will post the finished pictures on My next post !