Reply #12: It took me two and a half to do mine... [View All]

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I don't have a very big bathroom, but when I pulled the cat's litter box away from the wall, I discovered that some water had leaked in behind there, mixed with some dirty kitty litter, and there was funky, uriney-smelling stuff clumping (growing?) on the floor/baseboard in the corner there. I also had to wash it down by hand, then spray it a couple of times with Clorox spray to kill the smell. I also had to scrub all the friggin annoying little corners (my bathroom is *not* a nice regular square) by hand -- I couldn't believe how much cat hair there was on my sponge! Plus, I was cleaning all my pretty woodwork (dark-stained Edwardian vintage "mock oak"), so I had to wash the door with Murphy Oil Soap.

My bathtub also takes a dog's age to clean, because not only is it a clawfoot, but it has a wooden surround on it that someone patched inexpertly with regular caulking that gets tremendously mildewy very fast (and I'm allergic to mould), so two scrubs and then rinse, then another big spray of Clorox (then open the window at the faucet end -- pebbled glass! -- to clear the air!!), bleah.