Cleaning, Shifting and moving into an apartment in Sweden.

Cleaning the apartment is one of the toughest things, as I have ever witnessed in Sweden. This is not an easy procedure which we can all finish it in an overall night. From giving away the present apartment and moving into a next apartment needs a proper planning and time management.  Most of the housing boards in Sweden, insists to issue a 3 months’ notice before  a person/family moves out of the apartment,  this become tough in case of students, whose some of their schedule can extends few weeks than their usual deadline and they suffer for extension with the apartment. Anyways, proper planning and backups will help in making such decisions. 

Shifting things and cleaning the apartment needs to be done in order wise. It’s better to shift maximum number of things before starting the cleaning session, because as you can find most of the places are quiet empty and thus will make the cleaning process easy to handle, instead of working around the corners of each table. The best way to shift is by ordering a trailer or a wagon, where one thinks where they can accommodate all their stuffs. I found a free trailer service provided by one of the company in the Sweden.  They charge only for the deposit and they will return the deposit back once the trailer is given before the deadline or hand over the trailer without any charges. 

The cleaning of the apartment needs to be planned very carefully. It can started before a week or couple of weeks, depends of the amount of cleaning basically needed for the apartment. I started doing bathroom for the first day, second day with kitchen, third day with toilet and living hall and fourth day with living rooms and the final day is doing all rooms together. The cleaning of the rooms can be repeated in schedule depends upon the weight of cleaning done to each room and time spent.  I recommend to start cleaning from the roof of the wall and proceeded by the wall and then finally to the floors. This makes the perfect cleaning routine.

Different things in the house should be cleaned in different manner and by using different kind of appropriate solutions of each thing in the home, does the finest job. For example, I use Ajax for cleaning white wood and cleaning the tiles, stainless steels, and mirror, I use different solutions.   Universal cleaning liquid solutions can be used for overall cleaning, but the effect of cleaning will not the quiet similar of one which use for the appropriate ones.  It’s better to buy things of better quality for cleaning purposes, as we all knew it’s a one time job and if it was done in better way, we can avoid a big fine amount for spending those extra pennies. The last day of the cleaning involves the floor work, as all the parts in the house is cleaned and wiped, the remains are left out the floor, and they are removed by washing and wiping the floor.

Throwing garbage should be considered seriously, many people due to their limits schedule they pile all the stuffs in a huge bag and throw in garbage. This step may be an easy way to throw away all the rubbish things from the house, but it is the inappropriate method while we consider the environment, so each and everything should be disposed accordingly to the containers which they have in the garbage room. Papers, hard plastic, metals, woods and other house hold things should be trashed in the appropriate cans. Some of the commune in Sweden are very careful with this issue and would trace out the tenant with a huge fine, if they throw inappropriate things in the garbage. 

Moving in the new apartment, definitely takes some time to settle down, but we can avoid that time in different way by saving the old things from the old house, thus we can’t prevent in buying all things and having a zero start.