What if They Made Real-Life Cleaning Horror Movies?

What if They Made Real-Life Cleaning Horror Movies?

Posted by Lisa on 30th Oct 2014

You want something really scary this Halloween? Something beyond rubber mask and silly haunted house scary? Here are some ideas for real-life horror movies for people in the cleaning industries. (It’s OK, you’ll like the endings.) Got your popcorn?

What do you get when you combine a heating unit, organic waste and time? All fear the MicroWave of DOOM!  A good cleaner alone may not cut through the leftover stalactites and stalagmites that grow in busy microwaves. Citrus and water warmed up in a bowl on a low setting tend to soften the stuff up, and then a slightly abrasive sponge soaked in your cleaner will do the rest.

Uncleaned Fridge

Leftover tofu, curdled yogurt and a power outage all combined to unleash a Bioweapon the likes of which the world has never seen! Beware THE UNCLEANED FRIDGE!  Rags are your friends here. A paper towel may not be strong enough to wipe off the new life forms that set up condos on the shelves, and the refrigerator is a common place for molds. You can always wash the rags with a bleach solution and re-use them.

Sink that Time Forgot

In a world where hard water collides with filmy soap and calcium, only scum remains. This creature FEEDS on your daily rituals. It’s  THE SINK THAT TIME FORGOT!  Hard water and soap form stuff that I think could double as concrete. Soap scum remover and a stiff brush can fix this. For really tough situations, use a stronger solution of scum fighter and let it soak a bit before you scrub.

Mystery Stain

It is real. It is evil. It is unstoppable, and it’s in YOUR carpet! Its destructiveness is only rivaled by its stealth – until it’s set. The Mystery Stain is coming for you!  It’s funny how an office crew will revert to a group of five-year-olds if they spill something on the boss’s new carpet. That can make it even harder to get rid of the thing – ‘nobody’ knows how it materialized, let alone if it’s coffee, soda, a dropped pizza slice – the odds are high that whatever caused the thing is protein-based and there are a number of cleaners that can start to work on it.

What cleaning horrors have you been frightened by?

We Fight Dirty! . . . and we have many years of slaying all kinds of monsters!