60 Of The Most Satisfying Before And After Cleaning Photos On The Internet Today (New Pics)

I enjoy cleaning gravestones in my local cemetery and love the before and after photos. I do have permission to clean before anyone gets their panties in a wad. Hope you enjoy the photos.  

My Mom and I haven’t had the best relationship in the past, but in 2020, I got extremely sick, and she moved in with me and slowly helped me get my house and life back together. She's terrible at prioritizing herself and has always had low self-esteem and not felt good enough. I had left a job in early July and had 2, 3 weeks free. I helped clean out everything.

She's so happy with it, and I’m hoping it’s a way to help her get back on her feet, out of a depression, and help her feel peaceful.

I started with CLR, which didn’t do much. I tried Dawn Power Wash, soap pads, magic erasers. Nothing was working. So I pulled an illegal maneuver. I covered the metal parts with rags and spot tested with Clorox toilet bowl cleaner (the lime and rust one in a black bottle).

I put some on a rag and applied it to the bottom first. Let it sit for a while, and then scrub the hell out of it with a ton of magic erasers.

This person have a bad depression, and clean home can help her to feel better. Our brain is literally blocking us to do things like taking care of ourselves or the environment. This is how bad can be a depression episode.

I just left my grandparents today and wanted to show an update on my progress. Regrettably it’s not as perfect as I wanted, the caulk is irreversibly damaged, as well as the shower doors remain streaky (although mold-free now). I used Zep Mold and Mildew for almost all surfaces and a pumice scouring stick of all things for the bottom of the shower floor. Also a few magic erasers for all the cracks in between the tiling.

This was my mom's house. She passed away in February, and her terrible sister, who never paid any bills, refused to leave and left us with a huge mess once she was evicted. I feel a lot of closure doing this because I always told my mom I was going to clean up her house, but she never let me because she was worried I'd throw something important away (she was a hoarder). I miss her a lot and I hope she's looking down on me with a "you did good, kid" attitude.

First, after I got a bulk of the particulate out, I never backwashed my sand filter, so a lot of it got back into the pool. Spent a week (evenings after work), vacuuming up the same particulates over and over.
Second, I used a granular flocculant and vacuumed it back into the filter, rather than to waste. So I had to spend a week just letting it settle, vacuum to waste, refill, backwash, settle, repeat.

I have been dealing with pretty bad depression and lack of motivation for a while now, and my bathroom got really, really gross, but I recently started antidepressants, and I cleaned it today, and I’m really proud of how it turned out.

I struggle with caring for myself & my space, especially when school / work picks up and all I want to do is rot after a busy day. I also HATE cleaning, I never find it fulfilling or cathartic and it’s so overwhelming.
If you feel similarly, here’s how I did it:
1. Do NOT expect to do it all in one day! Accept & get comfortable with the idea it could take you a few days of chipping away.
2. Get the floor clear first. Throw trash away, put clothes in a laundry basket (or 3), anything you need to find a home for put in a bin or on your bed temporarily.
3. If you find yourself losing steam, do NOT give in immediately. Take care of one more large task (ie. Put folded clothes away, take out the trash, organize your desk) and THEN put a pin it.
4. Anytime you leave the room, start a task and leave it half done. That way, when you return, you have no choice but to finish it.
5. There is NO one definition of ‘clean’ - what’s clean to me is certainly not clean to my mother. Get to a point where you feel comfortable & cozy existing in your space… if you don’t look around and feel overwhelmed / shameful / need to take immediate action, then it’s done!
6. MOST IMPORTANTLY - DO NOT LET GUILT / SHAME DETER YOU! Ignoring the problem only contributes further to it. It’s ok if you don’t know where to start. Start with the smallest task, take care of it, and keep going with the momentum. It’s ok if you need a break. It’s ok if you leave a load of laundry in over night and take care of it tomorrow. The important thing is it GETS DONE!

This is Teddy, my elderly mother's childhood teddy bear. This sweet boy is at least 60 years old, and I was trusted to give him a little TLC. After washing him, brushing him, and making him some sparkly new eyes from resin, I think he's looking very handsome. He's so excited because he gets to use his new eyes to see my mom, the little girl who loved him, for the first time in decades.

I used brute force (blotting) and cold water, and paper towels on the couch. Clorox spray on the floor. I couldn't find baking soda in the store, as I was worried about whether there would be a smell, but after all the blotting, there was no smell. 

I moved into the downstairs of this house two years ago and worked like hell to make it livable. Unfortunately, I did not take pictures of the shed, bedrooms, or bathrooms before I cleaned them. As for the rooms upstairs, they've been filled with junk again, aside from the kitchen. And if you're wondering why I'd ever move in here... poverty. I have to live very cheaply so I can finish school. This was the only option I had at the time.

I get frequent floor restoration cleanings. It’s always at a home that’s been using Swiffer Wet Jet, Mr. Clean, Fabuloso, etc.

What I use for a standard cleaning on every floor: a self-wringing flat mop, a clean water bucket, and a dirty water bucket. In the clean water bucket, I have a couple of gallons of warm water, two to three drops of Dawn dish soap for the grease, and two drops of Mrs. Meyers' Honeysuckle dish soap for the scent. You don't need a lot of soup. Suds are bad! When mopping the floors, the mop should be damp, not soaking wet. Wring that sucker out! When dirty, wring into a separate dirty water bucket so that your mop water stays clean longer.

What I use for a deep cleaning/ restoration on tile floors: Hand and knees scrubbing, a bristle brush, and hydrogen peroxide.
What I use for deep cleaning/ restoring hardwood floors: this is the only pre-made mop solution I’ll use, and I only suggest this once every year for hardwood floors if mopped properly throughout the year after. I use Murphy Oil wood floor soap in a bucket of warm water, I only use half a cap full. Not a lot! A scrub brush and knee scrubbing. Again, clean water and a dirty water bucket. To rinse the bristle brush.

We bought our house with this pool/spa a few years ago. As this was our first pool, we hired a pool service company. During one visit, the pool company owner said he was getting overwhelmed and might not make it out every week until he was able to hire someone new. Then, a few months ago, he messaged us that we owed him for several open invoices. I countered that we hadn’t seen him in weeks. I asked for pics of the work he’d done and got no response. By this time, it’s late March and we’re coming out of our (mild) winter season. We had run the pool heater for a week for visitors and then started having an algae problem. I texted him photos of the pool, but no response.

The algae problem had gotten really bad, and it had been 3 years since we’d changed the water. We decided to drain the entire pool, acid wash it, and start over with new water and chemicals. After several weeks, our pool is finally back in the kind of shape it should be, and we’re happy to be able to start using it this weekend. We’re working with a new company that services a dozen neighbors’ pools, and they came highly recommended.

Absolutely nasty! It smelled horrible, and after lifting it back up and starting to clean, everyone in my house ended up sick! It was 100% mold.

My mum passed away a few years ago, and I haven’t had the mental capacity to deal with her flat. Something inside me changed over the last year or so, and I’m finally tackling some of the deepest cleans I’ve had to do. Originally, I was going to replace them as it felt easier. But I decided that they had a hidden charm beneath the years of grime.

Took me around 10 hours to do 8 handles. Lots of cocktail sticks, sponges, barkeeper's friend, wipes, a cleaning toothbrush, and some serious elbow grease.

1. Vacuum floor
2. Strip off existing sealant with AcryliStrip. Working in small sections, I poured a dilution of AcryliStrip on the floor, smooshed it around with a large sponge to ensure an even coating, then let it sit for 5 minutes. After the timer was up, I scrubbed with stainless steel brushes, paying close attention to the grout. Then I mopped up the resulting slurry with a mop and/or rags before rinsing with clean water. Some sections required a few repeats of this process.
3. Vacuum again (dogs) and clean floor with steam mop
4. Once dry, I recolored the grout using Mapei’s UltraCare Grout Refresh in color Timberwolf. I used a 3/8 inch angled paintbrush to paint this into every line. Fairly straightforward, but slow going.
5. After 24 hours, I was ready to re-seal. Another vacuum. Again working in sections, I applied Miracle Sealants’ 511 Impregnator Sealer with microfiber pad. After letting it sit for 5 min, I wiped off the excess with a clean microfiber.