{"id":213,"date":"2006-07-18T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T05:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-07-18\/213"},"modified":"2006-07-18T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T05:24:33","slug":"house-cleaner-recommendation-update-on-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-07-18\/213","title":{"rendered":"House Cleaner Recommendation \/ Update On Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\nI want to give a big “thumbs up” to Pro Window & Carpet Cleaning<\/b>\nof Mountain View, California (1-888-470-6623). A real<\/span>-estate agent friend\nwho uses them to give the houses he lists a thorough<\/span> cleaning recommended\nthem to clean my long-vacant house (full of dust and spiders and cooties).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI met the foreman at my place at 8:00 this morning, and he gave an estimate\nfor cleaning all the floors, counter and furniture surfaces, wiping down\nthe doors and baseboards and moldings, cleaning air vents, and a full<\/span>\nworkup of the bathrooms and the fridge. For all but<\/span> one room (which was too\nfull of stuff to bother with) of the 2,500 sq. ft. house, it came to $245,\nwhich seemed reasonable. I added<\/span> a $60 pressure-washing of one of the two\ntile patios, so Anthony could go out and play without getting to grimy.\n\n<\/p>\n\n

\n\nAn hour later the foreman came back with three guys and went to work. In the mean<\/span> time, I'd realized<\/span> just how incredibly dirty the windows and\nscreens were, so I asked<\/span> them to do that, too. There are something like\n35(!) windows, counting the skylights, I think,<\/span> so that just about doubled\nthe price to a total<\/span> of $585. The three<\/span> guys worked pretty solidly from\n9:30ish until maybe 4:00pm, with the foreman doing the power washing\noutside.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThey did an excellent job, and really transformed the house into something\nlivable. As a bonus<\/span>, they did the second patio and the garage gratis.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe only snag was that I didn't know that they don't move furniture unless\nasked, such as to clean the floor under a sofa.<\/span> When I asked<\/span> them to clean\nunder the sofa and some other large furniture, they did without hesitation\n(but did let me know that they normally don't unless asked, particularly\nwith hardwood floors, since some owners don't like the furniture moved).\n\n<\/p>\n

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\n\nAn update from yesterday's\npost<\/a>: I never<\/span> got to sleep again after writing that post, so I was<\/span> half\na zombie<\/span> all day today. The cable<\/span> guys from Comcast showed up at 11am with\na cablemodem<\/span> and hooked up my service at the pole. I drove<\/span> over to the\nhotel where Fumie and Anthony were still waiting and called Comcast to\nenable my router, only to find that I needed<\/span> its MAC address. So, I drove<\/span> the whole mile or two back to get it, and after another trip to the hotel I\nhad<\/span> connectivity at home.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nSoon after that, I hooked<\/span> up my Vonage VoIP modem and I had<\/span> phone service\nin my house, with the same phone number I've had since 1998. Vonage is\ncool.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nActually, I already<\/span> had reasonable wireless connectivity at home, in one\ncase via a WAP<\/span> called “linksys” (one of my neighbors, I would<\/span> guess), and one by MetroFi<\/a>, citywide\nfree WiFi supported by advertisements inserted at the top of web pages.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIn the evening, we went back to San Jose airport to swap the huge boat for\na more<\/span> reasonably sized vehicle. They even credited me for the gas and\ncharged only on what I used<\/span> (albeit at their ridiculous $6.50\/gallon rate,\nbut I'd not used much at all so it amount to much).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nWe got a Nissan\nMurano<\/a> mid-sized SUV. It seems<\/span> quite nice, but the one we got seemed to\nhave some kind of disagreeable smell, at least to me. Fumie didn't notice\nit. After much discussion with the Hertz people (who, I must say<\/span>, were very\naccommodating and understanding -- I was<\/span> really starting to feel like a\npest,<\/span> but they were nothing but kind), we found another Murano and used\nthat.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt had the same smell -- I guess it's the fabric smell. But as a<\/span> little\nbonus, the new car came with Sirus satellite radio.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAfter finally getting out of there with the much-easier-to-drive Murano, we\nheaded over to the Nijiya Japanese\nMarket<\/a> in Mountain View to stock up on some groceries and stuff for\ndinner. With good food in my tummy, hopefully I'll be able to sleep\ntonight.\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to give a big \"thumbs up\" to Pro Window & Carpet Cleaning<\/b> of Mountain View, California (1-888-470-6623). A real-estate agent friend who uses them to give the houses he lists a thorough cleaning recommended them to clean my long-vacant house (full of dust and spiders and cooties). <\/p>

I met the foreman at my place at 8:00 this morning, and he gave an estimate for cleaning all the floors, counter and furniture surfaces, wiping down the doors and baseboards and moldings, cleaning air vents, and a full workup of the bathrooms and the fridge. For all but [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}