An extreme cleaner spent three days scrubbing a house, including the “worst fridge” she’d ever seen, to help a mom and her 13-year-old daughter.
Auri Kananen, 30, said the fridge was stuffed with rotten food from four years ago, and the kitchen was infested with cockroaches and spiders.
The house in Miami, Florida, belonged to the 42-year-old mom who slept on a single sofa with her daughter because the other rooms were so filled with rubbish that they were unusable.
Ms. Kananen collected over 200 large bags of trash while cleaning the home’s five rooms. Armed with a scraper, a toilet brush, and oven cleaner, over three days, she managed to rid the house of grime—transforming the family home.
Ms. Kananen, from Tampere, Finland, travels the world tackling dirty homes for free and regularly shares on social media about her cleaning projects. The Miami house video, which she posted on Instagram on Jan. 6, has already garnered over 1.5 million views.
She said: “There was so much rotten food in there infested with cockroaches and spiders. The fridge was something out of this world, I have never seen something so dirtylicious.
“Other trash in the living room, the girl’s room, and the mum’s room included dry trash, toys, food packaging, and clothes.
“You couldn’t see the bathroom floor. We collected 203 big bags of trash. It took us three days to clean it. Three rooms and two bathrooms.”
After Ms. Kananen gutted the home, she said the mom and the daughter were grateful and excited about the rooms being clean enough to hear an echo when they spoke.
“At first, it felt like they didn’t quite understand what we were doing,” she said. “When the place started to look cleaner, they were amazed.
“The mum thanked us so many times and finally, she came to hug me.
“The girl went to her room and was cheering because it echoed there—she was so happy about that.”
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