how do you clean up soap?
Our giant-sized Costco container of laundry detergent had a leak and dumped at least a gallon of laundry detergent on the floor of the laundry room and down the front of the washer. How exactly do you clean up that much soap?!?! I used as many dry towels as I could to sop it up, which still left a lot of soap on the tile. Then I used a wet cloth to wipe up what was left and kept rinsing it out thoroughly until the soap seemed to be gone from each small section I worked on. Once I had most of the floor cleaned up, I had to clean off the top of the washer and move it out away from the wall because the detergent had gotten all underneath of it. Man, it was filthy and disgusting under there. Fortunately, there wasn't too much and I got it cleaned up the same way. Then I moved the washer back and repeated the process with the dryer. There wasn't much of any under the dryer so that went quickly.
What made it worse is that we had some drop cloths down on the floor for the painting we've been doing in the laundry room and we've left them on the floor for a while now. Apparently one of the cats pissed on it (99.9% likely it was pissy Jack) and even though they were soaking in vinegar in the sink, something in there still stinks, so I had to deal with that the whole time. I think some of it got down into the vent in the floor because the A/C kicked on and suddenly the smell got a LOT worse. Ick!
Finally, after almost an hour, I had the spill cleaned up. It really sucked but at least the dirty floor got cleaned, right? There's still some on-going cleanup to do as the soap that leaked into/under the trim of the washer continues to slowly seep out onto the floor, though.
What made it worse is that we had some drop cloths down on the floor for the painting we've been doing in the laundry room and we've left them on the floor for a while now. Apparently one of the cats pissed on it (99.9% likely it was pissy Jack) and even though they were soaking in vinegar in the sink, something in there still stinks, so I had to deal with that the whole time. I think some of it got down into the vent in the floor because the A/C kicked on and suddenly the smell got a LOT worse. Ick!
Finally, after almost an hour, I had the spill cleaned up. It really sucked but at least the dirty floor got cleaned, right? There's still some on-going cleanup to do as the soap that leaked into/under the trim of the washer continues to slowly seep out onto the floor, though.