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This interior detail goes back a couple of months, it's actually the first job we got to use our McCulloch Steamer on...not your big bad unit but it sure came in handy (as it always has since we've owned it).
This was an 05' Sienna a guy contacted us about who had found us online. Just did a simple wash on the outside but it was a full out interior. We figured hey...we'd done this plenty of times before, would be just another job.......thats what we thought......
It was a nice day...warm outside and seemed like any other beautiful Az day.....but then it happened....the wife opened up the garage door.....and we saw something that struck fear into our hearts and left us wide eyed and mouths opened...
Yes, thats right....bikes....kids bikes.....lots and lots of little kids bikes. We started to anticipate what we were in store for now...she pulled out the mini van for us...and then the adventurous exploration of the unknown began...
We did the wash first...which was relatively simple and routine....and then popped open the back....there were a few little surprises waiting for us
On the left on the wheel well area we had a nice soda spill...looked like most of the can actually....and on the right...that little yellow speck...well that was a crayon box....yes...the whole box.....and they had managed to, with their magical little children powers...get it wedged UNDERNEATH the brace for the seat...its just a plastic covering you see there...under it is a metal bar...
Here is a closer look at our soda stain...along with the bail of hay that was back there
Here is our little crayon buddy stuck in nice and tight...and i mean TIGHT...i almost broke about 4 fingers trying to get this thing outta there...i guess we should be grateful that they didn't MELT yet in the Az heat!
It took some doing but...the crayons got removed...along with the scare crow from the wizard of oz...and the Pepsi ad gone wrong was taken care of also....
This however wasn't the only surprise we had in store...you see...the garage itself was booby trapped! The entrance to the garage was raised about 1 1/2"...JUST enough to catch the toe of your shoe almost EVERY freakin' time you walk into the garage....
You can't see it, but that concrete stamp says 'enter at your own risk!'
The final count was something like garage ledge 52....us 5 (the number of times we remembered to step OVER it)....good news...no broken bones
The second part of our adventure was to go through the sliding door of doom...we didn't even get PAST the door when we found this little mess
I guess we should have expected something when the wife asked that we be sure to 'vacuum and clean out the tracks as well'...which we were going to anyway of course but...how do you get that much stuff in the TRACK? Well whatever the case...they did...
Then, looking further along the bridge of no return this is the view that we had..
I should note this was AFTER the initial vacuum...there was even more crud in there...the rest of what you see are things pulled out from seats and from under seats....Now an interesting thing about these little mini vans is...you see those plastic pieces around the areas where the seats lock into the floor....well those little gaps in those plastic pieces lead to small holes, just big enough for things like cereal and candy and other goodies lovely little children would indulge in...
So thus...you have now seen the bridge of no return...so we pulled out our shop vac....little green extractor...apc and apc+ (i guess those would be our 6 guns?) and our new ace in the hole...our steamer...and got to work...
The spot you see remaining here was actually some sort of a rust spot on one of the pieces of metal...the rest of it...well we performed a little exorcism
Be gone!
One more before/after from another angle
Now that it was safe to enter....we were able to pull out some more of the little minions and take care of them as well
The husband came out later and said 'so hey is that as good as those mats are going to come out?'......I twitched.... but my sis stepped on my toe so i didn't get out of hand...and explained we'd go over them once more before putting them back...
"Is that as good as they're gonna come" he says...really?....really?
Maybe i should have just showed him the dirty water in the extractor and said "dirty water"...I dont know..was just a thought
Upon completely entering the Sienna of Sin...we found another joy that the little lovely's had left us
Aren't children WONDERFULLL!?
*sings* If there's something gooey, in your neighborhood - who ya gonna call? Goop Busters! (If you haven't seen ghost busters youtube it!)
After traveling all the way to the back of the cave...erm..uh....van....here is what we found
These were suppose to be gray! I know this because the interior tag said GRAY! (ok not really but you get my point)
Steamer time!
Seat rows! kinda cool
Of course the place where the Prince of Grime sat was no cake walk either..
To that we say......WHATEVER MAN!
This was an 05' Sienna a guy contacted us about who had found us online. Just did a simple wash on the outside but it was a full out interior. We figured hey...we'd done this plenty of times before, would be just another job.......thats what we thought......
It was a nice day...warm outside and seemed like any other beautiful Az day.....but then it happened....the wife opened up the garage door.....and we saw something that struck fear into our hearts and left us wide eyed and mouths opened...
Yes, thats right....bikes....kids bikes.....lots and lots of little kids bikes. We started to anticipate what we were in store for now...she pulled out the mini van for us...and then the adventurous exploration of the unknown began...
We did the wash first...which was relatively simple and routine....and then popped open the back....there were a few little surprises waiting for us
On the left on the wheel well area we had a nice soda spill...looked like most of the can actually....and on the right...that little yellow speck...well that was a crayon box....yes...the whole box.....and they had managed to, with their magical little children powers...get it wedged UNDERNEATH the brace for the seat...its just a plastic covering you see there...under it is a metal bar...
Here is a closer look at our soda stain...along with the bail of hay that was back there
Here is our little crayon buddy stuck in nice and tight...and i mean TIGHT...i almost broke about 4 fingers trying to get this thing outta there...i guess we should be grateful that they didn't MELT yet in the Az heat!
It took some doing but...the crayons got removed...along with the scare crow from the wizard of oz...and the Pepsi ad gone wrong was taken care of also....
This however wasn't the only surprise we had in store...you see...the garage itself was booby trapped! The entrance to the garage was raised about 1 1/2"...JUST enough to catch the toe of your shoe almost EVERY freakin' time you walk into the garage....
You can't see it, but that concrete stamp says 'enter at your own risk!'
The final count was something like garage ledge 52....us 5 (the number of times we remembered to step OVER it)....good news...no broken bones
The second part of our adventure was to go through the sliding door of doom...we didn't even get PAST the door when we found this little mess
I guess we should have expected something when the wife asked that we be sure to 'vacuum and clean out the tracks as well'...which we were going to anyway of course but...how do you get that much stuff in the TRACK? Well whatever the case...they did...
Then, looking further along the bridge of no return this is the view that we had..
I should note this was AFTER the initial vacuum...there was even more crud in there...the rest of what you see are things pulled out from seats and from under seats....Now an interesting thing about these little mini vans is...you see those plastic pieces around the areas where the seats lock into the floor....well those little gaps in those plastic pieces lead to small holes, just big enough for things like cereal and candy and other goodies lovely little children would indulge in...
So thus...you have now seen the bridge of no return...so we pulled out our shop vac....little green extractor...apc and apc+ (i guess those would be our 6 guns?) and our new ace in the hole...our steamer...and got to work...
The spot you see remaining here was actually some sort of a rust spot on one of the pieces of metal...the rest of it...well we performed a little exorcism
Be gone!
One more before/after from another angle
Now that it was safe to enter....we were able to pull out some more of the little minions and take care of them as well
The husband came out later and said 'so hey is that as good as those mats are going to come out?'......I twitched.... but my sis stepped on my toe so i didn't get out of hand...and explained we'd go over them once more before putting them back...
"Is that as good as they're gonna come" he says...really?....really?
Maybe i should have just showed him the dirty water in the extractor and said "dirty water"...I dont know..was just a thought
Upon completely entering the Sienna of Sin...we found another joy that the little lovely's had left us
Aren't children WONDERFULLL!?
*sings* If there's something gooey, in your neighborhood - who ya gonna call? Goop Busters! (If you haven't seen ghost busters youtube it!)
After traveling all the way to the back of the cave...erm..uh....van....here is what we found
These were suppose to be gray! I know this because the interior tag said GRAY! (ok not really but you get my point)
Steamer time!
Seat rows! kinda cool
Of course the place where the Prince of Grime sat was no cake walk either..
To that we say......WHATEVER MAN!
....hopefully you even got your 7 laughs out of it
...but we sure had to work for it
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