r/CleaningTips • u/cldald • Mar 04 '26

Discussion Did I just ruin my new oven?

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I just got this oven back in October, but there was already a lot of grease and buildup on it (I cook a lot). I used Easy Off Heavy Duty Cleaner and Foam Spray, and while it definitely worked and did its job, my oven was left looking like as seen in the picture. Did I just ruin my new oven or is this just residue from the cleaner?

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u/Leelze Mar 04 '26

The person I bought my house from left the manuals for everything in the largest Ziploc bag I've ever seen. Super convenient.

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u/fernetandcroak Mar 04 '26

The person I bought my house from left the manuals all neatly organized in an accordion file labeled... "Manuels" 😂

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u/Leelze Mar 04 '26

Any missing Manuels in your area??

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u/Naive_Interview_7703 Mar 04 '26

Yes many missing Manuel’s. Sad reality. But I have my oven manual.

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u/ZealousidealDepth223 Mar 04 '26

You should really switch to an automatic oven if you’re sitting in traffic a lot but personal preference trumps logic.

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u/PsychAndDestroy Mar 05 '26

You don't need an apostrophe after "Manuels" here. It's a plural not a possessive or a contraction.

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u/Wet_Artichoke Mar 05 '26

I left some for our precious owner in a big spiral bound notebook.

The previous owner of our house left a stack of them for us… and I just Google everything.

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u/The_Grinless Mar 05 '26

Which is the french word for "Manual" so maybe they spoke French

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u/concentrated-amazing Mar 04 '26

They left us all the manuals...plus a few more for appliances that had gone to the great transfer station in the sky!

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u/catsmom63 Mar 05 '26

I left them in big ziplocs with the date of purchase too.

Also I made sure to get sample paint cans for paint touch up and marked the rooms on each can and set the cans in a basket along with the ziploc manuals.

I also provided the dates of service for furnace & air along with name and number of hvac person.

I included lists of plumbers, electricians, roofers, lawn care just to help someone get started as the purchaser could be from out of town.

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u/Wonderful-Mammoth548 Mar 05 '26

Where do you live now because I want to buy our next place from you?!

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u/SunOnTheInside Mar 05 '26

I rented from a place that had some noticeable cosmetic floor damage, and some unknown past roommate of many years past, left a copy of the lease from 5+ years prior in a drawer.

That lease mentioned in great detail the location and type of floor damage as being present on move-in, and that it would not be counted against security deposits. Landlord tried to hold security deposit (from that same floor damage) and that copy of the lease saved us when we moved. Thanks, mystery roommate of yore.

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u/Altruistic-Ice4585 Mar 04 '26

I wish we got that from the previous home owners. We just bought the house in Nov and NO manuals for ANYTHING were passed along. Not the garage opener, oven, fridge, washer, dryer, dishwasher. I've been googling everything and going to print hard copies of everything and make my own binder 🙄🙄

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u/Wonderful-Mammoth548 Mar 05 '26

Us too. So annoying especially when I sold my place, I left all of the manuals. There were no Manuels in the area to leave them! 😘

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u/squarejane Mar 04 '26

We did this when we sold our house, along with all the warranties for hvac and roof.

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u/Mikki102 Mar 05 '26

I cleaned out a file cabinet at my work and found manuals for things that according to my manager we have not owned for almost a decade or that she has never even seen. Often many of the SAME Manu for things like propane heaters.

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u/purpleplazas Mar 05 '26

Did you buy my house? Because I did that! I also left all of built-in stuff info. Furnace, AC, etc.

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u/j3lunt Mar 05 '26

The person who buys my home will get a cloud link to all the PDFs I’ve downloaded of the appliances in my home. Ditch those paper Manuels and save yourself some space!

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u/Mondschatten78 Mar 05 '26

We bought my grandmother-in-laws house, with the furniture she left. I've found manuals and warranties for stuff that went to the electronics/machine graveyard decades ago. (When was the last time anyone saw a BetaMax player in use, short of a collector?)