We all hate to clean our houses! Do you agree? Of course! So this genius woman created a self-cleaning house! Just wow! So read!
Francis Gabe died at the age of 101 in December 2016. However, her longevity is not what made her famous. This woman’s neighbors don’t even know who she was — a genious or just a crazy woman with a bad character. Francis did not clean her house in Newburgh, Oregon, for more than 20 years. You think her house was dirty and scary? You are mistaken! All the rooms of her house were absolutely neat and clean!
Did she have a secret? Of course, she did! Francis was the owner of the only self-cleaning house! She was the creator of the world’s only self-cleaning home!
It all started many years ago. After divorcing her husband, Francis had to take care of her children who categorically refused to help her with household cores. At the same time, she felt the need to develop her own business. When the woman returned home one day, she discovered jam stains on the wall. Close to insanity, she used a hose to wash the stains off. Could she have thought that a moment of fury would help her solve the problem of household cores for good?
In 1979, Francis designed a model of a house, the idea of which had been in her head for quite a long while. 5 years later, she turned her house into a kind of giant dishwasher. The automatic cleaning system cleaned all the surfaces, including the walls and the ceiling.
It simultaneously cleaned clothes, washed dishes in the kitchen, and cleaned the doghouse and the dog itself! Before pressing the button, the hostess had to do only one thing: put on her waterproof cloak and open her umbrella.
All the floors in the house were at an angle and were equipped with special gutters at the edges, through which water went out to the street. There were sprinkles on the ceiling. First, they sprayed a soap solution, and then rinsed it with clean water. The clean air supply system was switched on after every cleaning cycle and dried all the rooms, leaving no dampness in the house. It’s hard to believe it, but the whole cleaning, washing, and drying process took only 1 hour.
Of course, this invention had its drawbacks too. For example, there were no carpets and curtains in Francis’ house, as they collected too much dust and absorbed too much water. Besides, she had to replace her wooden furniture with plastic one. There were inconveniences with washing too. She had to hang the clothes on special linen ropes before the system would wash them.
Nevertheless, in the 80s, Francis was a regular guest of various TV shows, and her house was frequently visited by tourists. She constantly noted that her genious idea could significantly alleviate the lives of people with disabilities and large families, which would allow parents to spend more time on their children’s upbringing, rather than constant cleaning.
In 2001, a fairly strong earthquake damaged the basic design of the self-cleaning house. Since then, the irrigation system only worked in the kitchen. Already in 2008, the family of this amazing woman sent her to a nursing home. She spent the last 8 years of her life there and survived the death of both her husband and her own children.
This woman hadn’t cleaned her house for 20 years… Because she made a self-cleaning house!
It is hard to imagine how it is possible to implement such a system in a modern house or an apartment. It is unlikely that it will become widespread in the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, is there a more exciting thought than the one that you can live 20 years without cleaning and living in a spotless house?!