Spilled like 30 oz of caramel sauce inside a kitchen cabinet. I cleaned up everything I could but it’s dripping through the crevices now. 😭
I’m a renter so I’m scared to take anything apart I may not be able to put back together. My building has a roach problem (they were already here when I moved in, I keep my place very clean), and I’m not trying to give them anything to munch on. Any advice before I just cut my losses and burn the whole building down?
EDIT: Oh boy howdy I’m overwhelmed by this. I can’t answer all the comments so I’m just gonna give some info/answer questions here.
-First of all, and most importantly, the cat mug is from either TJ Maxx or Marshall’s. My partner and I collect cat mugs and that’s where most of them are from. :)
-Second, the puddle in the picture was already cleaned up by the time I posted this, but I appreciate all the suggestions. I used a wad of paper towels to kinda shovel as much as possible into a plastic cup, then wiped up the rest with paper towels, then used Dawn powerwash and a barely damp scrub daddy to clean up the stickiness. I had to do this in the cabinet, on the counter, down the side of the oven, all the way to the floor. It seems to have worked. Nothing feels sticky anymore.
-I was actually only asking for suggestions on what to do about it dripping from the joints of the cabinet. However, it only dripped maybe five times from two corners, and that was it. There haven’t been any drips in like 20 hours at this point.
-I don’t know what exactly the cabinets are made of, but knowing my landlords/property managers, it’s the cheapest stuff you could possibly buy. So probably particle board. I can’t remove/replace the cabinet because I rent this place. Also because I’m poor lmao.
-I know it was stupid to store the bottle on its side. It was too tall to stand in the cabinet and I don’t have the counter space to leave it out. Lesson learned.
-This post got so many different answers and people disagreeing that I still don’t know what I’m gonna do lol. Since the dripping seems to be done, I’ll probably try to clean in the cracks as much as I can with rubbing alcohol, paper towels, and a bench scraper, then put silicone caulk over the cracks. Pouring water into the cracks would probably be more effective, but I think that would probably ruin the cabinet. Again, very cheap materials, not mine to replace, very poor.
-Pest control comes to my building monthly to spray something for the roaches. They spray inside the cabinets. Thankfully, they’re scheduled to come next week. I’ll tell them what happened and see if they have any suggestions.
-Finally, I think only one person commented this, but it pissed me off enough that I’m responding. I was upstairs in the shower while the bottle was spilling, so by the time I saw it, it had been spilling for 30+ minutes already. The four seconds it took me to take a picture was not going to make or break the state of my cabinet. The damage was long past done, I assure you.