To ask how often you think the average house is vacuum cleaned?

Its a good point about not being able to buy powerful cleaners these days, my Mieles are over 20 years old, I cant buy the same power these days so am loathe to replace them although they are knocking on a bit

Once a week when the cleaner is here.

Twice a week because my cleaner comes twice a week. When she's away I do it once a week.

I think doing the whole house every day is a lot but the thing that really stood out is how anxious it would make you not to do this, op. It's fine to have high standards but if the idea of anything less than perfect makes you feel uncontrollably anxious, that's an issue.

I can't believe that the average is more than once a week.

I aim for once a week in the main areas - quick go over on kitchen/hallway/living room rug. The rest of the house is left longer. Weeks, and some rooms can be months.

I can understand why people do it more if they have specific reasons e.g. hairy pets, or loads of kids, or allergies etc. But I also think there are loads of people who do it a lot less than anyone is admitting on here.

I generally go for once a week. But I live alone most of the week and don't have any pets. I have friends with dogs who have to vacuum daily.

I have a Sebo vacuum cleaner that is more powerful than you can buy these days, so my floor gets deep cleaned every time it is vacuumed.

I dont really understand people that sweep a floor when hoovering is quicker and more effective

It's quicker for me to sweep the kitchen floor than to get the vacuum cleaner out and set it up.

I dont really understand people that sweep a floor when hoovering is quicker and more effective

I do have a cleaner, should have mentioned that, she comes once a week, the only time I will hoover is if the kitchen is getting too crumby and then I just do a couple of mins. The hoover lives in the kitchen, all plugged in ready to go for such eventualities

She didnt come last week so I did a little bit of hoovering downstairs last night but didnt touch the bit of the sofa that the cat has been living on for weeks where there is an indent with a mass of thick fur. That can stay until she comes next

Couple of times a week, maybe more in the kitchen.

Every day, at least once, got a very furry dog!

Once a week downstairs on average. The children do their own rooms, stairs and hallway these days and it usually gets done when they are expecting friends/boyfriends over so could be daily or could be fortnightly lol.

My daily hoover takes about 10 mins btw (I timed myself once). I can find time for that.

It's fine if you can't tho. But clean floors are important to me. And as I say, I think I have a messy family.

What do you mean 'deep clean'

Hoovering is hoovering, you just run the hoover round.

I never move furniture out of the way, god knows whats behind it all. I dont care

Same but Akita!

Unless there are pets or a large household or small children I'm surprised that so many people feel the need to vacuum daily. Is everyone very messy?

No, we are very clean and tidy.

"kids" are almost 17 and 22 so pretty good as well. 22 year old isn't here in term time.

Unless there are pets or a large household or small children I'm surprised that so many people feel the need to vacuum daily. Is everyone very messy?

For example, we eat at the table, not in the living room. The dining room and kitchen get swept more frequesntly than we vacuum the rest of the house. We don't wear shoes indoors either.

Daily here, upstairs and downstairs. At the moment it's 4 of us here, but 3 in term time.

I hoover before I start work.

Having grown up in a home where both my parents cleaned equally I assumed everyone hoovered daily and this was my bar. It never occurred to me that people didn't hoover daily and that I've failed because sometimes don't make the time.

Might be dramatic to say this thread has changed my life but it's certainly been an eye opener.

Oh, vis a vis, state of house and hoovering. We have 4 cats...... don't come round.

I'd gladly do your hoovering in exchange for some cat 🐱 cuddles @Jux 😀

It depends on usage. Light use with a professional household when no one is around during the day then once a week or less. When kids were weaning and at home mostly then daily spot hoovering wasn’t unusual.

If you raise children and work, it’s when the cleaner comes or when you can be arsed.

I literally could not give a shit when my house was last hoovered.

Is this what women talk about in 2023. So fucking boring, joined onto the troll yesterday who said washing was easy - yep it is but I would still rather not do it because I am not a 1950s robot and my DH does it or I pay for someone else to do my washing..'

If you raise children and work, it’s when the cleaner comes or when you can be arsed.

I literally could not give a shit when my house was last hoovered.

Is this what women talk about in 2023. So fucking boring, joined onto the troll yesterday who said washing was easy - yep it is but I would still rather not do it because I am not a 1950s robot and my DH does it or I pay for someone else to do my washing..'

I never hoover in fact - all the hoovering in this house is done by dh or 17 yo ds. If I really need to clean a floor, I sweep, but usually they are good about staying on top of it.

I'm still allowed to say how often my house gets hoovered for someone who is interested. If you're not, not a problem. Mumsnet is where we get to talk about all the uninteresting things in life. Which we are actually allowed to do if we want to, regardless of what year it is.

Would like to add we sweep the kitchen multiple times a day!

Once a week here. Although, when I was working part time I did it twice a week. Don't have time for that now

I can't use our hoover, it's too heavy for me, so ME never. (Slight exaggeration, as I will sometimes do the kitchen or hallway if there's been a spill, but frankly, I can do it with a dustpan and brush with less pain and less of an impact.) DH therefore does all hoovering, as he does everything else. He's my carer - the SS usd to send us carers twice a week, but they objected to doing cleaning so it was stopped eventually. Now there's no one to help us - we've both been really ill, I had penumonia!, and DH did everything anyway despite having a chest infection and being on horrible anti-biotics himself. DD was away at Uni with strict instructions not to come anywhere near us.

We festered. I am on the mend now. DH is finding things a little easier as he goes further into recovery and sees me actually showing signs of improvement,

No help from anyone at all. Nothing offered, no agency asked us, nothing. This is how we shall die, given another 15 years unless someone in Government pulls their finger out and starts making meaningful changes to how society works.

Hmm, I might be strong enough to do clean sheets tomorrow! Fingers crossed 😄 (reasons to be cheerful!)

Oh, vis a vis, state of house and hoovering. We have 4 cats...... don't come round.

Robot goes round daily. No kids but lots of pets and tiled floors