Page 4 | To ask how often you think the average house is vacuum cleaned?

fallingapart2 · 2023-12-16T19:55:54+00:00

How often? Settle a debate on what constitutes 'normal' and what's excessive please.

ShazzaF · 17/12/2023 00:08

Once or twice a week depending on the room for a proper move the furniture and do all the nooks and crannies type of hoover, but the high traffic areas get two or three quick hoovers a day.

Hardwood floors, but no pets, no shoes in the house, and I have a very strict rule that food is only consumed at the kitchen table.

So why so much hoovering, I hear you ask?

Purely because I have a two year old who has apparently made it his life's work to eat every single little crumb or tiny bit of fluff he finds. Drives me absolutely bonkers.

If he didn't do that, I'm sure I'd be happy hoovering a lot less!

Toucanfusingforme · 17/12/2023 00:07

We had 3DC and a large hairy dog. Downstairs was vacuumed pretty much every day, certainly every second day. Upstairs less often. Stairs less than upstairs. Downstairs needed the regular cleaning for dog hair, food crumbs and the general mess created by 3 DC. Fortunately my DH noticed more than me so he did most of the vacuuming. Result!

TicTac80 · 17/12/2023 00:06

Daily (1 adult, 2 kids, 4 cats, so we have to!), but done by robovac! The floors are wood or quarry tile, so show up every bit of crumb or fluff. We hoover the stairs once or twice a week. ETA once or twice a week for average house?

MonkeyPuddle · 17/12/2023 00:01

Daily here. No hallway, kids, laminate.

Hotchocolateand5marshmellows · 17/12/2023 00:00

I'd say I hoover twice a week usually. Once a week is probably the average.

MasterBeth · 16/12/2023 23:58

fallingapart2 · 16/12/2023 21:23

Surely, for those people that do it once a fortnight it must take ages? To deep clean to that level, all the dust and shed hair, both human and pet?
If you do it daily it takes about ten minutes max. I use a cordless Dyson and just run it round every room quickly, doing the odd under the bed or behind this chest of drawers if it hasn't been done in a few weeks. I don't break and sweat and it's not a big deal. But if I left it a week the carpets would be minging with sock fluff and dust and crumbs and dropped bits of crap. I can't imagine not doing it daily, but DP insists that I'm OCD about it. 🤷‍♀️

Well, no, because not everyone has pets. We don't. So we don't have pet smell and pet hair and pet dust everywhere.

We have hard floors downstairs that prefer a brush. Stairs and carpeted living areas hoover maybe weekly. Bedrooms don't need hoovering anything like daily. What the fuck mess are you shedding in your bedroom that needs hoovering up every day??!

DragonMama3 · 16/12/2023 23:57

justalittlesnoel · 16/12/2023 19:56

I'd say 2-3 times a week is normal?

deffo

GlitteryUnicornSparkles · 16/12/2023 23:57

I have 4 cats, a dog and a messy teenager with allergies so my aim is daily but often it ends up being every other day or sometimes it may even go a day longer depending on what time I get home and how knackered I am. I hate doing stairs so they only get done once a week which is how often I mop the hard floors.

BooksAndHooks · 16/12/2023 23:53

It would depend on how many people, how often they are home, pets etc.

someone is always home. Stairs and bedrooms get done once a week but really need to be done more often. Living room is daily. Rest of downstairs is every few days.

Oblomov23 · 16/12/2023 23:50

I would sssume once a week is the norm.
More of pets.

I hoover Dyson once a week. Plus eufy once a week.

MasterBeth · 16/12/2023 23:50

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 16/12/2023 23:24

Ten minutes for the whole house? Do you live in a doll's house?

It takes me ten minutes to find the dollies for moving the furniture, get the furniture onto the dollies, and move it out from the walls in one room.

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The what? The dollies? What's a dolly?

MasterBeth · 16/12/2023 23:49

PinkflowersWhiteBerries · 16/12/2023 20:10

Downstairs daily, except utility which is at least twice per day. Upstairs two or three times a week. We are a shoes off house but my 2 labs seem to ignore that.

Twice per day??! What are you doing in there?

Inspirationneededplease · 16/12/2023 23:45

Twice a day for me! Not the whole house but downstairs. Shitty laminate with 3 toddlers. Upstairs twice a week

PenCreed · 16/12/2023 23:43

Weekly - no pets, no kids, two adults who don’t spend enough time at home! It would be less often if we didn’t have a cleaner…

nobrasfot · 16/12/2023 23:36

Daily. After about half a day it's a horrendous mess from two messy children and oh.

Mongrelsrbeautiful · 16/12/2023 23:34

Downstairs is daily for me and upstairs is weekly. I'd guess the av. To be weekly.

boobot1 · 16/12/2023 23:32

Several times a day in my house

thinslicedham · 16/12/2023 23:31

With heavily shedding dogs whose long fur picks up bits (leaves, twigs) from outside, it needs it every day or two, but realistically once a week is usual for me. Maybe twice if it's particularly bad. I don't have the time, energy, or will to do it daily. We've no babies crawling on the floors, so it's more a matter of aesthetics than necessity.

LemonLight · 16/12/2023 23:28

I vacuum once a week, unless the floor looks grubby to me then it gets an extra vroom. Only mop once every 2-3 weeks. I would do it more but I just don't have the time and energy.

Desecratedcoconut · 16/12/2023 23:26

Jesus, if you have to hoist your furniture in the air to hoover it, just leave it be, who's going to know?

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 16/12/2023 23:24

fallingapart2 · 16/12/2023 21:23

Surely, for those people that do it once a fortnight it must take ages? To deep clean to that level, all the dust and shed hair, both human and pet?
If you do it daily it takes about ten minutes max. I use a cordless Dyson and just run it round every room quickly, doing the odd under the bed or behind this chest of drawers if it hasn't been done in a few weeks. I don't break and sweat and it's not a big deal. But if I left it a week the carpets would be minging with sock fluff and dust and crumbs and dropped bits of crap. I can't imagine not doing it daily, but DP insists that I'm OCD about it. 🤷‍♀️

Ten minutes for the whole house? Do you live in a doll's house?

It takes me ten minutes to find the dollies for moving the furniture, get the furniture onto the dollies, and move it out from the walls in one room.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 16/12/2023 23:17

JudgeJ · 16/12/2023 20:10

I would have gone for median rather than mean in this instance.

In my house the part of the sitting room where I sit and make a mess gets done when I can no longer bear to look at it, other rooms that aren't used get done if I have visitors due. I put some decs up today but had to hoover up scores of dead flies first.

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I was feeling so alone on this thread about my infrequent hoovering until I read your post.

clary · 16/12/2023 23:13

Not RTFT

I hoover every day downstairs - no pets but I think I have an especially messy family as the grot builds up even when we are all at work! Sweep the kitchen and hall floor then hoover it up and do the living room too. No shoes in house.

Hoover stairs and upstairs twice a week.

No idea if this is normal and I don't really care. We are all different. Tho I do wonder about people who hoover less than once a week. I like to walk barefoot without treading in loads of crud.

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 16/12/2023 23:09

Once a week while house. Twice or three times downstairs.

Timeturnerplease · 16/12/2023 23:09

Daily in the school holidays, weekends only in term time. Due to working hours (teacher) rather than any kind of term time vacuum aversion.