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

309 replies

fallingapart2 · 16/12/2023 19:55

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

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newusern99 · 16/12/2023 23:08

Quite a few people seem to do the stairs less often.
I’d say our stairs are probably what needs doing the most often

slithytoveisascientist · 16/12/2023 23:07

Once a week with hetty and as hoc with robot

OzziePopPop · 16/12/2023 23:07

Daily, but we have pets and DS is a muck magnet 😂

campingmama · 16/12/2023 23:05

Hoover/mop downstairs daily, upstairs and stairs weekly... then scape the stairs and living room fortnightly.

KnottyKnitting · 16/12/2023 23:01

I would say about twice a week for areas of the house that get used a fair bit. But that is my Eufy AKA Bernard. The horrid heavy useless shark upright is used around once a fortnight on the stairs and in the corners/ crevices that Bernard can't reach.

Anonymouseposter · 16/12/2023 23:01

As an average I would say, main rooms downstairs about twice per week. Bedrooms and upstairs landing about every 3 or 4 weeks.
I think there's probably a lot of variation from daily hoovering to monthly and, of course, houses with small children and/or pets need more frequent hoovering.

DinosApple · 16/12/2023 23:00

Weekly downstairs. Upstairs maybe every 2-3 weeks. We're pretty relaxed. No pets.

BackAgain2023 · 16/12/2023 22:58

'If you don’t have a job it’s 1-3 times a week.

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..'

you care enough about it to read and post on the thread

gingercat02 · 16/12/2023 22:55

Once a week, when the cleaner comes

MerryHen · 16/12/2023 22:54

Whenever we're due a visitor 🙈

With young children and full time jobs we just don't have time. We sweep the kitchen every day and have recently purchased a handheld vacuum in a bid to do it a bit more often. Reader, we have not.

Copperoliverbear · 16/12/2023 22:53

Every day, mine at least twice, I have dogs. X

margotrose · 16/12/2023 22:52

We vacuum daily but we have three cats and a dog.

Growing up we had no pets and I'd say it was done every couple of weeks on average, maybe more when I was younger:

ganglion · 16/12/2023 22:47

Not sure on the average but we vacuum daily at least - robot hoover on all three floors. I do the stairs when I notice they need doing, every couple of weeks.

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 16/12/2023 22:44

Every room is vacuumed every week, but on different days as the dyson only does 2 rooms without the battery needing recharging or filter changing.
It would need to be done daily if we had pets.

Morewineplease10 · 16/12/2023 22:40

Once a week if no pets. More if have pets.

boozeclues · 16/12/2023 22:37

If you don’t have a job it’s 1-3 times a week.

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..

elm26 · 16/12/2023 22:34

I have a spaniel and a 7 month old and hoover every other day.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 16/12/2023 22:33

Twice a week by robot. Maybe once a month for the bits it misses.

mrsmacmc · 16/12/2023 22:32

Twice weekly full hoover and as and whens in between can't stand floors being icky

stayathomer · 16/12/2023 22:31

For those who vacuum daily without a robot what kind of vacuum do you use. Ours likes in a cupboard (cylinder) and getting it out and plugging it in more than once a week is a big faff. I’ve just bought a cordless shark so started doing it more often but I would never faff around with a bigger machine more than once a week
Henry here too, long enough cord that you only have to plug it out twice or so and you can wind up the cord to go upstairs (dormer so only one bedroom up there)

EbonyWood · 16/12/2023 22:31

Daily!

GuitarGeorgina · 16/12/2023 22:29

Every 2-3 days. Hairy dogs so should do it daily but lack the time or inclination.

AllAroundMyCat · 16/12/2023 22:28

Daily ( Golden Retriever.)

RampantIvy · 16/12/2023 22:28

It takes longer than 10 minutes to vacuum my house. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (hard floors), landing, stairs, kitchen (hard floor), dining room (hard floor), downstairs loo (hard floor), hall, study and living room.

Runnerduck34 · 16/12/2023 22:17

Daily downstairs ( mainly due to dog hair!)
Weekly upstairs
Every household is different just do it as needed