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Reasonable length of time to clean bathroom?

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bathromwoes · 16/02/2025 08:32

Please help me asses whether IABU.

How long would you say is reasonable to do a "deep clean" of a family bathroom?

It's a small room; toilet, sink, shower over bath. Tiled floor. Panel sheets around bath/shower.

It's becoming an increasing issue between DH and I, although I accept symptomatic of bigger things!

Thanks!

OP posts:
NotVeryFunny · 17/02/2025 18:30

15 minute to deep clean a bathroom?!? A weekly clean yes but a deep clean could be anything from 45 to 90 minutes. If I'm doing light fitting, cleaning walls and taking out/demouldiing the shower screen seals then it's more like 90mins. Without that about 45 mins to an hour.

Scirocco · 17/02/2025 13:37

littleluncheon · 17/02/2025 13:29

Yeah but is there really dirt encrusted on the walls and floors every week that needs scrubbing off?

There will likely be particulate matter accumulated. Whether someone wants or feels the need to clean it off thoroughly every week, or do so less frequently, comes down to personal priorities. If I had the time and energy, I would prefer to do a weekly deep clean, but there are lots of other things needing doing too, so I compromise. There is, however, no chance of me waiting until things are encrusted before cleaning them.

HollyBerryz · 17/02/2025 13:36

A deep clean for me would be about an hour. Floor to ceiling tiles cleaned, clean the bath, loo and sink, pull out storage drawers and basket to clean floor under them, clean mirrors. It's the tiles that take the most time really. A weekly clean would be about 15/20 mins

LakieLady · 17/02/2025 13:33

30 mins, including the mirrors and windows.

There's only me in the house, though, and I squeegee the shower screen after I've showered, and dry the taps off because they're shiny chrome and show every little water mark otherwise.

The bog gets toilet ducked every other day.

littleluncheon · 17/02/2025 13:29

Scirocco · 17/02/2025 10:45

I like to keep it fairly clean and hygienic, so want to get dirt, airborne particles, etc. I'd agree it's pretty easy to clean in comparison with some other rooms. It's also a room which gets exposed to a few things I'd prefer to get cleaned off thoroughly!

Yeah but is there really dirt encrusted on the walls and floors every week that needs scrubbing off?

FcukTheDay · 17/02/2025 11:11

Suppose it depends if it is a spare bathroom that must remain spare?

CasperGutman · 17/02/2025 10:49

It's not surprising there's wide variation in the replies on this thread. The OP asked for the time needed for a "deep clean" but later said this was a weekly task undertaken in a room that you wouldn't even be able to see needed cleaning. That doesn't sound like a "deep clean" to me, just a "clean", needing 15-20 mins tops.

Jaffapaffa · 17/02/2025 10:48

It took my over 2 hours to do ours yesterday!

Scirocco · 17/02/2025 10:45

littleluncheon · 16/02/2025 16:35

What are you all doing in your bathrooms that means walls and floors need scrubbing and bleaching? What are you scrubbing off??

Surely the bathroom is pretty much the cleanest and easiest to clean room in the house.

You can't bleach grout or sealant anyway, you're going to end up making it crumble.

I like to keep it fairly clean and hygienic, so want to get dirt, airborne particles, etc. I'd agree it's pretty easy to clean in comparison with some other rooms. It's also a room which gets exposed to a few things I'd prefer to get cleaned off thoroughly!

LondonLawyer · 17/02/2025 04:10

bathromwoes · 16/02/2025 08:32

Please help me asses whether IABU.

How long would you say is reasonable to do a "deep clean" of a family bathroom?

It's a small room; toilet, sink, shower over bath. Tiled floor. Panel sheets around bath/shower.

It's becoming an increasing issue between DH and I, although I accept symptomatic of bigger things!

Thanks!

Full clean - including all the tiles, shelves, sinks, loo, floor, shower, bath, de-limescale, etc? 30-40 minutes

MsAdaLovelace · 16/02/2025 22:33

I cannot find the post/s but a few of you have mentioned 'steaming' or using a 'steamer' ... can you tell me what you are using?

Thanks MN!

rivalsbinge · 16/02/2025 16:53

15-20 minutes

littleluncheon · 16/02/2025 16:35

What are you all doing in your bathrooms that means walls and floors need scrubbing and bleaching? What are you scrubbing off??

Surely the bathroom is pretty much the cleanest and easiest to clean room in the house.

You can't bleach grout or sealant anyway, you're going to end up making it crumble.

AllTheChaos · 16/02/2025 16:02

I just wanted to say thank you for this thread, as I started reading it earlier and it inspired me to go and clean my bathroom!

orzomushroom · 16/02/2025 16:00

I have never used bleach in our house . Bathroom gets a wipe down in about 2 mins after morning shower every day.Sink as and when ,loo when necessary.Never new there was a removable seal on shower door until I read this thread 👍

spikefaithbuffy · 16/02/2025 15:49

I don't use bleach, well neat bleach anyway

Cif cream for the bath, shower, sink or flash French soap spray
Toilet cleaner, wipe the rest of it with whatever is to hand
Method floor cleaner
Limescale remover as needed

BitOutOfPractice · 16/02/2025 15:41

Clocloxx · 16/02/2025 09:57

Do you not scrub everything down with bleach? Bath toilet floors sinks?

No, no I don’t. Apart from being terrible for the environment, I don’t see why a bath is such a seething mass of filth that it needs bleaching, or why it needs bleaching anyway.

You bleach floors? Why?

Babaganoush2013 · 16/02/2025 13:57

A quick clean a few times a week would take 15 minutes, but a once a week deep clean takes me about an hour.

We have a small bathroom but it gets dusty & full of hair (my lovely son is a very hairy man). I spray the bath tiles with mould & mildew remover, clean the bath & platic bath mat, bath screen. Shelves are cleaned, rest of the tiles in bathroom are cleaned. Clean windows, tooth brush/toothpaste holder, sink, toilet, chrome radiator. Clean all the floors.

InTheWild · 16/02/2025 13:55

A deep clean would probably take me 30 mins.
That’s scrubbing floors and wiping down all the tiles (floor to ceiling in our bathroom in quite a large bathroom) giving the shower screen a proper clean as well as the usual toilet/sink/bath cleaning.

CleverButScatty · 16/02/2025 13:38

DreamW3aver · 16/02/2025 08:43

I need to clean my bathroom today, Im wondering now if I'm doing it wrong, I was thinking about 15 minutes for what sounds a similar room

OP Said a deep clean, so I'm assuming bleaching th grouting, scrubbing the tiles etc.
15 mins sounds fine for a weekly once over .

MirandaWest · 16/02/2025 13:37

Have cleaned both bathrooms. May have had a break in the middle. Was a medium sized clean. So somewhere between 20 and 30 min per bathroom

WasteOfPaint · 16/02/2025 13:13

Thinking about it, it depends on your grout situation. In my old house I used to spend ages on the grout, now I have blue-grey grout and a very powerful extractor fan, and I hardly need to do anything to it

whirlyhead · 16/02/2025 13:04

I’m amazed about all the bleach use, I banned the blasted stuff years ago!

It takes my cleaner about 30 minutes to do each bathroom and I do nothing with them the rest of the week. They are quite clean. All the floors are stone including the walk in showers so she uses the steam mop. No idea what she does with the rest but she worked for rich Russians for years so is well trained!

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 16/02/2025 13:04

Depends on so many things OP. Is he hiding in there on his phone?
Are you taking too long/too short a time?
Here it would be around 30 minutes for me, 10 minutes for DH as we have different perspectives.

Boope · 16/02/2025 13:00

Unless it hasn't been touched for weeks I can't say more than 20 mins. DH takes longer but he doesn't even wash the floor.