Reasonable length of time to clean bathroom?

What?? Why would you throw out the cloth? Surely you’d just wash and re-use it?

@bathromwoes what about washing down all the walls and drying them? the extractor has to be cleaned. also remember the toilet is the last thing to be cleaned so you can throw the cloth out when you are finished! I would be a lot longer than 15 minutes!

Dust is the big factor on how long it takes to clean the bathroom in my opinion. My bathroom can get really dusty sometimes. Read up on it before and apparently the toilet roll is the leading contributor to bathroom dust. But once shower condensation lands on that dust it's a messy operation to clean it all off the skirtings, pipes, etc.

As for cleaning the bathroom. I clean the loo and basin most days so they are never that bad. I also spray the shower screen down with daily shower spray after my morning shower so that generally takes care of limescale on the shower screen. So for deep cleaning it's only really cleaning the shower tray, the bath, mirror, window, mopping floor and that bloody dust! About 30-45 mins total.

Plenty of responses on bathroom cleaning so I think we need to know the issue.........

Can't say without knowing the specific tasks and overall state.

You say its clean enough - my dh would say ours is clean enough but I'm the one that sees the dusty skirting boards, cleans the toothbrush holders, tidies the drawers, dusts the radiator, uses the shower glass cleaner and the stainless steel polish and does the windows, washed the bins, hoovers and cleans the floors, pulls put the shower plug drain and sink drain plug etc etc. It's a multitasking job, not a wipe down with a few cloths and one spray.

Eta - about 2 hours for 2 bathrooms and a downstairs toilet. I usually stick on a podcast and do it fortnightly.

I guess it depends how deep of a deep clean you are talking about and how clean it’s generally kept prior and how big the bathroom is and how much crap you have in there to move.

For me a standard clean is:
A quick rinse of the tiles.
Spray & scrub the bath with a scourer & rinse.
Spray & scrub the sink & rinse.
Spraying and wiping over the toilet & putting bleach down it.
Disinfecting the windowsill with a spray and wiping over.
Cleaning the chrome towel rail with glass cleaner.
Cleaning both mirrors with glass cleaner.
Wiping over the top of the drawers.
Hoovering & mopping the floor.
Full cleaning out the cat litter (its located in the bathroom).
Put out fresh towels.

This takes around 20 minutes and is done at least twice a week.

To me the only extra I’d really do to make it a ‘deep clean’ every couple of months is:

Spray & scrub down the tiles with a scourer before rinsing.
Clean the window.
Wipe down the pipework by the sink and the skirt.
Take down and bung the shower curtain in the washing machine.
Thats probably an extra 10-15 minutes.

So I’d say 35 mins ish.

Bath / shower & sink rinsed down with water after each use.

Maybe the difference is what's done in between. My sink is dried after use, bench wiped, tap wiped, mirror wiped as needed. Shower is scraped and dried after use, taps etc wiped. So a deep clean doesn't need any initial cleaning or wiping etc. Just get on with it.

30 mins or so
I use products specifically for limescale etc and leave them to work so no scrubbing just wipe and rinse
While they're working I clean the toilet, wipe the skirting/walls etc and then rinse everything off

Not wasting 2hrs scrubbing when I can get products that do it for me

Things like removing and cleaning shower seal (the one that rests on bath), cleaning shower pipe and cleaning towel radiator are all jobs that I include in deep clean but wouldn't do weekly. They're the things that take time.

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15 minutes. Edit-regular clean. Not sure it needs deep cleaning

I’d say an hour, but then ours doesn’t get done as often as it should so it can be a bit grubby as a starting point. But I get distracted quite easily.

I spend an hour deep cleaning the bathroom once a week. My shower and bath are separate though so I would imagine slightly less time for your bathroom.

15 minutes for a deep clean? A proper scrub of the tiles, limescale removal from glass, fixings etc., scrub of the tub, etc.? No way. It would take me at least an hour, maybe 2 depending on how deep I’m going.

A basic clean is 15 minutes easily. But not a deep one.

Surely a deep clean means going a bit deeper and cleaning things that you wouldn't do every week?

You can do a quick wipe of the toilet, bathroom and sink which would be good enough, but cleaning the skirtings, windows, radiator, shower seal, behind the toilet and sink would be a more in depth clean.

People have different standards too. I've been in people's houses that are quite dirty and grotty but to them it's good enough and they probably don't want to waste lots of time cleaning.

For others they like things to be very clean and it's worth spending the extra time.

Well some people only have one bathroom so all that stuff you list would be in one bathroom not spread between two. Add in a child who has prescription skin care, teenagers with their own preferences and products, family members of a different ethnicity who require different hair products and it can add up to quite a lot of stuff! We don’t have much out in our bathroom, although do have a couple of plants and candles in there but I can easily see how people do.

To answer the OP, a deep clean takes me at least an hour. That would include all the grout, getting right into all the corners, properly scrubbing the grooves on the skirting boards and door frame, cleaning out the cupboard, behind the loo and sink pedestal, cleaning the window frame, cleaning the vent, getting the dust out of the radiator…

My loos and sinks are given a quick wipe over daily which takes under a minute, bathrooms are cleaned weekly including all the tiles and floor and surfaces which takes about 30 minutes for the main bathroom and then the bath and showers are given another quick scrub over weekly which takes 5-10 minutes depending how bad they are (hard water area and teenagers!!) But it would still take me at least an hour to do what I consider to be a deep clean.

20 mins for me. My ex used to spend over an hour ‘deep cleaning’ but I’d have to go in after and do it again as he somehow just made even more of a mess. No idea what he was doing for that hour.

If you’re spending an hour cleaning a bathroom that’s a waste of a life IMO. Just rotate which areas you give more attention on each clean to save having to do a one off deep clean of everything. 20mins max for a small bathroom.

I never 'get' the term 'deep' clean.

Surely you either clean or you don't?

The only times I've heard 'deep clean' is from cleaning companies who want to rip you off for what is basically a clean! (rather than a cursory wipe over with a J cloth!)

My bathroom clean is-

use limescale remover where it's needed (around taps, some tiles and the shower hose)

clean the bath and basin with a sponge and cleaner

clean the loo inside and out

wash the floor

wipe the window sill

wipe the skirting boards (they get quite dusty but do this monthly)

clean the inside of the window if necessary

dust the top of the storage cabinet

All of the above takes about 30 mins.

My bathroom is about 15ft long so it takes a while.

For a proper deep clean, 30-60 minutes depending upon how bad it was at the start.

No, with an actual scrubbing brush? Is that something everyone else does?

What is the purpose?

Probably 45 minutes to an hour

What's the argument about? One of you thinks the other takes too long? Or one of you thinks they don't take long enough and so doesn't do a deep enough clean?

OK. So your answer is "I don't deep clean my bathroom". Each to their own. But deep cleaning - which is what OP asked about - takes more than a couple of minutes.

I also never bleach my bathroom (apart from very infrequent occasions where there might be a bit of mould that needs removing from grout or seals but we don't suffer much from mould and mildew)