Reasonable length of time to clean bathroom?

I am amazed by some of the replies on here. "Deep clean". Bleaching everything, scrubbing the grout! Perhaps you perform brain surgery in your bathrooms. We have one bathroom, toilet, basin with all in one worktop, cupboards underneath basin,bath with shower over. Mirror door wall cupboard. When I get out of the shower, I clean,bath, toilet, taps,basin,(toothpaste)work surface, window sill,shampoo etc live in the cupboards. Bathroom is completely tiled, battery window vac,to remove the water. Takes a couple of minutes. Every weekend, Change towels, flannels ,clean window,water plants, descaler down toilet,vacuum and wash floor. The tiles are done daily, they don't get mouldy, clean traps, wipe big towel rail . The toilet is cleaned after use, multiple times a day (we're retired) takes a few minutes. Monthly shower head, shower curtain.

I think there are two variables on this thread:

1. Some people start with a reasonably clean bathroom so it will take them less time.

1. Something MN will never acknowledge which is that people have very different standards. Lots of posters love to make out that people are wasting their time if they spend longer than absolutely necessary doing a domestic task or something related to childcare. The fact that the person doing the activity feels that it's worth putting in the extra time and effort for the difference in outcome completely passes them by.

Gawd! I’ve never deep cleaned anything in my life. Wouldn’t have a clue how to start. I guess it would take days to do it as I’d be stopping every 15 mins and going and doing something unrelated.

I loathe cleaning so do the bare minimum and as rarely as possible as I’ll get overwhelmed very easily. I probably have undiagnosed Autism (DS is diagnosed and his Neurologist said highly likely I am too from our chat). ☹️

DH is meant to clean the main bathroom as I never use it and he’s worse than me as he never hoovers anywhere, although he’s quite tidy compared to me.

I’d love to pay a cleaner to come regularly but do you have to tidy up first?

We have a small bathroom with completely tiled walls and shower above the bath, plus it is only used by two adults. Pretty much all product bottles are in a cupboard apart from the hand soap and tooth brushes.

Once a day the floor is wiped and the bath, sink and shpwer screen is sprayed with shower spray. We have a rim block for the toilet and toilet users will wipe the toilet down as needed.

Once a week the chrome fittings and mirror are cleaned and polished, the sink, bath, shower head and taps cleaned, the tiles around the bath and the shower screen scrubbed, the toiled properly scrubbed and the floor scrubbed. Towels are changed. This takes about 25 mins (I put cleaning products on and go and clean the kitchen while it works).

Once every few weeks I'll clean the window and frame, wipe the blind, apply grout cleaner and wash all the walls throughly

Once every few months I'll empty and clean the cupboards.

I am not sure I have ever cleaned the door or the light fitting.

No do people do that.

It's far from a deep clean.

15mins isn't a deep scrub and clean. Are you just giving it a quick wipe with cloth and detergent and think that's a deep clean? Ours gets cleaned properly 3x a week.

I will add that our bathroom is tiny and we don't have any cabinets or vanity unit.

I try not to let anything go mouldy we keep it well ventilated.

If you had a walk in shower and a larger bathroom then a deep clean could take over an hour I imagine.

Why do you ask op?

A quick wipe over takes about 15 mins. The deep clean takes about 45 mins or so.
Quick wipe over - sink basin/taps, toilet seat and cistern, inside the bath and the shower door, with a wipe around the area I stand to shower.
Deep clean - the above plus the outside of the sink, outside of the toilet bowl, towel radiator, all shelving, all tiling and bath panel, plus glass cleaner on shower door. Possibly using mould or limescale remover where necessary.

I should say I have found a regular quick clean, as long as you're cleaning everything, often negates the need for a long clean. Sometimes I do a little section each time I go to the bathroom and by the end of the week it's done.

If you are doing it regularly and starting with a dry bathroom I'd say 15/20 mins.

I've done a deep clean that took longer than an hour but that's scrubbing the grouting etc.

I'd clean the toilet more often than this but spend about 30 Seconds on it.

For a deep clean, I'd say about an hour.

It takes me 30 minutes exactly.

I vacuum all the dust first. Spray bleach onto the tiles. Take the seal strip off the shower screen (a lot of people seem to leave this to go mouldy). Wipe the radiator and door handles. Then I clean the toilet, bath, sink, shower screen, window sill, shower, bath panel, round the base of the toilet. Top up hand-wash, toilet rolls, change towels. Lastly mop floors.

If I'm in a hurry or it's not particularly dirty, I can do a very quick clean in 10 minutes and make it look decent.

Eye opening is the word. Sanitising? What on earth do you mean?

One small bathroom doesn’t take several hours to clean very thoroughly unless one is extremely disorganised.

Bloody forever. The horrible flooring has raised dots on it that hoard dust, so it needs hoovering/ sweeping, then mopping, then physically wiping with a cloth/ wipe. The tiles are textured too, so no quick swoosh over them. Skirting boards, including round the bath, so dusting. Ledge/ shelf around most of the room, so needs wiping down. Open shelf cupboard, needs dusting. Small bathroom, so I have to take out the bin/ toilet roll basket/ toy tin etc to clean in the small corner.
It takes me an hour to do a regular clean of the bathroom and toilet next door, and that's without doing any grout or on top of cupboards.

For a deep clean, probably an hour.

For an average clean, half an hour.

45 minutes. That's what it takes to clean the bathroom in our holiday cottage, which is a deep clean every time.

I clean the bathroom twice a week so 15min. If was only once a week, I'd say 30min

I use a bathroom.cleaner that I assume includes bleach or similar (lots of claims to kill 99.9% of bacteria) and also has limescale removing properties. I spray. I leave to work for a minute or two, I give it a good scrub. It's not a huge 20 minute palaver? We have terrible limescale so I imagine if it wasnt don't regularly it would be a bigger and more heavy duty task, but it is done regularly so it isn't.

Depends how grotty it is. Perhaps 20 minutes?

I’m with you! For a deep clean.

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

Hour or more for a deep clean.. not just wiping surfaces

Our bathroom is a wet room so a deep clean would involve a thorough clean of the channel drain and cover which takes longer than 15 mins on it's own

Can I ask why you bleach your bath? I’m intrigued!

Id say 20 minutes for a regular clean. 45 for a really good go at it.