Reasonable length of time to clean bathroom?

I don't have grout my walls are smooth panels, my shower is fixed overhead so no messing with that, my lights are inset so no touching those, my loos are regularly cleaned so don't need sandblasting, I live in a low limescale area and don't hoover just pick up dirt with a wet cloth when I'm wiping them.

We have two. I have the bathroom with the bath. He has the one with the shower. I reckon it takes me a half hour. DH can't estimate because his approach is to do parts of it at a time.

Given your update I would say 20 minutes.

You don't clean your teeth?

Same. A deep clean isn’t just a spray and wipe. I even clean the light fixtures in the ceiling, the extractor fan interior and wash the window.

15 minutes?!

In 15 minutes can you
Clean all grout
clean skirting boards
clean light fittings
clean bath
clean toilet, as in actually clean not, not a lick round the bowl with a brush
clean, remove limescale and polish all metal work, taps etc
Hoover and clean floor
Clean windowsills
clean any showergel bottle holders etc
clean radiator/towel rail
clean shower screen/change shower curtain
Clean bathroom door of any marks

A deep clean means a room is brand new clean/so clean you can lick it.

100% this. I need to deep clean our en-suite today which is tiny but it will take at least an hour to get everything thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned. Especially all the tiny nooks that are awkward to get at.

a quick spray and wipe/ bleach in the loo is 10/15mins but not a deep clean.

It really does depend on what a 'deep clean' entails and how often it's being done.

It also depends on things like what bath products you use, whether people tidy up after themselves, how much stuff there is in there.
And obviously on how quickly someone works.

In general it's unreasonable to assess cleaning by how long it took vs whether it's clean enough at any given point. From your second post yours is always 'clean enough' so it sounds like the time and frequency of cleaning are sufficient or maybe more than is really needed.

Deep clean takes me 30/40 mins

Probably around an hour including scrubbing the grout and cleaning all the walls and getting in all the crevices of the Victorian style radiator/towel. Also the floor and half the wall tiles are hand made so aren't completely even so that takes more cleaning. The windows are wood with multiple small frames so again they are more fiddly to clean.

What is it you're arguing about OP?

4 people, one bathroom. Products everywhere. People who flood the floor after a shower and so need to use the mould stuff. Won't mention the toilet. Definitely 30 mins, min.

I do ours everyday and takes about 20 minutes. We don't have shelves or anything out, as it stored in a cupboard. Bathroom is floor to ceiling tiled with glass shower cubicle and vinyl flooring.

Everything gets cleaned daily.

20 mins that's walls, shower screen , bath , toilet , sink , shelf , taps and floor

A proper deep clean - scrubbing the grout, cleaning all the tiles etc takes a good two hours. This would get done maybe once or twice a year though.

A regular clean - clean enough for visitors - maybe 20 minutes, at most?

Once every two weeks, 15-20 mins max

• descale the taps / shower head
• spray and clean down the bath
• remove all products and plants from shelves and clean them
• clean the sink and toilet
• hoover the floor before mopping, go and on hands and knees for behind pedestals
• spray and wipe wall tiles
• clean the inside of the window and the big mirror
• change towels
• clean the hooks / toilet roll holder / door handle
• clean the skirting & door crevices

The only thing i don't do is a specific scrub of the grout but just a normal rub with a cloth is keeping it fine. I could probably make it 30 minutes if I was slower but honestly, my bathroom is pretty sparkling.

Even when I've gone big grout cleans it's been 30 mins max - let the products do the work and it's super easy. I cannot fathom ever spending more than an hour!

Bathroom design definitely comes into it! I can definitely deep clean mine in 20 minutes. We have one drawer under the sink to hold products but no cupboards or shelving, no skirting boards, massive tiles so grout is minimal and is also grey coloured so a quick wipe and it looks good, a water softener to keep limescale at bay, wet room style flooring can do the lot with the steam mop and there’s no tray or crevices of an enclosure to clean just one piece of fixed glass to stop spray that can be wiped in about 2 minutes, the toilet and sink are wall hung so the mop goes right under it, there’s one small window but the frame is not ornate and there’s no window sill so can wipe it in seconds. The old bathroom design had a claw footed tub you couldn’t fit the mop under but couldn’t get round the back of, a shower enclosure with sliding doors, a toilet with a million crevices behind it and I could spend an hour cleaning that and it would still look grubby.

See I just couldn't let a bathroom get to the stage where the grout or door needs scrubbing rather than a wipe over

If there is hair in the traps , it gets taken out by whoever has the moulting hair at the time , not left to accumulate

We don't have cupboards in the bathroom - just a single shelf in each case so that's easy to wipe

Perhaps that's the difference - little and often or occasional deep cleans that therefor take longer

Yes, I think we need to know the background here.

It would probably take at least an hour or two to clean our bathroom to MN standards, but if you're one of those people who are wiping and bleaching daily in addition to a weekly 'proper' clean, so it's never actually visibly dirty then obviously far less.

What is actually necessary is also worth considering. If you're expecting him to scrub the walls each week, then that's a bit much tbh.

Small bathroom here, with acrylic panels rather than wall tiles. In good nick - no mould or anything (that's why acrylic panels!).

Probably 30-40 minutes, as that includes standing in the bath to clean the acrylic panels which go up to the ceiling. Usually 10 minutes - shower used to spray the panels and rinse out the bath after cleaning. Leave bleach in loo while doing the rest of the cleaning, spray cleaner and microfiber cloth for sink, bath and tops/taps. Clean loo. Change towels. Mop floor.

If I had to deal with mouldy grout and yucky bits it would take me considerably longer.

Luckily my loo isn't an operating theatre so a deep clean for me is a decent scrub down:
Loo 3 mins
Sink 2 mins
Shower 7 mins
Floor 3 mins
maybe 5 mins extra to empty and wipe down a cupboard or wipe the skirting but we seem to survive despite my laxness.

although I accept symptomatic of bigger things!

probably better to start a thread about this then, rather than ask a bizarre question like this that’s somewhat dependent on the state of the bathroom and standards

Our bathroom is about the same size but it's old and difficult to clean. It takes me about 30 minutes if I've already sprayed products. We don't have lots of stuff out though. Not that it looks that much different once you've washed your hands in that horrible sink ...

Wow how much stuff do people have in their bathrooms that they need to take it all off shelves to clean? In our shower caddy it’s shower gel/shampoo/conditioner/my razor/face cleanser. In the kids bathroom they each have a shower gel and then a shared shampoo/conditioner. The downstairs one has nothing hanging around as people only really use the toilet.

I hate a bathroom with lots of ‘stuff’ around, it looks messy and makes it harder (and judging by this thread a lot longer) to clean.

It will depend completely on what you actually do. It takes a good five minutes just to clean our shower plug trap.(involving taking it apart with a svrewdrovsr, cleaning the parts and putting it back together) but there's three long haired women/girls.).

People have very different ideas of cleaning!