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To think ‘most people’ don’t get their windows cleaned this often?

658 replies

bigblueboots · 08/09/2025 18:05

Disagreement in our house today. Do ‘most people’ (which after some discussion was pinned down to people in 30s/40s in eg 3 bed semi with a kid or two 😅) have their windows cleaned every 6-8 weeks?

YABU - of course they do
YANBU - definitely not ‘most’

OP posts:
CoffeeLipstickKeys · 08/09/2025 19:56

Windows every 8wk we have a lot of windows

Babybirdmum · 08/09/2025 19:55

I get a one off clean done every 6 months

PithyTaupeWriter · 08/09/2025 19:54

We have lived in our current house for 11 years now and have never had the windows cleaned. We're not against window cleaning, just have never gotten around to it. I think it's well overdue though....

luckylavender · 08/09/2025 19:54

Mine done once a month

StillFeelingTired · 08/09/2025 19:52
  1. bed Victorian semi. Just counted, 11 large windows. Every 3 months and cost 36 pounds. We live on a dirt and stone road though so a lot of dust.
Gwenhwyfar · 08/09/2025 19:52

I don't think people who do it themselves do, but if they have a window cleaner, they might do. The one I asked said he only took on customers who would get it done every two weeks! I found that to be unreasonably often so didn't take his services, but if I was an old/infirm person who couldn't do it myself, I might have had to.

LillyPJ · 08/09/2025 19:51

Paquitavariation · 08/09/2025 18:13

Mine haven’t been washed for about 10 years, and they look no different than anyone else’s.

They must look different from anybody else's who's got clean windows!

CatCaretaker · 08/09/2025 19:49

Never (in the 18 months since they were installed). Despite living in a 3 bed semi we are not flush enough to pay someone to clean our windows! Will get round to it ourselves sometime.

BettysRoasties · 08/09/2025 19:49

We clean then when they look like they could do with being done. We have the pole to do it.

The neighbour seems to get them done monthly but it’s the only house I see getting them done.

rrrrrreatt · 08/09/2025 19:49

Ours get done once a month outside, inside…when the cat face marks annoy me too much 😂

LillyPJ · 08/09/2025 19:49

My window cleaner comes every 5 weeks but a lot of people I know don't have their windows cleaned at all.

Wethers121 · 08/09/2025 19:49

Ours is once a month

GRex · 08/09/2025 19:48

About every 2-5 months we reach perfection of having a full job done. Like some others, our cleanliness is controlled by the whims of the window cleaner. He will come, sometimes do inside and out, other times just outside or just front outside and then return some weeks later to finish. Sometimes he does outside when we are out and climbs over the roof to finish. One time he was diverted sorting out our guttering on the roof he crosses (leak and tiles fixed while we were out). I sometimes whatsapp with him, see him around at least weekly, never have any idea when he will come nor how much I owe when he has, because I won't know what he did. We let him use our drive to save him buying permits, so sometimes he's there but doesn't even clean ours!!! I'm pretty sure he does the whole neighbourhood, and every now and then someone will be asking if someone else can book him to come by and do our road. And yet, we all stay clean enough and the competition letterbox adverts get binned. He's utterly adorable and charms everyone he meets, but I've no idea how he makes it all work.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 08/09/2025 19:48

I have a window cleaner who comes monthly.

KeenGreen · 08/09/2025 19:48

Ours is meant to be every 8 weeks but occasionally more like 6-8 weeks.

It’s £18 a time so not a massive expense

Notexactlyasplanned · 08/09/2025 19:46

Our window cleaner suggested once every eight weeks: he reckons that’s enough and no-one’s ever complained ;-) Prior to that I cleaned them myself at erratic times, and no-one ever complained then either

cobrakaieaglefang · 08/09/2025 19:45

My window cleaner comes every quarter

Whyamiherenow · 08/09/2025 19:42

We have a local window cleaner. The windows get cleaned when he turns up. It is supposed to be monthly but is often more like 6-8 weeks. Insides done much less frequently.

AntiBullshit · 08/09/2025 19:41

I live near a train station and get all sorts of muck, quick wipe with cloth when I remember and done. I’ve given up cleaning with water as they just become smeary. Inside erm maybe 10 years ago if not more

mumoronegirl · 08/09/2025 19:40

All windows monthly

Shivaughn · 08/09/2025 19:38

A lot of the window cleaners round here only offer every month, or charge virtually the same price to have them every couple of months.

knittings · 08/09/2025 19:37

I do mine once a month then i re-tint them.

godmum56 · 08/09/2025 19:34

every 5 to 6 weeks.

Mamabearandcubs · 08/09/2025 19:34

We don’t have a window cleaner and our windows are just fine.

BogRollBOGOF · 08/09/2025 19:34

We don't have a window cleaner.
DH occasionally buys some gadget to DIY it and says it's easy.
I've never known him to clean a window. I'm not convinced that his logic stacks up.

Window coverings hide a multitude of sins!