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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’

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8TinyToeBeans · 08/09/2025 18:49

I clean them myself as and when I can be bothered or they get bad enough to annoy me. I don’t want to pay someone to do something I can do for myself!

WearyAuldWumman · 08/09/2025 18:48

I get mine done once every 4 weeks. 3 bed end-terraced house.

Boutonnière · 08/09/2025 18:47

DelphiniumBlue · 08/09/2025 18:07

Ours are done every 6-8 weeks, in the front of the house. The back windows are done hardly ever, maybe once a year.

Same here, though it can be longer depending on the whim of our very long time cleaner. I clean the ground floor kitchen and dining room ones when the sun hits at a particular spring or autumn angle.

34ransum · 08/09/2025 18:47

Genuinely SHOCKED at replies.

In 10 years at this address, not once have the outside windows been washed

They look absolutely fine, and no, I'm not a gruby person.

I wonder if it matters that we don't get much through traffic and live in a quiet area...

Springup24 · 08/09/2025 18:47

I do feel like I now want a window cleaner though having read this thread!

Zanatdy · 08/09/2025 18:47

Nope never have. When I was growing up we lived on a main road and had a biggish house with lots of windows. My mum had my dad up there every week with the ladder. My mum and my Nanna also mopped their outside steps every week. These are things i’d rarely if ever get round to. My mum doesn’t have a window cleaner now though, but she admits herself she isn’t as bothered by it, but also doesn’t live on a main road anymore and sadly my dad has been gone 7yrs, and even if he hadn’t, would have been 80 this year so wouldn’t have been going up a ladder anyway

DisabledDemon · 08/09/2025 18:47

Once a month.

Springup24 · 08/09/2025 18:46

We've lived here nearly 20 years.

Have occasionally cleaned the ground floor windows outside. Upstairs... never. Although they were replaced about 10 years ago I guess!

Not something that ever really occurs to me. We can still see out of them.

MummaMummaMumma · 08/09/2025 18:46

Errr I've never had a window cleaner

DoAWheelie · 08/09/2025 18:44

Mine is every 4 weeks but I don't get a say in it. It's a flat in a building with 18 other flats. It's owned by a housing association and the monthly service charge goes towards a weekly clean of the halls, windows every 4 weeks, and lawn mowing/garden maintenance every 2-3 months as needed.

RedRiverShore5 · 08/09/2025 18:43

We used to have a window cleaner but it was a bit of a pain with the locked back gate so DH bought poles of Amazon to do it

LavenderBlue19 · 08/09/2025 18:42

Every three months. They definitely need a clean by the time they come again, but I'm buggered off I'm paying for more!

I do the insides maybe twice a year, or ask the cleaner to.

amibeingaknob · 08/09/2025 18:41

Ive lived here 1.5 years. Ive never done inside or out. They seem fine to me but them Im a messy bugger.

Luxio · 08/09/2025 18:41

Dogaredabomb · 08/09/2025 18:34

But my window cleaner is £10pm 🤷🏼‍♂️

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To be fair that's still £120 a year which is quite a chunk of money.

Fleetheart · 08/09/2025 18:40

bigblueboots · 08/09/2025 18:12

This is the relatable content I’m here for! Anyone else just not have a window cleaner…?

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if you don’t have a window cleaner it’s ok for a bit, but then after a year or two you realise that you are not getting as much light in the house

Delatron · 08/09/2025 18:40

I definitely don’t think any windows need cleaning every month - that is what window cleaners tell you so they earn money. Any window cleaners do once a year (which is more than sufficient?) Didn’t think so…

Serpentstooth · 08/09/2025 18:39

Poor window cleaners, didn't realise it's become a luxury. I wish all the out of work window cleaners would take up hedge-trimming. Local hedge cutter has moved to the coast and we need a new one. Hard to find.

TimetoGetUpNow · 08/09/2025 18:38

Monthly

It used to be every 8 weeks I think, but we moved and we are opposite big trees and the windows get filthy.

Our window cleaners have not increased their prices since I started with them 11 years ago! I think the price was less if you had them more often so that could be why. But I’m not rocking that boat.

Inside = when I deep clean a room, or get fed up with imprints of cat noses. So varies by room. Annually some, probably every couple of months for kitchen.

onedogatoddlerandababy · 08/09/2025 18:38

My window cleaner comes every 10 weeks.

he’s been doing them for the last 6 years.

prior to that I never bothered once in 15 years 😂

imsotiredohsotired · 08/09/2025 18:38

It costs £50. They only get done every 16 weeks.

Woahtherehoney · 08/09/2025 18:38

we have a window cleaner who comes round every 4-6 weeks so yes we do! If they really don’t need it I’ll cancel him but we have patio doors at the back and so I do like them to get cleaned regularly

Rosscameasdoody · 08/09/2025 18:36

Once a month.

Delatron · 08/09/2025 18:36

Paquitavariation · 08/09/2025 18:13

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

Yep I find it bizarre that people pay for this every month. Maybe it’s like the Emperor’s New Clothes..

Comtesse · 08/09/2025 18:35

I am 50 and have never paid to have windows cleaned. I have lived in flats in London for 30 years.

Snozwanger · 08/09/2025 18:35

We reduced frequency from 6 weeks to 8 weeks to save some cash as a compromise from ditching the windowcleaner altogether. I know lots of people who don't have one though. It's the sort of thing you don't notice if you've never had one.