Clean a house to a good standard in just two hours

My cleaner does our modest 3 bed semi in 2 hours, usually less. It's always sparkling when she's been.

It's tidy to begin with so that makes her job much easier.

Hoovering, dusting, windows, bathroom, kitchen surfaces and mopping kitchen floor.

A cleaner doing everything in two hours will be more efficient than someone doing a room a day. He or she will only get the hoover out once, for example, or perhaps it will even be left out.

You clean toilets and bathrooms and vacuum daily?

Why on earth do you need to vacuum your entore house daily?

It depends on the size of the house. Ours is 3500 sq feet. It takes my cleaner four hours to: steam hard floors, vacuum carpets, clean three bathrooms and two bogs, dust. I couldn't do it that fast.

I deep clean a room a week - paintwork, vacuum soft furnishings, pull things out and tidy, picture tops and polish glass, dust light fittings, etc, tidy drawers, wash/polish ornaments. It takes me 12 to 14 weeks to get round.

Easy . If you do general cleaning ie bathrooms and kitchen / stove tops etc daily as we do and a quick whizz round with the vac daily two hours is more than enough to do a more thorough clean obviously not changing three double beds and Venetian blind cleaning etc but defo skirting boards light fittings mopping etc

A weekly clean of a 2 bed house would be bathrooms, assuming 2, kitchen light clean and all floors, including mopping. No dusting or windows. 🙂 They are my favourite ones. Just crack on with them.

yiu agree that you can clean a bathroom in around the minutes up thread

so half an hour if you have 3 bathrooms ( more than many people) , 15 mins to walk round with the duster and another 15 with the vacuum and half an hour in the kitchen gives you half an hour do something deeper in one or two rooms

It depends on the size and how clean it is to begin with surely?

I can do a quick blitz in 2 hours

I used to be a cleaner. Did not tidy up. Wiped ornaments and other things but in bedrooms wiped everything around but left wiped stuff on the beds. I never used bleach. It does more harm than good. Disinfectant is better or at a push antibac.

Yup, me too. It's my day off tomorrow & if I'm at it with no distractions (pod cast on & locked in) I can clean our 4 bed with 2 reception & 2 bathroom house in 2 hours no issues:

Dust
Hoover
Clean bathrooms
Clean kitchen
Mop
Wipe light switches/ doors

Alternate weeks I'll wipe skirting & do fridge/window surrounds.

DP does windows.

Laundry is separate, of course!

But our house is tidy as we're both tidy & I have tidy(?ish) teens.

Ha sorry I meant in the 2 hours from the OP not my mad 8 (which involves almost a deep clean - rare occasion I get to clean that much nowadays).

Firstly, cleaners just clean IME. I always ensure it is tidy and clutter free before they come, which you would have to add to your time tidying if you DIY.

Secondly, I think it is common to have cleaners in for a bit longer than 2 hours unless deliberately being mindful of budget. We have equivalent of 4 hours (2 x 2 hours) and I think our cleaners do that as minimum for their clients. I know they go to one house pretty much daily but that includes folding washing etc.

I will still blitz areas for a deep clean as and when I feel it needs it, or ask them to come a couple extra hours if they are free.

Unless you are an absolute minimalist, if you have a 4 bed, with a couple reception rooms, or pets/kids then I think you'd just have to do a bit more than 2 hours.

You're cleaning standards are waaay too high!

What is a clean with a bucket of water and bleach? Never done that in my life.

Often they charge more at first for a deep clean then keep on top of it. Obviously depends on size of house and number of bathrooms. I pay 3 hours for a 4 bed.

I can get the basics done in 2 hours - hoovering, cleaning toilet/bathrooms and mop floors. And wiping any dirty surfaces.

Honestly they are really good! If you’re someone who struggles to stay on task (someone with ADHD is a good example) then they are super good at keeping you focused on what you need to be doing. When you aren’t given any leeway to faff around and are being (gently) bossed around by someone, you can get a lot done in a short space of time! I used to use them a lot before we got a cleaner.

@Titsywoo is 8 hours a typo? It took your cleaner over three hours per bathroom?

Depends on the house. My cleaner takes 2 hours to do only our kitchen/kitchen area.

No, it took me two hours today to do the kitchen dining room today, it was a deep clean.

It takes me 8 hours to do a proper clean of my 3 bed house. We had a cleaner for a while and she did 2 bathrooms and a basic clean of the kitchen diner in that time.

I don’t think really it’s as black and white as that. I could clean my house all day, every day and then some more. But I don’t. But some people wouldn’t be able to stop, some people wouldn’t be able to walk away from this bathroom tiles not being cleaned (and I’m more than happy to do that) as an example.
its the same with cleaners. I watch 2 lovely girls on TikTok who clean houses. But their clean wouldn’t be good enough for me. They make beds without pulling the bottom sheet straight (that really annoys me lol) , they use the hinch spray and wipe stuff on the bathrooms where if I were paying someone, I’d want a full proper bleach and tbh they seem to spend more time moving stuff about , faffing with throws on beds, hoover lines and fans on the toilet rolls.
i guess it all comes down to different expectations and really the size of your house. My house is very tidy and clean and I’m very house proud, but there no doubt my last house took way less time to clean because it was smaller

I make sure the decks are clear for our lovely cleaner and she does through a 4 bed house in that time

We don’t do nothing between professional cleans. We clean the loo every couple of days and wipe down the bathroom (only have two toilets and one bathroom) we clean the kitchen surfaces daily with the dishes etc. so the two hours is dusting, hoovering, floor mopping and a more thorough scrub of kitchen snd bathroom surfaces.