How often do you (or your charwoman) scrub your front step?

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Not a serious question. Just felt pressured to join in with all the how often do you shower, how often do you wash your towels, how often do you change your PJs threads.

It's been hygiene obsession week on Mumsnet.

Out of interest have you known anyone refer to a 'charwoman' since the 1930s?

I don’t have a step, but if I did I wouldn’t bloody scrub it. Thankfully we’re allowed slightly more fulfilling lives now.

That's it. I can't take anymore, I'm going to clean my front step today!! The last time I did it was 2014 and I can't take the guilt this thread has made me feel.

My great grandmother reputedly got blood poisoning and died as a result of a cut received whilst scrubbing the front step. she couldn't afford a charwoman.

Better to be a slattern.

Common sight in Spanish villages. You often have to sidestep as the water is swept out and they are still inside.

I never wash my step. DH pressure washes steps, path and patio once a year and I clean the doors, window sills etc Spring and Autumn at least.

I know it really stuck out in Wild Rose Hoppity and Ginger. But yes otherwise a great film.

I’m sure in a documentary about Claridges/a 5* hotel they went out and cleaned the walls, railings and pavement etc.

Last year before we repainted it.

It was made of cement and painted black, it was getting very chipped and worn so I scrubbed it, whacked a bit more cement on to make it a bit more even and painted it.
I don't think it eve got swept after that.

I'll probably scrub it again next week though as we're selling.

New place I don't think has a front step, it has a porch instead

I don’t have a step, but if I did I wouldn’t bloody scrub it. Thankfully we’re allowed slightly more fulfilling lives now

Oh I don't know, I find power washing it or hosing it down quite fulfilling to be honest. The difference between now, decades back, is we have power tools. 😋

I sweep the front porch area, bang the mat and if I have left over floor cleaning water, swill it around too. This happens roughly monthly. I have no charwoman. I only do it because it's a leaf trap.

Often and i put slate sheen on it. Then again i have a lot of slate (15 windows and 2 doors) plus slate slabs in my inglenook do love polishing it

The disadvantage of washing/sweeping the front path of all the shit the Primary School parents drop over the wall because they're fucking scum whilst their brats treat the wall and path as their own personal playground, general gardening or other tasks is that one of the neighbours always makes a point of coming out of his house so he can get a good look at my huge arse --just like Her out of Tom 'n' Jerry without the socks.

But it is quite satisfying to hear the shock in some of those parents' voices when their treasured little angels discover I've washed the path down by 7am through having damp/wet uniform.

I usually do it from now until about October. Just long enough for them to get a bit cold and wet.

Ratbags. Stick to the fucking pavement.

I don’t have a front step

Or a char

I only scrubbed the step once when a bird pooped on it. However my gardeners clear all the leaves off it once a month.

My Char, lovely old girl, her mother was a char as was her mother before her, does my front step every Monday before dawn, after sweeping and laying the fireplaces. I pay her thruppence an hour and a goose at Yuletide.

Goose, mmm. Delicious, but inconveniently large for one and disappointingly small for two.

I don't think I've looked at our front step since we moved in last year. We use the back door like everyone else in the village.