How long does it take to clean your house top to bottom?

[lboogy]

I finally hired a cleaner after many years of saying I wouldn't. I always saw it as a bit bourgeois tbh.

DH never cleans. He's maybe hovered the carpets 5 times in 10 years.

Anyway, got a cleaner who did the whole house (3 bed 1930s house) in 3 hours.

DH came come and said the place is sparkling. I said it's because the cleaner came today. I said she did it all in 3 hours. He was surprised that it took 3 hours to clean the whole house.

When I've tried to clean the house it's taken me much longer and I miss bits.

How long would it take you to clean the house, dusting, hovering, cleaning cooler, doors and skirting boards?

Too fucking long.
3 storeys, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, random glass "walls" and glass balcony, which obviously need to be licked/touched everytime one of the kids goes near them. And we have dogs AND cats, so it's a recipe for disaster. I spend my life cleaning glass, and it never looks clean 😭.
I'd say to get it spotless, top to bottom (not stopping to sort out and drawers/cupboards of doom) it would take me a good 5-6 hours. And I'd have to be feeling pretty damn motivated.

About 6 hours to do a deep clean .

I clean every day but it's surface cleaning, like clean the kitchen. Things like the bathroom I do one or twice a week and hover twice a week. That's just downstairs though. I hardly get round to dusting polishing.

I was so grateful for someone cleaning for me. It was serious getting me down.

I feel so much lighter now. Best decision I've made in ages.

Before cleaner... it'd take 2 of us about 4 hours on a Saturday morning. However we'd procrastinate with tidying and do laundry too. He'd do downstairs and I'd do upstairs. 4 bed 3 bathroom. Now we just do the surface cleaning each evening and so glad we don't have the start of the weekend taken over by mission big clean!

I generally don't do the house in one go, I do all surfaces/hoovering everyday, except on a friday as our school does a half day friday so often cant get work done anyway so really crack on and do woodwork etc.
3 hours i reckon to do it right

Took me 4 hours to do a 'proper' clean of the kitchen last weekend (rugs up, curtains down, all furniture moved and cleaned behind). Bathrooms about an hour in total, the rest of the house I reckon 2 hours. So likely 7 maybe 8 hours. I'm not very efficient though, I start jobs then abandon them halfway through then go back to them leaving something else half finished!

I dust every day, hoover every second day and mop the floors twice a week. Did the whole lot yesterday including cleaning 6 cat litter trays and scrubbing the bathroom, but not doors, skirting boards etc. I have a decent sized 4 bed detached house, so large kitchen, 1 bathroom, 2 sitting rooms. Took me 3 hours to get thru it all

7 hours every fucking day and I still see cobwebs!

I cant imagine cleaning every day! Though I do tidy up and wash up the pans etc. I'm not ashamed to have a cleaner - I work full time with two kids and would have always felt I'd rather spend my time with my family than bashing about with the hoover. But even if I didn't work I'd not want to spend my time on cleaning.

Does 2 years sound too long?

According to my cleaner she can only manage the kitchen, bathroom and living room in our small bed house in 3 hours.
Sadly, she doesn't do a brilliant job of those.

Depends on size of house and how dirty it gets. With 3 cats shedding hair our cleaner can do the basics in 3hrs. To get every nook and cranny sparking she’d need days.

I've just got a cleaner. I guessed 3 hours, the agency said try 2. That wasn't enough, this week she did 3, but she's still missed things I thought should have been done.

She's doing front room, hallway, kitchen, downstairs toilet (all of downstairs is hard floors), stairs and landing (carpet), upstairs bathroom (she hasn't cleaned the floor or tiles in here yet), and hoover my bedroom.

Does that sound like it needs more than 3 hours?

I've never managed to do it all in one go despite being a sahm of school age dc so I have plenty of time

I used to live in a small two up, two down terrace house...used to take me two hours to clean thoroughly...my current house is much bigger. Two bathrooms, an extra bedroom, a playroom and my kitchen/diner is really big...(not a stealth boast) and its hard to clean as the previous owner chose shiny floor tiles

I miss my old house

If it looks like it needs a clean then I try to do it. I like clean toilets, bathroom. Then I like a clean looking kitchen. Next comes hoovering and dusting. You can go on for ever if you wish but as the years go on I believe if it isn’t necessary then do something else.

I can't do usually it all at once so tend to do a room at a time and top ups in the rooms I've already done that week. (Would rather do it in one go) But at a guess, with a proper thorough do, it'd be about 4-5 hours.

Iboogy Did your DH think 3 hours was a long time or quick?

Well it takes me about an hour to do the dishes, with a baby stuck to my leg and the toddler coming to tell me something but he's not entirely sure what, and when that's done I generally think fuck it, cleanliness is overrated anyway, and sit down with a cup of tea. So I've no idea how long the whole house would take, it's never been done.

^Actually it might take longer than that. That's with no rushing, tidying up, changing podcasts, getting a drink etc. If I was cleaning someone else's house it'd be quicker.

2.5 hours I reckon...

Four bed , three reception rooms, two bathrooms, massive utility and, 'boot' room. About 8 hours.

I'm not sure I've ever cleaned mine top to bottom.
Not even sure what that would include.

Another one who has never done it. It's SO boring... I'd rather boil my head. I clean when it looks like it needs it, probably about an hour a week, but probably a lot of this is tidying first. Dp does the same.

About 5 hours.
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 reception rooms and a utility.
There are only 2 of us so we don't make a mess.

2 hours if the cleaners do it. If I do it...well I guess we'll never know.