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?

bloody Hell. Never. A lifetime. Who knows? What insane person would try?

unscrewing things

Rivers I like a good unnecessarily deep clean occasionally but I'm curious what would need unscrewing to clean it? Worried I've been missing out!

3 hours sounds about right for that size of house for a first clean. She might be able to do it quicker as time goes on.

Our house is; 4 bedrooms, dining room, living room, kitchen, 2 bathrooms, small utility, small study & playroom. It takes our cleaner 4 hours. The house is very tidy and we only actually use about half of it regularly so she only tends to do 2 hours every week with the occasional 4 hour top to bottom clean added.

Funny how your DH thinks it was too long, and yet has never done a surface clean let alone a deep clean.

I hope you use your freed up 3 hours for yourself and not dh and DC.

Ironing curtains isn't cleaning. That's ironing, so isn't included. Anyway, curtains are self-ironing what with gravity, surely?! 😂😂

Just so long as the place is tidy you can get away with a lot. I do Hoover a bit that's only because I have two long haired cats. Obviously kitchen and bathrooms cleaned regularly, and bed changed, but can't be bothered with dusting/ polishing unless visitors expected. Then I will have a blitz.