How long should this take two adults?

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I had a cleaner to do (most of) this list until recently but now BF is moving in soon and we are trying to cut costs.
Previous cleaner is my friend so we spent a lot of her time here drinking coffee and chatting so I've no idea how long the actual cleaning took.
Both of us working together, How long do you think this would take...

Cleaning list for Saturday

General
Open all windows and put rug out to air (Weather permitting)
Strip bedding and put on to wash

Kitchen
High dusting
Top of fridge, Metal splashback and high cabinets cleaned.
Appliances cleaned (Mixer, Kettle, Toaster and Microwave)
Windowsill, Sink, Cabinet fronts and Fridge freezer cleaned.
Floor hoovered and mopped.

Livingroom
High dusting.
Glass doors, T.V and patio doors cleaned.
Surfaces dusted and polished.
Sockets and Skirting boards dusted/wiped down
Hoover and mop.
(Rug to be beaten outside and replaced when floor is dry)

Bathroom
High dusting
Shelves dusted/wiped
*clean cat trays
Shower walls, accessories, glass screen and tray cleaned.
Sink and toilet cleaned (including bases and back of sink and toilet)
Skirting boards dusted/wiped down
Floor hoovered and mopped

(Hoover and mop bedroom floors before starting on the hallway)

Hallway and Front Porch

High dusting
Doors and handles wiped down
Pictures and mirrors cleaned
Sockets and Skirting boards dusted/wiped down
Cat trays emptied and cleaned out (*rinsed in shower before cleaning bathroom)
Floors hoovered and mopped

Also is there anything I'm forgetting?

This is what I (on a good day) do daily...

Daily

Morning

Rubbish out & cat trays emptied
Cats fed & watered
Laundry hung up
Dishes done and away
Kitchen wiped down and hoovered (mopped if necessary)
Living room tidied (Sort sofa etc)
Living room dusted & hoovered
Bathroom wiped down and hoovered
Hallway dusted and hoovered
Front porch mopped

Evening

Rubbish out & cat trays emptied
Cats fed & watered
Dishes done and away
Kitchen wiped down and hoovered (mopped if necessary)
Living room tidied (Sort sofa etc)
Living room dusted & hoovered
Clean laundry away
Wash on.

You hoover and dust twice a day? My house is lucky if I hoover and dust twice a week!

I couldn’t live with you-check your boyfriend can. I have a cleaner she does bathrooms, kitchen, hoovers and dusts once a week. I sometimes hoover the kitchen in between (once rarely twice). I do big things like windows, tops of doors and fridge maybe once a year. You have very high standards and I couldn’t be stayed. I certainly wouldn’t clean for an hour a day and two on weekends.

The kids finish school at lunchtime on a Friday and they have to tidy their rooms and bring through their laundry before dinner time.
I'll do their floors on the Saturday and put their clean bed linen on.

3 medium sized bedrooms.

Front porch is tiled, Typical Scottish weather means it gets wet a lot, Kids take their shoes off in the front porch so there's usually some mud/grass from the shoes.
I don't fill a mop bucket just to do the porch though, A quick spray of cleaner and a going over with the mop is all it needs.

Your daily list is like your weekly list: your weekly list my monthly.
Do you ever wonder about the purpose of life?

What about something like the organised mum method? So a little bit is done each day? So there is you basic jobs that are done every day and then 1/2 on one different room a day and so it is spread through the week?

I'd shave the cats and crack open a book every morning instead. life is too short for a clean porch

I would be amazed if your boyfriend would do 50% of all that cleaning.
I would get him to pay half of what you pay your cleaner, and carry on with her, as she is good and you seem to both like cleaning!
Surely you will save money when he moves in as he is going to pay towards bills.?

@HollyBollyBooBoo That is what gets done once a week (every Monday currently) It's just that I'll no longer have a cleaner and we'll be doing it between us at the weekend instead.

I'm honestly in awe!

Unless he’s a neat freak, I doubt whether he’ll be happy to spend that much time cleaning every weekend.
Unless he is contributing nothing financially when he moves in; I really don’t understand why you are ditching your cleaner.

@itsboiledeggsagain That was really quite rude of you. I'm well aware of the purpose of my life and that's to be happy.
Having my house clean and tidy makes me happy and it looks like I'll spend less than seven hours a week taking care of that particular facet of my happiness.

I didn't ask if people thought it was too much or if they agreed with the frequency of hoovering and dusting.
I asked how long people thought it would take between two adults.

@Octonaught we are pooling both our wages, We want to save a fair bit so are trying to cut costs.
Also my friend is moving away so she wouldn't be available anyway :(

Second The Organised Mum Method. There is an app now that you can personalise. One area gets a deeper clean once a week . Plus it will make it easer sharing out the jobs. You can then.free up your weekends if you want. How many.hours did you pay your friend for?

Just keep the cleaner. Personally, nothing would be worth spending that amount of time doing household drudgery in my non-work time, and definitely not the £30-odd I might be saving. (I don't have a cleaner by the way and my house is fairly shambolic so I obviously have very different standards though!)

I would really make sure your BF is aware of the amount of housework you're expecting of him though. Literally go through it in this sort of detail with him, don't just say 'you're ok to go halves on the housework if I get rid of the cleaner, right?' I don't pretend to be a clean queen but I could never live with that regime in a million years.

Personally it would take me a couple of hours. I do all of this every week too op but mine is more of a job everyday because my dd is still only young so find it hard to be occupied for that long .

OP, I understand that some posters are not answering the question you asked, but honestly most of us are well meaning and are hoping to help you avoid arguments by seeing that your standards are unusually high and this may cause problems with your bf if he doesn’t have the same expectations.

Good lord! You do this every week?

@OrangeCinnamon £30 per week, She reckoned she would have taken three hours to do the vast majority of what is on the Saturday list (She didn't strip beds or clean out the cat trays, And only did the inside of the patio doors)

I'll have a look at organised Mum, Thanks.

Sorry. To answer your question, I think it would take upwards of four hours non stop work to do your Saturday routine, so definitely over two hours each taking into account inevitable faff time unless you're intending to be rigidly nose-to-grindstone about it. I honestly think that list would take me all day to complete (and the kids would have destroyed most of it by the time I'd finished ). I wasn't trying to be rude in the previous post - your house must be an absolute haven to live in, I'm just frankly gobsmacked by how much it's cleaned as I could never do that!

He's seen the list and we've divvied up what jobs each of us are planning to do.
We'll just have to see how it goes, However I honestly don't think asking him to do two hours of housework (in what will be his home too) is asking a lot.
Thinking about this idea of adding one room into each weekday and freeing up the weekend could probably work but then that means I'd doing ALL the cleaning as well as working and frankly ....fuck that for a game of soldiers.

Your daily list is most people's weekly list and your weekly list is most people's annual spring clean (who am I kidding annual!)
Be careful, or your BF might be moving out faster than you can say high dusting.

I feel exhausted reading that list. Life's too short to be cleaning the top of a bloody fridge every week. I do that once a year (it's really high so can't see it anyway).

Dusting twice a day? What on earth. I dust whenever I see dust... with a wet wipe 🤣

@JMAngel1 As I've said we've discussed it and he has agreed.
If he decides he can't be arsed spending two whole hours of the 32 available waking hours of his weekend helping to clean HIS home then we will bet a cleaner in.

or get one even!

It’s quite sad that the main thing that you seem to be thinking of and planning when your BF moves in is a massive weekly cleaning exercise, it will take most of the day.