Unlikely to have cleaner for some time. How often do you...

[Juliet2014]

Vacuum throughout
Deep Clean bathrooms
Changing bedding
Deep Clean hard floors
other odds and ends

Used to having a cleaner for 4 hours a week. She’d deep clean bathrooms, polish hard floors and vacuum throughout. Occasionally clean windows when needed And complete oven clean maybe 2x a year?
She was a whizz. She’s never have to tidy so focus was entirely cleaning.

In addition to what cleaner did, I would clean kitchen thoroughly every day including external cupboard doors etc , vacuum dining area daily. Clean kitchen floors maybe 3x a week on top of cleaner deep clean and change bed weekly (occasionally children’s fortnightly. I change my pillow case 2x a week).

Been furloughed and unlikely to have cleaner for at least short term. So increasing cleaning.
Interested in frequency of the above if anyone cares to share please?!

LovingLen,

So right. What is this obsession with women cleaning FGS?

Because it is mostly women, but they do it because the men won't, and most of this Deep Cleaning is totally unnecessary anyway.

My cleaner wanted to come back this week but I said no. In a 2 bed property with 2 adults working from home and a third in a higher risk group I don't think it's feasible as there's nowhere to get out of the way to. She's annoyed about it and probably won't return at all now. We've got into the routine of cleaning little and often.

I have not the faintest idea how you can 'deep clean' a hard surface? A thorough clean maybe. I clean everything properly once a week and bed linen fortnightly.

Wonder if there are any men on here who would agree with all this deep cleaning shite. Doubt it.

Sisters, get a life.

Same. Once a week or bit more for most things. Kitchen cleaned at least once a day tho. Our bed once a week but kids not as often.
I dont think door frames need cleaning weekly!
Skirting boards in a blue moon...

I clean the bathrooms five times a week.

Hoover daily.

Mop once a week or so

Bedding once a week or so.

I am still shocked. I do in a year what some do in a week it seems.

I too want to know what a deep clean is if it is not a end of tenancy one (and even that...)

Scared to google the TOMM method

Most days - hoover downstairs and mop under DC chairs (they are young and drop bits)

Weekly-
Clean bathrooms which for me means clearing surfaces and scrubbing walls, windowsill, shelving, bath, loo seat and cistern, taps with Cif, then polishing; doing mirror; bleach and scrub inside loo; clean floor on hands and knees inc skirting
Bedrooms - wipe windowpanes, upvc rims and windowsills; clear and wet dust all other surfaces eg dressers; furniture polish on wood chairs, bedheads, wardrobe fronts; wipe skirting with damp cloth throughout, ditto light switches; hoover floor inc using crevice tool round all edges and hoover sides of bed divan
Living and dining room - hoover edges of bookshelves, wet dust chimney piece, skirting, do windows

I also try once a week to do one "extra" thing even if small like tops of doors, sorting out cupboard etc

My house feels really only averagely clean!

TOMM method seems sensible but I got bored reading after one paragraph.

robot hoovers M/W/F and upstairs Tues/Thur.
clean after ourselves for shower/bath
wipe kitchen surfaces every evening

‘deep’ Clean at weekends (what does that even mean unless its anything except wiping up after yourself?)

• floors, surfaces, bathrooms etc. Try to use simple stuff like diluted vinegar rather than bleach etc. works for most surfaces except toilet which needs the hard stuff.

^Weekly-
Clean bathrooms which for me means clearing surfaces and scrubbing walls, windowsill, shelving, bath, loo seat and cistern, taps with Cif, then polishing; doing mirror; bleach and scrub inside loo; clean floor on hands and knees inc skirting^

I do all that about once every five year.

What on earth goes on in your bathroom to mean that the walls need scrubbing weekly?

Yeah, actually, DH is just as on-board and capable with the cleaning as I am - just so happens, he's fully employed and I'm currently not. That's my life. I'm just going with the flow. . .

All based on just two adults and one (non-moulting) dog
Vacuum throughout - upstairs and downstairs once a week, sweep kitchen floor once every 2-3 days
Deep Clean bathrooms - once every couple of weeks but wiping over in between times (probably every other day)
Changing bedding - once a week, normally a Sunday
Deep Clean hard floors - once a week
other odds and ends - as needed really.
Kitchen is cleaned every day - wipe surfaces, cupboard doors, cupboard handles, clean the sink, hob etc

The bath gets a decent clean after I've washed my caving gear in it

😎🤣💖

I’m shocked by how much people are cleaning - i change beds fortnightly , do a proper clean of the bathroom fortnightly with a couple of wipe downs and bleaching in between , Hoover and dust fortnightly , though I hoover the kitchen floor With a chargeable vacuum each night and as far round the house as I can get on the remains of the charge . Wipe down the kitchen each night . All of this has got a lot more random with kids at home needing help with school work . A deep clean to me is skirting boards , windows and under the sofa!

Women's work, as usual.

Anyway even amongst the sisterhood there is still a bit of competiveness WRT to how much women clean. LOL. Off you go girls.

What people are labelling deep cleaning sounds like ordinary cleaning to me. Deepcleaning a bathroom includes scrubbing every inch of grouting for example.

We normally have a cleaner twice a week for 10 hours in total. House is normally hoovered twice a week.

I hate hoovering so that’s gone down to once a week, and I make the kids hoover their own rooms. I also hate ironing so there’s some crumpled clothing going on.

Anyway even amongst the sisterhood there is still a bit of competiveness WRT to how much women clean.

Not from me. I do as little as I possibly can, and pay someone to do it all.

What people are labelling deep cleaning sounds like ordinary cleaning to me. Deepcleaning a bathroom includes scrubbing every inch of grouting for example.

LOL, that's me.

Also, as I've said before, when I'm working we do the cleaning - he's definitely got the tackle of 'not a girl'. Currently, I'm not working, so I do the cleaning. It's not penis/vagina related.

We clean the house as to how much we feel the need. We are compatible in terms of how clean we like it. If one can't do it, the other does. If both are running at equal capacity outside the house, both pile on into the house on the weekend.

@WarriorsComeOutToPlayay

I just looked up the TOMM method. Fuck that shit.

Yeah quite. I don't need a website to tell me there's more to life than cleaning...

It’s not necessarily competitive it’s often to do with what stage your kids are at, how many you have and what your house is like.

My kids sit on the floor to play and are at the spilling paint and food stage, so the floors need constant cleaning. Once they are bigger I’ll never need to clean it so frequently.

Vacuum thoroughly, once a week
Change bedding weekly after vacuuming
Dust throughout weekly before vacuuming
Clean kitchen as I go along
Mop hard floors weekly

So I basically do housework once a week

Funnily enough, in the UK, I think the competition really lies in how much disdain you can have for the plebs that clean, and how totes unfeminist they are. . . or how lower class they are.

Roughly once a week I clean bathrooms and kitchen, clean floors.
Hoover once a week, sweep kitchen daily.
Change bedding at least once a fortnight, if not weekly.
Change bath towels once a week, hand towels every couple of days.
I have a clean and tidy house and work 9-3.30 M-F. Never had a cleaner. Too proud.