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?!

Some of you are doing a lot of unnecessary cleaning. Do you work outside the home?

I clean when things get grubby or dirty.

No set routine.

Easy peasy.

Houswork and cleaning is just so unforgiving. Do it today, needs to be done again tomorrow.

Mostly done by women. I hate that. We have not emerged from our slavery and probably never will.

And employing a cleaner is great, but they are mostly women also.

We women are doomed no matter what we do.

We have four animals, so in this house:

Vacuuming/sweeping floors- daily, often twice as the cats seem to shed year round!

Shower gets sprayed around after every use and rinsed so I never really need to do a deep clean. Toilet has cleaner chucked down it a couple of times a week. Sink is wiped and sprayed every day.

Kitchen surfaces are cleaned before and after cooking due to said cats jumping up onto the surfaces. Washing up done after every meal. Dishes are put away daily. Hob is cleaned whenever it's dirty.

Hard floors are steam mopped weekly. Throws etc. on the sofa are washed weekly too due to the pets.

Hoover every couple of days
Bathrooms cleaned twice a week
Dusting twice a week
Beds changed weekly
Floors mopped twice a week
Kitchen cleaned every night after dinner

Some of you are doing a lot of unnecessary cleaning. Do you work outside the home?

Would you mind telling me why you are the arbiter of what is necessary or unnecessary cleaning?

I do not work outside the home currently.

When I worked outside the home, when I was doing a full time professional degree with two children under the age of five, I cleaned just the same. Because I/we deemed it our preferred standard of cleanliness.

Just because doing something today doesn't mean it doesn't have to be done tomorrow, doesn't mean it's not worth doing, whether that's feeding your family your stock, cleaning the house, or mucking out the barn.

Some of you are doing a lot of unnecessary cleaning. Do you work outside the home?

Erm lockdown? I don’t normally do any cleaning if I can help it.

Our house is always a tip but we....

Change bedding weekly
Wash sofa cover weekly
Use robot hoovers x3 throughout the day
Wash dishes daily
Do one load of laundry daily

Then we have a cleaner for x3 hours a week

We're both wfh full-time with a toddler at the moment so this doesn't even scratch the surface

Um. A bit less than most other posters... we seem to survive!

I cleaned the bathroom sink today 😎

Still no explanation of what deep cleaning a bathroom would entail and why it would be necessary on a weekly basis. Would someone please enlighten me?

I seem to be doing less in this lockdown than normal which is probably about once a week for hoovering, mopping etc. Thing with lockdown there is always tomorrow...

oh wow, only read page 1 and will catch up but I'm feeling quite inadequate. I'm in the same boat with a 4-hours-per-week cleaner who we are living without. I am getting the kids involved with cleaning which is good for them, and without current situation they may have left home without knowing how to scrub the sink.
However... do people really clean their toilets DAILY???? I think I have high enough standards and I try to do it weekly, but sometimes it slips. We are home but not furloughed and so we don't have heaps of spare time, what with home schooling, everyone eating 3x per day and so on. But even if I ad all the time in the world, I just don't think i'd spend that many of my waking hours scrubbing the loo. It really doesn't seem to get all that dirty tbh

Oh hell yes, the toilets get cleaned daily. I don't know how bad it could be with boys (aim and all), but just with teenaged girls. . . . blerch. On the other hand, I thought a good lockdown lesson would be how to clean the bog.

What kinds of floors get mopped? This is a serious question. Is it lino, or laminate? Tiles?

My floorboards definitely wouldn't like being mopped.

Lots of people have used 'deep clean' but not one person has explained what the hell this actually means. How do you deep clean a kitchen floor? On knees with an industrial toothbrush scrubbing away for hours until your hands bleed? What does it mean people?

Cleaning the toilet daily? Why?

My kitchen and utility get mopped- tiled. Only once a week though.

Tiles get mopped. Got tiles everywhere on the ground floor except the drawing room. Bathroom tiles also have to be mopped.

I’ve discovered I don’t dislike mopping as much as hoovering.

Just got an E cloth mop though and it’s great, just spray floor with water.

Cleaning the toilet daily? Why?

Becos it gets right fucking manky if we don't? As I said - different strokes/different folks.

@TheExterminatingAngel

What kinds of floors get mopped? This is a serious question. Is it lino, or laminate? Tiles?

My floorboards definitely wouldn't like being mopped.

It’s the lino type floor in my kitchen and bathroom that gets mopped

"I wonder how many paid cleaners are men? Bet few or none."

Office cleaners in cities, quite a few.

In our house you leave the toilet clean for the next person.4 of us here and there isn’t an issue.

If anyone could tell me how my cleaner gets the shower screen so darn clear that would be great.

I've have all kinds of cleaning products but it still keeps building up? But when she does it it's clear all week?

So in our house we have lots of dogs so everyday baby dyson Hoover. mopping is once a week in dry weather in the winter or rain every couple of days with zoflora ( thanks mumsnet)

Then on Friday evening the whole family sets a timer of and hour and half and we all do dusting, hoovering, tidying, good oven scrub and bedrooms, put the music on loud and it's fun! Then the weekend is free.

The kitchen is worktops daily after food.

Gwen, I was talking about cleaners in our own homes.

Commercial cleaning is something else, to be fair now.