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?!

Hoover up and dowstairs daily (dog).mop once a week
Bedding weekly
Toilets daily
Dust once a week or so
Fridge and cupboards not often enough
Windows hardly ever
Laundry nearly always going
Too much clutter so going to work on that over the summer

Yes work outside house, both of us nurses

Vacuum every day
Wash hard floors once a day(although 3 floors and have discovered cheat mop with washable e-cloth to keep in each bathroom rather than lugging the mop bucket around! 😄😄)
Wash and change bedding once a week. If the weather's good on that day I can wash and dry the bedding flat on the line so it doesn't need ironing and I can put it straight back on the bed 😊 but of course it always rains that day ....
Bathrooms once a week deep clean, but antibacterial spray/kitchen roll around sinks and loos every day
Dust once a week but it always looks like it needs more

To all those asking my idea of a deep clean and what a cleaning company told me is cleaning from top to bottom , so all door architrave , skirtings ans all fixture and fittings and floor
If in kitchen , top of cupboards , fronts handles basically everything that can be cleaned
Can say I deep clean often , thoroughly clean bathroom and kitchen once a week , Hoover most days , wipe down bathroom as ans when dirty between once a week through clean , wipe kitchen surfaces every day , mop / steam clean floors once a week - sometimes more if have time but wipe up any spills immediately with floor wipes etc

Does squirt and mop with method wood floor cleaner that smells so lovely count as deep cleaning? Because if it doesn't I'm a dirty girl.

@viques I use rhubarb one on floors a lot in between my steam cleaning sessions , smells lovely and floor looks clean so good enough for me

** can't say I deep clean often I mean as in from top to bottom , top of kitchen cupboards a once a year job at most

Do the men do much?

Seems to me that women enjoy this cleaning lark.

Well off you go, no one notices really do they. Unless it is hoarding central or whatever. But why would you go there anyway?

@hopeclearwater a proper deep
Clean would mean too to bottom , emptying all cupboards , windows etc etc as far as I know
I would be surprised if many are doing that every week , I would describe my weekly bathroom clean as doing floors and bit more elbow grease than spraying a bit of dettol on taps , bleach down loo and wiping with an anti bac wipe which is what I do more day to say but would describe as a through clean as opposed to a deep clean which probably at best do yearly

Not sure what deep cleaning a floor means , maybe on your hands and knees ? Or mopping and then following up with a steam cleaner ?

Downstairs hoover and dust 2-3 times a week
Change bedding weekly
Bathroom sink and mirror daily
Bathroom full clean weekly
Upstairs hoover 1-2 weeks

@saveeno I must admit my husband does do a fair amount especially at weekends when not working , although he does sometimes think our understairs cupboard is a place to put anything if he considers it on his way or he doesn't know where it belongs

[quote strugglingwithdeciding]@viques I use rhubarb one on floors a lot in between my steam cleaning sessions , smells lovely and floor looks clean so good enough for me [/quote]
@strugglingwithdeciding

I went off the rhubarb one, found it a bit sickly, but I use the almond on my wooden floors and the lemon in my kitchen . I quite enjoy method mopping, I think there is somethingin the formula iykwim . It's the only housework I like doing, apart from polishing my fireplace slate with slate oil which is very satisfying and can distract me from other more boring important tasks for a surprising length of time.

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

Omg that's brilliant, my kinda woman! @PositiveLife

Glad more of my people have joined the thread this evening.

After many years and far too much time spent on MN, I still can't understand why anyone thinks they need to vacuum every day, if they don't have 3 big hairy dogs that are currently moulting (in which case, why wouldn't you restrict the rooms they are allowed into).

@BackforGood Our 3 are allowed in most of our house, bedrooms are out of bounds, as are sofas, so even if they are just downstairs that needs cleaning. The wet days are the worse!

Being in Lockdown gives us the TIME to clean, but no the motivation. Nobody is allowed to visit inside our house yet, so I must confess to having let things slide. Loo is a bit whiffy, and there's a blue drip stain on the sink. Will do it tomorrow. Maybe.

After many years and far too much time spent on MN, I still can't understand why anyone thinks they need to vacuum every day

^^ This. Ditto daily toilet cleaning. You flush it and it's clean, surely? If it's 'manky' in less than a week, the people using it need to improve their usage technique, daily cleaning is madness.

Downstairs I hoover every day. Kitchen worktops and sink are cleaned thoroughly daily and the bathroom completely every day. I'm immunosuppressed because of a drug I take and was advised this needs to be done. I can pick up infections that can make me really ill easily. We didn't clean like this before, but the house was always clean.

Downstairs is dusted 2 maybe 3 times a week. Upstairs hoovered twice a week and dusted once.

Beds changed weekly. Ours sometimes twice as sometimes me or my wife end up with a night sweat, not for the same reason though!

Wow do none of your husbands clean?

Life is too short to spend it cleaning, OP.

They're all in the pub.

Apart from keeping the kitchen decent and general tidying up dh and I do about an hour of housework per week each. Our cleaner used to do 3 hours and she spent more time on things like the kitchen cupboards and polishing our appliances than we do atm. She also did more dusting and skirting boards.

There are no hard and fast rules about division of labour but husband tends to hoover the stairs and downstairs rooms and hallway (once a week) and upstairs/our bedroom fortnightly. I clean the bathroom weekly-ish, but not all the tiles every time. The loo gets done as and when, prob twice a week. We have a shower curtain so I don't waste hours of my life fretting about imperfect shower screens.

The kitchen floor gets mopped occasionally but it is natural wood and has amazing stay clean properties . I try and clean the hob once a week.

The teens change their own beds fortnightly and hoover their own rooms once in a blue moon.

None of us like housework and it's remarkable how little needs doing if you aren't a perfectionist about it.

Bet all the cleaners are dreading coming back 😂😂😂

When I clean a bathroom it’s clean toilet, wipe around sink, around sweep floor, spray and wipe shower wall and shower.

When I deep clean - it’s polish the fittings, treat floor (amtico), drain cleaner, spend much more time polishing shower tiles and cleaning grout. Polish towel rail, clean door surfaces and handles, dust skirting boards, fairly regularly remove items from shelves to clean underneath and replace, clean the bathroom bin etc

Clean if bathroom could be done before work - 15 mins
A deep clean - 45 mins ish.

Deep clean my wooden flooring? This is when instead of using the Method “spray and mop” and move around furniture, I pile as much as I can on top of the sofa akin to towering Pisa, and roll up rug, clean thoroughly with another product that involves rinsing then I use a wood floor polish. Comes up beautifully and smells of delicious almond.

Former takes 5-10 mins.
Latter including furniture etc much closer to 45 mins

* Wow do none of your husbands clean?*

Quite an assumption there.

Single parent here