How often do you clean...

[RosieLemonade]

Your skirting boards?

I already thought not often enough, but this thread has me feeling quite guilty!

The bits I can see get the hoover brush run over them once a week or so. The bits that are behind furniture, never!

I vacuum them if I can see dust.
I never ‘clean’ them unless I can see something on them. They’re white and look clean.

Never.

But I don't have any. 🤣

Much to my plasterers dismay, I had the walls plastered right down to the concrete floor. I lived overseas fir a goid few years and that's the norm, I far prefer it.

I dust them the same time that I dust the room, so probably once every 3 days. They tend to only get cleaned if the need it, or I do a quarterly deep clean with the season change and do things like clean doors, move the sofa, move the tv/ fridge etc. So they get washed then with the walls

The cleaner does it during every school holidays (she does a deep clean when we go away) so usually every 7/8 weeks. She did a deep clean in the summer holidays but hasn’t done one since!

So they get washed then with the walls

People wash walls..... 😳

Probably about every 6 months, I will notice that one is a bit dusty and then go round and do them.

When I notice the dirt.. As I'm getting older and my eyesight is getting worse the cleaning is less frequent. 😜.

Most of ours are recently painted white too so need to be kept on top of but life gets in the way

Me? Very rarely. That's a chore I give the kids, usually when I ask them to give me a hand for ten minutes and get tired of pointing out obvious messes while they claim there isn't anything left to clean.

Surely they’re just part of your normal dusting?!

So, about every other day?

Anybody who thinks there is no dust on their skirting boards is sadly mistaken!!

I dust them whenever I clean that room (once a week/fortnight) and wash them once in a blue moon!

I have a long handled flat microfiber duster with a washable cover which is very useful for this type of thing.

Every week the immediately visible ones get dusted with the brush attachment on the hoover so I don't have to bend too much. I don't pull furniture out to get to hidden ones though. They also get wiped with a damp cloth & disinfectant & things get pulled out two or three times a year when I do a major "spring" clean.

Once a week. Ours are all white so you can definitely see the dust.

Honestly never. I will give them a wipe if I’m on the floor and the ones in eyesight look dusty but I can’t be bothered regularly cleaning all of them.

I damp dust them every week or two. They are white gloss and it is SO obvious when they are dusty

I’ve lived here 13 years, once so far.

Every week. I have a mental checklist when I clean each room and skirting boards get done when I'm cleaning that room.

Dust: once a week (long handled feather duster = easy peasy.)

Wipe: probably once or twice a year.

Only if I see mud on them( have a Westie so that's quite often!)

Once a week. I also have a retractable microfibre dusting thingy so it’s just a case of doing a lap of the room and running the duster along them. It only takes a minute.

Rarely but when we're doing a good clean I just hand a damp cloth to one of the kids and tell them to get on with it. Door frames too. Gotta make em earn their keep now that you can't send them out to the factories or up the chimney

Monthly. I have a toddler so I consider that pretty good going!

Every year maybe? Lifes too short

@BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze my walls get mysterious toddler sized hand prints, ketchup, mud, what I really hope is mud but could equally be more undesirable et al- so they at least need a wipe over 😂