How the hell do people clean bathroom only once a week?!

[Pinkbabe1]

I'm genuinely interested here because I've read many a MN thread of ways in which to save time at home and almost always, people say clean the bathroom once a week! Now, I clean my bathroom everyday and even doing that the amount of scum I clean away each day surely would be unhygienic after a whole week? It leaves me baffled, I'm genuinely interested to know if the people that clean once a week have really dirty bathrooms by the end of it?! To put into perspective I thoroughly wipe the sink, toilet and bath surround - spray the bath and tiles and wash off before bleaching the toilet and wiping the floor which takes all of 10 mins. How do people get away with it?!

Bathrooms need cleaning???

I ignore mine until it annoys me so clean it every few months (sooner if we have guests I suppose). Toilet gets a clean if dirty but that's not often. Floor gets hoovered every few weeks. Not sure that I have mopped the floor this year even.

Not dead yet. Really can't get worked up about it.

PS do change towels every 3 or 4 uses.

We have a bathtub with a shower head and rarely take baths. You don't leave a ring around the tub from a shower. The tub needs a good going over once a week even still. I use magic sponges - they work really well.

I use a little bleach (a capfull) in the loo every few days and scrub it with my loo brush inside and mop with a dedicated loo sponge on the outside, lid back and front, etc. The DCs who still live here (DS and DD4) are toilet trained and will also use the loo brush if they pebble dash it a bit. I read all the DCs the riot act a few years ago on this score and the lesson has not been forgotten it seems.

I do the sink pretty much every day however, as it gets gross. People are not very scrupulous about rinsing out the sink after brushing teeth.

The floor gets washed once a week, and swept almost daily as it attracts a lot of hair. It's white tiles, like MrsJayy's. The completely black cat likes to stretch out on the floor, and does a lot of her scratching and general grooming there. So the clumps of black fur gather into little tumbleweeds if I don't stay on top of it.

In summer I spray the tiles around the tub/shower with diluted bleach every few days and keep the mould at bay - we have a humid summer climate here.

I empty the little bathroom bin every few days too.

I have hard water here too. It affects the laundry and the dishwasher as well as the bathroom.

I'm a single mother so it's down to me.

There is 7 of us. I could probably do with cleaning my bathroom every day, well a quick clean that is but I can't be arsed.

Cleaning is a never ending cycle, with five kids, and pets I can never keep on top of it so I relax my standards.

I never have scum in my bathroom though.

And yes, my husband does clean the bathroom (more than I do). It's not just me that does it.

We have two bathrooms. Main bathroom that kids bath in and a shower room for us. Bath never has scum on it that I notice. They use an eczema bath emoliant rather than bubble bath. Maybe that leaves less scum or cleans it but bath never looks dirty really. Sometimes rinse with shower head after bath has enptied.
Shower again doesn't leave much dirt after a week.
Cleaner comes once a week. Sometime once every two and even then I don't bother much. Might give the taps a quick wipe down and chuck some bleach down the toilet occasionally. Life's too short to care about things like a less than sparkly bathroom.

I do wonder why people start this sort of thread. I can think of a few possible reasons. But none of them are nice. (1) They're a goady fucker who wants to start a bunfight. (2) It's a stealth boast - they want everyone to go "ooh what a lovely sparkly house you must have." (3) They have some sort of weird complex which makes them want to educate people via ill-conceived 50s style public service announcements: "Mothers of Britain, have you realised how skanky your bathroom is?" (4) They feel an irresistible urge to beat up on women who have the temerity to have more going on in their lives that just a bit of housework.

Having read the first couple of pages, and checked OP's posts, I've come to the conclusion that in this case it's (1), with a side order of (4).

I clean every day. Absolutely no way I could get away with once a week. I know what the issue is, though. I open my bathroom window to give it an air. I've noticed an enormous difference between how often bathrooms need cleaning in the city and in the countryside. Where I live now (urban area) is a poor air quality area and after just 3-4 hours my mostly-white bathroom will be full of little specks of dirt. Presumably I am breathing these in constantly as well, which is a bit sobering. Where I lived before (village) it was possible to do it every 3 days.

Bang on the money, MostlyHet

If anyone is remotely interested, I wipe around the loo daily as the males in the house don't seem to care if they wee everywhere. No bleach allowed here as we have a septic tank. On a daily basis I also clean the toothpaste off everything it amazingly gets smeared on, and I sweep up the dust bunnies. We have a tiny bathroom and six of us using it. It's fine.

There will be an equation that goes something like number of adults x children under 3 to the square of teens + outdoor hobbies - cleaner + use of bubble bath = number of days to next clean, divided by standards.

Sorry, brackets, multiplied by standards. (Algebra not my strong point)

Oh yes, add in keen male preschooler who wants to wee standing up.

it takes me TEN MINS

It does not take 10 mins to clean a bathroom properly. Scrub the bath, tiles, sink, toilet, wipe surfaces, polish taps and shower fittings to keep like scale at bay, polish mirror, mop floor. 30 mins minimum.

Ours get a deep clean (by the cleaner 1x per week). The rest of the time we just, you know, don't piss on the floor and give the sink a swish so you don't leave tooth paste all over it.

I clean it twice a week when I am on my own and more if having visitors! Rinse tiles and shower afterwards, wipe around sink extra if needed re toothpaste and toilet thoroughly twice a week. Saturday's do top to bottom and wash floor tiles. Clean shelves and things about once a month to 6weeks more if dirty dusty.

Can't stand those obsessive cleaners where they go in and someone hasn't cleaned the loo for years. URGH! There was a mum with a four yearold and she hadn't cleaned the toilet for four years. I just thought, " You lazy bitch!" Poor kid.

What bugs me about my bath is the rings from shampoo bottles and the dds lotions and potions i always seem to be wiping up i dont have a lotta storage so stuff is left out .

Shower door was a pain but now I use vinegar mixed with a little fairy and it works like magic thanks to poster on MN much better than commercial cleaning products :)

Actually, you can do a clean in 10 minutes if you do it every day, because you're not removing loads of crud and crap - you are literally just getting rid of a small amount.

I wipe down all the surfaces in my bathroom every day, including, sink, side surfaces and the tiles that get wet around the bath. I scrub around the taps and plughole and I clean the loo, then wash the floor. It takes me about 8 minutes 30 seconds in total (yes I time it!). It is vital to use a totally clean, dry microfibre cloth every time.

Once a fortnight, I get everything out of the mirror cupboard and clean inside. Once every 3 months I do all the rest of the tiles (all walls are tiled, but they are far enough from the bath that they don't really get that dirty).

MostlyHet You have absolutely nailed it! This sort of thread, which results in many women competing about who does the most fucking cleaning, have to stop.

*has to stop

Yello I was about to say the same thing. Ten minutes isn't a clean. Cleaning a bathroom takes at least 30 minutes. Ten mins is what I call a quick flick and if that's all some people's bathrooms are getting them they're never actually clean.

The "scum" which OP is scrubbing away is probably the residue of the previous day's spray and chemicals.

We have a cleaner who comes once a week and does the bathrooms thoroughly, I don't often clean them between times apart from an occasional squirt of bleach down the loo.

Merchant I agree. I was reading this thinking I bet no men scrub the shower during their shower or wipe the loo while cleaning their teeth.

Until I read this thread I was never aware that the country's homes were so dirty.

Isn't it ironic that posters are blabbing about not having 10 minutes to give a bath and basin a daily quick squirt of Cif and a rub over, yet have hours to waste online explaining their lack of time for cleaning to virtual strangers?

Obviously writing posts attempting to take the high moral ground for NOT cleaning ['my life is just so full of other more interesting things, darling'] is more fulfilling than spending the time cleaning.

We have asteam steam hoover doodah dh does the shower door when he does the windows it brilliant.

Wow wish I had the time to clean the bathrooms every day, we have 3 so quite a chore, when you also have a dd with ASD and a very active 4 year old. Once a week for me, of if the toilets are looking scummy I clean them beforehand.

"The "scum" which OP is scrubbing away is probably the residue of the previous day's spray and chemicals".

If you can't differentiate between scum from soap and hard water and a spray that cleans and is rinsed off, you have a problem.