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?!

In the hottest volcanoes,
Not quite, although some bacteria do live in water close to boiling point.

It's right that there's no need to obsess about cleanliness and possible germs.

If clean, once a week or even less is fine. OTOH, for solid deposits on the toilet I always use a disinfectant to brush it off. It keeps the brush clean too.
Or when there's D&V at home. I do go OTT then, as DS throws up on bedding and I don't fancy it lasting long due to reinfection.

Oh dear. I thought I was pretty virtuous cleaning once a week! I read/heard somewhere that only 50% (I think) of people clean their bathroom every week. I'd kind of assumed the rest cleaned it less often, not more! I rarely do anything in between either, unless there's been a spillage that needs immediate attention or the toilet's looking or smelling particularly manky. To the best of my knowledge none of us has ever been ill through lack of bathroom hygiene and no guest has ever refused to stay or never returned because they don't feel it's up to standard, so I'm not intending to change my habits anytime soon!

Really not worth starting a bunfight over though. Each to their own and all that, although I do agree that all these chemicals and disposable wipes that are being bandied about on on a daily basis are a bit of a worry on an environmental level.

Thread hasn't turned out how the OP wanted. I think we were supposed to agree we're all minging.

This is how the zombie apocalypse will start.
Super bleach/antibacterial resistant germs will evolve and will be waiting to pounce under loo rims. They will jump up and infect our bottoms... We'll all be infected (like TWD) and as soon as the first infected dies and resurrects... We're all fucked.

Stop cleaning people

Separate bath & shower so bath only has dc in it who aren't that clean & shower gets hosed down after each use. I just wipe around the sink & loo as and when it needs it. Cleaner comes fortnightly to do a proper clean.

Ha! *aren't that dirty

I use loo cleaner and have those freshener things in each loo. I don't tend to use bleach.

Agree about the overuse of bleach and poisoning the rivers etc.

I give the bathroom sink a 'handwash' every time I use it, which is just habit more than a conscious thing - turn the hot tap on and swish the water all around to get rid of any marks/toothpaste residue/dust. Often that includes running the handwash under the hot tap too...takes me 20 seconds.

Other than that...the rest gets cleaned when it needs it. I'm in a houseful of boys who have dubious aim at times (dh included!) so that could be once a week or daily around the toilet if one of the boys miss.

I think some people have gave OP a hard time. She can clean when she wants. But to the rest of you, including myself, stop mincing on here & get ya marigolds on & get scrubbing! Ya dirty bastards!

Yes she can but shouldn't make other posters feel bad because they don't want to do the same.

OP probably came at it from the wrong angle but then she got hounded out. Two wrongs don't make a right i guess. Maybe we should all just stop preaching to each other let everyone do what they wish

I know a family who deep clean the bathroom every single day (or their cleaner does). We don't do it that often, but good grief... We do not leave the bathroom in the state they do in a single day.

We are way more careful not to make a mess of it, which is the reason we do not need deep cleaning everyday.

I give mine a proper clean once a week where I use limescale remover and clean all the tiles etc. Then once a week I just give the sink and bath taps a quick wipe with some spray. The loo rim gets a wipe with loo roll every day and loo cleaner down it after every no. 2!

I think it depends on where you live as we once lived in a very hard water area where the sink and bath needed scrubing a few times a week to remove the build up.

I'm feeling like a proper slattern now - I maybe give round the sink a wipe and clean the loo once a week, don't do the floor or clean in the bath/shower more than once a month. There's no scum in there, though, even then!

loo cleaner down it after every no. 2!.

That's obscene.

Jobrum

How is it obscene? Its only a splish and keeps things looking clean and smelling fresh. In a bathroom without a window air freshner is overpowering so toilet duck it is. With only three people in the house and one in napies thats two little splishes of cleaner a day!

HeCan'tBeSerious doesn't like the use of bleach even though bleach is a product of salt and then breaks down into salt again when its flushed. She also thinks germs are friendly and should be given a free reign of the loo.

Goodness me celeste. All that bleach has rendered you incapable of understanding simple sentences!

Some germs are harmful. Most germs are helpful. Killing 99% of germs and trying to create a sterile germ-free environment is slowly killing us and many other species.

As for your salt comment, it's pretty basic knowledge that a bit of salt doesn't hurt you, a bit more is potentially harmful and too much can be fatal. Ditto bleach!

If salt was so hazardous to health then we wouldn't be pouring it salt/chlorine into our public swimming pools? I'm guessing exposure to germs is more concerning than exposure to chlorine.

Germs in my loo are not going to be killing anyone as they are the ones being killed

They wouldn't kill anyone if you left them alone. ;)

I was tempted to link some scientific articles, but I think this may be a simpler explanation.

www.cleaningexpert.co.uk/thedangersofovercleaning.html

I'm doing my bit for the germ cause by not using all these dettol wipes, washing liquids, etc, on toys, furniture, clothes, etc, mainly because you don't get the nasties; ecoli, rotavirus germs,etc, that you find in the loo. I'm sure there are good germs in the loo amongst the bad uns that get swept away in the bleach tsunami but thats just the way it is

I clean mine once a week. We are a family of 4, I am the only one that cleans the bathroom. I see no scum!!! Are you using a bar of soap, they leave a film or residue. Liquid soap doesn't. I rinse any toothpaste left in sink after use. i might squirt some toilet cleaner around the rim midweek but a proper clean involving bleach etc only once a week. I am a clean and tidy person with a clean and tidy house btw!

In our house we all clean up after ourselves. If I have a bath i rinse it after , same with shower. We leave the toilet clean after use(I have a dreaded loo brush which I hate but don't see how you can't have one!) I leave toiler duck type cleaner by the loo for any midweek freshening. Dirty hands? None of us have manual jobs so no visible dirt or grime unless i've been gardening but then I would make sure none was left in the sink after using.