Maybe I am, but one bucket?

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Let me say I usually do the cleaning of floors. We have a moderate sized 3 bed semi which has ceramic tiled floors throughout the downstairs and two dogs!

I Hoover and sweep the floors every day and will spot clean. Or use a floor wipe where the dc have split a drink etc. Then 3/4 times a week I will mop as well.

I use one bucket of water with cleaner for the hallway and lounge, another for the dining room and study and another for the kitchen and utility.

Dh has the day off today and so while I took the dc to school he made a start on the floors. I came home and he was just finishing the dining room and about to start the kitchen. He didn't change the water. I asked as casually as I could when he changed the water and he said he didn't need to one bucket was enough for the downstairs and he'd change it to do the bathroom and loos upstairs

I'm now at work thinking I need to do the floors again when I get in as kitchen at the very least won't be very clean. It's been wet and muddy here so the water won't have been very clean for the kitchen floor.

Laminate and steam mop is no go

For God's sake, woman, buy a robot floor cleaner. It will save you hours. And in the time when you're not frantically mopping, you can read a book!

Get a spray mop. They cost about a tenner.

I am the absolute opposite of a domestic Goddess. I hate cleaning but the thought of using one bucket of water for all the floors makes me feel all shuddery inside. It's some obscure fear of cross-contamination especially since one of the floors is the kitchen. So I would change the bucket but I wouldn't be washing the floor as often as you do.
If it's dog hairs then why not just hoover them up? I don't see how they can need washed 3/4 times per week.

If you can't take the sight of dog hairs, I'd say it's the dog that needs to go.

I have 2 dc and a dog that loves mud, I mop approx 3 times and week and change the water once, I couldn't carry on with dirty water 😮

15 cats?!

Is there even room for you on your own bed?

With 2 dogs actually I don't think you are being unreasonable at all.

I have 1 big dog and 2 cats, and 2 DC who are often outdoors and therefore muddy, in the winter I use 3 buckets, 1 bucket for the living room, dining room and hallways, 1 with a seperate mop for the bathroom (DS' aim isn't great and the litter trays in there) then another bucket for kitchen, bedrooms and porch (kitchen first and porch last coz it's the muddiest).

In the summer/if it's not been muddy I only use 2 buckets, 1 for bathroom and 1 for the rest of the house, starting in the kitchen.

it's the dogs that sleep on the bed with us

I would only change the water when it looked dirty, which it's not going to if the floors are being mopped every other day.

Also you should totally get a steam mop. So much quicker!

My granny used to say, "the floors will still be there when the wains are reared."

My mum took great delight years later saying, "The house was demolished and the floors were gone before the wains were reared."

I think your floor will be OK.

Do you have a very muddy dog?

You have too much time on your hands for all of this cleaning

Cross-contamination?! You walk on all the floors, as do your pets if you have them. Surely you'd be causing cross-contamination every time you walk from one room to another. Unless you wash your feet or change socks on entering each room . Seriously, I do not understand this germ obsession people have . You need exposure to bacteria in order to have a functioning immune system.

We have tiles downstairs and carpets upstairs, so I use fresh hot water to do the the bathrooms first, change the water to do the living areas, and change the water again to do the kitchen, have three dogs and mop twice a week.

Op I have a black lab so I totally understand where you are coming from with the hairs! When I had laminate downstairs in my last house I had to hoover every day (sometimes twice a day) and I despise cleaning in any form. I only have laminate in kitchen in this house so my living room carpet tends to get muddy paws on it (thank God it's dark). The problem with labs is the shed so much and are also very enthusiastic (especially when covered in mud) so I've had to accept my house will always be a little bit mucky.
I have a mop in the kitchen that is dry and I just give it a quick wipe if there are wet paw prints then clean it with bleach every 4 days or so.

Your friend saying she would have to mop twice a day just sounds like competitiveness - "Oh, you mop every other day? I would mop FOUR TIMES as much!!" Maybe see less of that 'friend' and spend more time relaxing in your home - whatever the floors look like?

Fuck me, you seriously need to unclench, OP.

You're sitting at work fretting about this?

Your friend doesn't sound like a friend.

If you say anything to your husband, expect him to stop mopping.

Sweeping and spot cleaning I totally get. It's annoying having hair and shit swirling around your feet all the time.

Mopping though....too often. I do it maybe every 2-3 weeks, just before bed. That's enough.

at last some people understand

We live about three minutes walk from a river and the closest place for off lead walks which a Labrador definitely needs. So even in this weather and even when he's told no, the second the lead is off he's running into the river. The little white website is usually dark brown when we come back from walks. That's why we come in via the utility now as that's tiled walls as well so easy to wipe over with a cloth or the mop whereas the hallway always had mud splashes on the wall.

I would say roll on the summer but last year was very wet so I real improvements.

Maybe I should look at a steam mop. Maybe it's being a renter? After years of having to move every 6/12 months we've been here 5 years with a landlady who hates dogs but was nice enough to let us keep them.

Seriously I don't know how the lab isn't bald the amount of fur he sheds. He should be. We often joke about laminating him so he can't shed.

Rather boringly I kind of accept that perhaps on this occasion iabu.

Bloody hell, that's a lot of mopping....... If that much mopping really needs to be done in your house then I'd say let anyone crack on with it, in any way they see fit.

There are robots??

Westie not website!!