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.

Don't listen to your 'friend'. If you like you can have me as your token, slovenly friend - I can't remember when I last mopped (mostly carpeted) so you'll look fastidious by comparison.

Our floors are hoovered and mopped once a week by the cleaner. Unless there's a spillage, no cleaning happens in between. No dog though.

I would not change the water in these circumstances. Any attempts at micromanaging my mopping would have led to a handover of the task there and then .

YABU. Ours our mopped once a fortnight, once a week if I'm feeling really keen.
I do one bucket for the kitchen and another for all the bathrooms. But if you're cleaning yours that often one buck for all will be fine.

I've got a big dog who sheds and goes on muddy walks. My floors are not always very clean. I guess I simply don't care enough about that to clean them more often. Life's too short.
I mop the kitchen floor with a bucket of water but the other floors I just spray and mop.

My kitchen and downstairs loo/utility room floor is rough, craggy slate. I hate it. It shows every crumb and splash.

I asked as casually as I could when he changed the water

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

OP, don't you think you are being a tad... anally retentive obsessive about this?

ditto paxillin

I think you have some degree of OCD

Methinks your friend lies! She's put a seed of doubt in your mind and now the sight of dog hair and her comments has you going into overdrive.
Leave it for at least four days and see how you feel about it.
You need to break the 'obsession'.

I mop twice a week and use the same bucket of water for all of down stairs I may top up hot water if Ive stopped and done a few other jobs inbetween and change the water for up stairs and do the bathrooms last

I sympathise as a dog owner and a renter about the extra pressure to feel the place is squeaky clean but you really need to relax. I would also suggest getting a roomba tonease rhe vacuuming but more importantly get a steam mop and a couple of pads for it. A million times easier and cleaner than mops and buckets.

A robot steam mop would be awesome, could someone make me one please? Would pay in Viennese whirls but ate them all while reading the parking thread 😳

I think you have some degree of OCD

There is absolutely nowhere near enough information to be making a clinical diagnosis of debilitating mental illness.

I have flagstone floors in the kitchen, I think I've steam mopped then maybe three times since last summer. They get hoovered every day though

I have laminate and use a Karchner steam cleaner- not only does it clean beautifully but I can pretend I'm a Ghostbuster

It's ok. I do not in anyway have OCD. The rest of my house and level of untidiness elsewhere proves that.

Maybe it is the comment from my non dog owning friend that plays on my mind and of course yeh worry that at any time the landlady could decide that my dogs are too dirty and no longer wants to rent to us.

Perhaps I'll let dh off today and just be grateful that he carried out a chore without too much fuss.

I'm going to jump to your defense here op. I have 2 dogs. I sweep, hoover and mop every day too (sometimes twice!!). I only have to do the Kitchen/break and utility as the rest of downstairs is carpet, but if the other rooms were tiles I'd have to change the water, its filthy by the time I'm done.

That said I'd prob let it go as he's done it his way which has helped out

Thanks torn.

YABU. One bucket of water is plenty.

Just in support of OP I would like to present exhibit A - this photo captures the moment 3 minutes after my dog came inside from a quick run around the garden while I was trying (trying being the operative word) to wipe hid paws. I go through this every time he goes outside plus walks. Dogs are messy bastards.

Please also notice the mud on my pyjamas and socks

Not pictured: the mud on my arms and hands.

That looks extremely familiar Dont

The floors can get very muddy and the water is often dirty after mopping one room.

Have not mn'd since I got home and have been looking at steam mops. Have no idea which ones are any good though.

Try a flat mophead with micro finger tassles. Like a poodle? Run it under the tap and ring it out before putting it on the mop. It will lift away the dirt on the whole floor. Take it off and leave it in the water ready for the next load. If you really want to you can remove and rinse btn rooms, but you really don't need to. If you really want to you can use a disinfectant spray on the floor as you go, as well.

Lakeland has good steam mops but I'm very fond of my vax
www.vax.co.uk/steam-cleaners/steam-fresh-pet-steam-cleaner

OP a good way to do the floors without swapping buckets is to spray the whole area with a cleaner and basically pour hot water from the bucket or kettle onto the area. Leave it for a couple of mins then go over it with a dry mop and wring it into the empty bucket.