To have not known that people wipe down their walls?

[Furiousaboutinstarubbish]

Does everyone do this as part of general cleaning? I had no idea and have been bellowing at kids for sticky fingers for months!!

I've never done it - well, other than prior to painting the wall or when someone coffee managed to get spilt on a wall.

Some people have very rigorous cleaning standards. I remember once reading a thread where a poster was advising the OP on how to have a fairer allocation of household tasks between OP and her DH. The poster was drawing a distinction between tasks that were daily, weekly etc - and referred to bleaching skirting boards as a daily task !!

It's called damp dusting, sugar soap removes grease but wouldn't recommend regular use. I use a drop or two of washing up liquid in warm water on a cloth wrung out. Needs doing to stop house being dusty and if you have pets or kids becomes much more frequent!

and referred to bleaching skirting boards as a daily task shock !!

I have never bleached a skirting board! I wipe them down when I can see thick black dust on top of them, but that’s it

My DS is severely autistic and has severe learning difficulties. he can't speak and is still in nappies at 18, I regularly have his face print somewhere on a wall, don't get me started on hands. Having said that, I'd be wiping down walls all day every day, so I tend to wait till it's so bad that I can't ignore it.

I am lazy but do this. Squirt wall with antibac spray. Leave 2 min. Wipe down with a broom with a microfibre cloth tied over the brush.

Hoover picture rails etc every few months. V satisfying dust clumps come off.

You can hoover walls too.

No. I don’t ‘wipe down the walls’ on a regular basis. That’s just bonkers. If they get a mark on them, then yes, I’ll wipe it off...but the whole wall. Nope. There’s enough to do without that nonsense.

Never ever thought of it until I had kids. Now of course we have scrubbable paint on the walls and I thank god for Magic Sponges.

Have you seriously never washed the wall by your toilet? I do the bathroom walls once a week with a deep clean and the other rooms less often, say once a month if that. I rely more on wiping marks I can see in other rooms.

I’m not talking about the tiled bathroom or the gap between the bench & upper cabinets in the kitchen. Just regular walls in the sitting room, hallways, bedrooms etc.

I have to with a 3 year old, sticky little fingers everywhere. I just use a bit of Cif on a wet cloth, every couple of days.
I used to have to wash the skirting boards every Sunday as my chore when I was young, I hated that.

Yes on stairs. By dpors amd swotches and the odd mark. I dont wipe the whole thing.

Its why you get hallways or stairs paont or kitcgen paint etc most paint is wipeablenlw days though.

I do when I see any marks, especially in the kitchen. Baby wipes or Aldi surface wipes work well.

Jeez - walls now? Weekly?

How do you manage to find the time in between changing the bed(s) every 2 days, the washing of said beds, the washing of all clothes that have been looked at, the bleaching and scrubbing of the toilet (without a toilet brush, natch) ....

I don't work (yet) and I don't have time for all that!

(Beds once a month, toilet - when it needs it, bathroom - ditto, worktops in kitchen once a day with washing up water, outer clothes when worn a few times...)

Bathroom tiles around toilet - yes

Painted bathroom walls, yes occasionally

Other walls - never

But what do you do when the paint ISN'T wipeable? I rent, and have tried wiping the walls, but the (white) paint just rubs off onto the sponge/wipe and there seems to be a nasty yellowy-cream paint underneath, so the areas I wipe just end up looking patchy and even worse than when I started.

Stop wiping the walls... Only do it before move out - it's what I'm having to do - we have white walls, kids fingers all over it where they touch the walls to climb the stairs, but when I magic sponged it, a huge layer of paint came off - it's not something I could do more than a couple of times (let alone once a week!!!)

Life’s too short ....

I rarely wipe down my walls. When occasionally (think every few years) I do so, it doesn't half make a difference though.

I'll do it if it looks grubby. Very, very infrequently.

We recently moved into a newly painted house but they didn't use wipeable paint! With two children and a dog it's a nightmare! I'm going to have to repaint the lot, starting with the heavy traffic areas because I think the marks are so badly visible. I think if you haven't noticed your walls need wiping then the chances are they don't need doing.

Why would you need to told that you can clean sticky fingers marks off your walls

Did you think that everyone lives with dirty walls or that they repaint every week to cover them over?

My mind is boggled that it's not a perfectly obvious thing to do

Yes I wipe walls with a damp soapy cloth.
My walls are painted with wipeable pain.
Quite handy for fingermarks, especially near doors, light switches etc.

Most paintwork in my home is white, I always keep a tin in the garage for quick two minute paint jobs for things that wont wash off.

Only noticeable marks, and even then I admit I don't look closely very often

I do the wall by the toilet the most - I have 2 young DSes

Not as a scheduled clean but when I see marks. Also round the lavatory and in the shower.

Wipeable paint is worth it, we did one set of stairs in that and one in normal and the wipeable one looks years newer! Also why I'd never ever buy Farrow and Ball again, if you wipe it it comes off a bit, and leaves a mark

I have to dust mine! I have a long swiffer thing (ahem) as we have high ceilings, the bedroom walls don’t get dusty but downstairs is crazy - if I forget, actual clumps start to gather