Only deep clean once a year

[newhome123]

AIBU to only deep clean once a year i.e windows, doors and skirting boards etc

You clean your windows once a year, really?

You’re meant to clean skirting boards ??🙈🙈

I have no pets and no kids.
I do the windowsill every week due to London pollution and skirting boards in the bedroom every month as I am allergic to dust and don't want to sleep around it. Other than that... once a year, every two years.. sure

@LemoneysSicket

I am a bit gobsmacked too, at the ones saying they only clean their windows once a year, and never clean their skirting boards! The skirting boards get covered in dust, and the windows get dirty with rain, and dust, and bird poo, and general crap. They need cleaning inside AND out, at least 3 times a year.

It's like some people claim they never hoover behind the couch, and never clean the oven. I mean WTF?! What is wrong with these people? How can they not clean their home, and things that they use?

Very odd.

Can one of you come over to my house. I started cleaning the skirting boards after this thread and I realise that there is so much deep cleaning to do. Stopped for a glass of wine. And now sitting in chaos. As I’ve pulled everything out.
I wish I had never started!

Cleaned my windows today for the first time in a year and my whole house feels nice and bright. I might start doing it twice a year!

Gross

I hear the term 'deep clean' banded about a lot on this site and I'm not entirely sure what a deep clean consists of. Can anyone clarify?

I'm a total slut when it comes to housework so I imagine it's stuff that would even occur to me to do.

Wouldn't occur to me

It's like some people claim they never hoover behind the couch, and never clean the oven. I mean WTF

What do you think actually happens when people don't do these things?

I'm in the deep clean what's that?! camp. Although I did the skirting boards the other day and they were looking a tad grim after 6 months

I need clarification at this point. By "cleaning skirting boards" do we mean :

1. Running the hoover attachment along it.
2. Dusting with a cloth.
3. Cleaning with Cif or some such??

I just use a brush attachment to va uum my skirting boards when I do the floors.

You clean your windows once a year, really

I can't work out whether this poster was asking if some cleaned their windows only once a year, or 'you clean your windows every year, really?

A lot of this is going to depend on what kind of house you have, we have air con, DC and pets. It is a very dusty house and the skirting boards need dusted weekly and wiped down about once a month, although it is a really boring job and I was pretty grumpy as I did it this week as it happens.

Although my skirtings aren't bad, my ceilings and architraves are a bloody disgrace. I do not have the heart to hoover up webs - it seems such a shame when the spiders have been so busy - I just gently clean round them. There is a very thick hammock-like web that our largest spider, Malcolm, sits in - it's in a safe corner, next to the fireplace and TV and away from the cats. I couldn't hoover up his home even if it does look a webby state. He or she hates the vibrations of the vacuum and rears up crossly when it gets unreasonably close.

I think DH and I might be turning into Mr and Mrs Twit but at least we don't have flies.

I'd never heard of cleaning skirting boards until MN. I now do the sitting room ones when I'm doing the floor - once a month? Because I'm down there already with a wet cloth. Don't do any of the others though. Why would you. Just... Why? They don't look dirty to me. Sure, there's dust on them, but it'll resettle on them within a minute of me wiping, so...
Also never antibac door handles or such. Hmmm. And I'm not ill much.

I do not have the heart to hoover up webs

Oh me neither! It rather spoils it when I do get off my arse to clean

I save them from the wing mirrors on the car too - silly spiders

I love threads like these. In the left corner we have the pearl clutching clean freaks and in the right the self confessed slatterns (of which I'm one).

Let battle commence

I love buying cleaning products and hyperventilate doing a trolley dash round savers - I'm not quite as keen to use them as regularly as I should though.
I was however on the testing panel for Purple Zen Zoflora - it reeks to high heaven but I received a vat of it for nada. It's still under the kitchen sink.

I do windows maybe once a year. Skirting - the accessible, visible bits are done weekly as I hoover bit there are minimal accessible visible bits. The pull out the sofa type jobs are maybe 3 times a year.

Yanbu.
I have a no shoes and no pets house so it doesn't get that dirty.

It is interesting hearing other people's views. I guess in the end it's down to me and how clean I want my house but seems as though it does depend on how we use the house.

I clean inside Windows when I remember...which works out every four to six months (The only ones that are really dirty are the kitchen Windows)
I sweep a feather duster thing along the skirting boards every time I vacuum the floors, which is three times a week. They get washed once a year.
If I'm feeling energetic I fluffy dust the walls but that's not often.
The oven gets wiped down after use and properly cleaned before Christmas.
Kitchen cupboard doors....two or three times a year.
I couldn't give a flying fuck how little or often anyone else cleans their house.