To ask you to help me settle a debate about house cleaning?

[notasoutherner]

(Lighthearted)

Help me settle this debate with my husband!

Okay so, the house has got messy. You've been too busy to keep on top of it and you need to do a big tidy up and clean top to bottom.

Does it make more sense to

A) Go room by room and don't move to the next until one is finished

B) Task by task ie, collect laundry from each room, tidy every room, vacuum every room, mop the floors

I would do B

B here!

Definitely B.

I've cleaned for a living and you do an initial tidy up, move stuff etc, before you seperate and do a deep clean of each room.

Bit of both - so start with laundry, get a load going, you'll need to so you can sort out bedrooms anyway, then start on certain rooms. In practice I do the kitchen daily, laundry most days, everything else is lucky to get done more than once a fortnight, so MN would probably recoil in horror at my home...

A

B

It would depend on what "messy" means. If your home is seriously over-cluttered, I would go by type, clothes first, tat next, paperwork, etc, and then do a room by room deep clean. If it's just regular messy, I might go room by room.

A

Divide and conquer- personally would probably go room by room but take a room each. Alternatively the person who wants to go task by task can go around collecting laundry etc, while the person who wants to go room by room starts in one room and as they progress around the house it will be easier and easier as the other tasks are done, plus the person going task by task can go in and mop a nearly finished room. I don't think the two approaches are incompatible.

B

B.

I own and clean holiday lets and this is the most efficient time wise.

I'm a B. Otherwise you kind of move the problems from room to room. If I do A, we all end up with messy bedrooms!

B

I go room to room any laundry in each room gets chucked out on the landing and taken downstairs to the laundry basket when the other rooms are one, then I hoover down the stairs and tackle the downstairs rooms this way if say someone turns up half way through each room I have done is finished not three rooms half done and I can shut doors and forget each room

A mix of both. Anything whole house should be done in one go, with room specific jobs stay in the room until they are done.

So, in the bathroom, clean the loo, bath, sink, mirrors, window sill etc then collect the dirty towels/mat that were thrown out the door when I started and head to washing machine/laundry basket picking up other laundry on the way. Whole house vacuumed when everything else is done.

B

B - tidy up and then clean kitchen, bathrooms, then hoover throughout and wash floors last.

I’d do a mixture so start off with the first bit of B and go on a sweep through the house putting things where they belong, gathering rubbish and laundry in one place, then I’d go through each room individually dusting, windows, grubby door handles/mirrors and general straightening up/chucking out of obvious clutter and finish with a finale of vaccing and mopping of the whole house.

If your sharing the load whoever is the individual room cleaner should do the kitchen and bathroom/s.

A, then B is how you keep on top of it

B

Depends on the room. Bedrooms, me and husband take one each. Bathrooms and downstairs loo are mine and kitchen is his. Hoovering is his and washing floors is mine. Living room is either or and playroom is a family effort.

Laundry gets put on first before any task and dealt with when finished ready for the next load.

Always do upstairs first as it's easy to say fuck it when downstairs is done.

It just depends. How messy is messy type of thing.

B

Bit of both. I would make sure all laundry and any washing up etc is sorted out and started then go room my room.

We have to tackle this tomorrow, I think the decorations are hiding mess!

I do B to start, collect all the dirty washing, washing up and empty the bins in each room. Put the dishwasher on and a load of laundry.

Then A to tidy each room, usually kitchen, then living room, bathroom and then bedrooms and change the beddibg. Finally B to dust, hoover and mop as appropriate in each room