How much extra cleaning are you doing at home and at work?

[Spacepocket]

Cleaning all the door handles at home with a bleach solution has become part of our routine. Washing the downstairs floors now a couple of times a week rather than every day. Washing machine is on every day with scrubs rather than a few times a week so I tend to make it up to a full load with towels etc.

Still doing a deep clean every day at work ( healthcare) which we have down to a fine art now but a few grumbles starting to emerge. DH works in manufacturing and above cleaning chairs before and after breaks, has no ‘extra’ cleaning to think about.
If you’re out at work or just heading back, how much cleaning are you expected to do above and beyond your ‘normal’ work?

Washing hands for longer, and when I come in from outside.
I wipe the touch points (door handles, light switches, taps) about once every couple of weeks.

Nothing other than that.

In terms of work, we're not moving outside of the house at the moment.

Extra? Extra??? I avoid doing as much as I can whatever the day. There's better things to do than cleaning.

None , working at home and shielding

@Toddlerteaplease DH takes great delight in reminding me that I’m currently a dirty nurse-I blame him for my bleach obsession

None, well maybe some extra hoovering but we've recently got a dog (after supposed to be getting him pre-lockdown and couldn't until the rescue charity we're approved to re-home again). I feel I clean a good amount anyway (but I'd probably be classed as slattern to some on here!) and we are rarely leaving the house (apart from to walk the dog and pick up click and collects). DP is furloughed and I am waiting to start a new job, was due to start day of lockdown and couldn't). We're both so low risk to catch it, but if I was travelling into work on public transport I probably would be washing clothes and wiping doorhandes and surfaces more often.

Both working from home

No more cleaning round the house

Wash hands on arrival at home

Nothing extra at home. At work we wipe down in the morning and evening. I wash hands inbetween seeing patients/customers or use handgel and am wearing ppe as cannot socially distance from colleagues.

None.
Less, if anything.
Most people sound completely neurotic.

OP, Tonnes.
Every.single.other.poster = none.

Nothing extra in the house, probably less cleaning as I can’t be bothered. Outside of the home I just use my hand gel after shopping.

It's not really comparable though, is it.
Many of us aren't actually going out anywhere.

You are heading in to premises where they are taking people who are infected.

It's like comparing bananas with elephants.

@ImInYourMindFuzz if it wasn’t for the bloody dog my house would be a palace

I'm still doing lots extra at home and DP has to do loads when it is his rotation to be in work.

@BackforGood ironically I feel less at risk at work than I do in Tesco! I have struggled to get the balance right at times but before I leave work and travel home, I can shower and change. I come out of Tesco feeling grim!
Am pretty close to needing to take some time off work though so it’s interesting to hear what other people in other situations have as a baseline.

@Spacepocket I got volunteered to dress up as our children's hospital mascot today. I hope they gave the head of the costume a good clean before I put it on!

My baseline is I don't even wash my hands extra. (well there had to be one, didn't there, maybe the only honest reply you'll get). I don't care about me getting c19. I guess I get into an indoor envt that isn't my own home about twice a week, like the corner shop to buy milk just now.

Lots. Cleaning surfaces, communal areas, tables, chairs, mats, equipment regularly throughout the day.
I teach y1

@Toddlerteaplease that would give me the willies long before Covid ever appeared

None, cant be bothered in the office anymore either, just wash my hands.

Big fat zero.

No one other than cleaning woman (and only last couple weeks) has been in my home so not doing anything more there. I wash my hands after I've been out and have hand sanitizer in the car to use after I've been to the shops. I don't work outside the home.

None. I was in the early days, but it's just hands now. Dp still goes out to work in a customer facing role but even then, if we were going to catch anything, we'd have had it by now. Me and ds hardly leave the house other than for exercise or I've had a couple of one on one walks.

I'm at home. I'm just washing hands. I was going the full monty with wiping everything down but as the cases have gone down I've calmed down.

At home, very little, just an extra wipe of door handles, letterbox (for the postman's safety), my keys everytime I come in and making sure everyone washes their hands as soon as we get home.

I work in a primary school, so at work I am cleaning everything anyone has touched as soon as they've finished using it, I'd never really noticed quite how many things a child touches in a day!

I'm washing clothes more often too, everything is being washed after 1 wear out the house.