How many hours to clean this much of the house?

[Supsista]

For context it's a 5 bedroom house but not a big house generally. By which I mean in this town there's enormous 5 bedroom houses that cost 3 times as much as ours (and indeed 4 bedrooms houses twice the size).

3 of the 5 bedrooms could fit a double bed in but you would get absolutely bugger all else in there.

It has a bathroom which you can't really get two adults using at the same time.
And a wet room which is about the same size.

To clean the two bathrooms and hoover the house (no dining room) minus one of the small bedrooms, how many hours would that take?

It personally took me 1 hour the last time I did it.
I figured that a cleaner would take 2.

I must be so slow

You are doing way way more than the OP or her cleaner, so probably not.

Depends on the bathroom.

Mine doesn't take long, I hg mould spray the tiles / grout.

Leave that to work whilst I clean the sink and loo. (( loo is pretty much always clean as I bleach each night and everyone's trained to clean up after themselves or face my wrath))

Then shower down the tiles and use my window vac on them.

Probably 15 /20 minutes tops.

We are 3 adults tho and again have a clean up after ourselves rule so it never really gets dirty.

My house which is 3200 Sq ft takes 6 hours to do a basic clean. Maybe I'm slow, maybe my DC and DH bring in more of the outdoors than I would like, but be realistic. I spoke to my neighbour whose house is a mirror image and she said hers takes about the same but we both have pets and children.

@Couchbettato 7 hours? she was taking the mickey!

How on earth did you do a 5 bed house in an hour? What is your definition of cleaning op?

I didn't say I did that in an hour.

To answer the more sensible questions, the rest of the house is clean, dusted etc. I do that regularly but the two things that I struggle to find time for is the bathrooms and the vacuuming.

I still get it done, but at a push.

It's just those that would really take the edge off.
I don't need a cleaner to dust or wipe walls down.

Even with the new feature of bring able to show only the OP posts, it never ceases to amaze me how little some posters actually read of a thread before they post.

Mine does one bedroom, 2 bathrooms and open plan kitchen and living room - takes two cleaners an hour

@81Byerley 7 hours was including a load in the washer and dryer, oven and microwave cleaning, and probably redoing some stuff my toddler kindly undoes shortly after it's been done.

[quote Couchbettato]@81Byerley 7 hours was including a load in the washer and dryer, oven and microwave cleaning, and probably redoing some stuff my toddler kindly undoes shortly after it's been done.[/quote]
Haha! that explains it then!

@Supsista if it's mainly vacuuming you'd be better off buying one of these! www.amazon.co.uk/BoostIQ-Connected-Super-Thin-Self-Charging-Medium-Pile/dp/B07R5R7XF6?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I think you might be on to something there.

I think I’m the opposite of you. Bathrooms and vacuuming are the main bits that get done. It’s dusting and skirting boards etc that don’t. I’m not sure if anyone will come out to you for an hour. By the time they’ve added in travel costs it might not be worth it.

We don’t have a cleaner at the moment and really miss it but I was fed up of our last cleaner taking the piss. We used an agency they sent us two amazing ladies who did 3 hours and our house was gleaming. The second one did tidying as well and was basically an angel. The third took the piss and only ever did 1h30 despite being paid for 3 hours. If you advertise for 2h you’d need to make sure you got someone that would do other jobs and not just do something quick and disappear otherwise
You’ll just feel pissed off and wonder why you’re paying if you can do it in an hour.

An hour? Are you having a Laff?

I can barely Hoover our tiny 3 bedroom red house in that.

3 hours for a hired cleaner, I would imagine.

@Sailingblue
I wasn't asking anyone to come out to me for an hour.

Have you posted on the wrong thread?

No- it’s just if you do it in an hour- you may well find that you’re paying for 2 but a cleaner may well zip round taking even less time than you. You’d just need to be really clear whether you’re paying for time or for an agreed job.

As an ex (and not beyond being future) cleaner, it is the bathrooms, kitchen and main living room that always take the time, so the bedrooms don't matter that much. But anything with children adds on an hour.

I used to recommend 3 hours per house until they were 'up to scratch', then either 2, or 1 and a half hours to maintain. Most people kept me doing more than the minimum, either to do some more deep cleaning or to do ironing.

No-one ever hired me just to do a vacuuming and a dust.

But OP, you absolutely could hire someone purely for bathrooms and a full vacuum. Two bathrooms and a vacuum isn't going t come in at under an hour though, because bathrooms are one of the rooms that takes most time.

But anything with children adds on an hour.
Vacuuming children's cleared floors adds an hour? Whaaaaaaat?

Two bathrooms and a vacuum isn't going t come in at under an hour though
I didnt think it would. I suggest two hours, have hours read the wrong thread too?

It personally took me 1 hour the last time I did it.
I figured that a cleaner would take 2.

Just highlighting for those who are troubled with reading.

3 hours for a good clean