How clean is your house?

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Finding it a bit much working part time and looking after my toddler, so decided go spend some money on a cleaner. Two of them will come every other week for three hours a time. They’ll do a whole house clean each time-polish, vacuum and mop whole house, all bathrooms, kitchen full clean including oven and fridge, bedrooms, windows etc. In between this I plan to wash the dishes/clean kitchen daily as usual and toilet clean bleach..would you say this is enough or i need to do full house clean in between. My house is very tidy but I hate cleaning! 🙈I cook from scratch, food shop, work etc no problem, but really struggle to clean around Dd.
How often do you clean and how do you organise it?

What are you asking? What is your aibu?

I live in a very old house, which is always dusty. I vacuum once a week downstairs and sweep the kitchen floor most days.

Vacuuming happens upstairs about once every 2 or 3 months. Bathrooms cleaned as and when needed.

I detest housework and avoid it as much as possible 😁

I have a cleaner fortnightly but live with clutter😬 Only good thing about lockdown is I have sorted one room and am getting rid of stuff.
I hate cleaning glass shower screens and have two, much prefer Ye Olde shower curtains. I now hang a lightweight large plastic tablecloth over the shower door when I use it and it stays immaculate!

@Maireas Well..sort of aibu to do as little as possible in between their deep clean 😂

I’d much prefer once per week, but three hours every week is a little over my budget.
I’m wondering if two hours per week would be sufficient, a weekly clean would be a dream.

Yeah, I’m really tidy and the house is fairly minimalist, so they just basically need to clean and put stuff back..I just detest cleaning bathrooms etc..!

Have a dog also, so definitely guessing I’ll have to hoover more. Bleach and quick clean of the toilets would be a regular and wipe down in kitchen etc..how wonderful would it be to never clean again.

I suppose it depends on your house and what kind of lifestyle you have. We used to have a Victorian house which seemed to get very dusty, but now we live in a 70s build which is great and easy to keep clean. Mind you, our children are adults and we have no pets!

It's a cliché but little and often is the trick.
Hoover for a couple mins a day, put things away after you use them, wipe the sinks down with bathroom wipes quickly as often as you remember
It's the most frustrating advise as it does mean changing the way you approach the day to day
But it will work

We have our cleaner twice a week Monday to clean post weekend and Friday for a pre weekend clean its the best money I spend. She does 4 hours a week and will do any jobs she thinks need attending to such as oven or window cleaning as she knows if she does longer than the 4 hours I am happy to pay extra. She is brilliant and her friend who is also a cleaner covers for her when she goes on holiday. If you get a good cleaner treat her right and keep her. I pay £15ph and treat her for Xmas and birthdays.

2adults 4 children dog and cat here,I clean the whole house every day bleach bathroom and kitchen maybe twice a day depending,changed beds once a week and do around 2washes a day but I'm also a sahm with 2under 2 🤦🏻‍♀️

DH and I both work full time...we are also currently living on a building site due to an extension being done, so it's really dusty. We have one toddler but no pets.
We clean the bathrooms once a week, although I clean the toilets and the tub/shower regularly throughout the week. The robot goes through the house daily. DS loves to switch it on just before we leave for nursery. Dishwasher gets emptied and restocked at least once a day. I mop the floor once or twice a week (we don't have carpets).
On the whole, the house is quite tidy. Haven't needed a cleaner so far... Could do with someone cleaning my windows but will wait with that until the building works are done.

I keep house very tidy, which makes it much easier to clean and makes for a much calmer atmosphere. I have a cleaner for 2 hours every week. But, between times, I still clean the loos and Hoover the kitchen floor most days. Bedding is changed every week. Bedroom windows always left open a crack as cannot bear the smell of fusty bedrooms.

Mine is very clean, but I’m lucky to work part time and all my kids are now in school so I get all my jobs done during the day. When I still had little ones at home, I just tried my best to wipe up as I went along eg rinse the bath out after use, wipe sides down when making lunch. I also used to have a mad 30 minute run around when all the kids were in bed and do what I could.

As my lovely mum used to say "Clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy"

We live in a five bed three bath house. The children have flown the nest so there is only my husband myself and my adult son here. We have a cleaner once a week for 4 hours. Before she comes we have a tidy up to give her a clear run in between I usually vacuum it once or twice and wipe down the bathroom every day. I would love a robotic hoover though! x

Pretty clean but only because I hosted a kids' mini birthday party at the weekend and I needed to clean up after.

Surely it costs the same to have 1x cleaner 3h per week as it costs to have 2x cleaners 3h per week? It's still 6hper fortnight.

I vacuum every day, quick clean of the toilets/basins and quick mop of the kitchen, worktops and outside of cooker all daily then there is a proper clean of each room that I do once week by timetable, including emptying out the fridge and cleaning it (the day before the weekly shopping is delivered). Clean the insides of the windows when the window cleaner comes (once a fortnight). Other more infrequent things I do here and there, I'm trying to make a list of those but haven't got round to it so far!

Nb it's only downstairs I vacuum every day! I have a dog, but she's not allowed upstairs so I'm able to vacuum once a week on the designated room days.

Boyfriend and I both out of the house 7am-6:30pm every day of the week, I’d say we do a full clean on the weekends but then we whip round a few nights a week. Hoover every day. Clean the kitchen sides etc each night unless we get takeaway but we might leave a bit of washing up until the next day.
Full clean is about an hour and a half flat out on the weekend. One bedroom flat. No kids!! One fluffy cat 💕

No wonder the environment is effed if people are using bleach every day
I do toilet every other day, rest of the bathroom once a week. Kitchen surfaces daily/as needed, fridge weekly. I have never cleaned my oven . DH is supposed to hoover/mop the floor of a different room each day but he is useless so our floors are currently really grimy. I change bedding and towels every Sunday. And I don’t use bleach or anything that says harmful/toxic to the environment on the bottle - you really don’t need to kill everything to be hygienic. Actually I looked at getting a cleaner and the local company refuses to use bleach because it’s a health risk to the cleaners!

Vacuuming happens upstairs about once every 2 or 3 months Do you never go upstairs? 😮

Why does a cordless phone make cleaning easier??
I've never had a cleaner. Do you give them a key? Do you have to leave the house when they clean?

The cordless phone question was to Okoko

@TheWernethWife

As my lovely mum used to say "Clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy"

I love that!

We (adult couple no kids, 2 cats) live in a large, dusty, mid-renovation house, and have a cleaner 2 hrs per fortnight.
The cleaner stops it from actually getting disgusting, but I normally do a bit in between - wiping kitchen surfaces when they're dirty (daily), maybe a hoover in the kitchen and lounge.

I have a robo vac wish I’d bought one years ago. Some you can set a Daily timer - or activate using an app. Press the button let him get on with it, empty him every day, compared with vacuuming emptying the canister Is nae bother. I would say if you are tempted check the height of your furniture versus the robot, mine is slim and pops under chairs etc with ease. On standard suction he is pretty quiet. Mine has a cloth attachment to ‘mop’ too. Takes up less room than a chunky hoover, poles and attachments. Good enough for in between your big cleans for sure.