To ask how long your deep clean takes ?

[Imperialleathers]

I have a small 2 bedroom flat and I deep clean probably about once a month, if that. It takes me about 4 hours. How big is your house and how long does a deep clean take ??

I've been in that position too and I don't mind sharing that I enjoyed a smug moment when the inventory clerk told me the house was cleaner than when we moved in (she was right, plus the garden was in a better state too).

In contrast to renting, when we bought our first house I was horrified at the state it was left in. We had to deep clean everything before we moved our furniture in, particularly the bathroom and kitchen. I have no idea why cleaning after exit isn't a 'thing' when buying a house, but I strongly feel that it should be written into exchange contracts!

😂😂😂 I passed out when I read the title. 😄

Whenever we move house.

But agree with earlier posters, OP - you're talking about a regular clean. That takes about two hours here (4 bed, 2 bathroom house) and we do it every fortnight or when my mother is coming.

I vaguely do The Organised Mum Method. So each room has an allocated day for “normal” cleaning. Then, every 8 weeks, on a Friday, a certain room gets a more focused clean (skirtings, frames, etc etc)

I find it a much easier way to try to keep on top of things. Because crap doesn’t build up for months, it’s much easier to keep vaguely on top of.

Once a week about 3 hours but I clean daily so it's never an overly huge job

I've no idea how you can 'deep" clean a hard surface. Maybe a 'thorough' clean, which is behind all furniture, tops of cupboards etc. Probably every 2 or 3 years. Normal cleaning takes place as I go along, or weekly.

Ours gets cleaned weekly for 3-4 hours.
But we do so many things daily and keep it clean all the time, too. (That’s really due to DH’s habits, I was never that type, but since we got married I’ve learned to love order and cleanliness!)

If you spend that much time on a 2 bedroom flat it must be quite clean!

I wouldn't deep clean all in one go, I can clean my house in 3 hrs, then additionally i tackle a "deep clean" project every few weeks.

Me neither. I thought all this sort of thing was left behind several decades ago. I cleaned the skirting boards when I left my last flat as it was on the list of things I had to do from the agents - thought it was weird at the time.

Every now and then I tackle big tasks. I’m using Good Friday to clean all the glass sliding doors. DH has cleaned the oven and then cut back the hedges. To do all of the occasional tasks in one hit would take both of us the entire weekend, perhaps more, so we don’t do it like that. We just tackle a few things at a time.

I did a deep clean last summer, it took about a month. I suppose I do one every three years or so

I have a cleaning schedule... it reminds me to do tasks daily (eg quick vacuum around the high traffic areas), weekly (proper vacuum/mop; clean bathrooms, change bedding, etc) and then it rotates out the lesser frequent tasks like cleaning out kitchen cupboards, dusting along the tops of the kitchen cabinets, vacuuming skirting boards etc.

I quite like doing it this way as the house always feels reasonably clean and tidy, and I'm never doing a big clean in one go. Just a couple of small tasks per day.

Love a deep clean.

Once a week, I aim for a big, deep clean, as I love cleaning and have 6 kids so things get messy or dirty easily.

Daily tasks are your every day things like laundry, folding away and hanging up, Hoover every day, especially the lounge gets hovered 3 times a day, polishing every two days, clean bathroom daily, and making beds and general tidying up, I do a lot in the kitchen daily, scrubbing tiles and worktops and front of oven and fridge handles and front of washing machine that I probably could leave for the deep clean on a weekend, but I hate the idea of dirt building up in the place that needs to be clean the most ....

But on a weekend for a deep clean, we pull out the kitchen appliances and lift up the sink drainer and give the worktops and cooker and sink and window ledge a good scrub, scrub the front of the cupboards, wash inside and outside of the fridge, wash the inside of the bin, organise the snack and cereal cupboards, give the floor a good mop.
Polish the bedroom, organise shelves, deodorants and perfumes and makeup, reorganise drawers if they have become messy, hoover the bedrooms, carpet clean areas if necessary, try to do a big carpet clean once a month, clean upstairs doors and door frames and skirting boards, remove and shake rugs and really go for it in hoovering the landing, clean skirting boards in bathroom, deep clean bath panel and shower glass and tiles and round the back of toilet and sink pedestal and window ledges, a god mop and organise shampoos and bubble baths and organise bathroom candle shelf, organise the baby wipes and toilet roll box, same with lounge, general tidy away toys and book, plump up the sofa, deep polish, clean the window ledge (I have large bay windows) clean windows fortnightly, clean skirting boards, pull out the sofas and usually will find the odd dinosaur toy or pencil or Lego etc, clear out and Hoover, general tidy, sort out the toy caddy, organise the book shelves and the ornaments and flowers etc. Hoover the stairs at least twice a week, scrub downstairs doors and polish banister and the poles in the stairs and the skirting boards and radiators. Clean the buggy and buggy handles, organise the toys in the play room, give downstairs a good Hoover.

I try to do some of those things twice a week as well as doing them in the weekend deep clean. I try to keep on top as with 6 kids, it gets messy easily. My eldest children also chip in with chores and we have a system. They also win money or chocolate and time on the playstation or a treat, day out sort of thing for good helping out as kids should do!

Agree with this.

A deep clean is what I do once a year just before Christmas when every surface, cupboard etc is tackled.

My weekly clean is much, much less thorough and takes a few hours.

And my deep clean can take up to a month because I'm not doing it everyday. I do have a life you know. It's usually one room over a day or too. The kitchen takes forever to finish.

Youve really got me @PopsicleHustler I genuninelv can't tell if that's a serious post

It's a lot of typing for a piss take but who has so many deodorants that tidying them is a scheduled task ?

Other than vacumming I don't remember cleaning happening in my childhood, did you all learn this from your parents ? I didn't hear the term deep clean until I was in a baby group with my first child and didn't know what was meant by it

I never do a deep clean but there are only two adults here so it never really gets messy in the first place.

That being said, we do a lot of daily basics so it never builds up into anything that requires a lot of attention.

So daily jobs are vacuuming, cleaning the toilet, spraying/wiping down the shower and sink, washing dishes and putting them away, cleaning kitchen sides, hoovering, sweeping the floors, sorting the litter trays, and making beds.

Laundry is done every couple of days, beds are stripped once a week, and towels are all washed weekly too. Food shop comes once a week and the fridge is given a quick clean beforehand.

I love these threads though - there's always a huge divide between competitive cleaning and competitive laziness

3 bedroom house. I wouldn’t say it’s a ‘deep clean’ but once a week I strip all the beds, vacuum every room, put all the shit away that’s been migrating to places it shouldn’t, dust anything that looks like it needs it, wipe the cupboard fronts in the kitchen and give the bathroom a good scrub. It takes most of a day. But I only work part time and my kids are in school so I’m left alone. I hate the process but the results make me so much happier that it’s worth it to me.

And I only clean the fridge when my MIL is coming to stay. Worst job ever.

Crikey! I thought deep cleans were for commercial kitchens.
We keep things ok-ish here. Reasonably tidy, on top of laundry, wash and wipe up after meals etc. Beyond that I might clean behind the fridge every now and again, or clean out a cupboard or a drawer once in a while. Not sure why anyone would want to do it all at once!

You do all that while the 1 and 3 year old are there?? I've had the first week of Easter hols off with the 3 year old and my house is a bomb site. I need him to go to nursery for half a day just so I can tidy up let alone clean. My current solution is to go away for the weekend (all of us) so I don't have to look at it.

@TimeForMeToF1y no Its not a p-take as you put it, my deodorants, makeup and perfumes as well as my husbands deodorants, shaving balm, hair oils, beard oil and creams are all on the desk and shelves and do get messy, lids left off or left out, and my middle girl plays about with my sprays reorganising them in colour order, I actually have quite a lot as I love smelling fresh and clean so do have quite a collection of deodorants, sprays, creams, perfumes and anti bac gels, Bath bombs, and so on. So am not taking the mick, haha whats the problem with having a reorganise, literally the same thing as reorganising your bathroom cabinets and toothpastes, toothbrushes, bubble bath, hand wash etc.

And when I was younger like 10 years old and up, my parents gave me jobs to do ie, wash up and wipe down the table if me and my sister wanted extra pocket money for something. My kids happily chip in with cleaning and they get pocket money and win prizes each week. We have a thing where they get lots of ticks on their charts and currently are working their way towards a new tablet for the middle kids and a new phone for the teenager. Its good they can learn you just don't get things handed to you. My husband and I work very hard to provide for them all.

Our kitchen was fitted around 10 years ago. I cleaned inside 2 of the cupboards 3 weeks ago.

3 bed, 3 bathroom house here. Not a big house 1 living room but added conservatory on the back.

Every weekend I do the "proper clean", i.e. clean down all surfaces, dust, scrub all bathrooms, change all beds, hoover & mop. Every Monday I clean out the fridges before the shopping arrives. During the week i keep on top of that so a quick wipe around the loos, sweep or hoover as needed, quick mop of kitchen floor. Counter tops always clean, dishwasher on every evening. My house would always be presentable if an unexpected guest arrived.

The deep clean happens on a more sporadic basis. So one weekend I'll decide the living room needs a deep clean which will involve moving all the furniture or another time it'll be inside kitchen presses or top of presses. Another time it'll be taking all the curtains & lampshades for a wash etc.
These happen as & when i notice the dirt or if I get a spurt of energy during the time of the month lol.

I'm not sure I've ever cleaned a skirting board in my life. Just why?