'Blitzed the house from top to bottom...'

[NorrisToenail]

...'and it's only 10am'

How?! I see this so much on SM from friends and family, I admit I'm not very good at cleaning and probably take a hodge-podge approach but I can't imagine anyone cleaning their whole house in a few hours.

Is it me or aibu to think it's not possible?

I clean every day but do a deep clean once a week which takes 6-7 hours. That's all inside windows , wipe all skirting boards, lights , doors , bathrooms which there are 4 , downstairs loo, dust and polish , hoover whole house properly. We have a 6 bedroom house , because I do this every week and clean every day I can do a deep clean in a day.

I think people who blitz probably keep their houses fairly clean and organised so when they do their blitz it's more of a quick tidy up and wipe round with a damp cloth rather than full on cleaning.

My house would require more of a forest fire than a blitz 😁

But how does your house get so dirty, as to need you to spend that much time cleaning ?

All the parts of my house are never clean at the same time.

A blitz would need to be rather more of a calculated attack taking days!

Even my average sized bathroom (bath, separate shower, loo and sink) takes an hour and a half if you're doing the window ledges and floor.

I can’t understand why it takes you an hour and a half to clean a normal bathroom. If you’re cleaning it regularly that should take half an hour to do max.

🙄. A year to find a mop and have to you tube how to use it… ok. Jesus Christ it’s not rocket science.

Believe me, I'd be smug if I blitzed my house by 10am one morning. Would probably start a smug thread about it too.

You forgot 'and put tea in the slow cooker' 😂
Me and my friend laugh at people who post their cleaning updates, we call them 'scrubbers'

carpet bombing

Awful, badly timed choice of wording there Lesina

I try and do a basic blitz every Saturday morning but that’s after attempting to get on top of things during the week so for me it’s hoovering, mopping, putting away laundry, dusting and bathrooms. I refuse to look closely at my skirting boards in daylight.

I do not know anyone who routinely cleans skirting boards.

1. Robot hoover in background.
2. Spray mop for kitchen floor.
3. Harpic loos
4. Go round wiping all surfaces. It doesn't take that long.

Even my average sized bathroom (bath, separate shower, loo and sink) takes an hour and a half if you're doing the window ledges and floor

Wtf are you doing wrong? 30 mins. Max. My bathroom is 6m square and i couldn't possibly spend an hour amd a half cleaning it, I'd run out of things to do.

I clean every day but do a deep clean once a week which takes 6-7 hours. That's all inside windows , wipe all skirting boards, lights , doors , bathrooms which there are 4 , downstairs loo, dust and polish , hoover whole house properly. We have a 6 bedroom house , because I do this every week and clean every day I can do a deep clean in a day.

To me this is what you do when you are making the housework fill the time you have available.

I don't have time for this, therefore i must do the work in less time

I thought blitzing meant doing a quick job! So you get on top of everything but you've not necessarily done stuff like clean behind the sofa.

Maybe that's the problem.

Depends on your definition of blitz, but yes I could do all of our house generally in about 2hrs. 4 bedrooms, fairly big.

It’s always tidy, clean ish and minimal though. Ie I never go to bed without all kitchen wiped and everything away or in dishwasher. So a ‘blitz’ would be me setting robot hoover upstairs so it does under beds, me hoovering skirting, stairs and corners. Mop everywhere. Clean three bathrooms ( but they already look clean so no major scrubbing). Extra kitchen clean ( again nothing is kept on sides when not in use so 10 mins max). Straighten out Ds bedroom with bed made and books on shelf.

We don’t have any clutter though or excess stuff. Only stuff out really daily is toys, but they get put away every evening before bed

I think this means an hour or 2 of energetic cleaning of a house that is already fairly clean and tidy.

My house is usually a few hours away from ‘oh sorry, the place is a bit of a tip because (insert latest reason here)’ but I know some very tidy people who would just have to move a few things, vacuum/sweep and mop and they’d be able to host a tv ad there! (My mum is one of those guys people , my kids always let me down by commenting on how clean her house is😅)

Fionaville

You forgot 'and put tea in the slow cooker' 😂
Me and my friend laugh at people who post their cleaning updates, we call them 'scrubbers'
(Extends hand) Nice to meet you and your friends Fionaville😅

I often get up at 5am and clean, I could definitely have given downstairs a really good clean by about 8. I could do have of upstairs in another hour or so but if I was doing the kids rooms too, I’d need another 3 days.

Depends how tidy it was to start with I think.

This Is what my mum was like she would regularly wash her carpets with a scrubbing brush !

I could blitz mine in a couple of hours. I'm an early riser so could easily have it done by 10 am if I wanted to (I don't!)
I never let the house get 'dirty' anyway, it's mostly tidy so surfaces are clear and ready to be cleaned. I imagine if you don't keep on top of things anyway and surfaces are cluttered with piles if laundry everywhere then it will take longer as you will be spending more time tidying before you clean.

@Lesina

Blitz means carpet bombing.

Since as somebody has pointed out that's maybe a sensitive issue FWIW the word itself actually means lightning (AFAIK), German speakers will correct me if I'm wrong.

Has since entered the wider vocab (including house cleaning and even as a name for a tactic in American Football).

I suppose that's a good point - do people mean blitz as in lightning (suggesting something done at speed) or as in the German bombing in WW2 (suggesting thorough)?

I assumed the former bit maybe I've been living in Germany too long.

I always thouth blitzed meant just quick run through clean actually. Not deep clean

About two hours to clean surfaces, tidy, do loo and bathroom, check fridge and remove anything evolving, make bed, change kitty litter, bins, do a load of washing, vacuum, hang washing, mop and head out.
Small 2brm flat, live alone with cat

Rarely do this btw