To ask how often you think the average house is vacuum cleaned?

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How often? Settle a debate on what constitutes 'normal' and what's excessive please.

It would depend on how many people, how often they are home, pets etc.

someone is always home. Stairs and bedrooms get done once a week but really need to be done more often. Living room is daily. Rest of downstairs is every few days.

I have 4 cats, a dog and a messy teenager with allergies so my aim is daily but often it ends up being every other day or sometimes it may even go a day longer depending on what time I get home and how knackered I am. I hate doing stairs so they only get done once a week which is how often I mop the hard floors.

deffo

Well, no, because not everyone has pets. We don't. So we don't have pet smell and pet hair and pet dust everywhere.

We have hard floors downstairs that prefer a brush. Stairs and carpeted living areas hoover maybe weekly. Bedrooms don't need hoovering anything like daily. What the fuck mess are you shedding in your bedroom that needs hoovering up every day??!

I'd say I hoover twice a week usually. Once a week is probably the average.

Daily here. No hallway, kids, laminate.

Daily (1 adult, 2 kids, 4 cats, so we have to!), but done by robovac! The floors are wood or quarry tile, so show up every bit of crumb or fluff. We hoover the stairs once or twice a week. ETA once or twice a week for average house?

We had 3DC and a large hairy dog. Downstairs was vacuumed pretty much every day, certainly every second day. Upstairs less often. Stairs less than upstairs. Downstairs needed the regular cleaning for dog hair, food crumbs and the general mess created by 3 DC. Fortunately my DH noticed more than me so he did most of the vacuuming. Result!

Once or twice a week depending on the room for a proper move the furniture and do all the nooks and crannies type of hoover, but the high traffic areas get two or three quick hoovers a day.

Hardwood floors, but no pets, no shoes in the house, and I have a very strict rule that food is only consumed at the kitchen table.

So why so much hoovering, I hear you ask?

Purely because I have a two year old who has apparently made it his life's work to eat every single little crumb or tiny bit of fluff he finds. Drives me absolutely bonkers.

If he didn't do that, I'm sure I'd be happy hoovering a lot less!

Robot goes round daily. No kids but lots of pets and tiled floors

I can't use our hoover, it's too heavy for me, so ME never. (Slight exaggeration, as I will sometimes do the kitchen or hallway if there's been a spill, but frankly, I can do it with a dustpan and brush with less pain and less of an impact.) DH therefore does all hoovering, as he does everything else. He's my carer - the SS usd to send us carers twice a week, but they objected to doing cleaning so it was stopped eventually. Now there's no one to help us - we've both been really ill, I had penumonia!, and DH did everything anyway despite having a chest infection and being on horrible anti-biotics himself. DD was away at Uni with strict instructions not to come anywhere near us.

We festered. I am on the mend now. DH is finding things a little easier as he goes further into recovery and sees me actually showing signs of improvement,

No help from anyone at all. Nothing offered, no agency asked us, nothing. This is how we shall die, given another 15 years unless someone in Government pulls their finger out and starts making meaningful changes to how society works.

Hmm, I might be strong enough to do clean sheets tomorrow! Fingers crossed 😄 (reasons to be cheerful!)

Oh, vis a vis, state of house and hoovering. We have 4 cats...... don't come round.

Once a week here. Although, when I was working part time I did it twice a week. Don't have time for that now

Would like to add we sweep the kitchen multiple times a day!

If you raise children and work, it’s when the cleaner comes or when you can be arsed.

I literally could not give a shit when my house was last hoovered.

Is this what women talk about in 2023. So fucking boring, joined onto the troll yesterday who said washing was easy - yep it is but I would still rather not do it because I am not a 1950s robot and my DH does it or I pay for someone else to do my washing..'

If you raise children and work, it’s when the cleaner comes or when you can be arsed.

I literally could not give a shit when my house was last hoovered.

Is this what women talk about in 2023. So fucking boring, joined onto the troll yesterday who said washing was easy - yep it is but I would still rather not do it because I am not a 1950s robot and my DH does it or I pay for someone else to do my washing..'

I never hoover in fact - all the hoovering in this house is done by dh or 17 yo ds. If I really need to clean a floor, I sweep, but usually they are good about staying on top of it.

I'm still allowed to say how often my house gets hoovered for someone who is interested. If you're not, not a problem. Mumsnet is where we get to talk about all the uninteresting things in life. Which we are actually allowed to do if we want to, regardless of what year it is.

It depends on usage. Light use with a professional household when no one is around during the day then once a week or less. When kids were weaning and at home mostly then daily spot hoovering wasn’t unusual.

Oh, vis a vis, state of house and hoovering. We have 4 cats...... don't come round.

I'd gladly do your hoovering in exchange for some cat 🐱 cuddles @Jux 😀

Having grown up in a home where both my parents cleaned equally I assumed everyone hoovered daily and this was my bar. It never occurred to me that people didn't hoover daily and that I've failed because sometimes don't make the time.

Might be dramatic to say this thread has changed my life but it's certainly been an eye opener.

Daily here, upstairs and downstairs. At the moment it's 4 of us here, but 3 in term time.

I hoover before I start work.

Unless there are pets or a large household or small children I'm surprised that so many people feel the need to vacuum daily. Is everyone very messy?

For example, we eat at the table, not in the living room. The dining room and kitchen get swept more frequesntly than we vacuum the rest of the house. We don't wear shoes indoors either.

Unless there are pets or a large household or small children I'm surprised that so many people feel the need to vacuum daily. Is everyone very messy?

No, we are very clean and tidy.

"kids" are almost 17 and 22 so pretty good as well. 22 year old isn't here in term time.

Same but Akita!

What do you mean 'deep clean'

Hoovering is hoovering, you just run the hoover round.

I never move furniture out of the way, god knows whats behind it all. I dont care

My daily hoover takes about 10 mins btw (I timed myself once). I can find time for that.

It's fine if you can't tho. But clean floors are important to me. And as I say, I think I have a messy family.

Once a week downstairs on average. The children do their own rooms, stairs and hallway these days and it usually gets done when they are expecting friends/boyfriends over so could be daily or could be fortnightly lol.