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.

Depends. Once a day in the main rooms and once a week upstairs when the kids were little. Once or twice a week downstairs now the kids have left home. No pets and no shoes.

It just depends on how many people are living there, whether any are children, whether there are any pets, etc.

Weekly to fortnightly

Downstairs around 3x a week. Upstairs maybe fortnightly?

We do have pets and I think we are probably quite messy people in general

We try to do it 'properly' (the edges, moving stuff out of the way etc) once a week but I give the living room a quick go over most days.

I would have gone for median rather than mean in this instance.

In my house the part of the sitting room where I sit and make a mess gets done when I can no longer bear to look at it, other rooms that aren't used get done if I have visitors due. I put some decs up today but had to hoover up scores of dead flies first.

Downstairs daily, except utility which is at least twice per day. Upstairs two or three times a week. We are a shoes off house but my 2 labs seem to ignore that.

I do mine probably 3 times a week downstairs, once a week upstairs. 2 kids and a (non shedding) dog.

Daily, I used to do the living room rug a couple of times a day ( wood burner and the bits trailed) but now I’ve got. A carpet sweeper

Downstairs weekly, upstairs fortnightly. We are all out of the house pretty much full time in the week though, so it doesn't get as messy as if we were all at home

Weekly/ fortnightly. No kids, no pets.

Once a fortnight when the cleaner comes, but I don’t have children or pets in the house.

I hoover every day. Not every room but kitchen and hallway because we have dogs!!! For other rooms hoovering is weekly. I imagine weekly is the norm.

the cleaner does a proper hoover every week. We sweep the kitchen as needed. But we generally spend a lot of time out of the house.

We have a cleaner so everything gets a proper vacuum and mop once a week. Sometimes put the robo vac round once a week and then any random spill from cats or toddler.

Whole house once a week but heavy traffic areas get an additional vacuum depending on how many people are coming and going.

I think the average house is probably once a week or something like that. We have 3 kids but no pets and I hoover the whole house daily. I sometimes hoover the kitchen and living room twice a day. I work part time. My youngest is a toddler prone to dropping food and none of the kids will keep slippers on, they all roam about either barefoot or at best in socks.

Why didn't you start? How often do you think it should be done?

Once a day, minimum. Once big hoover and the cordless is out regularly. Black shiney tiles. 2 kids. Nightmare.

Downstairs daily. Very hairy dog.
Upstairs less often.

Once a week but high traffic areas more often (possibly daily)

Same for me. Two dogs. I cheat with my eufy. But between my eufy and my proper hoover I’ll average 3 times every two days

I think it can depend on the room and the floor

Downstairs is light coloured laminate and ‘heavy traffic’ area so needs doing daily or every two days

Stairs, hall and bedrooms is Grey carpet and you can never really tell when it needs to be vacuumed as dirt doesn’t show so I do it weekly. Old carpets were beige and needed vacuuming constantly.

Once a week normal .

Mumsnet - twice a day.

Weekly all through.

Kitchen and living room have hard floors so swept through the week too.