Reasonable length of time to clean bathroom?

[bathromwoes]

Please help me asses whether IABU.

How long would you say is reasonable to do a "deep clean" of a family bathroom?

It's a small room; toilet, sink, shower over bath. Tiled floor. Panel sheets around bath/shower.

It's becoming an increasing issue between DH and I, although I accept symptomatic of bigger things!

Thanks!

A quick wipe over takes about 15 mins. The deep clean takes about 45 mins or so.
Quick wipe over - sink basin/taps, toilet seat and cistern, inside the bath and the shower door, with a wipe around the area I stand to shower.
Deep clean - the above plus the outside of the sink, outside of the toilet bowl, towel radiator, all shelving, all tiling and bath panel, plus glass cleaner on shower door. Possibly using mould or limescale remover where necessary.

I will add that our bathroom is tiny and we don't have any cabinets or vanity unit.

I try not to let anything go mouldy we keep it well ventilated.

If you had a walk in shower and a larger bathroom then a deep clean could take over an hour I imagine.

Why do you ask op?

15mins isn't a deep scrub and clean. Are you just giving it a quick wipe with cloth and detergent and think that's a deep clean? Ours gets cleaned properly 3x a week.

It's far from a deep clean.

No do people do that.

We have a small bathroom with completely tiled walls and shower above the bath, plus it is only used by two adults. Pretty much all product bottles are in a cupboard apart from the hand soap and tooth brushes.

Once a day the floor is wiped and the bath, sink and shpwer screen is sprayed with shower spray. We have a rim block for the toilet and toilet users will wipe the toilet down as needed.

Once a week the chrome fittings and mirror are cleaned and polished, the sink, bath, shower head and taps cleaned, the tiles around the bath and the shower screen scrubbed, the toiled properly scrubbed and the floor scrubbed. Towels are changed. This takes about 25 mins (I put cleaning products on and go and clean the kitchen while it works).

Once every few weeks I'll clean the window and frame, wipe the blind, apply grout cleaner and wash all the walls throughly

Once every few months I'll empty and clean the cupboards.

I am not sure I have ever cleaned the door or the light fitting.

Gawd! I’ve never deep cleaned anything in my life. Wouldn’t have a clue how to start. I guess it would take days to do it as I’d be stopping every 15 mins and going and doing something unrelated.

I loathe cleaning so do the bare minimum and as rarely as possible as I’ll get overwhelmed very easily. I probably have undiagnosed Autism (DS is diagnosed and his Neurologist said highly likely I am too from our chat). ☹️

DH is meant to clean the main bathroom as I never use it and he’s worse than me as he never hoovers anywhere, although he’s quite tidy compared to me.

I’d love to pay a cleaner to come regularly but do you have to tidy up first?

I think there are two variables on this thread:

1. Some people start with a reasonably clean bathroom so it will take them less time.

1. Something MN will never acknowledge which is that people have very different standards. Lots of posters love to make out that people are wasting their time if they spend longer than absolutely necessary doing a domestic task or something related to childcare. The fact that the person doing the activity feels that it's worth putting in the extra time and effort for the difference in outcome completely passes them by.

I am amazed by some of the replies on here. "Deep clean". Bleaching everything, scrubbing the grout! Perhaps you perform brain surgery in your bathrooms. We have one bathroom, toilet, basin with all in one worktop, cupboards underneath basin,bath with shower over. Mirror door wall cupboard. When I get out of the shower, I clean,bath, toilet, taps,basin,(toothpaste)work surface, window sill,shampoo etc live in the cupboards. Bathroom is completely tiled, battery window vac,to remove the water. Takes a couple of minutes. Every weekend, Change towels, flannels ,clean window,water plants, descaler down toilet,vacuum and wash floor. The tiles are done daily, they don't get mouldy, clean traps, wipe big towel rail . The toilet is cleaned after use, multiple times a day (we're retired) takes a few minutes. Monthly shower head, shower curtain.

I also never bleach my bathroom (apart from very infrequent occasions where there might be a bit of mould that needs removing from grout or seals but we don't suffer much from mould and mildew)

OK. So your answer is "I don't deep clean my bathroom". Each to their own. But deep cleaning - which is what OP asked about - takes more than a couple of minutes.

What's the argument about? One of you thinks the other takes too long? Or one of you thinks they don't take long enough and so doesn't do a deep enough clean?

Probably 45 minutes to an hour

No, with an actual scrubbing brush? Is that something everyone else does?

What is the purpose?

For a proper deep clean, 30-60 minutes depending upon how bad it was at the start.

I never 'get' the term 'deep' clean.

Surely you either clean or you don't?

The only times I've heard 'deep clean' is from cleaning companies who want to rip you off for what is basically a clean! (rather than a cursory wipe over with a J cloth!)

My bathroom clean is-

use limescale remover where it's needed (around taps, some tiles and the shower hose)

clean the bath and basin with a sponge and cleaner

clean the loo inside and out

wash the floor

wipe the window sill

wipe the skirting boards (they get quite dusty but do this monthly)

clean the inside of the window if necessary

dust the top of the storage cabinet

All of the above takes about 30 mins.

My bathroom is about 15ft long so it takes a while.

If you’re spending an hour cleaning a bathroom that’s a waste of a life IMO. Just rotate which areas you give more attention on each clean to save having to do a one off deep clean of everything. 20mins max for a small bathroom.

20 mins for me. My ex used to spend over an hour ‘deep cleaning’ but I’d have to go in after and do it again as he somehow just made even more of a mess. No idea what he was doing for that hour.

Well some people only have one bathroom so all that stuff you list would be in one bathroom not spread between two. Add in a child who has prescription skin care, teenagers with their own preferences and products, family members of a different ethnicity who require different hair products and it can add up to quite a lot of stuff! We don’t have much out in our bathroom, although do have a couple of plants and candles in there but I can easily see how people do.

To answer the OP, a deep clean takes me at least an hour. That would include all the grout, getting right into all the corners, properly scrubbing the grooves on the skirting boards and door frame, cleaning out the cupboard, behind the loo and sink pedestal, cleaning the window frame, cleaning the vent, getting the dust out of the radiator…

My loos and sinks are given a quick wipe over daily which takes under a minute, bathrooms are cleaned weekly including all the tiles and floor and surfaces which takes about 30 minutes for the main bathroom and then the bath and showers are given another quick scrub over weekly which takes 5-10 minutes depending how bad they are (hard water area and teenagers!!) But it would still take me at least an hour to do what I consider to be a deep clean.

Surely a deep clean means going a bit deeper and cleaning things that you wouldn't do every week?

You can do a quick wipe of the toilet, bathroom and sink which would be good enough, but cleaning the skirtings, windows, radiator, shower seal, behind the toilet and sink would be a more in depth clean.

People have different standards too. I've been in people's houses that are quite dirty and grotty but to them it's good enough and they probably don't want to waste lots of time cleaning.

For others they like things to be very clean and it's worth spending the extra time.

15 minutes for a deep clean? A proper scrub of the tiles, limescale removal from glass, fixings etc., scrub of the tub, etc.? No way. It would take me at least an hour, maybe 2 depending on how deep I’m going.

A basic clean is 15 minutes easily. But not a deep one.

I spend an hour deep cleaning the bathroom once a week. My shower and bath are separate though so I would imagine slightly less time for your bathroom.

I’d say an hour, but then ours doesn’t get done as often as it should so it can be a bit grubby as a starting point. But I get distracted quite easily.

15 minutes. Edit-regular clean. Not sure it needs deep cleaning

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