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!

Things like removing and cleaning shower seal (the one that rests on bath), cleaning shower pipe and cleaning towel radiator are all jobs that I include in deep clean but wouldn't do weekly. They're the things that take time.

30 mins or so
I use products specifically for limescale etc and leave them to work so no scrubbing just wipe and rinse
While they're working I clean the toilet, wipe the skirting/walls etc and then rinse everything off

Not wasting 2hrs scrubbing when I can get products that do it for me

Maybe the difference is what's done in between. My sink is dried after use, bench wiped, tap wiped, mirror wiped as needed. Shower is scraped and dried after use, taps etc wiped. So a deep clean doesn't need any initial cleaning or wiping etc. Just get on with it.

I guess it depends how deep of a deep clean you are talking about and how clean it’s generally kept prior and how big the bathroom is and how much crap you have in there to move.

For me a standard clean is:
A quick rinse of the tiles.
Spray & scrub the bath with a scourer & rinse.
Spray & scrub the sink & rinse.
Spraying and wiping over the toilet & putting bleach down it.
Disinfecting the windowsill with a spray and wiping over.
Cleaning the chrome towel rail with glass cleaner.
Cleaning both mirrors with glass cleaner.
Wiping over the top of the drawers.
Hoovering & mopping the floor.
Full cleaning out the cat litter (its located in the bathroom).
Put out fresh towels.

This takes around 20 minutes and is done at least twice a week.

To me the only extra I’d really do to make it a ‘deep clean’ every couple of months is:

Spray & scrub down the tiles with a scourer before rinsing.
Clean the window.
Wipe down the pipework by the sink and the skirt.
Take down and bung the shower curtain in the washing machine.
Thats probably an extra 10-15 minutes.

So I’d say 35 mins ish.

Bath / shower & sink rinsed down with water after each use.

Can't say without knowing the specific tasks and overall state.

You say its clean enough - my dh would say ours is clean enough but I'm the one that sees the dusty skirting boards, cleans the toothbrush holders, tidies the drawers, dusts the radiator, uses the shower glass cleaner and the stainless steel polish and does the windows, washed the bins, hoovers and cleans the floors, pulls put the shower plug drain and sink drain plug etc etc. It's a multitasking job, not a wipe down with a few cloths and one spray.

Eta - about 2 hours for 2 bathrooms and a downstairs toilet. I usually stick on a podcast and do it fortnightly.

Plenty of responses on bathroom cleaning so I think we need to know the issue.........

Dust is the big factor on how long it takes to clean the bathroom in my opinion. My bathroom can get really dusty sometimes. Read up on it before and apparently the toilet roll is the leading contributor to bathroom dust. But once shower condensation lands on that dust it's a messy operation to clean it all off the skirtings, pipes, etc.

As for cleaning the bathroom. I clean the loo and basin most days so they are never that bad. I also spray the shower screen down with daily shower spray after my morning shower so that generally takes care of limescale on the shower screen. So for deep cleaning it's only really cleaning the shower tray, the bath, mirror, window, mopping floor and that bloody dust! About 30-45 mins total.

@bathromwoes what about washing down all the walls and drying them? the extractor has to be cleaned. also remember the toilet is the last thing to be cleaned so you can throw the cloth out when you are finished! I would be a lot longer than 15 minutes!

What?? Why would you throw out the cloth? Surely you’d just wash and re-use it?

@DreamW3aver ,Things like shampoo, conditioner, soap and shower gel get on the tiles.
Conditioner dries hard and has to be scrubbed. Baths get grimy with soap, suds, dead skin and hairs.

If I'm doing a thorough clean rather than just spraying and wiping the shower and sink, I would allow an hour.

I clean our upstairs bathroom (with separate shower) and downstairs toilet in about 40 minutes, but that just gets them presentable - it’s not what I would call a deep clean.

Toilet cleaner down both toilets
Remove items from the main bathroom shelf (not the shower caddy - they get left)
Spray cleaner, starting with shower so it gets longer to sit
Clean shelf, mirror, sink taps and basin, with a wipe of the tiles in this area
Clean bath (rarely used nowadays, so it’s mostly removing dust)
Wipe down shower
Wipe dusty areas that are left
Go to downstairs toilet and clean mirror and sink
Clean downstairs toilet (apart from in the bowl)
Clean upstairs toilet (apart from in the bowl)
Change gloves, flush toilets to remove cleaner and scrub inside both toilet bowls
Clean floors
Replace items

Despite that, I can tell from this thread there’s lots of things I’m neglecting to do, which is why it feels so grotty.

30-45 minutes

"Deep clean" for me would be:

Move all bottles etc out.
Chuck bleach down the loo.
Put bath mat onto wash.
Spray bathroom cleaner over sink, bath, tiles, shower screen, leave for 5 mins, then scrub with electric brush from JML and rinse.
Damp dust skirting boards and door while waiting for bathroom cleaner to work.
Spray vikal over taps and shower head/hose and shower screen leave for 3 mins, scrub and rinse off.
Wipe down bath panel while waiting for vikal to work.
Wipe down bottles and put them back.
Clean mirror.
Scrub toilet bowl, wipe down outside of loo.
Hoover and mop floor.
Every two - three months or so: Cut finger off plastic glove, fill with vinegar, pop over tap and leave overnight to descale the tap (hard water area). Do same with a freezer bag and shower head.

Probably takes an hour and a half. Do it probably every month.

Sink gets a wipe down most nights, quick spray and wipe most weeks, which takes 10 mins.

I don’t know.

Could be quick. Could need time for drain cleaner to sit (overnight). Could need limescale remover faffing. Who knows. Could be 15 min - 8 hours.

I don't really do a 'deep' clean or a 'quick' clean, just a standard clean. Which is about 30 minutes for: hoover and mop floor; clean sink and taps; bathtub (hard water), shower fittings, shower screen and tiles around shower; toilet; mirror; empty bin; change hand towel. The only extra occasional things would be the skirting boards and the window I guess, so that would be a deep clean, another 10 minutes at most?

Is the white wine vinegar to remove all limescale and soap scum?

Trying to find a good product for mine.

It takes me about 30-60 mins but I don’t clean weekly. Also it’s just me so takes a while for it to look gross. That included time to spray product on and leave it to work.

I am trying to visualise how you cut the finger off the glove but realised I am reading it wrong. You cut the finger off the glove and put the finger over the tap.

In that case, it would take me about 30 minutes. A good scrub takes a while!

I clean for my mum once a week.
Takes about 20 mins each time and once a month a deeper clean of 35/40 mins

All day for a spring clean.And I need to get on with it.

Remove towels & bathmat, run down two floors put onto wash.
Get ironing board, wrestle with it, win, set up near door.
Empty shelves of uni teen who's away, examine each item to see if it's precious item or that old thing. Take a risk and bin.
Clean shelves
Wait for shelves to dry.
Spot toothpaste on side of shelves, wonder how that got there start to wash walls.
Leave bathroom because other teen needs the loo.
Unload dishwasher. Take out recycling
Go back, teen still there, find the right words to be supportive and not make a bad hair day worse.
Go back to kitchen, talk to the dog.....

So I reckon eight hours, give or take regular mental health breaks and fishing out of the bin, uni teens precious potions.

This thread has at least answered for me the question of how people manage a "deep clean" of kitchen, bathroom etc every week.

Their defintion of deep clean is clearly what I would consider a "normal" clean; with a deep clean being properly scrubbing every inch including all grout between tiles, skirting boards, cupboards etc.

If your deep clean of a bathroom takes 15 minutes, what do you consider a non-deep clean?

Small bathroom. Scrubbing basin, toilet and bath; sweeping and washing floor, wiping sills, tiles and mirrors - takes about thirty minutes, plus washing the shower curtain in washing machine and drying etc.
Add an hour per six months to wash windows, ceilings and walls.

Same here. A deep clean for me is sorting the grout and getting all those tiny things not done in a quick once over.

Usual clean is about 30 mins done weekly.
Deep clean is done once a fortnight.