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!

I like to keep it fairly clean and hygienic, so want to get dirt, airborne particles, etc. I'd agree it's pretty easy to clean in comparison with some other rooms. It's also a room which gets exposed to a few things I'd prefer to get cleaned off thoroughly!

It took my over 2 hours to do ours yesterday!

It's not surprising there's wide variation in the replies on this thread. The OP asked for the time needed for a "deep clean" but later said this was a weekly task undertaken in a room that you wouldn't even be able to see needed cleaning. That doesn't sound like a "deep clean" to me, just a "clean", needing 15-20 mins tops.

Suppose it depends if it is a spare bathroom that must remain spare?

Yeah but is there really dirt encrusted on the walls and floors every week that needs scrubbing off?

30 mins, including the mirrors and windows.

There's only me in the house, though, and I squeegee the shower screen after I've showered, and dry the taps off because they're shiny chrome and show every little water mark otherwise.

The bog gets toilet ducked every other day.

A deep clean for me would be about an hour. Floor to ceiling tiles cleaned, clean the bath, loo and sink, pull out storage drawers and basket to clean floor under them, clean mirrors. It's the tiles that take the most time really. A weekly clean would be about 15/20 mins

There will likely be particulate matter accumulated. Whether someone wants or feels the need to clean it off thoroughly every week, or do so less frequently, comes down to personal priorities. If I had the time and energy, I would prefer to do a weekly deep clean, but there are lots of other things needing doing too, so I compromise. There is, however, no chance of me waiting until things are encrusted before cleaning them.

15 minute to deep clean a bathroom?!? A weekly clean yes but a deep clean could be anything from 45 to 90 minutes. If I'm doing light fitting, cleaning walls and taking out/demouldiing the shower screen seals then it's more like 90mins. Without that about 45 mins to an hour.

Oh I also take the loo seat off in the 90 mins and get the magic eraser out!

Half an hour, depending on how dirty it is.

30 mins. I'm not a perfectionist tho.

Oh, I love magic erasers!

Have you got a sonic scrubber, those things are a miracle for shower cleaning.

Depends on the state of the bathroom.

Hard water areas mean more time spent cleaning.

Maybe up to half an hour for hard water areas, especially if there are glass shower or bath doors. You have to give time for the cleaning products to work.

If you have to rinse the bath and surrounds with water from a container as opposed to spraying with a shower head, that will take you more time too.

Thats if you do it once a week, but it I'll take a lot more time if the bathroom is only cleaned once a month.

Also, taking everything off shelves for a proper wiping, and moving stuff out of the room to get a clear run at the floor takes time. Then you have to put it all back again.

If you clean off / dust lids of bottles and pots and wipe the bottoms of shampoo bottles, etc, that are used in the bath or shower, it's going to take you longer.

One small wall shelving unit with three shallow shelves - various otc medicines, plasters, Vaseline, family multivitamins, prescription medicines, container with various wrist, elbow, and knee support wraps and a finger cot.
One Ikea three tier cart - hair straighteners, blow dryer and accessories plus makeup bags on bottom tier, various moisturisers in tubs (Nivea, etc), extra soap, container with various tubes of ointment on middle tier, toothbrush mug, toothpaste, deodorants, hairbrushes, elastics, and combs on top along with various hair products.
One three tier cart with storage baskets/cubes - sanpro cube, one spare TP cube, one cube containing perfumes, my moisturisers, spare toothpaste and extra toothbrushes, fresh washcloths, face mask products, spare razors, shaving products.
Under the cube thing - weighing scales.
Under the sink, small cupboard - bathroom cleaning products, brushes, sponges.
Winow sill - one candle, one bowl to put jewellery and watches in.
Cupboard beside bath - spare towels, spare shampoo/ conditioner, bag of travel size stuff, spare shower curtains and liners,
Behind/ beside the loo - loo brush.
Also, small pedal bin and small bin for recycling.

I forgot to mention the containers of cotton balls and Qtips on the Ikea thingy.

Where would you keep things like that if not in the bathroom..

25 mins weekly then about 40 - 45 mins monthly which is mostly to de-mould the shower. I have a constant slow trickle fan which can be ramped up when showering and open the window often but I can't get rid of pink mould in the grout and black mould round the tray base and water outlet despite refitting the room a year ago. Drives me nuts!

I take an hour, DH about half an hour. probably because he "man cleans"

We usually alternate who's turn it is to do the "main" clean i insisted on this as its my most hated room to clean, however while I'm pregnant we've been doing it together, he does the high up stuff i usually have to get up and down off a stool to reach, I do the actual contents e.g bath, toilet etc

He's definitely not as thorough as I am, he sprays the tiles then hoses or wipes them down, I wipe them and ensure there's no small hairs left on them, it really annoys me when I wipe and hair is transferred off the cloth, I then wipe that hair away and another is added. He sees having done it once as clean...

Likewise I wipe each bottle making sure dust is gone, he does a more cursory wipe

So I'm just much more thorough, its still clean when he's done it, and I'm not complaining as at least he does it, I always wondered how he managed to do it so quickly and this is showing me!

However I'd far rather he "man cleaned" every other time than I had to do it every time so I'm not complaining!

Mines tiled so can take up to an hour if I'm scrubbing all tiles and wiping them down.

If you're scrubbing the grout with a brush and scrubbing the floor and deep soaking the bath, I'd expect two hours of solid cleaning. If it's a quick wipe and done, 15-20 mins.

cleaning and the standard to clean too is subjective and 2 people will have 2 different ideas I’m very much in the camp 20 - 40minutes max and if that hasn’t good enough do it yourself

Depends on what you mean by deep clean. A deep clean here is removing every moveable fitting from the room, starting at the top and working your way down. Takes a while, especially if there's pink body fat clinging. A daily clean doesn't take long.

They don't seem to need deoderant either...