To think ‘most people’ don’t get their windows cleaned this often?

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Disagreement in our house today. Do ‘most people’ (which after some discussion was pinned down to people in 30s/40s in eg 3 bed semi with a kid or two 😅) have their windows cleaned every 6-8 weeks?

YABU - of course they do
YANBU - definitely not ‘most’

This is fascinating. I am late 30s in a semi detached house for the last 8 years, a flat before then and have never even considered getting our windows cleaned from the outside. Have cleaned the kitchen ones maybe once a year or two from the inside.

They don't look any different to anyone else's windows that I have noticed, and I never realised anyone had their windows cleaned as often as many on here seem to!

Window cleaner? 😂🙈

Every 4 weeks, I find it £7 well spent for a job I don't need to do myself

Once a month.

Every 3 weeks. It rains a lot in Scotland so they get dirty quite quick…my next door neighbour hasn’t had hers done in the 10 years (😱 wow that’s flown in) that I’ve lived here and you genuinely would not be able to see out of them!

And £75 bloody pounds!

Every 4 weeks, costs £15 (West Yorkshire)

Mine get done about once a month, or whenever the window cleaners show up. I'm pretty slatternly on the whole, which you could probably tell from looking at the insides of the windows.

Do you live in Buckingham Palace?! Ours is £15.

We clean our windows if we are planning on selling our house. Have sold 2 houses in 25 years, so I get my windows cleaned once every 12.5 years …

My window cleaner tried to suggest fortnightly and I said no chance. He comes 6-8 weeks now

We've never really bothered, but recently bought a house on the coast and the sea air makes the windows filthy so it's once a month now. It only costs 15 quid a time (south east)

We do ours irregularly.
They're probably as good as the window cleaner does with his one bucket of mud and Sinbad style.

It's £60 here, that's why I do my own!

`Once every 8 weeks. Jason in Deal: a good man.

It's interesting to see what people pay too. Mine comes every 5 weeks and charges me £15 for 7 windows and patio doors, plus he cleans the front door. It seemed quite expensive to me but another firm quoted £20 and would do it every 4 weeks.

£12.50 - 4 bed semi-detached house

Same

I don't know anyone in the U.S. who has a window cleaner or where to even find one. My windows get washed every Spring. Suits me fine!

We haven't had ours done in about 3 years, our window cleaner just never came back once and we just haven't got round to getting another one. They're not that dirty so it's not been a priority

Yep me. Really ought to but we have lived in our house 14 years and have never had the windows cleaned (or indeed done them ourselves 😬) I am marginally ashamed, but only marginally.

We don't have a current window cleaner.

But in our old house it was monthly.

The window cleaner sets the schedule.

Is this a UK thing? I’ve been in my house 10 yrs and they were done once when the house was pressure cleaned (Canada)

There's a lot of competition round our way - maybe that's why it's cheaper. (It's not an affluent area, but it's not poverty stricken either. Most people here are owner-occupiers.) Some firms use the lance method, but our window cleaner advertises his firm as "traditional" and he has a a squad of men - a couple will do the back while another one or two tackle the front. They work their way along the street.

Some people pay by cash, but I get a card through my door and then pay the £8 electronically.

It's £10 each time. Yes - just the outside. We just sorted of inherited him and never even thought to change it. I've just assumed that 2 x month was normal as he 'does' everyone I know in the area!

It's not traffic-heavy here at all, more green and leafy. Now I'm thinking about it for the first time in 16 years, there's one window that they can't get to and it's definitely dirtier! You really can tell a difference, but I don't generally notice things like windows in our house or anyone else's!

I'm going to suggest switching to once a month at least, now this thread has opened my eyes