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’

And me and I clean the insides every couple of weeks.

No idea what most people do. I live on a main road and my windows are filthy even though cleaned every 4 weeks. 2 weeks would be better but I don't want to spend £30 a month on window cleaning.

Monthly. It was fortnightly but I realised that was too much.

I want to stop the monthly as well tbh (I dont see the point) but it's £2 a month and I feel bad because lots of people have cancelled him.

Ours are done monthly by a window cleaner.

On this topic, I cancelled my window cleaner about five months ago to save money, and it stopped, but I got home today to realise that he or someone who works for him had cleaned them and put the payment chit through the door! I don't have to pay, do I?

Once a month now but when money was tight we did our own

But my window cleaner is £10pm 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ours are every 2 to 3 months

We reduced frequency from 6 weeks to 8 weeks to save some cash as a compromise from ditching the windowcleaner altogether. I know lots of people who don't have one though. It's the sort of thing you don't notice if you've never had one.

I am 50 and have never paid to have windows cleaned. I have lived in flats in London for 30 years.

Yep I find it bizarre that people pay for this every month. Maybe it’s like the Emperor’s New Clothes..

Once a month.

we have a window cleaner who comes round every 4-6 weeks so yes we do! If they really don’t need it I’ll cancel him but we have patio doors at the back and so I do like them to get cleaned regularly

It costs £50. They only get done every 16 weeks.

My window cleaner comes every 10 weeks.

he’s been doing them for the last 6 years.

prior to that I never bothered once in 15 years 😂

Monthly

It used to be every 8 weeks I think, but we moved and we are opposite big trees and the windows get filthy.

Our window cleaners have not increased their prices since I started with them 11 years ago! I think the price was less if you had them more often so that could be why. But I’m not rocking that boat.

Inside = when I deep clean a room, or get fed up with imprints of cat noses. So varies by room. Annually some, probably every couple of months for kitchen.

Poor window cleaners, didn't realise it's become a luxury. I wish all the out of work window cleaners would take up hedge-trimming. Local hedge cutter has moved to the coast and we need a new one. Hard to find.

I definitely don’t think any windows need cleaning every month - that is what window cleaners tell you so they earn money. Any window cleaners do once a year (which is more than sufficient?) Didn’t think so…

if you don’t have a window cleaner it’s ok for a bit, but then after a year or two you realise that you are not getting as much light in the house

To be fair that's still £120 a year which is quite a chunk of money.

Ive lived here 1.5 years. Ive never done inside or out. They seem fine to me but them Im a messy bugger.

Every three months. They definitely need a clean by the time they come again, but I'm buggered off I'm paying for more!

I do the insides maybe twice a year, or ask the cleaner to.

We used to have a window cleaner but it was a bit of a pain with the locked back gate so DH bought poles of Amazon to do it

Mine is every 4 weeks but I don't get a say in it. It's a flat in a building with 18 other flats. It's owned by a housing association and the monthly service charge goes towards a weekly clean of the halls, windows every 4 weeks, and lawn mowing/garden maintenance every 2-3 months as needed.

Errr I've never had a window cleaner