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’

We've lived here nearly 20 years.

Have occasionally cleaned the ground floor windows outside. Upstairs... never. Although they were replaced about 10 years ago I guess!

Not something that ever really occurs to me. We can still see out of them.

Once a month.

Nope never have. When I was growing up we lived on a main road and had a biggish house with lots of windows. My mum had my dad up there every week with the ladder. My mum and my Nanna also mopped their outside steps every week. These are things i’d rarely if ever get round to. My mum doesn’t have a window cleaner now though, but she admits herself she isn’t as bothered by it, but also doesn’t live on a main road anymore and sadly my dad has been gone 7yrs, and even if he hadn’t, would have been 80 this year so wouldn’t have been going up a ladder anyway

I do feel like I now want a window cleaner though having read this thread!

Genuinely SHOCKED at replies.

In 10 years at this address, not once have the outside windows been washed

They look absolutely fine, and no, I'm not a gruby person.

I wonder if it matters that we don't get much through traffic and live in a quiet area...

Same here, though it can be longer depending on the whim of our very long time cleaner. I clean the ground floor kitchen and dining room ones when the sun hits at a particular spring or autumn angle.

I get mine done once every 4 weeks. 3 bed end-terraced house.

I clean them myself as and when I can be bothered or they get bad enough to annoy me. I don’t want to pay someone to do something I can do for myself!

I’m in my 30’s with a kid or two living in a 3 bed semi detached and we get ours done every 8 weeks..

I've only just got a window cleaner because we are having houses built nearby (ish) and the dust is appalling they are building on food fields specifically carrots so lots of fine sandy soil up the windows and all over the car they are coming monthly and it's still a struggle to keep them clean they stayed clean this week but then a pigeon crashed into it

I'm reconsidering my life choices clean windows vrs suicidal pigeon (this is the second one in a couple of months and it nearly broke the glass)

We cancelled the window cleaner because they switched to using an extendable broom thingy with a hose attachment, and it a) is not very good at cleaning, and b) damaged the paintwork on the wooden windows and got everything wet.

Nobody seems to do proper window cleaning any more, and I would pay happily for someone with a bucket and a ladder.

Wow, this thread has really opened my eyes. We are definitely in the filthy corner over here 😳

We live on the first floor and our windows are a deathtrap, the ceilings are 10 feet high and start really low down. In Germany so the windows can open fully.

We tried to get window cleaners in twice and they said they needed special ladders and would come back with a quote and never did. So my partner cleans the lower ones when I'm not here to worry about it, maaaybe twice a year. The top windows haven't been cleaned in nearly 4 years since we moved in 🙀

Monthly, it's £15, never considered going every two months, might do that. On the flip side I might do the internal once a year

Have we got the same husband? 🤣

We haven’t had it done for 3 years 😬
They don’t look filthy as the house has open fields at the back and gets a lot of rain and wind. To be fair though, a lot of spiders have laid their eggs in the corners and many spiderlings appeared- not so cute now they’re grown up and want to get into the house..

I've always had my windows cleaned monthly in every property I've lived in, I thought that was totally normal?! I just saw it was setting my parents had done from my childhood and followed suit without thinking about it. We live next to farmland now and it gets really dusty so I wouldn't want to skip it.
*Edited from weekly to monthly, that would cost a bloody fortune!

Ours are done once a month. Well worth the £20 we pay

One a month here, front one month, then the back the month after. Keeps the cost down and a regular routine for the cleaners, who are here on a commercial contract for a business in my street

My outside windows are done around May, once a year.
Internal, glass and frame every 6 weeks if they look grubby.

@Crole Oooh, have you got shutters? The sort that click down on a rope or electronically? I wish they were common here.

I got a long extender pole set off Amazon and do them when I remember/can’t see through the windows/have guests coming.

Our window cleaner retired over covid.
I was just thinking the other day I must try and find a new one.

I don't wash windows, unless they have some sort of splodge...

Life's too short.

Me too. Never ever, don’t care about it either

Twice a month! How much do you pay? Is that just the outside?