How long does it take you to clean your bathroom and kitchen?

[Cleaningtimee]

Appreciate sizes will differ, but for my modest size bathroom and fairly small kitchen (c4x3m), I probably spent 1.5-2 hours on each. A friend says this is ‘ages’! AIBU or is this normal?

Depends what clean means to you really. I don't have high standards and without my glasses on can't see much anyway. Ok for a visitor to pop round, 20 mins, environmental health coming I'd probably need a couple of hours.

Depends how often you clean them. I clean mine everyday so don't get dirty. I spend about 15 minutes per day for both.

Weekly clean

What's the frequency of your 2 hours?

I thoroughly clean my bathroom once or twice a month which only takes about 20 minutes and every couple of days I give it a quick 2 minute wipe round with an antibacterial wipe and it always looks clean and tidy.

Kitchen takes longer, but bathroom? I do a quick wipe in mine every day and clean around once a week, including dusting, windows, mirrors etc, I don't spend more than 30mn. What do you do that takes 2 hours?

I would genuinely struggle to spend even 1 hour on a bathroom - weekly - unless it was crazily cluttered or complicated or something. It just doesn't take that long to deep clean. Max 30-40 mins here for the deepest clean I could give it.

Our kitchen would take longer, but that's because it can get a bit cluttered and it's a kitchen diner. But to clean it well, again I'd struggle to spend more than an hour on it unless I was scrubbing every inch of grout or scrubbing the floor on my hands and knees or something.

Depends on what you are doing.

I have a large kitchen and I usually try to do something every day in there, but maybe only 20 mins max, while waiting for the timer to beep etc. Just to stay on-top.

If I do a full on clean - sink, work surfaces, door fronts, tiles, hob and oven, inside microwave, window sills, table, mop and sweep floor etc., it can take a few hours.

Bathroom is DH domain to a good clean, but I do the loo a couple of times a week. To do a full on, take everything off the window sill, use limescale cleaner on taps, shower attachments, clean the bath, towel rail, mop floor etc usually takes him over an hour.

I don’t spend that long cleaning my entire flat!!

I wipe and clean both every day, but for a proper clean, once a week, about 2 hours for both.

1 hour on each both my kitchen and bathroom are fairly big.

Bathroom around 20 mins
Large kitchen (hob cleaned after use, benches washed every night) around 40 mins

10' x 12' kitchen, and a 9' x 8' bathroom (level access shower.)

Kitchen takes about an hour, to an hour and a half, but it depends if I'm cleaning the microwave, the hob, the oven, the window ledges, the floor, the toaster, the kettle, the fridge etc etc.. If I do everything it can be 2 hours... even two and a half.. A lighter clean is about one to one and a half hours...

Bathroom takes about an hour, to an hour and a half. Floor, shower floor, window ledges, sink, loo, shelves, etc...

I give them a light clean every 5-6 days, and a thorough/deep clean once a month.

The amount of time you take doesn't sound like ages @Cleaningtimee

Bathroom upstairs I clean parts most days and maybe 10 mins per day. Stays pretty clean.

Kitchen a clean there including floor could well take 1.5 hours though a fair bit of this is the floor from asd DS who brings half the garden in. His bathroom would take 1.5 hours for similar reasons.

I am lazy cleaning our bathroom so when I do it takes ages as we're in an extremely hard water area. Even if I leave it a few weeks the only way I've found to truly get rid of the limescale is using fine sandpaper.

I reckon the ensuite takes about an hour to clean all the shower glass, floor, mirror, taps, towel rail, toilet, grout.... But the downstairs toilet and guest room are much quicker.

"Cleaning the kitchen" has taken me anywhere from 30mins to clear the surfaces and wipe, to three days of scrubbing inside and outside of every cupboard, floor and surface, descaling the kettle, defrosting the freezer etc etc.

I wipe down both every day before bed and do a weekly proper clean but it's never too bad given the daily wipe downs. I'd say the weekly clean takes me about an hour and a half for downstairs loo, bathroom and kitchen.

How on earth can cleaning one room take 2 hours? Particularly if you do it weekly, so it isn't very dirty! Even if I wiped out all the kitchen cupboards it wouldn't take that long. Maybe if I cleaned all the windows as well, but surely no one does that weekly?

I woke up before DP yesterday morning, did my bathroom and downstairs loo and was back in bed with a cuppa in less than 30 mins.

The kitchen doesn't ever get cleaned as such, just as you go. I mop the floor once a week, which takes less than 10 mins, wipe the sides and sink round every evening before bed.

When I had a paid cleaner they did the whole house to a decent standard in 2 hours a week! I can't do that...

Blimey, that is a long time!

I absolutely hate cleaning the main bathroom so I spend 10-20 minutes a day, every week day. cleaning one element: loo, sink, shower, bath, horizontal surfaces, on repeat. Weekend and Weds I replace towels and bath mats, loo rolls, products etc.

The kitchen takes me ages because it’s cluttered and I need to sort it out but I could easily spend 3 hrs on it to do a deep clean. Most days it about 30-45 mins.