Clean a house to a good standard in just two hours

[Shittyhouse]

Seen so many posts about cleaners, with a lot of people talking about two-hour cleans. I’m just wondering what I’m doing incorrectly, because two hours is not enough to clean my house. How can you clean a house to a good standard in just two hours?

Surely it’s completely dependent on how clean it is to start. If it’s kept to a reasonable standard day to day then two hours to do a more thorough clean is doable I think.

My cleaner can but I can’t. She is dispassionate and objective. Doesn’t get distracted by putting things away or organising or doing other related jobs. We tidy top to bottom for her coming (the family would never do that for me).

We have a 2hr clean bit the cleaner doesn't do the bedrooms. That's plenty for a full clean of stovetop, worksurfaces and floor in the kitchen, all surfaces in the bathroom and hoovering the sittingroom, hall, stairs and landing where there is carpet. No dusting, no windows. It's quite basic but it's a small house.

I have 4 beds, and it takes me a bit more than 3hrs to do a blitz. That doesn't include bed changing, inside window cleaning or taking out the fridge shelves to wash.

Are you talking about deep cleaning cupboards and skirting boards? Or a standard surfaces, floors, bathrooms weekly type thing? How much tidying?

Our cleaner (4-bed but she only does 3 bedrooms) does two hours (or two of them one hour depending on whether they are both available) and she does all surfaces, floors mopping and vacuumed, bathrooms, and she will rotate other stuff when she has time, so one week she might do some doors, next week the cupboards, etc.

If I actually did nothing but cleaning for two hours I would get a lot done. The Organised Mum guided cleans are actually really good for realising how much you can get done when you aren’t drifting off track or being inefficient,

I think the difference is in the tidying, or lack thereof. If a cleaner cleans, that’s exactly what they do; they ‘just’ clean, whereas if you’re cleaning your own house, you’re also tidying. Plus I expect, as with anything, if you’re being paid, you want to do the best job you can to ensure ongoing work which will put the pressure on to really crack on. Not quite the same tacking away at it in your own place… and getting distracted along the way!

We have 2 hours but 2 cleaners so we have 4 hours each fortnight which cleans a 4 bed 2 bath house to a high standard, but we tidy up the night before so although they change beds and plump cushions and make it look nice, it is all cleaning and not tidying.
they probably do about 1.5 hours of usual dusting, cleaning, hoovering , mopping etc and then half an hour of deep cleaning so could be dusting light shades, skirting boards, cleaning a blind etc but they kind of rotate these and do a couple of these jobs each time, and they remember where they are up to with it. I think you could do a small very tidy flat or house in 2 hours every week but probably not a bigger house, or one where you want the spring cleaning type jobs done.

I’m talking about standard, normal cleaning. My house is clean because I clean a lot—practically every day. Now I’m trying to do it in sections: one day bedrooms, another day a deep clean of the toilets using bleach, another day a deep clean of the shower. I don’t think I could cope if my house were cleaned for only two hours. Also, we are very tidy people, and everything has its own place.

Crack on and move fast

remember that not everything needs scrubbing every week - so deep clean one thing ( say one set of windows or a few of the kichen cupboards ) for one hour and then a basic clean the main house for the other hour - that’s vacuum , dust and scrub the bathrooms

a decent duster on a stick helps as it’s quicker to dust if you don’t have to crawl around to do the skirting

How long do you take to scrub a bathroom? Ten mins?

My cleaner is a two hour clean, but she does not do my whole house (it’s only 2000sqft ish). She does my kitchen, bathrooms (4 toilets, two baths, three showers, four sinks) and hoovers through.

in order to clean the whole house in two hours she’d move quicker and be a bit more slapdash.

The trick is to clean little and often so that it didn’t build up and then have two hours to smash out a weekly decent clean. Ylu have to sweep, do surfaces and toilets daily anyway so it’s not getting really gross.

I don’t know—probably. But I try to clean the bath after I use it. I wash the tiles, soap dish, and the containers for all the bottles about once a week (when needed). Then, once every few weeks, I unscrew the plugs and clean them. I wipe the toilets every 2-3 days. Then I do a deep clean with a bucket of water and bleach about once every ten days.

About to Google 'The Organised Mum guided cleans'.
Who knew 😂😂😂😂??

Team TOMM is definitely worth doing. Gemma Bray is on TikTok and worth a follow.

It depends on how clean it was to start with.

This. Plus how large a house? How many bathrooms? How many people living it it? Pets make a huge difference too.

I work full time and cook nearly all meals (usually one meal for two days). My child has left home, but even when he was living at home, I did the same. I just can’t see how a house can be cleaned to a good standard in two hours. I’m not disagreeing—just trying to understand.

I think bigger houses are easier to clean. I definitely clean a larger house more quickly than a smaller one, because in a small space there are a lot of things to move from place to place with limited room.

We don’t do nothing between professional cleans. We clean the loo every couple of days and wipe down the bathroom (only have two toilets and one bathroom) we clean the kitchen surfaces daily with the dishes etc. so the two hours is dusting, hoovering, floor mopping and a more thorough scrub of kitchen snd bathroom surfaces.

I make sure the decks are clear for our lovely cleaner and she does through a 4 bed house in that time

I don’t think really it’s as black and white as that. I could clean my house all day, every day and then some more. But I don’t. But some people wouldn’t be able to stop, some people wouldn’t be able to walk away from this bathroom tiles not being cleaned (and I’m more than happy to do that) as an example.
its the same with cleaners. I watch 2 lovely girls on TikTok who clean houses. But their clean wouldn’t be good enough for me. They make beds without pulling the bottom sheet straight (that really annoys me lol) , they use the hinch spray and wipe stuff on the bathrooms where if I were paying someone, I’d want a full proper bleach and tbh they seem to spend more time moving stuff about , faffing with throws on beds, hoover lines and fans on the toilet rolls.
i guess it all comes down to different expectations and really the size of your house. My house is very tidy and clean and I’m very house proud, but there no doubt my last house took way less time to clean because it was smaller

It takes me 8 hours to do a proper clean of my 3 bed house. We had a cleaner for a while and she did 2 bathrooms and a basic clean of the kitchen diner in that time.

No, it took me two hours today to do the kitchen dining room today, it was a deep clean.

Depends on the house. My cleaner takes 2 hours to do only our kitchen/kitchen area.

@Titsywoo is 8 hours a typo? It took your cleaner over three hours per bathroom?