Cleaning rota?

[purplemurple1]

Me and OH have taken a clean it as we see it attitute and unsuprisingly this is leading to things getting quite disgusting (took OH 2hrs to clean the top of the kitchen cupboards at the weekend - and he really wasn't slacking off).

So I'm wondering what do other people do? OH suggested a rota of jobs to be done weekly/monthly/quarterly - would that work? Any suggestions of where to start with writing one, what are we even meant to be cleaning/tidying regualarly?

We live in a big ish 2bed, no carpets, dog only allowed in the front dinning room. Also I'm 8.5 months preg (first DC), so it needs to be something easy we can manage with a newborn.

Thanks

the Flylady app is quite useful, I've got it free on android. It divides your house into zones, then you can decide which zone on which day.
If the zones don't fit your house you can edit them.
And you can edit the job list. within each zone ( it is a bit American at the start)

Also you can list weekly and monthly jobs in a different part of the app.

Finally there is a 7 day meal plan section if you feel like it. I guess if you both have smartphones you could both download and personalize it.

I have a typed list in Excel on my computer and I print it and put dates next to tasks when I do them. When it's full I print another list. It lists each room's floor, toilet, wash basin and bath. So I hoover the living room and note on the list when I do it, or clean the toilet and note it on the list. I don't include the kitchen sink or surfaces as I find those things get done a lot when I'm washing up.

Thanks to advice here I've decided I could hoover less often but should do the wash basin, bath and toilet more often. So that's what I plan to do. You could decide how often to do it based on how quickly it gets messy and how much time you can spare. Tidying up doesn't go on my list as it gets done as needed. I mostly avoid it by not making the mess in the first place. I also do washing whenever there isn't a load already drying on the airer and I've got time to spare to sort out another load.

When you say it took your OH 2 hours to clean the tops of the kitchen cupboards, do you mean there was lots of stuff stored on top that all needed cleaning? If so, maybe try to store those items in boxes or containers to cut down work. If the stuff is getting dusty that suggests it's not used so maybe you don't need it. I try to minimalise the stuff that's not inside cupboards to avoid work.

Thanks, I've started a list breaking the house into zones and frequency to clean things (prob skip the day to day stuff as it seems silly to list that as you say).

The kitchen cupbaords - we have mostly alcohol on them (diff bottles of wine, whiskey, vodka etc), and it greasy/dusty mostly so maybe cleaning/using the oven fan more is the answer. He did chuck/store a load of stuff though, so he is slowly coming around to my way of thinking - less stuff = less to keep clean.