How often are we mopping our floors???

[colukmea]

Hi
My whole house has wooden floorboards and I'm mopping the kitchen, lounge, dining and bathrooms once a week and the bedrooms only get done once every 5/6 weeks! I vacuum every day and clean up any spills when they happen but does my mopping average sound a bit lazy? I was talking to a friend the other day and she asked me how often I mopped and when I told her she pulled a "You've got be kidding" face at me. What about you guys? How often are you doing yours?

What kind of floorboards do you have? Some floorboards are only supposed to be mopped occassionally because getting them wet all the time damages the finish. We have no carpet downstairs. I clean our tiny bathroom floor about once a day when DS is in the bath (or more often if he decides to do 'water play'), usually end up mopping up spillages in the kitchen several times a day, clean/brush other floors as necessary (10 times a day!?!!) and probably go over everything with a damp floor mop about once every 3 weeks. I think if you take care of your floors on an ongoing basis you can get away with not doing big floor cleaning sessions very often

i am new to wooden floors, new house is oak strip flooring in every room downstairs. i've been mopping once a week as we have a cat plus work being done in the garden, hence muddy footprints.

Madameplatypus, my floorboards are bamboo

have just moved to new house a few weeks ago. Got laminate everywhere. Assumed you couldnt get it wet. Have been hoovering up the dust or using one of them static floor duster thingies. Wiping up marks with cif wet wipes as and when i spot them.

so its ok to get laminate wet with a mop then?

Oh yes TM66, that's why laminate is FAB for potty training!

Well this thread made me feel guilty about not washing my kitchen/bathroom floor enough!
So mopped this am then dd2 had d&v all over it 2x this pm so it has now been done three times in 12 hours!

Sympathies, D&V is such hard work for all concerned Hope you don't catch it.

I have been throwing up all weekend

I hoover/sweep every day

mop every copule of days

hands and knees scrub every fortnight or so

Blimey Enid! With three littlies to look after too, I bow to your floor cleaning superiority.

We have hard floors throughout the house and I hoover everywhere once and week and mop everywhere once a week. The theory is that downstairs is supposed to be hoovered midweek and the kitchen floor washed again midweek but that rarely happens.

i could hoover twice but definitely once a day and mop every 2nd day

i have to sweep and mop a couple of times a day as i have laminate and it gets so dirty and im sick of seeing little black feet everytime dd3 gets up on sofa.

top tip is to fill mop bucket really hot and leave it somewhere out of the way but handy then when i walk past it or everythime i have a cup of tea i just go over floor again . also i just sweep into a corner every other time and the get dustpan and brush out 1 or 2 times to pick it all up

When you can't see the colour of the tiles

muma3, you sound like me!
I have to sweep and mop kitchen floor twice a day sometimes. We live in a terrace with no hall way or back garden, the drive way is our 'back garden' so enter the house from drive into kitchen and floor is always covered in pram tracks and footprints! I am always making little piles of fluff and dust with the floor sweeper!

Right!! I am going to mop my floor tomorrow.

Oh somebody mentioned hands-and-knees-scrubbing . I've been in denial about this as our ancient white vinyl tiles don't look clean even with the mop but I thought, people don't really scrub floors these days do they? I'm pretty sure nobody's scrubbed these ones for 10yrs+ hence the colour. I'm going to have to do it aren't I?
(sigh) What kind of brush do you need and where can I buy one?