How often do you clean your bathrooms?

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DP thinks I clean the bathrooms unnecessarily I.e. they don’t need doing when I do them. My argument is that’s the whole point, you clean them so they don’t get to a point of “looking” unclean.

I have two bathrooms and do them both fully twice a week, daily bleach/toilet cleaner down the toilet, white vinegar on the taps once a week (independent of full cleans) and mop the floors at least once a week (in addition to full cleans when floor also gets done).

What’s a normal amount?

Cleaner does them once a week.

(I don’t think ILs ever clean theirs unless people are staying so after covid there is literally two years worth of grime. they are disgusting and I HATE using them)

I used to use wipes, but a few years ago realised how terrible that was for the environment (though at least I binned not flushed). I now have a cloth I keep in the bathroom for sink/windowsill wiping every few days and use toilet roll if just wiping over the toilet. Then approx (ish!) weekly do a proper clean including the toilet and all cloths get put in washing machine after that.

Husband and I use separate showers (for complicated reasons unrelated to this thread!). I rinse all round the shower at the end (just water, no products) and he doesn’t, he just finishes then turns shower off. It makes a huge difference - mine is always cleaner yet we shower with same frequency and use same products in the shower. When we shared for a while while mine was fixed it stayed cleaner so it is definitely the difference and not the way we shower.

@55Jumbo

Proper clean once a week. Wipe toothpaste or "skids" as required!

Same here!

I do mine weekly. Hate doing it though

Proper clean by the cleaner once a week. I wipe round the sink and stick bleach down the loo once or twice a week on top of this.

Daily wipe around the sink and loo. Deep clean using limescale remover every other week and the week in between use a regular multi surface cleaner. Pop some bleach around the toilet bowl a few times a week when i remember. Floor is dark tiles and gets hoovered every week. Floor around the toilet and sink is wiped weekly and the whole floor properly mopped maybe once a month. People are supposed to leave the bathroom how they would like to find it but in reality this just doesn't happen.

When it looks dirty. Or rather, a few days after it starts looking dirty when I have time to do it. Also before we have visitors.

I work full time and have a toddler, I do not have time to clean things that aren't dirty.

Little and often. I do something every day. When I clean the mirror in the Hall, i clean the one in the bathroom.
When I mop the hall, I do the bathroom floor too.
Actual loo cleaned whenever DC leave traces of poo. Once a week?
I leave my towel in the bathroom - yip, I have a clean towel each shower, but to mitigate I have short hair and only use a hand towel - and wipe the sink with it after every one has brushed their teeth.
I clean the cabinet when I condition my hair at the weekend.
The window, skirting boards and walls get washed when I can see dirt / dust. Maybe once a month?
Single parent, if I had a significant other, he'd be helping!

Bathrooms cleaned properly once a week by the cleaner. Then I do bleach of toilet mid week myself and will give the bench and taps a wipe down mid week when they start to look dirty again.

You sound like you clean yours too much but each to their own!

I spray and wipe the toilet and sink a few times a day ( small boy mis aiming) and kids getting toothpaste/ soap everywhere.
I do the whole bathroom including the bath once a week or whenever it's looking grubby.

I wipe the taps, sink and side a couple of times a week. Do a full bathroom clean once a fortnight. My bathroom needs redoing so I don't get any enjoyment out of cleaning it as it always looks horrible even when it's cleaned.

Wish I had the motivation and time of some of the posters on here. Your bathrooms must be beautifully cleaned!

I would love a cleaner, my children to not put toothpaste all over the sink most days and to clean up after themselves!!!

What to the daily bleach down loo people think the advantage of this is? Does it outweigh all the extra environmental damage?

I clean mine top to bottom once a week they definitely look like they need it by that point. They get dusty and if I was organised I’d give them a wipe between times.

The water softener has been amazing though and helps it look clean for longer. no scummy marks on shower screens or lime scale in the loo.

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My cleaner comes once a fortnight.

In between I will clean the wash basin 3 times. That's it.

Why do people clean their toilets every day, what do they do with them that a flush of water won't clean?

Every 2 weeks my cleaner does a thorough clean. I do the weeks she's not here, not quote as thorough but mop and viakal because we're in a very hard water area and I hate seeing scale on taps or in the toilet bowl.

The toilet is daily practically. Bleach down it once or twice a day and a wipe over.

Kitchens and bathrooms. I'm an absolute nightmare if they aren't immaculate. Gives me the itch.

The less you can use bleach the more the oceans will thank you.

Bleach is toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects.

One bathroom, one cloakroom. Daily wipedown of sinks and toilet and quick spray of bath/overbath shower. Weekly deep clean including floors. You have to do what feels right for you. He should be grateful its done regularly. Why would anyone complain???!!!

The complaint is that I moan about doing the lion share of the housework and apparently he would do more but I “don’t give him a chance” to do it because it’s always clean.

He knows how often I like things done so why he feels the need to wait until things are dirty is beyond me

I think you are making a rod for your own back and given your cleaning schedule I agree that it will always be clean.

How often you like things done and how often they need doing are different things.

I follow the TOMM method. So every morning, while the baby is still sleeping, after DP has left for work and I've had my shower. Then it only gets used by me or any guests all day, so stays pretty clean. Then he comes home and starts trimming his beard, making a mess 😒 don't do it at weekends though.

But does that mean he should never clean anything?

Not if it is clean already (and on your schedule it would be) - why would he?

I split it into essential cleaning - eg a quick swoosh around loo and basin which I probably do most days. And then everything else needs to wait until I decide to clean the entire bathroom, which is realistically every other week or so or before guests arrive. Having said that, the kitten knocked over a plant on the windowsill behind the loo several days ago and there's still a trace of soil on top of the loo cistern, behind the loo and on the floor, which I've done nothing about.

Because it’s not reasonable that I should have to do all the cleaning?

I wouldn't consider your cleaning regime 'reasonable OP'. A 'normal' weekly clean - fine, share the load.

The sort of thing you've described wouldn't be for me.