How many hours a day do you clean?

[Lovelygardening]

I know obviously depends on who is in the house etc we are a family of 5. I am a carer to my youngest age 14 and have 2 older teens that work are at college and hubby that works long hours. I’m definitely not lazy but also I’m a rubbish housewife! How can I improve? It just isn’t something that comes naturally to me but bizarrely like a clean tidy home. For instance, the house was a tip the other day so I decided to dettol all my skirting boards and stair spindles. No one could tell I had done anything, I may as well have been sitting on my backside all day. How do people do it? I have no excuse of time and the chores should be down to me as that is my ‘role’ in the family life (no sexism just the way it is) my family don’t say anything and are very kind and forgiving but that makes me even more guilty. Help!!!!

Every day I load/unload the dishwasher and do a load of laundry.
I spend about 1-2 hours cleaning (hoovering, cleaning sides, making beds etc)
I have a cleaner come once a fortnight who does a deeper clean and mops the floors.

On average a veeery small number. If I have to do a chore I set a timer. Say 1 hour to iron. That way I focus on a meaningful task rather than faff.

If I have to do it, I want to see a result.

Same managed to get rid of abit but have realised it needs a lot more gone.
It never really ends. Would love to come home to a tidy house and not need start as soon as I walk in.

Sal

Stuff like skirting boards is stuff I do every couple of months when things are in good shape. It's definitely not what I would do when the house is a mess and needs to be sorted! You need to actually tackle the hotspots to make any noticeable difference.

I love the Rock the Housework guided cleans in conjunction with TOMM, they've literally changed the way I clean and our house is always visitor ready without spending three hours of our precious weekends cleaning only for it to be a tip again by Wednesday.

It might sound silly, but it was a bit of a lightbulb moment when I realised that if I want my house to be clean and relatively tidy every day then I need to clean and tidy it every day, not binge clean on a Saturday and then do nothing all week.

Every Sunday afternoon.
He does kitchen/bins/cars/ironing
I do bathroom/laundry/hoover

We change the beds together.

Takes us about hour and a half to two hours. Then we have a celebratory cup of tea and do something nice for the rest of the day.

Daily we both wash up or wipe over kitchen sides etc. Deep clean twice a year

Forgot to say, me, him, 4 kids and a cat. 3 bedroom house

I've got this problem too, with so much clutter its such a pain to clean, moving stuff out the way etc. I've had a couple of rooms decorated and a such decluttered them and I can clean them in 10 mins now.

I do a proper thorough clean once a week which would usually include bathrooms and kitchen; some dusting (skirting boards, surfaces, shutters); hoover and mop; change bedding and towels etc

On the other days I’ll do other bits as and when they need doing (clean kitchen surfaces/hoover high traffic areas/quick clean of loos and sinks etc) but not necessarily all of those every day. So I probs spend 30-60 minutes per day on little isolated jobs, and then one day a week a big clean which takes several hours.

That’s for me, DH, 2 teens, 2 cats, 1 dog. 4 bedroom house, 3 bathrooms.

Clutter is the enemy.

A standard day is wiping kitchen surfaces, unpack and pack dishwasher and a load of washing every other day. Sweep kitchen floor every couple of days. Robot vacuum gets sent off every couple of days. DH does a thorough hoover inc stairs every 2 weeks and I have the odd wipe of the bathroom and he does a really decent bathroom clean every 2 weeks. I have had a cleaner for most of my adult life but last one retired and I just haven’t found one since then.

I do the living room Monday, bathrooms Tuesday, bedrooms Wednesday, stairs & landing Thursday, garden & miscellaneous jobs Friday. A load of laundry & clear the washing up every day - I load the laundry in the afternoon so it’s ready to hang up next morning. I just do what things need doing but it would generally include sweeping/vacuuming, changing bedding, dusting any areas that need fixing it. I’m not fanatical about it, I don’t dust everything every week, only if it actually needs it.

TBH I don’t always manage everything every week - I’m chronically ill so sometimes I’m not able to get much done or even get up out of bed. So when I do I really have to go for it.

If house was a top, skirting boards and spindles are a very odd thing to start with!

Maybe focus on the "must dos" to keep the rooms tidy.

I also focus on keeping our main living area / kitchen tidy, and don't really bother with other rooms as we don't spend as much time there

Op maybe have a look at the organised mum method or the other one is the fly lady or something like that . I clean about a hour a day give or take

Hours a day? Err...

I'm a full-time working single mum. I come home, cook tea, eat and then clear the dishes and clean the kitchen. 30 mins max.

If I'm feeling very energetic, I might clean the bathroom, or throw some washing in, or change ds's bed. Another 15 mins max.

At the weekend, probably two hours 7.30-9.30 on Sunday mornings - floors, loos, dusting, tidying. An hour ironing in front of the tv.

So a total of six hours a week maximum.

Gardening however - I'll happily spend 10 hours a week in the garden 😊

I use the organised mum method and live it and find it doable

I'm currently doing this too after trying it previously when house was more cluttered. Without clutter I actually find 30 mins longer than I need to clean a room but the cluttered rooms I don't feel I get anything done in as by the time I've tidied enough to clean times up. Do think its a good tool though.

I got.on top of mine with the Flylady routines years ago. I still follow her ideas more or less, but probably spend less than 3 hours a week cleaning. The secret is little and often and never really letting anything get dirty.

Proper clean once a week, takes a few hours. I outsource some bits to the kids but they never do them properly. I wfh so do little bits throughout the day- just stuff like wipe the sides down whilst the kettle is boiling for a cuppa. I put a wash on the night before and hang it out before work on the morning, I wipe the loos daily and do my ensuite sink when I take my make up off. I sent the robo hoover on every morning too and always clean the kitchen after meals. It does feel never ending.
We used to have cleaners but I wasn't happy with the standard so got rid.

About half an hour on work days and an hour ish on my days off. I clean for a job and can't really be arsed when I'm not being paid for it.

Hours? Probably 10 minutes daily.

Up to an hour each evening. Probably 2 each Saturday and Sunday. I do a lot of subconscious tidying and it's such a habit I don't notice I'm doing it.

cleaner comes 10 hours a week ( includes ironing and changing 4 double beds). I do prob 30- 45 mins a day of maintenance housework like laundry, dishwasher, making beds, general tidying, wiping down the kitchen, bins etc. but not in one go.

Conscious cleaning about 2-3 hrs per week, little things like wiping down kitchen surfaces and cleaning cooker rings about a couple of hours a week.

Great question! For me, zero. Apart from cleaning up after meals. I long ago recognised a lack of motivation. To help with that, we'll invite friends round for lunch or dinner every so often. Then we do a big clean beforehand! It is very satisfying all round.

Kitchen is cleaned daily in terms of wiping sides, loading dishwasher etc. Twice a week the kitchen floor is mopped. Dining and living room are hoovered every other day, clutter removed and binned or put back in its home. Upstairs is no where near as orderly! I don’t function well in mess so little and often works downstairs because they are the areas I spend most time in. I would say an hour a day and more on weekends to incorporate the extra time needed upstairs.