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!!!!

Keep the house tidy and keep on top of the laundry, bins, dishwasher and kitchen worktop. Other than that, run a cloth and hoover round once a week.

Cleaner does most of it, and we do bits and pieces at the weekend. At no point in my life have I ever dettoled my skirting boards however..

Hours per day? WTF!
We do 2 hours per week?
On a Thursday when I'm home I set eufy round. I'll hoover with Dyson another time. I put a couple of washes on per week. We clean the bathroom and downstairs toilet weekly. That's it. 2 hours at a push.

Detol skirting boards? We clean our skirting boards with pledge twice a year. Didn't even know you were supposed to do it more often.

We have a cleaner who comes fortnightly and does a really really good clean.

This allows us to keep on top of things but it is constant small bits. Obviously constant kitchen tidying and clea ingredients after meals etc. Dh does a great job of tidying a bit most days. I run the roboti vacuum a few times a week , doing different oarts of the house, and do the tidying before that. I also sweep and clean the stairs at least twice between cleaner visits. Dh cleans the bathrooms on the non cleaner week and I do occasional quick wipe round bathroom or wipe down the front of the cupboards in the kitchen etc.

It's definitely not nothing even with the cleaner but not unbearable either .

You might enjoy A Slob Comes Clean (not that I’m suggesting you’re a slob) because it’s advice for people who aren’t natural housewives, including where to start to see most impact (clue: not the stair spindles 😂and I totally get that!)

Flylady and TOMM and most checklists made me feel inadequate but this woman gets it.

Why do skirting boards need dettol? Isn’t it a disinfectant? What would be infecting them?

@LivingDeadGirlUK I do like it, it's made my life easier but I find I need to add things to the lists!

I’m curious as to that, if my husbands role was partly to clean and tidy and rhe house was a tip and I came home and it looked the exact same and he said he’d Dettoled the stair spindles and skirting boards, I’d be totally bemused.

I can’t comprehend why if your house is a tip you’d Dettol the skirting boards.

About an hour a week, if that.
I don’t even own Dettol let alone use it on skirting boards. What’s the point in that? Do you regularly lick them?

The bathroom gets cleaned weekly, the kitchen gets wiped most days. The carpets get hoovered occasionally. We embrace dust. I’ve never cleaned a skirting board.

About 15 minutes a day. That includes emptying the dishwasher and wiping kitchen surfaces. Plus laundry etc when needed.

Once a week I do 2 hours: bathrooms, floors, change sheets etc

Hours? Not even close to 1

The only time I’ve cleaned a skirting board is when I’m about to paint it and I’ve certainly never used dettol on them!

20 minutes a day maybe, an hour or two at the weekends including putting laundry away.

I’d never heard dettol and skirting boards in the same sentence before this thread. They get dusted in this house and that’s it. On the rare occasion there might be some visible dirt a damp cloth sorts it out.

I’ve honestly never cleaned skirting boards in my life…
I clean thingns when I notice they need done. Bathrooms get cleaned once a week. Kitchen gets tidied every day and properly cleaned once a week or so. Washing done as needed. Dusting when I notice dust. Hoovering several times a week. Beds changed once a week with towels and bath mats. Floors mopped once a week. The house never really looks tidy despite all this.

Not a full hour.

We have a cleaner twice a week. In between that we clean up as necessary. My husband does a lot more than me ( I work NHS shifts ) but the kids are quite tidy and the girls do their own washing.

Load the dishwasher etc. No more than half an hour. No time or energy after work and kids. We're quite lax on cleaning and have a cleaner in once a week to help

You must be very trim, OP. Nice benefit.
DH doesn't let me do the daily jobs, I don't meet his standards.
Maybe half hour/week here.

I tend to clean as I go, so probably too much!, everyday, I, hoover through, clean bathroom/toilets, clean kitchen after every meal, 1-2 wash loads a day.
Mop floors, polish, dusting every where maybe twice weekly, dog bed washed weekly. About every month or so, give 1 room a really deep clean, on rotation, pull everything out, clean behind things, skirting etc. DH cleans windows inside and out, and wipes down all paintwork every couple of months. Teenagers, here, no little ones, and I'm retired, so have more time now.

I've never Detolled a skirting board or a stair spindle. Ever.
In two years I've run a duster over the skirting boards maybe twice.
If I average out the amount of time I clean over a week to effort per day (including dishwasher loading and 'side wiping') then I reckon it's about 40 seconds a day.

Eufy pootles round every two days getting the worst of the dog hair and sand off the floor (when said dog doesn't decide Eufy is an enemy and critically injure him while he's working)

Hours per DAY? Unless you count loading the dishwasher then a big fat zero, I’m a once a week girl.

I don't do "hours". I just do things as they crop up/I notice they need doing. I often think I should be having a proper cleaning routine and doing things more thoroughly.

I mop the downstairs floor most days (have a dog) wipe down kitchen surfaces twice a day, vacuum upstairs about once a week, and clean the bathrooms when I think they look a bit grubby. We don't have much clutter to tidy up as no dc at home

I hoover every couple of days clean once a week and tidy as i go (put something away when i leave the room etc). My house is clean and tidy but it's livable, my parents house is awful DM cleans and washes up constantly, you can't finish a drink or food of any kind before it needs to be washed, you can't 'do' anything for fear of making the house messy or dirty - it's a horrible unwelcoming home.
Maybe make it a mission that when you're boiling rhe kettle, you wipe the sides or tidy the kitchen, bring small changes in will help to realise bigger changes as the big clean won't be so bad.

I don't clean daily. Maybe weekly, ten days? Then dh does most of it .

People who don’t clean every day, do you include wiping down the surfaces in the kitchen after cooking/eating etc cleaning? Or is that just part and parcel of cooking?
Daily I run the hoover round, wipe all the surfaces in the kitchen a couple of times, usually wipe down the sinks and sweep the hall/kitchen floor.