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Cleaning Routines

2 replies

shalamakooky · 12/05/2025 20:09

Talk to me about your cleaning routines/ schedules

Areas you focus on at home

OP posts:
elm26 · 12/05/2025 20:41

Every day:

Clean toilet
Wipe bathroom sink round
All washing up is done and kitchen wiped down before I sit down for some time before bed
I do a load of laundry on a day to keep on top of it

Every sat or sun depending on what we are doing:

Dust all windowsills, units etc.
All bedding stripped, washed and out to dry
Clean bedding for all of us
Thorough hoover throughout home
Full clean of bathroom (wash tiles down, bath, taps, shower, sink, toilet and in the bits that get grimy like the sides of toilets at the bottom, replace bathroom bin bag)
Full kitchen clean (tiles, toaster crumbs binned and toaster & kettle wiped down, cupboard doors and kickboards wiped over with kitchen cleaner, draining board cleaned)
Mop throughout (only carpets in bedroom)
All mirrors are cleaned
Bin is cleaned with bin spray
All towels that have been used in week on a hot wash and in tumble to dry

Monthly:

Clean fridge out, take shelves etc all out and use fairy liquid and hot water, clean the inside.
Shower curtain goes on a short hot cycle, I hang it back up to dry
Wash our runner in the hallway
All skirting boards washed down with zoflora & warm water (check your paint if using zoflora etc as can damage)
Insides of windows if they need it

Every 8 weeks

Window cleaner comes for the outside
Take the car for a good inside and out clean
Descale the kettle
Wipe cupboards out if they need it (little spills of sauce etc)
Full oven clean

Once a year, I have somebody in to clean the sofa and bedroom carpets.

Bert2025 · 14/05/2025 07:00

I think Elm 26 has said it all. That is such a good schedule. 🤩🫧
That is what I aspire to be doing! This is what I actually do:

Follow a… flexible version of The Organised Mum Method and use her guided cleans which are excellent and give me a bit of a kick up the behind when needed!

Every day:
dishwasher - unload and reload throughout day, put on at night.
at end of day - reset kitchen
put robot hoover on in one area of house!
one load of laundry (normally every other day)
wipe out a basin and clean one loo
5/10 minute tidy
squeegee shower after each use

Weekly
clean upstairs one week, down the next - dust, polish and carpets/floors, clean bathrooms
bigger tidy

wash Towels weekly
bedding fortnightly in winter, weekly in summer

Inside windows - monthly
skirting boards - twice a year, hate doing them for some reason

declutter twice a year/ clean out cupboards and drawers - that helps a lot

lookkng at that list, I seem to prioritise the daily clean which stops things building up too much - most times of the time anyway!

what do you do, op? I love a routine!!

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