When do you wash your kitchen floor

[athomeagain]

There never seems to be a good time to mop kitchen ,Bathroom and porch at the same time.

When my feet start sticking to it.
Oh, you mean, what time of DAY?
When the children are not around.

when they are in bed or out
and I do it in stages so that 1 bit dries before I do the other bit.

april and october.

Lst thing at night before we go to bed (every night), then close the door to stop the cats going in.

As infrequently as possible. Usualy when ds is in bed though.

When my cleaner comes once a week

When it's dirty

And I make the kids stay in other room until it's dry.

Everyday i mop it and then do a hands and knees job about once a month.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday late morning after I have taken the dog out for an uber long walk so can shut her in her cage for long enough for it to dry.

When the children are in bed

A nice patterned bit of lino hides a multitude of sins

(I do mine when dc are at school)

When no-one is around.

After lunch. After supper.

I chose black flooring for a reason

sweep it every night, I think the crumb fairies come and sprinkle crumbs daily because I have no idea where it all comes from.

Then I have a flat mop thing and squirt dettol floor cleaner straight onto the floor. So it is like sweeping up again. I do that about 2 - 3 times a week.

I do it at night.

every night before i go to bed, i have a really big mop and quite a small kitchen, so its a quick job!

Thanks guys crumb fairies are my problem too.i like to vaccum and then do the floors but it never seems to work .i will try some your tips.Black flooring that would be good

When it feels crunchy or sticky underfoot.

Time of day - a weekday morning when we are in, ds2 is asleep, and ds1 is at preschool. No way on earth I am wasting child-free evening time on such a dull task.

I don't wash my kitchen floor very often at all. What I do is to wipe up (with babywipes) any food or spills or dirt immediately as it gets there - then you only have to wipe that bit of mess - it doesn't spread around and get sticky etc. For other general bits that get on the kitchen floor, I use the vacuum quite often. Doing those two things means I hardly ever have to wash the kitchen floor properly.

I washed mine today at around 2 ish. DDs watching a dvd and stairgate to kitchen then locked to stop em going in.

Hard flooring all over the rest of the ground floor is more difficult because a major tidy up of crap from floor is first required and then a hoover and then a mopping involving several returns to kitchen to rinse.

Sometimes do this as DP is putting DDs to bed.
Or in the day with DDs who are at home herded up into their bedroom with instructions not to come down.

They then come down of course and at least one of them will ignore my warnings and run about and slip.
What larks!

When I'm not pregnant

Mopped every few days. I try and sweep every day, but it's a big kitchen diner and so it's usually every couple of days.

The kids were delightful at dinner, telling me breezily that our house is always a tip (which it's bloody not), and that X and Y's houses are always immaculate and that Z mops HER floor every day. I did think - how does she have the time, but then I realised that I would probably have the time if I wasn't on Mumsnet so often

Blue moon...

as infrequently as i can get away with

On my way out to the skating party in hell