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Cleaning - how many hours per week in your house?

28 replies

twirlaround · 15/01/2006 15:15

This is not about folk who have cleaners...for everyone else...
how much time per week do you spend cleaning your house - not tidying up, laundry, cooking & washing up - just cleaning?
I would like this estimate analysed into:

  • hoovering & cleaning floors
  • cleaning bathroom(s)
  • cleaning kitchen
  • cleaning other rooms
OP posts:
waterfalls · 15/01/2006 16:01

About 12 hrs

MerlinsBeard · 15/01/2006 16:05

don't make me think of that! ;)

Original poster
twirlaround · 15/01/2006 16:07

12 hours a week is a whole lot more than me

OP posts:
Meanoldmummy · 15/01/2006 16:07

Hours? Every week? ROFL!!!!

Original poster
twirlaround · 16/01/2006 14:54

anyone else?

OP posts:
CountessDracula · 16/01/2006 14:55

TWELVE HOURS???

Do you live in a mansion?

lunavix · 16/01/2006 14:56

usually I spend 3 hours doing each storey, each week. ie Monday night 3 hours doing downstairs, Tuesday night 3 hours doing upstairs. Usually spend an hour weds, and thurs night tidying, washing up etc.

Don't do much on fri and sat far to lazy then maybe another hour sunday night getting house ready.

So thats 9 hours.

However I feel crap atm, so am doing one storey a week tho feel like a skank! Plus only about half an hour a day. So atm - 5 hours. House is a state though.

Hulababy · 16/01/2006 14:57

Hmmm...the big clean is done once a week and me and Dh share the job. Takes us an hour or so, never more than two hours between us. I will also keep on top of the kitchen most days, when/after cooking (just 5 minutes) and then the bathrooms I will wipe round 2-3 times a week extra as well (again 5 minute job).

So what is that - if only one of us did it - 4 to 5 hours for the cleaning/hoovering.

madmarchhare · 16/01/2006 14:58

Jees, about 1.

Hayls · 16/01/2006 14:59

I reckon about 4 hours

LoveMyGirls · 16/01/2006 15:00

too many!!

  • hoovering & cleaning floors - about 1 hour
  • cleaning bathroom(s) - about 2 hours
  • cleaning kitchen - 6 hours
  • cleaning other rooms - 2/3 hours

total - 12 hours max

NomDePlume · 16/01/2006 15:09

About 7 hours a week (reasonably big, uncluttered 4 bedroomed house with 5 inhabitants)

  • hoovering & cleaning floors - about 45mins (hoovering takes seconds, I do it daily, upstairs every other day) (Mopping hard floors also a quick job, do that once ot twice a week)

  • cleaning bathroom(s) - about 2hours (3 bathrooms done a couple of a times a week)

  • cleaning kitchen - about an hour (includes cleaning fridge out etc once a week. We wipe up as we go along the rest of the time)

  • cleaning other rooms - about 3.5hours (includes cleaning windows inside every other week)

cathyspam · 16/01/2006 15:42

about 2 hours but it really needs more !

mummygow · 16/01/2006 15:45

I clean for a bout 2 hours everyday so about 14 hours per week - I'm off my head when you look at it like that!!

CountessDracula · 16/01/2006 16:27

OK I have just done my kitchen as the cleaner blew me out today.

I did the following (bear in mind didn't clear up after dinner and have had breakfast and lunch here)

Loaded dishwasher & set off
Washed up saucepans and glasses
Put things in the bin
Put things away in larder/fridge/other places
Cleaned and polished worksurfaces (incl underneath everything on it)
Cleaned and e clothed the stainless steel hob, hood, bin, coffee machine and toaster
Swept floor with my sooper dooper mc donalds worker style upright dustpan and brush
Put bin out
Cleaned sink

It took me 11 minutes!

Now, come on, HOW do you spend 6 hours a week on the kitchen?

sweetkitty · 16/01/2006 16:30

Limit myself to an hour a day max. DP does upstairs at weekends (too pregnant right now)

fruitful · 16/01/2006 16:38

20 minutes each weekday. Hoovering/mopping floors, doing the bathrooms & kitchen, a bit of dusting.

Some days I don't do any though.

fruitful · 16/01/2006 16:42

I've just read this thread through. I'm with CD here! How can you spend 2 or 3 hours a week cleaning bathrooms? Even if you've got 3? What on earth do you actually do?

I mean mine could do with a bit of descaling at the mo - so that would take, what, an extra 20 minutes? And maybe I could clean the window. Another 10 minutes, if you include the time taken to unearth the window cleaning equipment!

NomDePlume · 16/01/2006 16:45

2 hours cleaning 3 bathrooms, twice a week. That averages out at 20 mins per bathroom. Not that extravagant.

crunchie · 16/01/2006 16:50

Do some of you clean your bathrooms with a toothbrush??

For me bathrooms are about 20 mins a time, downstairs just a loo, upstairs a bathroom. For this I put down loo cleaner (usually the night before if I remember!) clean sink and bath, do windowsill, hoover and wipe floor and clean loo.

Kitchen I try to do this as we go along, so it gets done 3 or 4 times a week. Well the worksurfaces do, the floor is manky!

TBH the majority of our housework is tidying up, not cleaning. Once it's tidy teh cleaning bit takes minutes

NomDePlume · 16/01/2006 16:50

I clean my shower cubicle with a toothbrush (seriously)

SorenLorensen · 16/01/2006 16:51

Not enough.

kama · 16/01/2006 16:52

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PeachyClair · 16/01/2006 16:55

Um, a big clean all day yesterday , normally 30 minutes me, and about 80 minutes dh

PeachyClair · 16/01/2006 16:56

And yes I do clean my bathroom with a toothbrush. Whose depends on my mood