If you have wooden floors...

[LaMadrilena]

and a toddling baby, how often do you mop? Settle a domestic dispute for me!

DD 13m has just learned to walk and now never stops. She doesn't bother crawling any more, but obviously still splats quite a lot, Maggie Simpson style.

How clean does my floor need to be, bearing in mind that both parents work 40h/week?

Just to add, it's 40°c here and will be for most of the summer, so she's mostly barefoot.

Twice a week here (because that’s how often my cleaner comes). Don’t tend to wear shoes in doors but not militant about it.

the way I look at it, kids fall over in the playground all the time and I’m not convinced the playground gets mopped that often.

If you don't have pets or a muddy garden then not often- every couple of weeks? Bit of a hoover or sweep around say 5 days a week would be ample in my disinterested in domestic perfection type opinion.

It doesn't need to be spotless. It doesn't need to be any cleaner than it was pre-children as long as your home is in a half decent condition.

I have a no shoe rule in the house and the robovac goes round daily. I only mop if something is spilt or I’m having a big clean (every couple of weeks)

Thanks everyone! My DH is saying that we should be mopping every day, and if not, DD should only be on the sofa or in her playpen. When he's with her, poor DD is bored stiff at having to stay still, and when she complains, DH doesn't have much patience with her... I'm happy to let her toddle around, and then wash her feet if necessary. I've always got my eye on her so she's not putting anything mucky in her mouth.

I do need to be more careful about shoes, it's just our hall is tiny so tricky to change there without setting foot in the living room.

Just to clarify, DH is a great dad, he's just clueless about babies and how much you can demand of a 1 year old!

Once a week and we have a dog. My DC have allergies so I do everything I can to ensure they arent in a sterile environment, they need a bit of dirt in their microbiome!

Wooden floors here, mop maybe twice a week.
Ds is 2 years. It’s 35 degrees today and he and us have been running in and out all day bare feet, bits of grass on the floor etc. floor under table wiped after every meal

I mop daily, but have a very small, open-plan downstairs and a spray mop which makes it little effort.

I do it on my way up to bed so obviously it's clean and dry when we come down on a morning.

Once a week but we were all at home all the fucking time at that stage and I was going insane with non sleeping toddler, home schooling etc. It could have done with being done more often. If your out most of the time once a week is fine.

Robovac on for an hour after work and then spray mop in less than 10 mins and then your husband can do it everyday before bed.
Or take it in turns twice a week. A reasonable dose of Germs make your little one stronger. No one is mopping all the other surfaces she touches outside.

He's out of his mind. Let him do that mopping then, if he wants. Good luck trying to keep her in one spot much longer! He'll need to chain her down...

Is he unusually anxious about germs and things? Perhaps he needs to speak to the GP.

Babies need to be exposed to muck and germs to build their immune systems up. They all chew shoes etc - try not to panic. No need to do any extra floor cleaning above your usual. No need to wash her feet more than once a day.

Show him this, for instance:

cdhf.ca/health-lifestyle/the-importance-of-exposing-your-children-to-a-diverse-range-of-bacteria/

Tell him you're worried about the chemicals.

I mop about once a month…better for their immune system 😂 well they’ve never been sick.

We have a cat. We spot clean messes with antibacterial cleaner. We try to mop the kitchen and bathrooms weekly but it's usually twice weekly. We almost never mop the wooden floor in the lounge and hall! Older daughter didn't get a stomach bug till she was three and at pre-school, younger daughter is 13 and never had one.

I do mine every day, single parent and work full time. Mine only 10 months plus have dogs and cats in house - in winter I tend to have to mop twice a day.

Carpets and rugs don't get mopped/steam cleaned daily, so why bother doing it with a hard floor?

I clean my floors as and when they need it (e.g. if something gets spilt or it looks dirty).

Yikes, we must be filthy. Mopping floors outside of the bathroom and the kitchen is not something we ever really do and those are weekly at most. We sweep and hoover every 24-48h and obviously spot wipe any mess.

Is DH volunteering to mop every day?

I mopped once a week, if that, when my children were toddlers (more regular with dd as lived in smaller homes then). We are always shoes off in the house though which helps keep it cleaner

Tell him to mop the floor every day if he thinks it should be mopped every day?

No, he's being weird. She needs to be allowed floor time as it's important for her development.

We don't mop our wooden floor as it can't be mopped... we sweep it and I go around and rub it with a cloth occasionally.

Every day 😂we mop once a fortnight but don't allow shoes in the house

I'm so glad it's not me that's the odd one out! DH is generally more disciplined than I am about cleaning (although not to the point of having anxiety about it), and sometimes I wonder if it's me that's a pig!

I've offered to pay for a cleaner as I value my time more than the money it'd cost us, but he thinks that's ridiculous for a 100m² flat. And he doesn't want a stranger in the house...

We've just done our weekly mop.