Monday, October 22, 2012

Pinned It, Made It: Can I Clean My Bathrooms In 15 Minutes?




Can I clean my bathrooms in 15 minutes?

Always looking for ways to streamline my cleaning tasks, I pinned this article that tells how to clean two bathrooms quickly--in 15 minutes!

The question was: Would it work for me?

Well, let's find out!

Before starting the timer, I gathered all rags and supplies, including mop water.

I then set the timer for 20 minutes since I was planning to sweep and mop as well. (In the blog post, she did floors another day.) Floors already take me a while to complete--we have a good amount of hardwoods--so I'd rather just do the bathroom floors at the same time as the bathrooms!

She suggests starting with mirrors them cleaning toilet in Bathroom #1. I squirted toilet cleaner in both rooms first. Then back to #1.

Bathroom #1: Clean mirror, spray sink, counters and toilet with cleaner. (We don't use the shower/tub in this room so no need to clean weekly!) Run to Bathroom #2.

And yes, I'm cracking myself up with my references to the bathrooms as #1 and #2. LOL!!!

Bathroom #2: Clean mirrors. Spray sink, counters, toilet, tub/shower. Run back to #1.

Quickly scrub toilet and wipe down what was sprayed before. Repeat in #2.

Look at timer--exactly 15 minutes!

Back in #1, sweep floor and mop. Run to #2 and do the same thing.

Finish up just as timer beeps--20 minutes from start to finish!

The verdict:
It worked! But I moved fast--no dilly dallying!


My notes:
This was enough time to quickly do the basics but no extras such as dusting or wiping down cabinet doors. I'll do these things as needed on another day when I do dusting and cleaning surfaces.

This worked well for my size of bathrooms--small-average size.  Large rooms may take longer to clean.

I'm a timer motivated cleaner so this method is working really well for me-- I'm not as apt to put it off when I know it will be done in 15-20 minutes!

**This post is part of Pinned It, Made It Monday at Country Girl At Home.





5 comments:

Tammy ~ Country Girl at Home ~ said...

Mary Ann,

Oh I was picturing you running back and forth! :) Seriously, this is nice to know. Now you have my curiosity up as to whether I could do this in 15 minutes. Our master bath shower is a booger to clean, so I'd have to probably not count that. But this does make the idea of cleaning bathrooms a little less daunting, doesn't it?

Thank you for sharing your findings. :) And thank you for participating in Pinned it, Made it! Monday. :)

Blessings,
Tammy

Debbie J said...

You did great Mary Ann! I've been trying to clean my house on Saturdays in 1 hour. So the bathrooms only get 10 minutes. One of my bathrooms is just a potty and sink that's in the laundry room, so that one doesn't take long.

Wendi said...

The bathroom is my lest favorite room to clean. I will have to give this a try. The timer works well for Megan, maybe it will for me too!

Tracy said...

I really dislike cleaning bathrooms. I'll have to try this timer method. If nothing else, it will motivate me to just push through.

~katie~ said...

Inspiring, Mary Ann! I'm pretty sure it takes me a bit longer, but I'm intrigued to time myself next time. Cleaning the bathrooms has been handed over to our oldest son as a chore occasionally now ~ maybe we can have a cleaning challenge!?

Ok, I had 2 comments go through on other blogs this morning ~ let's see if this one works!