Weekly house cleaning list
Built to be finished. Everything here is weekly; anything that can wait a month is on the spring cleaning list instead. Share it and let people claim rooms.
31 items
Makes your own editable copy. No account needed.
The items
- Tidy firstYou cannot clean a surface that has things on it. Fifteen minutes here saves thirty later.
- Everything back to the room it lives in
- Post and paper dealt with or binned
- Washing up done and put away
- Kitchen
- Worktops and hob
- Sink and taps
- Front of the cupboards and appliances
- Microwave inside
- Bin emptied and the lid wiped
- Tea towels and cloths in the wash
- Bathroom
- Toilet, including behind it
- Basin and taps
- Shower or bath
- Mirror
- Fresh towels
- Bedrooms
- Beds changedOnce a fortnight is fine for most people; once a week if anyone has hay fever.
- Surfaces dusted
- Clothes off the floor
- Living areas
- Dust the surfaces
- Cushions straightened, throws folded
- Plants watered
- Floors, last
- Hoover every room
- Mop the hard floors
- Doormat shaken out
- Bins out for collectionPut this on the list. It is the one that gets remembered at 6am.
- One load of laundry started
Makes your own editable copy. No account needed.
Questions people ask
- What order should you clean in?
- Tidy first, then dust, then floors — and floors last in the whole house. Cleaning a floor before you dust the shelf above it is doing it twice.
- How do you split this in a shared house?
- By room, not by task. Copy the list, share the link, and let everyone claim what they will do — the claims are visible so nobody does the bathroom twice.