Room-by-room tasks split into daily, weekly & monthly — with a per-day budget so no day becomes an all-day chore
Sets sensible room defaults below — override any of them.
Scales time estimates (×0.75 / ×1.00 / ×1.40). Cadence stays fixed.
Most time-intensive room (~38 min each/week).
Drives bed-making, sheets & vacuuming.
Living, dining, den, office (~32 min each/week).
Usually 1. Set 0 only if scheduling a no-kitchen space.
More people soil shared spaces faster.
1–7. Spreads the weekly minutes — never changes total work.
Bumps floor/vacuum minutes ×1.30 and moves vacuuming toward 2–3×/week. Doesn't touch bathroom/kitchen time.
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Most people don't keep a clean home because they're lazy — they just don't know what to clean how often. So cleaning either gets skipped or balloons into an overwhelming all-day chore. This house cleaning checklist fixes that by splitting every task into three clearly separate buckets — daily quick wins, a full weekly clean, and a monthly deep clean — organized room by room. You enter your room counts, cleaning style and household details, and it estimates realistic minutes per room, then divides the weekly minutes across your chosen cleaning days so no single day becomes a marathon. Tick items off; your progress is saved in your browser.
Home: 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 common areas, 1 kitchen, Standard style, no pets, 2 people, cleaning 5 days/week.
Turn on pets and the bedroom + common-area floor minutes jump 30% (vacuuming flagged 2–3×/week); bump the household to 4 people and the toilet escalates to "every 3–4 days." The weekly number stays honest because deep-clean minutes are kept in a separate block.
These are planning averages for maintenance cleaning of a regularly-kept home, drawn from professional room-by-room timing guides (bathroom 30–45 min, kitchen 35–60, bedroom 15–25, living 25–40). A neglected or first-time deep clean takes substantially longer — these numbers assume weekly upkeep. The ~6 hr/week U.S. average (and ~1.5 hr/week for a 1-BR apartment) are population averages used only as a sanity band; your actual time varies with clutter, surface materials, and speed. Cadences (weekly sheets, weekly toilet, weekly vacuum) reflect general hygiene guidance, not medical or allergen advice — households with allergies, immune concerns, or infants should clean more frequently. Escalation thresholds (household ≥4, >3 people per bathroom, pets) are heuristic rules of thumb that nudge cadence, not standards. This is a planning aid, not a quote: it doesn't estimate the cost of hiring a cleaner and uses room counts as a proxy rather than square footage. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing is saved or sent.
You enter room counts, cleaning style and household details. It estimates minutes per room (bathroom ~38, kitchen 45, bedroom 20, common 32), applies a style multiplier and a pets floor-bump, splits tasks into daily/weekly/monthly buckets, and divides the weekly minutes across your cleaning days so no day balloons.
The U.S. average is about 6 hours/week for a kept home — roughly 1.5 hours for a 1-BR apartment up to 6-plus for a large house. The tool estimates your number from room counts; a first-time deep clean takes much longer.
One giant list is exactly why cleaning gets overwhelming and skipped. Hygiene cadence is naturally tiered: small resets daily, a full clean weekly, deep tasks monthly. Keeping the buckets separate — and never folding monthly minutes into the weekly number — keeps the weekly load from looking terrifying.
Yes, but only the floor/vacuum part. Pets push vacuuming toward 2–3×/week, so bedroom + common-room floor minutes get ×1.30. Bathroom and kitchen surface time is unchanged — the dog doesn't affect toilet scrubbing.
Sheets weekly (two weeks max) — fixed even on a "light" style. The toilet is weekly by default, escalating to every 3–4 days if your household is 4+ people or you have more than 3 people per bathroom.
No — it's a planning average for a kept home, not a quote and not medical advice. Clutter, materials and speed all matter, and a first catch-up clean takes much longer. Allergy, immune or infant households should clean more often.
Yes. Every box you tick is stored privately in your browser, so your progress survives a refresh — that's what makes a 'stay consistent' routine actually work. You can print the checklist (it's laid out clean on paper), copy a plain-text version, or copy a shareable link that prefills your home details.
Everything is calculated in your browser. We don't store or sell your data. Planning estimate, not a quote.