Make a cleaning schedule for your house
Answer 9 questions about the place — the floors, the animals, what is actually in the kitchen — and get a schedule worked out from the answers: what needs doing, how often, and which answer put each chore there. No account, and nothing is saved: the schedule is worked out in your browser, and the answers ride along in the page's address so it can be reloaded or sent. Print it, send it to whoever you live with, or put it on a list that reminds you.
A few questions about the house
No wrong answers. It cannot see your house, so it only knows what you tell it.
Your cleaning schedule
Made at choremen.fun/schedule
Live with other people? Split it into a rota
Keep it
A schedule on the fridge does not say when the bins are due. A list does: tick a chore when it is done and the next date is counted from that day. Free, and nothing arrives unless you ask for it.
Put this on a list that reminds you (free)
You tick which of these go on it before anything is written down.
An example
These are made-up answers, not anybody's house. The 18 chores under them are what the questions above work out from those answers — exactly as they would from yours.
- What are you looking after?
- A flat, all on one floor
- What are the floors, mostly?
- Wood, tile or vinyl
- Who else is in the house?
- Just me
- Any animals?
- None of these
- What is actually in the kitchen?
- A hob with an extractor over it, A kettle, A microwave
- How does the washing get done?
- A washing machine here
- What is in the bathroom?
- A shower with a screen or a curtain
- Is there anything outside?
- Nothing
- Last one. Any of these?
- Houseplants
Every few days
- Kitchen bin and worktopsevery other daybecause every house needs it
- Wipe the shower screenevery 3 daysbecause the shower has a screen or a curtain
- Put a wash onevery 4 daysbecause there is a washing machine
Every week or two
- Bins outweeklybecause every house needs it
- Clean the bathroomweeklybecause every house needs it
- Clean the hob and splashbackweeklybecause there is an extractor over the hob
- Hoover throughweeklybecause every house needs it
- Water the houseplantsweeklybecause there are houseplants
- Wash towelsevery 10 daysbecause every house needs it
- Change the bedsheetsfortnightlybecause every house needs it
- Mop the hard floorsfortnightlybecause the floors are hard
- Wipe out the microwavefortnightlybecause there is a microwave
Every month or two
- Clean the fridge shelvesmonthlybecause every house needs it
- Descale the kettleevery 60 daysbecause there is a kettle
Every few months, or less
- Clean the shower headevery three monthsbecause the shower has a screen or a curtain
- Clean the washing machine sealevery three monthsbecause there is a washing machine
- Wash the extractor filterevery three monthsbecause there is an extractor over the hob
- Test the smoke alarmevery six monthsbecause every house needs it
How often, and why
How often to clean everything in a house — all 32chores with a guide, and what the mess on each one actually is.
Too much to start on all at once? Where to start cleaning a messy house — three steps in one room, before any schedule.