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Dust is not too bad. Hate thought of having moth settling in carpets behind bed. Best to throw some sachets etc there!

We bought a lightweight rechargable Morphy Rchards with hand held attachment.It has lights so shows up dust etc.Our little Grandson loves it and hoover's every time he visits."I'm just doing the stairs Nanny" I here him shout.Bless him.

I too have beds with drawers underneath and I usually move them about once a year, with help. My husband’s cousin ( who never liked me ) came to stay and one morning she said “ I’ve moved the bed to reach the plug for my hairdryer” I was mortified about her seeing all the fluff. I have a feeling she may have done it on purpose, as there was a double plug next to the dressing table.

Mishy that made me smile, luckily I had my teeth in

I met my neighbour out dog walking and she didn't have her teeth in and embarressed to talk. Found out she dropped them behind her bed and couldn't get to them and asked me to help her. Went round pulled the bed out easily (it was on casters) and there her teeth were in a very large pile of fluff, ear buds, dust etc. That bed had not been moved in years! Think her cleaner got extra work that week.

I couldn't make up the spare bed never mind clean beneath it.
So I moved it to a different part of the room I may have had help with that
Now at least I can reach both sides.
It is solid wood, made by a carpenter but by golly, if I knew it would be so heavy to move, I would have declined his offer.

Two strong son's come in handy every couple of months I would be lost without them.

Shinamae

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🤣 or a burglary

Georgesgran

All my beds have drawers underneath, so too heavy to move and so little ground clearance. I actually wait until I’m decorating and the chap pulls the bed out and I quickly dust and vacuum while he has a cuppa. I still remember when a friend’s cleaner noticed an odd smell in a bedroom and found a dead seagull under the bed!!

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I can’t move our bed either so it’s when the room is redecorated or we have new carpet.😬

Norah

Your new best friends..

I use a dry mop too.

Have got cleaning under the twin beds in the bedroom decorated for the younger GC with a wooden floor. I suggest hide and seek as I know that under the beds are their favourite hiding places, brush down GC when I find them, easy peezy 🤣🤣🤣

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I thought you might like this, Lizbethann55!

I am the same as you too. I absolutely HATE housework and as such my husband's family think I am a dreadful wife

Our beds are all divans, heavy to move, so behind and underneath aren’t dusted or hoovered very often - to put it mildly! It’s been interesting, once or twice, to see what else besides dust has accumulated between a dd’s former single bed (now a spare) and the wall!
I can’t say I let the idea of hidden horrors bother me, but I’ll get around to it before a Singaporean SiL comes to stay in April - she’s always prefers that bed to the bigger spare, and has always had a maid, so I wouldn’t want her pulling the bed out to find anything that might have slipped down - not in its current state. 😱

My beds include a small divan bed on castors, and a bed that is a mattress on a slatted frame .
I deliberately avoided buying an unmovable bed as I like clean. Because I like clean I also choose to have hard floors not carpets.

My cleaning routine involves a soft brush and dustpan, and infrequent wet mopping.

If there is a space under your bed, I too would recommend a robot vacuum. Mine does a sterling job of cleaning under things that I usually ignore. It is perfect for a lazy person like me. I can peruse gransnet while it does my hoovering.

I have a long reach cobweb brush thingy with interchangeable heads. It has an adjustable swan neck and reaches all along the skirting boards behind and under furniture. Once that's been deployed I just vacuum the floor with the hoover that's got an angled stick to it.
Certainly don't do all that every day though - life is far too short for polishing broom handles!

All my beds have drawers underneath, so too heavy to move and so little ground clearance. I actually wait until I’m decorating and the chap pulls the bed out and I quickly dust and vacuum while he has a cuppa. I still remember when a friend’s cleaner noticed an odd smell in a bedroom and found a dead seagull under the bed!!

Norah

Your new best friends..

I bought one of these a couple of weeks ago I've reached places that I haven't for years,tops of wardrobes and cobwebs that have grade two status! My house is tidy but very dusty, unlike my mother I hate housework.

I cannot move our bed either, but it is an antique bed on legs about 18 inches high, this means I can lie my stick vacuum cleaner on the floor and get right up to the skirting board.

I have deliberately made sure that all our furniture has legs and is far enough off the floor to be able to get a hoover all round the house and under the furniture without ever having to move any of it.

,My bed us an 'adjustable one', With a drawer underneath each side. THere is no way this can be moved. Every so often I pull out the drawers, raise oth foot and head of bed as hight as it will go and then manage to vacuum the carpet underneath the bed.

Have to admit that I have a diffefrent colour wall paint on the wall behind the bed, painted myself - but NOT actually behind the bedhead. No-one can see this and the remains of the pot of paint is in my garage, and I have told the daughter who will have main responsibility of dealing with flat when I die about this, so she can do a quick finish off job when the bed is finally taken out.

Another vote for the GTech cordless. It's really light too and has a light. Perfect for the job (and for everyday cleaning).

We have ottoman beds. Can’t move them unless we empty the horizontal cupboards that lie beneath. So no, they don’t get moved we just clean as far as we can reach. Oh dear.

My GTech is brilliant for hooevering under bed as the handle turn and the whole thing goes flat- perfect.