Cleaning skirting boards

I can’t see mine due to sight problems. Every cloud etc. 😋

I’ve got an OXO Good Grips Microfibre Duster, it’s got a long handle and it’s very fluffy and pink. I’ve got different heads for it so if I need to wash the boards I wet one of them, and use the same handle. They go in the washing machine, and I also use them for behind the cupboards and high level, they are really good.

Most of the time I don't bother, but when the mood takes me I use a damp microfibre cloth held in my "Helping Hand" gripper thing I bought when I had my hips and knee done. It's not perfect but does the job.

I have been known to give them a ‘dust’ by using my socked foot 🙄

If I dust them regularly with my long-handled duster, I live in hope that they won't get dirty.

I’m amazed that people don’t include skirtings when dusting a room. I have always done that.

GSM 😇😇😇

I have never knowingly cleaned a skirting board. !

What? Blimey. And I’m not houseproud, I loathe housework but know it has to be done.

It’s not the kneeling down it’s the getting up.

You don’t have to kneel down. I can’t.

Floor wipes on a Swiffer mop.

Warm, soapy cloth. I don't kneel to do mine, stiff knees but bendy in the middle.

Fluffy socks work wonders and no bending

Calendargirl,

“My skirting boards are also ‘torus’ style. They were chosen by DH when we had our bungalow ‘done’.

B….y dust catchers! If I had realised…..”

I could have written your post 😊

This just reminded me of a skirting board story.😉

A lady who turned her large seaside guest house into a kinky guest house was interviewed on radio. She did so because bookings were poor and their home was in danger of being repossessed. She described lots of fetishes clients had and was asked to describe the most unusual.

It was a man who loved cleaning. He used to lick the skirting boards clean whilst stark naked. 🤮. He asked her to hit him with a whip if she felt he was too slow and she did so.

She said they had men queuing up to stay there from all over the country - sales reps, builders, old men, young men, rig workers, gay men, straight men.

Promrose63 you’ll be giving some folk ideas

I love this thread - thank you for starting it PinkCosmos! I have been reporting to DH on the number of posts added to it each day. I am saying this tongue in cheek but these practical queries on GN are welcome relief from the ‘heavier’ items 😊

I am a ‘down on my knees with a damp, soapy cloth’ skirting cleaner but it doesn’t happen very often 😂. Quick brush and suck with the vacuum dusting tool if I happen to be using it.

teabagwoman

I can’t see mine due to sight problems. Every cloud etc. 😋

Chuckle! 😁

From where I'm sitting right now in our front room, I can only see about 2 inches of skirting board. I not only don't know if they're dusty/dirty (doesn't show on dark wood), I don't care either. That bit we zoom past pretty often so I think the dust flies off and collects under the nearby bookcase. Sometimes I vacuum it out but I don't feel it's actually doing any harm under there anyway.

sodapop

I have a piece of equipment called "my husband" who does those those awkward jobs for me. However he is now finding it more difficult so I may need to update the model.

Me too! He is known as "The Household Staff" and is very good with a vaccuum but not good at skirtings, corners or behind/under anything.
Neither of us is much good at cleaning but as our eyesight is becoming worse we simply don't see the dust. If we have fussy visitors coming we'll both set to and have a good cleanup. It helps that we have wooden floors throughout and no pets so it's pretty easy to clean.

Well! I was just about to do mine and sat down to read the posts instead as it is jolly hot here. I have one of those microfibre mop thingys and never used it - I shall go and try it out now...

The best solution is to do as my aunt and mother did: get a niece, daughter, grand-daughter or grand niece to do it for you. They are after all twenty something years younger or forty years younger than you are.

If the willing young relatives are in short supply, which I bet they are, have you tried fastening a washing-up brush to a suitable length of broomstick using duct tape?

Dipping said brush in soapy water then applying it to the skirting board? You then dry the skirting board by using a dry mop, or a floor-cloth tied round the head of a clean broom.

I have successfully painted ceilings by tying a paint-brush to a pole and remained solidly planted on the floor myself, so I assume it works on skirting boards, but as I can still happily get around on my hands and knees, I haven't tried it.

I was thinking about this as I was cleaning my bathroom this morning. I did get down and clean them but it wasn’t easy! I shall have a look at the microfibre suggestions from Callistemon (I think).

Look for "Skirting Board Cleaner" on Coopers of Stortford website. Long handle and it conforms to the fiddly shapes some of you have.

I'm with NotGranny44 - wipes or cloth on the end of a hand grabber. Most useful tool.

Although I do like the idea of a Kinky Guest House Primrose53