What's the most awkward household chore for you?

Skirting boards are almost the only things that get done. I keep an old-fashioned mop and use that to damp dust the skirtings. I keep the head enclosed in a zip lock polythene bag that I squirt with a nice smelling disinfectant after washing it out after use. I iron only when dress making. Don't vacuum much as my large rug/carpet is hand made and thereby vulnerable and all other floors are hard floors. So not much housework here, but I do put things away after using so it looks tidy.

Someone mentioned a difficulty with cleaning shower heads. It’s a doddle with Viakal. Viakal spray is also perfect for shower screen glass and taps.
I live in a hard water area.
Barkeepers’ Friend ? Spray cleaner is great for bath ,toilet etc

Bending over to weed the garden or empty the dishwasher. I immediately get acid reflux.

Mirror wardrobes and windows are no problem now I have a karcher window vac. Got it for Xmas from my DS.
I hate cleaning the shower as I always get soaked. Can't do it unless I'm well covered as the cleaning sprays bring me out in a rash.

Cleaning the curved doors of the shower, picture rails and I have had a grey fringe of cobwebs between bottom of radiator and skirting board on several occasions!

All of it from house to garden. Every day I say I am going to de-clutter so its easier to clean and I allow something to distract me. I went with a friend to view a couple of houses yesterday and I feel so down, they were so clean and stylish. I wish I could throw things out and buy new and fresh but I can't as I'm always watching the pennies so I hang onto these things in the hope of getting some money for them at a carboot, ha! How do people live so tidily.

I'm with Bluebell on this. Housework should be made illegal. 🤣

Cleaning the curved doors on the shower, picture rails and that awkward bit behind the radiator and above the skirting board I have had a grey fringe of cobwebs on view several times!

making my bed - duvet cover is a pain.
ironing - no room.
cooking and cleaning - can't stand for very long.
gardening - can't get down and dirty any more - thank goodness for my lovely gardener.
cleaning or painting skirting boards - can't get down to them.
pretty useless all round!!

TBH I pretty much hate them all equally!

Changing the duvet cover and pillow covers!

I only have a single bed, but it's amazing how much time and struggle to take off the cover and one pillow case, then put new ones on!

I end up exhausted after what seems like forever!

Thank heavens I don't have a double or king-size!

Also, microwave cleaning!

I hate cleaning the bathroom. I have a shower room too but never shower because I cannot bear cleaning the shower cubicle. We have very hard water which makes it worse.

yogitree

Behind the radiators/toilet/cooker/fridge etc etc. I now get a deep clean done twice a year and it has really made life much easier to cope with.

I wish - I've tried that twice - ie employing someone to do spring cleaning level of cleaning for me.

1. It was a friend who does this as a sideline - and I landed up paying her for coffeebreak and lunchbreak time too and part way through she broke off deciding she felt too ill to finish it.

2. I then employed a cleaning firm and it was a married couple and a cleaner they employed. The cleaner they employed hadnt done my shower glass properly (ie the 1' or so nearest the floor). So I said about it and she still didnt and, in the end the head honcho out of them went in and did it and the glass their employee swore couldnt be cleaned at that height could be - as he did it. I bit my tongue - rather than saying to her that she'd be able to kneel more readily if she lost a few stones surplus weight - but that was clearly the reason she was struggling with kneeling and obviously didnt want to do so (errrrrm....so why was she working as a cleaner then? Duh......). It's not an awkward, older style size of shower - it's a modern-size big-enough-for-2 one that's perfectly easy to access (that's why I chose it in the first place when I had the bathroom gutted).

Not surprisingly - I feel a bit flummoxed as to how to get a decent standard firm for springcleaning level of cleaning after that....

The top of the kitchen units- the high ones. I wanted the cupboards to go up to the ceiling but because of the fan system they couldn’t.
I do cover the tops with kitchen paper so that makes it easier but I am finding I’m not quite as nimble as I used to be when hoisting myself onto the workbench. Thank goodness they are very sturdy.

Behind the radiators/toilet/cooker/fridge etc etc. I now get a deep clean done twice a year and it has really made life much easier to cope with.

As Quinton Crisp once said
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Witzend

BlueBelle

All if it I hate housework such a waste of time as it all needs doing again the next day ☹️

Me too!

And me 😭

CariadAgain Tip! I use a long-handled shoe horn to 'flick' hankies etc from below the headboard out to the side where I can get them.

crazyH

CariadAgain - how organised ! When do you do the skirting boards, I ask in jest. Myskirting boards have not been touched since they were painted 2 years ago.
And to answer the OP’s question, I hate housework !!!

The plan is skirting boards at the same time as floors for the kitchen and bathroom. I've got a long-handled thingie - so I can stand whilst doing them. It's still a work in progress to nag myself into getting back to normal fitness and then staying there - so I don't do getting down on my hands and knees for kitchen/bathroom floors these days at the moment and I've bought a sorta long-handled scrubbing brush to deal with that (as well as the Flash mop thingie I got recently).

Other skirting boards will have to be done yearly as part of a springclean.

I've been working my way towards buying various long-handled thingies as far as possible to do housework with. I cheat with the outside of windows etc and whichever windowcleaner is currently coming round the area gets paid to deal with the outside of the windows when he turns up - ie around about every 2 months. I could do those myself and have in the past - but it's easier to pay him to do it and I've now got a conservatory I've had added and there's no way I'm going to try and do the conservatory roof myself and so he does that too.

Under the bed. No excuse really. It’s a low bed with just enough room for the cat to get underneath. He comes out festooned in dust and goodness knows what. Do I feel ashamed? No. Just grateful that he’s done the dusting for me.

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That's the best timetable!

Ironing. I dislike ironing, I certainly won't learn now.

#lazygran

Cleaning windows for me too, always end up smeary no matter what I try!

Cariadagain: that’s a neat timetable.

CariadAgain - how organised ! When do you do the skirting boards, I ask in jest. Myskirting boards have not been touched since they were painted 2 years ago.
And to answer the OP’s question, I hate housework !!!