1 - shower tile grout

2 - stupid windows and tracks, I am missing tilt-and-turn-windows, soo quick and easy to clean!

3 - security screens

It has to be the chandeliers they seem to attract dust we have 7 and the crystals don't look nice when they aren't sparkling

Current, new house is pretty easy. Last house, we had sloping ceilings which were 4.5 m at the higher end. Getting cobwebs off was a task; cleaning some of the windows, which ran up the walls, was well nigh impossible. And cleaning them from the outside simply was impossible, because at that point, there were 10 m off the actual ground.

Aluminium window frames. Hate, hate, HATE!!

Having three cooks in the house and two of them keen bakers our oven gets a good workout. Sadly only one of the cooks (me) cleans the oven. It is a job I hate almost as much as the shower!

I too hate cleaning window tracks and with the land development around us and high winds we have lots of dust. The vacuum cleaner tube is not fine enough to get into the tracks but there is a solution and it works well. Buy a narrow paint brush with angled bristles - just sweep and vacuum.

@kooky_karen: That's what I figured out as well...

Sometimes I think they don't put enough thought into designs to make things easy to maintain...

"Designed by a Male" is my version.

Karen - I've done the brush bit, it does work and cotton buds are good for cleaning if dust gets wet. The bigger problem is our salty air, it really makes a mess and is very hard to clean. I'm going to slowly work on them using steel wool and see if that helps.

Which is why I don't have one.

The cheap, oh so pink fake terracotta patio tiles that trap every bit of dirt and laid on a scree bed that doesn't fall to the drain so what should be a quick job with the high pressure hose takes ages - all courtesy Dodgy and Dodgier building services - the same people that bought us tiling under cornices... - bitter enough? lol

Vicky - for the tracks (Im not a fan of that job either) - try an old pair of cotton socks on the end of the broom handle with your favourite spray product works for me.

Thanks Avenue B - but we're in Sydney and our plan is to have our builders (who we've used for previous renovations) pull up the tiles, re-scree, re-waterproof and lay tiles that aren't porous pieces of rubbish when we do our kitchen extension.

Laura, try some bi-carb of soda or table salt or better yet any of those little packets of dessicate gel beads that come in electrical goods, shoes etc that will absorb the water then get the cordless vac to remove it once the bicard/salt is dried. What a pain for you