Re: shared laundry facilities | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Ian Higginbottom (Ian.Higginbottomml.csiro.au) | |
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 18:45 CDT |
Cascade Cohousing (15 households when complete) currently has 8 households living on site. Four of those use common laundry facilities but the remainder have their own. I imagine when everyone is on site that maybe eight households will have wasing machines in their own houses and maybe no one will have their own dryer. When we designed we thought everone would use the common laundry but it turns out that shear convenience and old habits are hard to beat. We currently have one front loading washer and an electric dryer and we will have space for another machine and dryer if they are needed. The washing machine is a good quality domestic unit and has given no trouble over eighteen months of moderate use. We use a 'tick-the-book' system for charging, one tick for a cold water wash and one tick for each half hour of drying time. We set the charge on some thing of a user pays basis where we guessed the number of washes that the machine would do over its life and came up with a per wash charge to cover thye replacement cost of the machine which is added to the estimated energy cost. It works out at about 25c per cold wash and 30c for half an hour of hot drying. The machines were purchased out of our common house budget. Some ones adds up the ticks and collects the money every quarter. This system has worked well todate with the laundry and we may extend it to other areas where individuals make extensive use of a commonly owned item. For example heating the guest/quiet rooms in winter may be charged this way. Ian Higginbottom
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