Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Laundry in common house

[Bitner/Stevenson (lilbert]

It just occurred to me, Rob. Isn't there a community that has laundry carts
that they use to get the laundry from house to CH? I'm pretty sure someone
wrote about that here. Those commercial carts would be great. I've often
wished I had wheels on my basket. I still think that even with larger
distances, it is such an economy of scale to have a laundry that it's worth
putting a little effort into it.
--
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California

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From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] email.msn.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
Subject: RE: Laundry in common house
Date: Tue, Dec 21, 1999, 2:14 PM


The scale of your community has a lot to do with whether a laundry will
work. Tight, close buildings make it reasonable to walk over to do the
laundry. If your site is larger and spread out, it is much less reasonable.
I seem to recall that the homes that were further than 200 feet from the
commonhouse were unlikely to use a central laundry. I just tried to find
that number somewhere but can't so maybe I am not remembering it right?
Anybody have any observations of laundry use with relationship to distance?

Rob Sandelin
Northwest Intentional Communties Association
Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time