Cohousing-L Mailing List: common house cleaning

[Audrey Watson (audrey]

We hire someone to clean the commonhouse once a week, midweek (she does
bathrooms, floors, sweeping, vacuuming etc). I think that is about
$4400/year incl end of year bonus, taxes, etc

Then on Saturdays we all rotate thru and each of us is on a team and ends up
cleaning about once a quarter. You can hire someone to do your cleaning, you
are expected to spend about 2 hours, and we have a fairly complex list of
what needs to be done (a deep kitchen clean gets done once a month by the
Saturday crew, the refrigerator is cleaned out every week, the porches get
done, and now we have added a job of doing some outside cleanup/weeding,
etc)
In addition we have the floors professionally waxed twice a year.
And a committee is in charge of trying to keep the clutter down. (no dumping
excess stuff in the common house without prior approval).
Cleaning is a never ending process.
--audrey watson
Winslow Cohousing, Bainbridge Island, WA