Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cooking and cleaning

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Lest everyone think we are a bunch of carefree slobs here and just ignore 
perpetually filthy floors, I'll add that the dining room and kitchen floors 
are swept and mopped weekly as part of CH workshare, and the flooring in 
all the non-eating areas is swept or vacuumed weekly. My gripe is that the 
meals cleaners should do some floor cleaning right after dinner, and often 
do not.

    Muriel at Shadowlake Village Cohousing


At 11:34 AM 12/5/2010, you wrote:


> On 4 Dec 2010, at 10:39 PM, Muriel Kranowski wrote:
>
> > After a meal the floor
> > is often left looking, how shall I put it, disgusting. I'm not sure if 
> this
> > is from not knowing this expectation (it's included in the probably 
> ignored
> > Rules for Cleaners sheet that is on the fridge door) or just wanting to be
> > done and go home. Is anyone assigned to sweep the floor after meals in
> > other communities?
>
> We do have this requirement and it is followed, except for take-out 
> dinners brought in by smaller groups and families. The small group pizza 
> and Chinese clean-up is pretty hit or miss. The regular meals are better 
> than the impromptu meals.
>
> One thing to point out that not sweeping and wiping up breeds ants and 
> damages the floor.
>
> I'm in the middle of coordinating our floor re-finishing and have heard 
> more from our installer about chemical reactions than I ever wanted to 
> know. Any time two surfaces come in contact, there is some interaction. If 
> one of them is moist, there will be active chemical changes taking place. 
> Whether they are measurable or not depends on the sensibilities of the 
> measurer.
>
> A piece of tape on a wall, or a piece of food on the floor, particularly a 
> newly refinished one, is having an impact on the supposedly hard surface. 
> The longer it stays there, the greater the impact. The tape can bond 
> permanently. The food can etch the surface. Plus the food can be ground in 
> causing more damage.
>
> Sharon
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> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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>
>
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