Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Does your community clean all the common areas yourselves?

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

We do the cleaning ourselves. One person is the organizer and has
people agree to do certain rooms for a set period of time. During that
time they clean that space once a week on their own schedule.
Sometimes pairs of people take a task and either split it or do it
together.

We never got to agreement on the standards of the bathroom, so we pay
a cleaning company to do the bathrooms every other week, volunteers
take the in-between weeks.

Note that it *didn't* work before someone agreed to be the organizer,
who thanks people, looks for new people, sets the time frames, decides
whether a small part can be a separate job, etc.

There are still people who gripe of course.

Liz
Mosaic commons in Berlin, MA

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:18 PM Susan Green <susan.mx [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our cohousing community is a 4 story building that is cleaned by a
> maintenance company twice a week. We are talking about doing the work
> ourselves. If your community does this, we would love to hear about your
> experience and any lessons learned about organizing the work and
> maintaining standards of thoroughness. Thanks very much.
> Susan Green
> Aria Cohousing Community
> Denver, CO
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-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
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