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

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:43 PM Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:

> I'll add to my previous note to say that all of our workshare is completely
> voluntary. No one is assigned to cook or clean or weed or do anything; you
> have to sign up or just show up and do whatever you feel able to do to keep
> the place going. It's quite possible that communities with required
> participation as CH cleaners or that hire some of the work out have a
> somewhat cleaner or tidier CH than we do.
>
> That being said, though, people do step up and the work does get done, week
> in and week out. Last weekend we had a semi-annual workday to do a deep
> clean of the CH, and I think every job on the jobs list had a volunteer's
> name next to it.
>
>    Muriel at Shadowlake Village
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > We have a 2-story CH. The part of the downstairs that is our Guest Rooms
> > suite is cleaned by a professional cleaner, I'm not sure how frequently,
> as
> > those rooms and particularly that bathroom were not adequately cleaned by
> > the people who were hosting someone in a guest room and were supposed to
> > clean up after them. The Guest Room fees cover the cleaning and other
> costs
> > associated with the guest room setup.
> >
> > We clean the rest of the CH ourselves and, as Liz said, it works because
> > we have an organizer. The tasks were all defined years ago. The organizer
> > encourages people to sign up for recurrent slots on a 3-month rotation as
> > much as possible, thanks recent cleaners, and sends out "here's what's
> > open!" cheery notes as needed. I don't know how satisfactory this is as I
> > am fortunate to not really notice dirt :)
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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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