Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: clothes washers

[Bonnie Fergusson (fergyb2]

     We are 20 households, 30individuals and we have 1 stackable washer and 
dryer plus 2 stand alone washers and 2 stand alone dryers.  One washer and one 
dryer are only for fragrance free products.  For the most part this is an 
adequate number although our stackable set doesn’t work as well as the others 
but fits in the space we have.  We charge a usage fee, currently 80 cents per 
wash and 75 cents per dry, and use that money for utilities related to the 
laundry room and a laundry reserve fund to pay for repair and/or replacement of 
machines.  Our Community is 22 years old and we have replaced and repaired 
multiple machines over the years, important to plan for that.  All 20 
households use the shared machines although 1 household has a private set in 
their unit.  We use magnetic letters on the outside of the machines to identify 
whose load is in there (our units are identified by letter rather than number) 
so if a load finishes and the owner isn’t there right away to remove it the 
next person can remove it to a plastic bin we keep in the laundry room and mark 
it with the identifying letter so they can use the machine.  We have 3 such 
bins and some busy days that’s not enough.Good luck in your 
planning,Love,Bonnie FergussonSwans Market CohousingOakland, CA


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On Thursday, August 25, 2022, 11:49 AM, Maraiah (Lynn) Nadeau <welcome [at] 
olympus.net> wrote:

If your membership is reliant on shared laundry facilities, how many machines 
do you have, for how many people?
Is that enough?

I’m getting info for a community that is deciding what to get.

Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
Port Townsend WA
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