Cleaning Rota Help

[croissantkatie]

Ok, so, I am hoping to implement some sort of cleaning rota in my student house at uni because I am not happy with how things are at the moment. However I am not entirely sure how to go about it. Does anyone have any suggestions? How to make a rota, things to go on the rota, or anything really that might be relevant?

Thanks!

Comments

[melusina]

Do you have the buy-in of people you live with? It seems like the first step is to get them to agree that it's important (otherwise, I'm afraid they won't really participate).

Similarly, I think you have to come to a consensus on what chores belong on the rota and how frequently they should be done. I think it also helps to decide what things get grouped together to make roughly equivalent items. It seems to make things easier if the jobs are roughly the same time/effort investment.

Generally, kitchen/food prep stuff is a daily (or more) occurrence. Similarly decluttering public living spaces. Bathrooms and heavier cleaning are once a week type items for me. And if you can stand it, I'd suggest focusing on the public parts of your space and letting everyone dictate their own comfort level w/ their private spaces.

Good luck!

[croissantkatie]

Yeah, we've talked about it before when I raised some issues and they were agreeable to making some changes and that it wasn't as clean/tidy as they would like. So I am hopeful on that front!

I like the idea of roughly equivalent things. Definitely something to discuss!

Once a week for bathroom type stuff sounds reasonable to me. I think we could maybe divide up the heavier cleaning so each of us has one of those things to do each week. Not quite show how yet but will have a think.

I agree, private spaces are definitely an individual thing. It's far more regarding public and shared spaces, and chores which impact the whole house (rubbish collection etc).