One of my neighbors uses a small washing machine in her apartment all week long and takes lines in the laundry room on every day of the week to dry her clothes. Her day is on Wednesday.
I have two problems with this.
I (and everyone else in our building) am paying for the water she uses to wash her clothes. Water usage is included in the charges without a way to monitor individual usage. Our landlord recently threated to raise the charges in our building because the water usage is out of control. She told me she washs at least two loads a day. Sometimes, more. So, I am paying to use the machines in the laundry room which is not cheep. Plus, I am paying for part of the water she uses to wash her clothes.
Not fair. I am not ok with that.
I told her today to not dry her clothes in the laundry room on my day. Yesterday, she pushed my clothes hanging on a line over to dry hers. Plus, she took an entire drying rack that we have in the room. She told me that she will use the racks since they are not mine. I told her that they are not hers either and to stay out of the laundry room on my day or else I will take her clothes and throw them on her door. This is the fourth time I have told her to stay out of this room on my day.
I have had numerous problems with her since moving into this building.
She had the nerve to tell me that she will use the when she wants and there is nothing I can do about it.
I am going to the conceirge tonight to resolve this problem.
I wash a weeks worth of laundry for a family of five once a week on my day. I never enter the laundry on another person's day because I have no reason to. It is their day. Not mine.
It just ****es me off that simple respect for another person is so hard for some of my neighbors.
Much sympathy to you. Your neighbour needs someone to give her a stiff talking to. Maybe she is taking in other people's laundry from the neighbouring houses to generate so much washing (that was meant as a joke but you never know ).
Go for her, Pumpkinpie. You are absolutely right to be annoyed. I had a neighbor who would wash each piece of underwear separately - for three persons! So, with the other stuff she had (which, of course, also had to be separated by color), she easily got to 8 "loads" a day. That was absolutely annoying, not only because we all had to pay but also because of the environmental aspects. Plus she allowed a friend to use the mashine, too, because hers was broken. Eventually, she was thrown out, because she did not pay the rent - ever.
Now, there are no more problems with the laundry. If someone's load is done, someone takes it out. I know my neighbors, so, I am fine with that.
While I understand the idea of shared facilities and of paying per wash (it does cost to run it), what is beyond me is how locals with babies manage.
When our kids have had diarrhea(sp?), they have managed to go though 3 changes in a day, plus some bed linen. We just don't have that much clothes, never mind anywhere to store it. And as we know how fast the little ones grow, we don't particularly want to buy 20 sets of everything in each size.
I think that thy post is yet another reason for not using shared facilities. One will never know what was inside the washing machine before. And one not always has time to do an empty run on 95°C.
My apartment complex has us on a schedule. You would think that's ok, but the schedule is for 2 consecutive days every 3 weeks!! Tell me how a family of 4 (2 young kids 7 months and 3 years) can go for 3 weeks without doing laundry?
With this case, we have purchased a mini washer for our apartment. Some may groan at this because water is included in the rent, but what else am I to do? Kids are dirty (but really cute)!
What are people thinking putting folks on a schedule for every 3 weeks! Who even has that many clothes?!
Grooooooosss.... I have learned my lesson! I will start doing empty runs on 95C, though.
The sad thing is that I had a washer that I bought in Germany in 2001. I used it for 1.5 years, then it sat in storage for a few years since there's no space in our flat for a washer. I finally gave it away last year.
sorry that i might side track a little bit but I'm really eager to know after reading the threads today.....
for building with shared laundry facilities,
1)do every apartment share the charges of electricity & water consumed at the laundry facilities by average or household size or apartment size; or there's an individual meter to record the consumption on the day you're allocated the slot for washing.
2)one of the members mentioned about a neighbour installing her own washing machine at home and as a result, he has to pay for her consumption....does it mean that if someone install a washing machine in her own apartment (of course i mean in building with shared laundry facilities), the rest of units has to share her water consumption charge? i'm a bit confused....
Many times there is just one water bills for the entire building. The bill gets split. And since everyone has one laundry day, then generally pretty much the same amount of water is used by each unit. In theory. Some places split based one number of persons living in building, some per unit. Obviously, a family of 5 would use more than the single person in a studio.
If having their own machine and doing laundry EVERY day though. That is like leaving your shower on all day. It just adds to the bill that everyone splits.
Oh dear, oh dear. Thanks for reminding me exactly why I insisted on a house with my own laundry room .......at least in the UK most rented apartments have their own washing machine/dryers. Life is stressful enough without having to fight over laundry days/times/selfish neighbours. Maybe leave some red dye in the machine by accident? Or sprinkle their clothes with itching powder?
My first two places here had washing machines in the apartment, plus more industrial strength versions in the cellar. You got a plastic card for the ones in the cellar which somehow put the power used on your main electricity bill.
That was eminently fair, though I was warned not to forget the card and so allow someone else to use it. Fortunately I had honest neighbours.
Is there any laundry shop in swiss? I mean the one self-service. My apartment have a pick up laundry service and its difficult to call the guy everyweek to come and pick up my stuff.
I was also wondering about self-service wash centers, washeteria's, launderetts....or whatever those places are called. You take your coins and wash and dry. They usually have big commercial washers and dryers also, and you can wash and dry your blankets ect. there. Do they excist in Switzerland? I have never seen any. Would be nice to know.
Looks good, thanks a lot. We are not in CH yet, almost there, but will have a laundry problem until we have a permanent place to stay, I am certain of that. And how easy is it just to go to one of these laundromats. I am not sure, do you think it is a self-service place, or do you just drop your clothes off and they do it for you? The latter will be very expensive I think,this is Switzerland after all.
We had an interesting situation in our block of flats. When I first moved in a couple of years ago, although you only had 1 day a month assigned specifically to your flat, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays were technically 'free' i.e., the door was unlocked and if one of the 2 machines was available, you could go for it, and even if they were in use, you could go and find the user and negotiate a turn on a machine. This worked just fine until a very large family of Balkan origin moved in. Subsequently both machines would be burning away from dusk to dawn on Tues, Thurs and Sat, accompanied by one or the other of their numerous children, sitting looking bored, waiting to change the loads / hang things on the line. Numerous complaints to the Hausabwart followed, all to no avail, until one day, the Hausabwart surprised the wife of this family handing over a big bag of washed and ironed overalls to a couple of workmen in return for cash! The cheeky bar stewards! So now everything is on a lock-down, and the key will only get given out on a request basis. Really gets me how the actions of the few result in a miserable situation for everyone else.
Hopefully I'll be moving out towards the end of this year...