Who cleans your toilet?

[Squash64]

If you have a kitchen/meeting-room/toilets on site - who cleans them?

At the moment on our site they are cleaned mainly by me (I'm the site secretary).

I suggested at our committee meeting yesterday that a rota would be a good idea, with all 10 members of our committee taking it in turn a week at a time.
 
This was agreed immediately with no problem at all but when I told my husband afterwards he said that it isn't fair that the committee (or me) should be responsible when the facilities are used by non-committee members too.

I just wondered what happened on other sites......

[grawrc]

Our members were very keen to get toilets so we priced them and offered to get them installed. I did point out, however, that the toilets would need to be cleaned at least daily and proposed that this should be done on a rotation of members. (Otherwise the committee ends up doing everything). I wasn't too surprised when even the most vociferous of those asking for toilets decided that if they had to commit to cleaning them (it would only have been 4 or 5 times a year) they actually could manage fine without toilets!!

[saddad]

We have a rota as well... 

[betula]

You amaze me,I would gladly clean a loo on The Allotment if it meant we could have one.

Be warned though,as a young woman one of my jobs was to clean a loo used by the public.............some have the most disgusting habits,sad to say particularly the men who seemed to find the floor a good place to urinate on.

[Gadget]

a loo on the allotment would be fab, I have to make do with the shed and a bucket but it is a really clean bucket, the shed's not too bad either, and as for the OH there are plently of trees..

[Ellen K]

No toilet on our site and even if there were, I wouldn't use it as it would no doubt be disgusting.

At best, it would be like using the Gents in a Pub.  Thanks but no thanks.

[compostbin]

  ......o,.....thanks to being disabled,...due to M.S,....can still walk,....but only just got a motorbility scooter,........which makes the (used to be just 5 mins to get to my plot,..but just can't do it anymore,...the scooter makes it easy now),...now,..the question i have,....localised dementia,...koz of the M.S,...makes remembering where i've planted something often hard,...i grow mostly now in raised beds,....but i think i may have planted one up with sproat plants,....then forgot to firm them in,..as they were being grown in multi-purpose compost,...resulting in well blown out plants,....apart from the fact there are no sproats,...would it be safe,...to steam-up the leaves? ???they look great,...so how much of a typical sproat plant is usable

[picman]

Hi Betty ,
 we got our toilet finished in November and we have to turn off the water during winter, we have not decided yet on cleaning rota, we have actually had some volunteers , as we only have 50 plots I dont think it we get excessive use. do you have notices up re ' Leave it how you found it ? '
Les

[compostbin]

forgot to mention,....a urinal in my shed is my only toilting fasility,......it had caused some seriuos problems in the past,....when needing a bit of a number 2,...now the slightest hint,...i can "scooter ".......home real quick

[plotstoeat]

No toilets on our site. I add it to the compost heap when no one's around. Not so easy for my wife though.

[Robert_Brenchley]

We have a toilet down the far end of the site, provided by the Council, which pays a contractor to clean and empty it. I wonder how long that's likely to last. I wouldn't waste pee anyway.

[manicscousers]

I'll let you know by summer, we're halfway in funding for a composting toilet 

but i think i may have planted one up with sproat plants,....then forgot to firm them in,..as they were being grown in multi-purpose compost,...resulting in well blown out plants,....apart from the fact there are no sproats,...would it be safe,...to steam-up the leaves? ???they look great,...so how much of a typical sproat plant is usable
forgot to mention,....a urinal in my shed is my only toilting fasility,......it had caused some seriuos problems in the past,....when needing a bit of a number 2,...now the slightest hint,...i can "scooter ".......home real quick

we eat the tops of sprouts, steamed, so, go with it and I'm glad your mobility scooter's making things easier for you.
We have a portapotti, cleaned with water only , that gets emptied onto the compost heap on a regular basis, I can't squat over a bucket any more 'cos of the arthritis 

[Obbelix]

Why can't everyone just clean the toilet after they've used it?  Issue a general notice to this effect and put a copy in the toilets.

Provide a loo brush, some cleaning fluid and make sure there are always toilet rolls.

[Mr Smith]

One of my pet hates  having spent my working life in a male environment both Mil and Civi a 'Dirty splattered Bog',

[elvis2003]

we have a portaloo provided by the council,which we pay a contarctor to clean,emoty and refill it. There is no way on this earth I would ever clean it myself,far far and above the call of duty!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Why can't everyone just clean the toilet after they've used it?  Issue a general notice to this effect and put a copy in the toilets.

Provide a loo brush, some cleaning fluid and make sure there are always toilet rolls.

Because there's bound to be some dirty bugger who doesn't do it.

[lavenderlux]

At our allotments we have a compost loo (from the company Nat-Sol).  We have a weekly cleaning rota of committee members - they are asked to check it daily during their 'week' (cleaning and replacing loo rolls if necessary) and then giving a full clean (refilling the straw container, wiping over all surfaces and sweeping out) at the end of their week - we have a cabinet in which we keep vinyl gloves and cleaning materials, and replacement loo rolls.    Its very rare for there to be any problem with the loo being left dirty. 
We also keep a small basic 'first aid kit' here which all plot holders can access, to deal with minor injuries.  Our loo is kept locked and the gate key operates the padlock.

[Alex133]

On site loos with contracted cleaners sound a good idea until you realise how much your rent will go up to pay for them. Give me a bucket of my own in the shed any day - and it's brilliant for the compost heap.

[Robert_Brenchley]

The first aid kit sounds like a good idea.

[Squash64]

Thanks for all your replies.

I think we are very lucky to have toilets on site, not just one but three!  We haven't had too many problems but when someone mistook the floor of the gents for the toilet the next man to go in cleaned it up.  We don't seem to get this sort of problem in the ladies.

I'm thinking of making a rota with some empty spaces and ask non-committee members to volunteer.  It will be interesting to see if anyone does but I'm not holding my breath.