Housing and Bills
Bed Making and Linen Laundry
From the 1st October there will be a change to the bed making and linen laundry procedures.
The summary is that now we make our own beds, and strip them. Place the two sheets into the pillow case and leave them by the side of your bed by 9am for your cleaner to pick up and replace with shiny new sheets on a set day (see your Linen Exchange and Cleaning Provision Day). Hope that's clear.
Best wishes,
Paddy
From the fresher's booklet
Housekeeping
Your room (unless you live in a "flat") will be cleaned by a college cleaner once a week. This should involve hoovering, dusting (depending how much clobber you leave around), cleaning of surfaces and the sink and the emptying of your bin. If you would like your bin emptied any other weekday, simply leave it outside your room. Communal areas should be kept to a reasonable standard of cleanliness throughout the week (if you don't have lots of lovely toilet paper and empty bins, tell someone), but obviously this depends on how clean us students are as well. If you don't wipe down the stove/microwave/oven after use, don't be surprised if the levels of grime accumulate. Encourage your chums as well, and try to keep that dishwashing cycle going smoothly.
The college also provides bed linen: a single duvet, a pillow, a mattress protector, a pillow protector, a duvet cover, two flat sheets and a pillowcase. The pillow case and sheets will be laundered weekly on the same day as the room clean. You are expected to remove the pillow case and sheets, then stuff the two sheets inside the pillow case, leaving them by the side of the bed. If you don't do this, you won't be given clean linen - drama. To guarantee getting fresh laundry you should do this by 9 a.m. (although once you get to know your cleaner, they can probably give you a more accurate time). It is also expected dirty linen is exchanged for clean linen at least every fortnight for obvious reasons (but mainly bed bugs); but unless you love asthma, allergies and creepy crawlies, take advantage of the exchange every week. Finally, if you manage to soil (you can pick your gross liquid/solid/combo of choice for this example) your linen, be nice and leave a note on it so that your cleaner can get out long metal tongs or a mini-crane to pick it up and save themselves.
Finally (breath) - if you have any queries or complaints your first and moderately sensible port of call is your MCR Lodgings Rep. If you feel it is something extremely urgent, contact the Head Housekeeper (Viv Newman).
Your room (unless you live in a "flat") will be cleaned by a college cleaner once a week. This should involve hoovering, dusting (depending how much clobber you leave around), cleaning of surfaces and the sink and the emptying of your bin. If you would like your bin emptied any other weekday, simply leave it outside your room. Communal areas should be kept to a reasonable standard of cleanliness throughout the week (if you don't have lots of lovely toilet paper and empty bins, tell someone), but obviously this depends on how clean us students are as well. If you don't wipe down the stove/microwave/oven after use, don't be surprised if the levels of grime accumulate. Encourage your chums as well, and try to keep that dishwashing cycle going smoothly.
The college also provides bed linen: a single duvet, a pillow, a mattress protector, a pillow protector, a duvet cover, two flat sheets and a pillowcase. The pillow case and sheets will be laundered weekly on the same day as the room clean. You are expected to remove the pillow case and sheets, then stuff the two sheets inside the pillow case, leaving them by the side of the bed. If you don't do this, you won't be given clean linen - drama. To guarantee getting fresh laundry you should do this by 9 a.m. (although once you get to know your cleaner, they can probably give you a more accurate time). It is also expected dirty linen is exchanged for clean linen at least every fortnight for obvious reasons (but mainly bed bugs); but unless you love asthma, allergies and creepy crawlies, take advantage of the exchange every week. Finally, if you manage to soil (you can pick your gross liquid/solid/combo of choice for this example) your linen, be nice and leave a note on it so that your cleaner can get out long metal tongs or a mini-crane to pick it up and save themselves.
Finally (breath) - if you have any queries or complaints your first and moderately sensible port of call is your MCR Lodgings Rep. If you feel it is something extremely urgent, contact the Head Housekeeper (Viv Newman).
Heating Arrangements
The document that explains in detail our heating arrangements for next year has been provided by college. Essentially we pay £9 a week for utilities during background heating weeks. The dates are in the document. If you have any confusion about the issue do not hesitate to contact me.
Paddy
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| Graduate Utilities charges.pdf | 58.65 KB |
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