<p>Has anyone used this service? I have tried and haven’t had good success!! Hoping it’s
not just bad luck on my part :(</p>
<p>I just looked up the term “dormaid”, they provide bedding (sounds good) but they also clean dormrooms and do students laundry.</p>
<p>Baring a special need, why would a college student not be able to clean their own room and do their own laundry? And wouldn’t the other people in their dorm mock them endlessly about it?</p>
<p>When I was in college, our school provided cleaning service. When my D1 went off to college, I just assumed her room would also be cleaned once a week. I was very surprised when I found out they didn’t. I really think school would be better off in providing the service. Some of those kids never clean their rooms and they just smell. I can’t believe it’s good for the building maintenance.</p>
<p>If the kids don’t learn to clean their rooms when they are in college, when will they learn? Surely, at some point in their life – even if they end up being rich enough to afford 24/7 maid service – they’ll have to be responsible for their own living quarters.</p>
<p>No way would I want to pay for a college’s providing dorm room cleaning service nor would I pay for a private service.</p>
<p>My experience with house cleaning services is that they don’t do the tidying up but only the dusting and cleaning. A college student whose room is a mess needs to put away their clothes, books, belongings before the cleaners come in order for them to have access to surfaces to be cleaned- much more work than it would be worth in having no dust or dirt for a few months. Any service that puts things away will make it hard for the student to find things and may ruin any project laid out. Disgusting messes are likely the fault of a student who doesn’t follow normal rules of living such as discarding food trash appropriately and cleaningup spills as they occur. Bathrooms are a different matter, a sole use one can go for a month without cleaning if one has good habits. Time for the student to grow up and make their bed, do their laundry, put away their things if they want it done.</p>
<p>Some of those rooms are close to health hazard. If board of health were do an examination, they probably would close some of those dorms down.</p>
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<p>Where did you go to college? This is the type of thing I associate with years gone by at the most expensive schools. </p>
<p>Also, why should the school pay for cleaning services when they could just as easily fine students whose rooms do not pass inspection?</p>
<p>I did go to one of those small, expensive, preppy LAC on FA. When I came home on breaks I had do my own cleaning.</p>
<p>If a college kid chooses to live in a pigsty, that would be his/her choice. I certainly wouldn’t want to pay for a service! How else would they learn? I can think of only a limited number of ways one’s health could be jeopardized by having a messy dorm room. Heaven help us if two pigs live together! Being somewhat tidy out of respect for my roommate kept me on the right path way back in the dark ages! The communal bathrooms were cleaned by the school, but not our rooms.</p>
<p>my son’s school doesn’t have communal bathrooms. Please don’t make me think of what the bathroom 4 boys have been using all year smells like.</p>
<p>The overall cleanliness of a building does matter. Even if a student is fastidious about keeping clean, if they live downstairs from people who are leaving food everywhere, etc., they are going to end up with a rodent problem, as happened to one of my kids.</p>
<p>Even if a student is fastidious about keeping clean, if they live downstairs from people who are leaving food everywhere, etc., they are going to end up with a rodent problem, as happened to one of my kids.</p>
<p>This is where the RA and HA, can facilitate dorm meetings and kids can learn to solve the conflicts that occur.
Will serve them well later.
( or they can get a cat- the attraction of Reed to D, was that they had a cat dorm)</p>
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my son’s school doesn’t have communal bathrooms. Please don’t make me think of what the bathroom 4 boys have been using all year smells like.</p>
<p>Sueinphilly…My son is in the same situation…I saw the bathroom…YUCK that is why I contacted Dormaid (there was no way I was going to clean it myself!!)</p>
<p>My D uses the laundry service downstairs from her apt to do hers. At first I was tripped out by it, but then I learned that in her apt building the washers cost $2.50 and drying costs $1 per 15 minutes. Add to that detergent and fabric softener, and voila it’s actually CHEAPER to use Mr. Lee’s than do it herself. Of course she lives in NYC (Chinatown specifically and yes, it’s really Mr. Lee’s) where laundry service is usual and customary. In a different situation…no way…do your own cleaning and washing. </p>
<p>Sheesh, I’m drawn to the John Gielgud (playing Hobson) quote from Arthur (an excellent movie that still stands the test of time):</p>
<p>Arthur (Dudley Moore): Do you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take a bath.
Hobson: I’ll alert the media.
Arthur: Do you want to run my bath for me?
Hobson: It’s what I live for. Perhaps you would like me to wash your d<strong>k for you, too, you little s</strong>t.</p>
<p>(my censorship)</p>
<p>I went to college at Northwestern in the '60s, and we had our rooms cleaned weekly also. They also gave us clean sheets.</p>
<p>We had that too, but when I brought up laundry here, I got laughed at. We got clean sheets and there was a wash and fold nearby.</p>
<p>Public schools used to give bedspreads and one clean flat sheet and pillowcase each week (2 sheets at the start)- you would use the top sheet as the bottom one and leave the dirty sheet/pillowcase outside your door. Now they have to bring their own. I might add that back then all sheets came in one color- white, no matter where you were, at home or away (I’m sure there were colored expensive ones out there for the rich, but not in middle America).</p>
<p>They still have free dryers at UW dorms- very logical if you consider how students might otherwise steal dryer time or drape clothes all over their rooms otherwise and students pay for the washers. Cleaning dorm halls and bathrooms was a work study job for some on weekends. Son requested his second Liquid Plumr for his apartment over spring break- apparently one roommate “sheds” a lot which clogs the tub drain… I think it is good for students to be responsible for their rooms- no magical elves/mothers like at home. Some people will otherwise never realize the impact of their daily actions, or lack thereof.</p>