Having your own house is an amazing way to make all your decorating and furnishing wishes come true, yet not everyone is fortunate enough to own their own place. That’s why they need to compromise and live in a shared space, which is quite all right, but only if you organize your coexistence with other people properly and fairly. In order to keep everyone’s hygiene on the highest level, here are a couple of cleaning methods suitable for shared spaces you might want to take into consideration.
Cleaning buildings
This is the most common option for all those people who don’t own their own houses – they usually opt for living in residential buildings stacked with a bunch of apartments of different sizes, and that’s the situation that suits most of them. They still have their own freedom and ability to do whatever they want, despite having to share some of the spaces with other people in their building.
These spaces go from lobbies, stairways, and corridors to parking lots and laundry rooms, as well as basements, elevators, and rooftops, in case your building is equipped with one of these. Sharing these spaces is often regulated by a mutual agreement between tenants and they’re usually cleaned by a professional cleaning service, but you need to remember that keeping the neighbors happy is everyone’s job. Therefore, try to remember a couple of simple rules – cleaning up after yourself is just one of them – and you’ll be alright.
Cleaning strata properties
Strata properties are close to your traditional concept of buildings where everyone lives in their own apartments and share other spaces, but with a small difference – the responsibility towards the shared space is much higher and taken more seriously. Originally developed in Australia, this concept has been taking over the world for the past couple of decades, and while shared spaces in traditional buildings are used by everyone, although it’s sometimes unsure who they technically belong to, in a strata property, they both belong to and are used by everyone.
This basically means that people living in a strata building take their responsibilities more seriously and aren’t afraid to invest money into keeping their shared space spotless. That’s why more and more Australians are looking into professional strata cleaning as a way to keep their common spaces, such as driveways, gardens, and lobbies, clean and flawless at all times.
Cleaning dorm room and shared apartments
Living with unknown people and getting to know them is a vital part of any college experience and what better way to do so than by living in a dormitory? It may not be easy at first, especially since some students are confined to tiny spaces, but that’s usually all you need and you’re good to go as long as you have a bed, a desk and a working chair you can sit on while studying. And, of course, you need to come up a cleaning schedule with your roommate and always know when it’s your time to clean and what you need to do. Luckily, properly cleaning a dorm room is neither too hard nor too time-consuming, and you can do it weekly.
After leaving college, though, lots of people go on living with roommates for a number of years – just remember the characters in Friends who lived this way well into their thirties! As you get older, your hygienic requirements and standards become higher and more complex, so you’ll have to start cleaning shared spaces at least twice a week, depending on the number of people living with you.
Defining the shared space and knowing where you can and can’t do is important when you’re not living on your own. Only by openly communicating with your neighbors and roommates can you make a proper cleaning plan and divide all the work that needs to be done among yourself – but don’t forget inviting a professional cleaning crew to visit you every once in a while just to ensure everything is spotless.
Author: Faith McGregor
