<p>^^^</p>
<p>It’s not just the ability to clean their own icky stuff…but it’s the coming upon other people’s icky stuff.</p>
<p>Not the bathroom… but when younger d moved back to campus spring of her junior year from semester abroad, DH drove her up. She moved into special theater-interest housing that had previously been a frat house. Not only did he vacuum the entire place…they dealt with dead rodents in the sink left with the unwashed dishes that had been left in the kitchen sink when students left for Christmas break. Needless to say… that did prompt a phone call to res life… and led my daughter to use the kitchen as little as possible…</p>
<p>*they dealt with dead rodents in the sink left with the unwashed dishes that had been left in the kitchen sink when students left for Christmas break. *</p>
<p>Oh my! Unbelievable!</p>
<p>Wonder if the rodents were done in by the frat house cooking. Then again, maybe they are well pickled from what was left fromteh empties?</p>
<p>My son’s college ($50k two years ago) had the communal bathrooms cleaned daily, 5 days per week, along with all hallways and common areas. My D’s college ($34k) had en-suite shared baths which were up to the students to clean, and the hallways/common areas were cleaned once a week. Both private colleges. I suppose you get what you pay for.</p>
<p>When S moved into his fraternity it was cheaper than the dorm, in part because they did not have a cleaning service. Every brother had assigned chores. That went about as well as you might expect… on the plus side S learned to fix a vacuum cleaner and that it’s a much better idea to keep a bathroom from getting filthy than it is to let it get filthy and then try to clean it.</p>
<p>Community bathrooms gets cleaned because they’re public spaces. Suite bathrooms would necessitate staff coming into students’ living spaces-- that’s always what I assumed the reasons for the difference in cleaning policies. That’s how it is in many school where there are both types of housing, and therefore unrelated to cost of the school. It’s one reason I actually hope for the communal bathroom for my D. </p>
<p>I never remember my (big shared hallway) bathroom being gross-- I think that was probably a combination of it actually being okay clean and me not caring because of my youth. When I go back to my beloved alma mater now (Wisconsin) I’m kind of grossed out by how grungy the Union and my favorite bars are-- when I was there I think I just didn’t notice those things.</p>
<p>My dorm’s bathroom this past year was generally clean, good enough for me. It was a men’s community bathroom, and was cleaned daily M-F. Sure, it was gross occasionally (usually on a weekend), but uncleanliness wasn’t a problem normally. I would compare it to the bathrooms at my high school, they were both just basic bathrooms.</p>
<p>The plumbing was worse than the mess (old building and plumbing). The lack of hot water the first week or two was ok (way too hot to want warm water) but only getting lukewarm water in the morning (or pure cold water some mornings) got old fast. The pipe ended up breaking eventually so we had no water at all for a day and then they fixed it and the hot water heater so we had hot water the last few months, luckily. </p>
<p>The hallways got cleaned about once a week, not sure about the den (there was a sock in there for months). The kitchen was gross (dirty dishes in the sink, random food-like messes on the counters, sometimes bugs as there was a gap in the window screen and the dorm was 20-30 feet from a lake) as was the communal fridge. I don’t think the kitchen or fridge was ever cleaned, it was the responsibility of the students.</p>
<p>But it all depends on the dorm. My friend’s dorm had a new bathroom and kitchen that seemed very clean every time I saw it. And I heard people complaining that every weekend there was puke in their bathroom stalls, pee on the toilet paper, etc. They lived in the biggest party dorms on campus (on a huge party campus), and I lived on one of the less-partying ones. </p>
<p>I would say that the amount of partying has a big influence, especially on the weekend. A party dorm probably won’t have as clean of bathrooms. Of course there are lots of other factors.</p>
<p>The seamer I have is for steaming cleaning surfaces, without the use of chemicals. I use it for tiles and floors, can be used for carpet too. I hope this answers your question.</p>