Sharing toilets and showers university accommodation

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What is your DC experience of this? One shower and one toilet doesn’t seem enough for 10 rooms? What about cleanliness and things like that? Some people are not that clean or leave things as they found it.

Also, are the buildings single sex or mix sex?

My dc both did this in first year accommodation, mixed sex. Dd tho had two loos between 5/6 students and they made one women, one men. Also she had a sink in her room which was good. Ds2 had similar but no sink. All fine.

One loo between 10 isn’t great - is that definitely correct?

Most unis we visited said that the advantage of shared bathrooms is that they are cleaned by staff, whereas students with en suites are responsible for their own cleaning.

My dc survived similar. I gave them flip flops to wear in the shower.

They aren't all! None of the unis we visited had cleaners!

My DS was at Aitken in Birmingham. One shower between 4, and one toilet. Sinks in rooms. It was good and the students (mixed sex) kept it clean, thankfully)

One between 10 sounds bad. I think only UEA Ziggurats had that when we were visiting unis.

My DC had two toilets/shower rooms shared between 10 students. Men and women shared the flat and the showers, there were no 'girls only' and 'boys only' areas. They got cleaned once a week by the university.

I had a shared bathroom in first year and was fine, 1 shower and 1 toilet between 10 (are they in the same room?) is dastardly though.

Both my children had shared showers and toilets (mixed sex) at University. Not as in you could be in the same room with someone else at the same time, so individual lockable shower rooms and loos. But it was more like a ratio of 3 or 4 sharing, not 10!

Forty years ago we had three showers between ten students, plus two bathrooms and four loos. All women only on our floor.

My DD was in the Ziggs at UEA. They had 10 rooms on a floor and a large shared kitchen. But 2 showers and 3 toilets, so I find your post a bit odd. Are you sure you looked properly?

We all had washbasins in our rooms too.

We had 2 loos and 2 showers between 12 when I was at uni. It did only cost £75 a week though (1994 🤣)

Possibly not as DS hated it!

I had similar at uni and it wasn't too bad. However, sharing two old washing machines between 50+ students was not so good.

One shower and one toilet between 10 is rough. DD has stayed in halls for 3 years and it was usually between 5 maximum. She said the corridor type halls were best as showers/toilets blocks were cleaned daily (shared between 20 or do). Individual flats was sometimes okay but once really awful (mixed flat and two international flatmates who had servants at home and thought cleaning women's work). Uni cleaner refused to do a weekly clean of toilet/shower room. Luckily next to uni gym so DD showered there. Dd lasted until Christmas before getting a transfer.

People can be a bit word about toilet roll and stuff in shared facilities but DS's lot shared toilet roll* and his cleaning products seemed to last them the year...

*as in, used what was in there, not sharing the actual sheets!!

weird, obviously...

DS had ensuite last year in halls but has opted for shared bathroom this year as cheaper. But they have 2 loos and a shower between 4. One between 10 sounds a bit tight

I was in a hall that was all single rooms, each with a wash basin. In the corridor there were two kitchens - one either end and 3 sets of loos as well as 4 bathrooms (bath / shower only). The cleaners came in every day, but occasionally there was piss on the floor in the loo (gender neutral) or sticky things in the shower (same reason), but only once or twice over a year.

OP can you name this uni since none of us seems to have come across this ratio? (except me and I was wrong!)

Depends how precious your dc is.
I put up with it. 4 individuals sharing one toilet and shower. It was pretty grim but students generally are.

By second year i was sharing in a house of 12 people so things didn't exactly improve but we did share between two toilets

I chose an en suite room. My friend was in halls where you shared and it was like going camping or something. No thanks.

I've never heard of that ratio! That's rough!
Regarding sharing in general, you'll have clean and tidy kids and kids who never clean up after themselves. It's the luck of the draw basically.

That does seem pretty extreme! He may well be able to switch into another halls when people drop out- he should put his name down ASAP.

Is this in a uni owned hall of residence?

I was in university with one shower/loo for 15 rooms. Didn't do me any harm.

Iirc, in the US, one of my DDs had an all female floor with the following:

10 toilets
8 showers
10 sinks
...in two communal bathrooms.

66 students per floor.

The bathrooms were cleaned by cleaners. They were still pretty gross by the end of the day according to DD, but she survived.