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?

DS was in a 15 storey tower block in Salford. He was in a small apartment with 4 people. 1 loo and 1 shower. He was in the same room for 4 years, 2 girls and two boys for all but the last year when it was all boys.
Apparently it got busier on Saturday and Sunday mornings when there may or may not have been extra people in the rooms.
The kitchen was the worst, he paid £90 a week.

DD has an ensuite, she is looking forward to not having to share a bathroom with her brother, apparently it is cleaned once a week.
She is in catered Halls with a fridge and kettle in her room as well but there is a small "pantry" shared between 8 of them I think with a hob, sink and worktops .
Its expensive but for MH reasons she really needed that set up and it was a big deciding factor in choosing the Uni she did

We had one bathroom between 8 or 9 girls. Cleaned Mon, Weds and Fri. Sinks in rooms as well fortunately. I'm not going to lie, it was pretty awful and really wasn't very clean. I ended up spending more time at home that first year than in halls because of how unclean the bathroom got. 30 between two kitchens as well.

Good mental health justifies the extra cost. We are paying more for DS’s accommodation that we would prefer, but over the cost of the year the difference isn’t great. If someone said he would be able to cope better for £400 a year, I would snap their hand off - this is the same with accommodation.

Do students take air fryers?

That first post does not sound very much. My son at wills hall Bristol was in one 3 floor biut of the old quad with about 10 of them and on his top floor there was a bath and sink and loo, then a shower on the next landing and I think a toilet on ground floor - so quite a few toilets for the 10 on the 3 floors and he also had a massive sink (admittedly looking like it was installed in the 1920s) in a cupboard in his bed room.

I shared showers and toilets and generally no issues. Get flip flops to wear in the shower though!
But I agree one between 10 isn't enough, we had a block of I think 2 showers 3 toilets per corridor (girls only), there was also a bath which I didn't really fancy!

My ds spent a lot of time in his final year removing one of his female flatmates hair from the plughole. I thought he was exaggerating until we went to help him pack up when he finished. There was a huge pile of her hair on the floor right next to the bin where she had cleaned her hairbrush 🤢There I was thinking he would be the messy one!

to the question about airfryers
DD has been on a gap year but visited a couple of friends at different Unis and in 2 cases the corrridor had clubbed together to get an airfryer for the communal kitchen. In between September and November they had apparently not been cleaned at all and in one case it caught fire while DD was there and was confiscated by oneone and all the students got a bollocking

Even so, the state blokes are capable of getting toilets into, I wouldn't fancy being the next one in...

I had one toilet and one shower between six. Single sex dorms. Cleaners came in once a week. It was fine.

When DH was at Oxford and they had to send a note out to ask men to stop wanking in the shower as the sperm was clogging up the drains. My DD's will be going to a uni with their own en suites. Gross.

Ohh not. That is gross 🤢 I guess they will also pee in the showers.

I will definitely consider en suite for DD and maybe single sex floors/ buildings.

I am very old fashioned I know but didn’t have to leave home to go to university (different country)

Was your uni in Wales , vacua’s my set up in 1994 was exactly the same !”

Ds1 in Nottingham shared and says it was absolutely fine.

I've not come across any uni accommodation that is single sex by corridor or by flat. That's not to say there's none - but none we looked at was.

En suite there's plenty of of course, but it's a lot more £££ as noted here. Also en suite rooms are often smaller fwiw.

My ds was at Lancaster - the townhouses, 4 to a floor sharing 2 bathrooms, each floor was single sex. 3 floors so 12 students altogether

I'm impressed people can remember what they paid for their halls in 1990's: I can't! I was at Edinburgh. Girls floor 2 showers & 2 toilets, forever getting hogged by boys trespassing from below. We had a weekly cleaner in our rooms. The (very) public school girl next to me referred to her, to her face, as a 'maid'. I bought her chocolates at Christmas & used my P's&Q's. In return she kindly didn't report the microwave & fridge I smuggled into my room: the included food was both sparse & rank.

@Hoppinggreen
Can I ask which accom please?
Ds is applying for next year (Comp Sci) & will need catered accom I think ? He has an offer from Abertay but the (private) halls were not suitable/helpful.

DD has hit lucky with shared bathroom accommodation - 2 toilets and showers between 4 students. Cleaned once a week.

We paid more so that they had bathroom in their room. Pricey but worth it. I found 10 empty bleach bottles after the first year when we packed to go home 😂 suppose I should be pleased he used it. Bear in mind when they move out of uni accommodation they will be sharing in some house or other- probably one bathroom between 5 if they get a big place.
Worried more re kitchen. ES's had a rat living behind their fridge.Flop flops are a great idea. And encourage them to keep towels separate🙄

Its Nottingham.
We visited quite a few Unis and it was the only ones we found that had ensuites and a fridge in the room. They are available to everyone though, we are happy to pay for it due to DDs MH since her GP was completely unhelpful in providing evidence to support it so she gets no concession for it.
I am sure that there are more Unis that will make provision for MH or other disabilities, one of DDs friends was guaranteed an ensuite due to a disablity.

I've not come across any uni accommodation that is single sex by corridor or by flat. That's not to say there's none - but none we looked at was.

When we visited Sheffield they said you could request single sex flats.

I've not come across any uni accommodation that is single sex by corridor or by flat. That's not to say there's none - but none we looked at was.

dd2's flat was.

She asked for mixed, but was allocated an all girls' flat.

Yuk - Once a week cleaning is not enough. Perhaps students used their own anti bac wipes!

As I said upthread, no cleaners in halls at all in lots of unis.