Flat mate hogging the bloody washing machine!

**professor~yaffle**

could he be washing his mates clothes for them? I can't honestly think of any reason he's using the machine three times a day. Unless he's only got one set of clothes and hence he has to keep washing them. If he's seriously using the machine and the tumble dryer that much he's going to have to start paying for the electricity it'll be using up.

Person_one

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

"Everyone else is entitled to feel differently".

It doesn't matter whether it makes sense to you or not: it makes sense to me. Anyway, I daresay my own qualms and foibles aren't of any interest to anyone else on this thread, apart from me. And discussion of them is most certainly not going get the OP's laundry done.

Pop down in the middle of the night and fill the machine while he's asleep, I say!

Its ok B&T, its supposed to be a light hearted thread, I think, no offence meant!

Spendless

Jeez, you can't get on at all? How long a cycle is it?:eek: There surely must be time inbetween you getting home from work and you going to bed when one of his washes has finished, unless he's washing one sock at a time.:p or as already suggested providing a laundry service for others. When you come in from work and if the washer is on tell him as soon as that load is finished you need it for your stuff.

sammyjammy

If he is some kind of hippy type in that he wears his dads clothes as he doesn't agree with new ones or something then how come he is willing to waste all that electricity and ruin the planet even more, it's shocking.

You need to have a man to man chat and even more you need to come back and tell us what he said!

quidsy

Tell him straight that you didn't agree to pay all the bills so he could use the machine all day & night & that from now on he needs to pay 75% of the electric bills if this amount of use carries on. If he doesn't like it he will move out & you can get a normal flatmate.

quidsy

The idea about taking morning & evening meter readings daily is a good one too. It provides you with ammo regarding just how much energy he is using.

ciderwithrosie_2

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Sounds like his stuff is going in clean. Still, I wouldn't want to wash my clothes with anyone else's unless I was on more intimate terms with them. Everyone else is entitled to feel differently.

No, I feel the same way.

neverdespairgirl

Just ask him - "why on earth are you washing stuff day and night? How come?"

scaredy_cat

charge him £5 per load.

Stevenj214

The_Magnificent_Spoon wrote: »

My work pattern is a couple of hours later than him (he does 8-4, I do 10-6 but often much later) so it would mess my sleep pattern up

Surely you have a 2 hour window between you both leaving for work?