Vacation rental owners - how often wash blankets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't stay at rentals anymore. The last time we stayed at one, the clean towels were in the dryer and the washing machine was set to a 15 minute delicate cycle. The cleaners had set the machine on the fastest setting for towels to speed things up. I get why they did it, but that's nasty. I rewashd everything on a real cycle.

Yep, think about it: almost every beach rental in the summer on the eastern shore requires a stay from Saturday to Saturday. The rental turns over at 10 AM on Saturday and needs to be cleaned by 4 PM that same day. There can't possibly be enough labor to thoroughly clean all those places. Imagine how many houses each cleaner needs to get done in those six hours. They will make it look superficially nice, but nothing will be cleaned adequately. The minimum things everyone should do when they arrive at these rentals: (1) throw all towels and sheets in the laundry on the hot water setting, (2) wash all dishes in the dishwasher, (3) wipe down all counters, doorknobs, etc. with lysol wipes (bring your own because they're usually not supplied), and (4) vacuum everywhere. A fair amount of effort, but you're staying for a week minimum so just get it done on arrival day and it's not too bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My vacation rental I was not rich like you so I cleaned it myself. I actually charged zero cleaning fee. I had no late check out fee as left day between guests. I made guests aware the owners cleaned I would be coming over myself with wife.

It was an interesting study of human nature. One website would not let me put I cleaned myself and renters left it a mess each time, even with zero fee. The one I said owner would be coming over usually left it spotless.

So I started charging a fee on the site I could not list owner is cleaning and I still cleaned but kept the fee. My beach house was like 20 minutes my primary house.

People were pretty good. BTW I did two week rentals or more only. I only did weekly for repeat guests. Too much work for me. I also did a nine month winter rental

You are rich if you own a vacation home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My vacation rental I was not rich like you so I cleaned it myself. I actually charged zero cleaning fee. I had no late check out fee as left day between guests. I made guests aware the owners cleaned I would be coming over myself with wife.

It was an interesting study of human nature. One website would not let me put I cleaned myself and renters left it a mess each time, even with zero fee. The one I said owner would be coming over usually left it spotless.

So I started charging a fee on the site I could not list owner is cleaning and I still cleaned but kept the fee. My beach house was like 20 minutes my primary house.

People were pretty good. BTW I did two week rentals or more only. I only did weekly for repeat guests. Too much work for me. I also did a nine month winter rental

You are rich if you own a vacation home.

No, not rich. After Sandy in 2012 home prices were down. I bought a condo in an older garden apt building around March 2013 that was heavily damaged in Sandy. In fact building had no electricity or heat when I first looked at it as building had Sandy Damage.

I should have bought a house instead I bought this condo. In end since I am not rich my wife never let me use it much. We only slept in condo ourself maybe 2-3 nights in 14 years. Between tenants a few times we went over, parked car in condo spot went to beach for day and came back and watched TV then walk to dinner at a nearby restaurant and then drove home. Why? My wife did not want us to reclean unit. We sleep in beds, use towels, leave dirty dishes, use bathroom shower we have to reclean whole thing in case someone wants to rent it out.

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I like how everyone thinks they are cleaner than person before.

I had a women rent from me three years running. She looked like a much better looking version of scarlett johansson who was around 38. It was her and her Mom who was a widow and the Mom looked like Jacklyn Smith from Charilie Anglles as she looks today, older maybe 72 but that super sophisticated older very rich look. The daughter was divorced and had a daugther who looked like she would be in a Ralph Lauren catalog.

I only had the two bedroom Condo but it was only three of them. And they rented two weeks and Grandma came just a few nights. Turns out the Grandma had a mansion in my beach town she sold after husbands death and lived on Park Aven in Manhattan, her daughter lived in a super fancy East Side Coop and was an Investment banker.

No I did now wash comforters after them. If anything the bed smelled a bit of $500 dollar an ounce perfume. It was almost the smell of old money and beauty was in house.

If you need to wash comforter all the time you are renting to sketcy people. And isnt that renters problem. I have a washer dryer in my unit. I have detergent. Feel free to wash. And guess what I dont wash my couch pillows or wash couch cushions or my Lazy Boy Rocker which oddly everyone loves that thing. I think I lasted cleaned it in 2013. Yet everyone puts their head on it.

[Anonymous]

Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

So you change them or have your servants do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

So you change them or have your servants do it?

I launder my mattress pad every other time I wash my sheets. When we have a guest, I wash the guest room mattress pad before they arrive.

If I had a rental, I would get 2 mattress pads, so the cleaners could make up the bed and take the used linens, including mattress pad, to launder elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target sells mattress pads that are waterproof, but look and feel like soft cotton. And they don't make any plastic-y sounds when you sit on them.

These are a must, and I would get 2 mattress pads for each bed, and change them for every guest, along with the sheets and duvet cover.

So you change them or have your servants do it?

I launder my mattress pad every other time I wash my sheets. When we have a guest, I wash the guest room mattress pad before they arrive.

If I had a rental, I would get 2 mattress pads, so the cleaners could make up the bed and take the used linens, including mattress pad, to launder elsewhere.

I had a beach house one summer in Hamptons and we had to use owners maid service. They actually had a girl around 18 or 19 (southampton College freshman) during the week when houses empty first thing in morning would go to the house they are doing that weekday starting her day around one hour earlier and go to the houses and load up washer with sheets and towels and load dishwasher and leave. The cleaning crew when they go there the dishwasher was run and at sheets and towels just need to be moved to dryer. Otherwise they cant do house as they only have like 30-60 minutes max per house. They cant sit around and wait for washer and dishwasher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh, between each set of new guests!

Obviously sheets are washed between each set of guests.

The question was about the blankets and comforters. You wash everything between guests?

NP. YES.

[Anonymous]

Hotels will have better standards.

[Anonymous]

Usually this why most rentals don't have comforters OP, just thinner blankets, with maybe a comforter or heavier blanket on the closet.

[Anonymous]

All you people think hotel blankets are washed every time? Look at the linen carts they’re pushing. Do you see blankets?

Duvet covers on washable bedding is what I see these days, but I’m sure those blankets aren’t washed every time.

Also, if your cleaning team is short on time, they may not wash the blankets every time either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you people think hotel blankets are washed every time? Look at the linen carts they’re pushing. Do you see blankets?

Duvet covers on washable bedding is what I see these days, but I’m sure those blankets aren’t washed every time.

Also, if your cleaning team is short on time, they may not wash the blankets every time either.

Hotels don't usually have blankets. Maybe sometimes they'll have one in the closet, and I would never use that. But I think you can at least trust that all the sheets and towels at a hotel are washed thoroughly because they have huge laundry rooms with tons of machines specifically for that purpose, and their housekeeping is working nonstop throughout the day. It's not like a house rental where the cleaning person needs to wash 8 sets of sheets and 40 towels in one hour.

[Anonymous]

I don't think anyone who replied owns a vacation rental. I own four in different regions and I have not found a cleaner who washes quilts and duvet covers after each guest. The triple sheet is a good idea, but I'm sure renters would complain.

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry to tell you all, but the comforters are not being washed between visits. It’s not industry standard. And yes it’s gross to think about.