Roommate told me that I no longer have access to the washer and dryer. Do I have any recourse?

[Anonymous]

Also, if she works out hard core, those gym clothes will be rank in a couple days; it is far better to wash after a couple days rather then stink up apt for a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

PP and the rest of you analyzing what clothes OP wears and how much she should wash are insane.

Not insane, trying to understand what a single person is washing two or three times a week. Only people I know who wash that often have children/families. I am single and do laundry once a week. I have my own washer and dryer though and if I had a roommate who had my washer and dryer turning every other day running up my bill I would be annoyed too, though I would have just raised the rent to cover the costs.

You wash all of your clothes, sheets, towels in one load?

[Anonymous]

also when a lease says basic utilities included, it is up to landlord to determine what basic utilities is or even what utilities are.

My old apartment, heat was included but not AC.
Had an apt heat and AC included but no cable/phone
Had an apt where I pay heat, electric, water everything etc.

Sometimes Gas is included sometime not.

But even when included you cant abuse. But it is clear it is up to landlord to rein in what free utilities means.

My friend had a tenant who loved it hot in her apt. She included gas stove for cooking for free. Crazy tenant left oven on all the time and even boiled water on it to make apartment hot like she liked it and for free. She got cut off from her free gas oven.

[Anonymous]

I had an ad for a washer/dryer on the sidebar of this thread! haha!

[Anonymous]

Well, you could go with a fact-based approach.

I googled the cost for you and found a breakdown of costs on a web site. See https://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/laundry.html

This guy says the electricity cost of drying your laundry depends on whether you have electric (49¢) or gas (34¢).

The cost of electricity to wash per load is based on the water temperature.

Wash/Rinse Setting Electrical Use of kWh/load Cost per load

Hot / Warm 4.5 kWh 68¢
Warm / Warm 3.5 kWh 53¢
Hot / Cold 2.8 kWh 42¢
Warm / Cold 1.9 kWh 29¢
Cold / Cold 0.3 kWh 4¢

So, with your 2-3 loads per week,
1 cold = 4¢ + 49¢ = 53¢
1 hot = 68¢ + 49¢ = $1.17
1 warm = 29¢ + 49¢ = 78¢

Per week, if you have an electric dryer, that's $2.48. Multiply that x 4 weeks = $9.92. (Subtract 1.80 from that if you have a gas dryer.) So, assuming this complete lunatic would think that if you did half your current amount of laundry, that would be a "reasonable" amount, I'd slap a five dollar bill on the counter to keep the peace and say "here you go for the extra kilowatts I'm using per month. Suck it."

[Anonymous]

I agree with the people who said just move out, she sounds like she is crazy. also, I can't see how you are spending $300 a month in electricity and why is your fault, even with 2-3 loads a week. I live in a 3bd house, we are a family of 4 with kids, do easy 4+ loads at week and our electricity bill is half that amount. it can get closer to that only in the deep of the summer when air conditioning is on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the people who said just move out, she sounds like she is crazy. also, I can't see how you are spending $300 a month in electricity and why is your fault, even with 2-3 loads a week. I live in a 3bd house, we are a family of 4 with kids, do easy 4+ loads at week and our electricity bill is half that amount. it can get closer to that only in the deep of the summer when air conditioning is on

OP again, I don't think that she paid the bill for the prior month. I think the bill is a combination of two months. I've seen several late notices of different bill types in the apartment.

[AuntCharlotte1]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you washing clothes so often? I do one load a week and the washing machine isn't even completely full.

Well, your underwear isn’t really clean if you’re not washing in hot water, and neither are your sheets and towels. And if you’re washing everything in hot, you’re probably ruining half your wardrobe.

Maybe she does whites one week and colors the next?

[AuntCharlotte1]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

PP and the rest of you analyzing what clothes OP wears and how much she should wash are insane.

Not insane, trying to understand what a single person is washing two or three times a week. Only people I know who wash that often have children/families. I am single and do laundry once a week. I have my own washer and dryer though and if I had a roommate who had my washer and dryer turning every other day running up my bill I would be annoyed too, though I would have just raised the rent to cover the costs.

You wash all of your clothes, sheets, towels in one load?

When I was single I would do one load a week. I alternated between whites and colors. Eventually, I did two loads every other week.

[Anonymous]

I am a single professional and I do 3 loads a week.

I don't have a massive wardrobe so I need to wash my clothes. If I didn't wash my clothes every week, I would be rewearing sweaty clothes.

I do one load of all my work clothes - dress pants, dress shirts, jackets, blouses, sweaters etc

I do one load of pajamas, underwear, socks, gym clothes, casual wear.

I do one load of towels / sheets / washclothes / dishtowels etc.

[Anonymous]

The person on the lease has all the power. Get your name -on a lease- if you want power.

[Anonymous]

What's right doesn't matter

All that matters is what's legal

[Anonymous]

You're doing an unreasonable amount of laundry.

Do one load in the unit and the rest in the communal room.

[Anonymous]

AuntCharlotte1 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

PP and the rest of you analyzing what clothes OP wears and how much she should wash are insane.

Not insane, trying to understand what a single person is washing two or three times a week. Only people I know who wash that often have children/families. I am single and do laundry once a week. I have my own washer and dryer though and if I had a roommate who had my washer and dryer turning every other day running up my bill I would be annoyed too, though I would have just raised the rent to cover the costs.

You wash all of your clothes, sheets, towels in one load?

When I was single I would do one load a week. I alternated between whites and colors. Eventually, I did two loads every other week.

So again - you washed all your clothes, sheets, towels in one load? How were you washing sheets and towels every week and your regular clothes? Those require different temp settings.

[Anonymous]

Seriously PP, WHO CARES!?!? You sound crazy, people can wash clothes however they want. This thread is about to go downhill, I can feel it.