BritGAF. I have some flat issues with respect to cleaning allocation and sharing the cleaning responsibilities with my flatmates. In terms of motivations, my flatmates do not care about cleaning any part of the house unless it gets really dirty/smelly (even then it's hard to motivate them). Hence one of their rooms are littered with foodboxes/bags and non-vacuumed for months. It's not their rooms I'm worried about, since that is their responsibility.
It's the communal resources we use (bathroom, kitchen, communal area). At the moment and throughout the academic year, I am the only one cleaning small messes to prevent them becoming bigger and unhygienic (this will include the more unsanitary stuff like the bathroom). They will help out if ask them to take out the rubbish or they make a large spill themselves. It's not that I want to have to have a constantly spotless flat, it's just getting basic messes cleaner and spending less time cleaning communal areas which are shared.
We have been good at keeping a tab of purchase made with each other by creating a tab on how much each owes each other for an easy one time capital flow.
So I though the only way to motivate them would be
a) create a tab of cleaning duties per week to be shared equally between us.
b) create an incentive for them to be complete i.e. a small fine to be shared by the other flatmates if it wasn't completed.
At the moment, they do not seem at all keen on the idea, which I understand from the incentivisation policy but disagree fully from the sharing idea.
How do I solve this? Am I being too harsh and dictatorial?
