Who Is Responsible For Cleaning Communal Areas In A HMO?

So am I required to wash up for them or is it ok for them to leave dirty plates, cups ect all over the communal areas?

What happens when a landlord has a cleaner and the cleaning workload changes from different H.m.o residents changing where some tenants are more tidy than others and clean up after their selves and tenants fall out with each other and start being less considerate caring and respectful to their fellow housemates by leaving greasey washing up in the sink and on worktop for days or weeks, leaving blood in communal sinks,leaving nose matter on shower screens,not emptying bins when full and letting flies a mass, storing of bicycles and personal belongings in communal areas,smoking bad smelling substance outside,not flushing the toilets and leaving ships in the bend and up the pan on purpose, to name just a few.

I totally understand what Mike is talking about... On top of that I am a live-in Landlord which makes our tenants think I'm responsible for everything... Sometimes I feel like a child minder, I wonder if there are really grown-ups living in our house... And our tenants are all professionals over age 30!
I can understand that tenants need to be protected from greedy irresponsible landlords. But landlords need to be more protected from nasty, ignorant, lazy and selfish tenants, too. That's missing!
I wonder why cleaning is such a problem here anyway. I can't help mention that in Germany e.g. it's absolutely normal that people renting rooms in shared flats and houses also have to share and organise the weekly cleaning amongst themselves. I mean, come on... with 4 people... that means you anyway only have to clean every 4 weeks. What's the flippin' problem? They all want a clean bathroom and kitchen but most of them don't wanna do anything to keep it that way. Sorry, but that doesn't work.
However, after reading the advice given here, I guess we'll put up the rent and get a cleaner in. They could have saved themselves a bit of money but it seems they all have enough...

Oh and a question: we had a terrible blockage in the waste water pipe... It cost us a few hundreds to sort out that mess plus some broken tiles that needed to be fixed again.
And guess what came out the pipe? Big fat tampons and stuff like that. The first thing my parents taught me when my menstrual cycle started was not to flush any of that stuff down the toilet. But of course none of them did it. It magically slipped from the bin into the toilet...
Now my husband thinks we should charge them all and make them share the cost.
Are we allowed to do that?

Birgit.......you are very much right about Hmo drains, shower drains, drain hoppers, kitchen sink drains, hand wash basin u bend drainage, toilet swan neck bends, the thing we have extracted and flushed out from Hmo drains, large bath towels,enough hair to make a wig,ping pong balls,a t spoon,bic razor,wipes,razor plastic safety covers,tweezers,plug hole chain, sanitary towels,wall mirror screws,wedding ring,china cup handle.....all got down and in there by accident I guess. Not cheap and time consuming to rectify.

I have come to the conclusion Rent to Rent hmo's should be more tightly regulated than ever due to the grey areas where cleaning and repairs come into question with tenants, the landlord manager seems to have more of a free hand to fob off major and even minor remedial repairs than a Mr Responsible look after you tenants manager, after all most rent to rent landlord managers are short term adventures.....Sorry Ventures.

While unblocking a hmo drain we traced the blockage down to a deflated rugby ball...I must say whoever put it there or how it got there, it was a quality Gilbert Ball....I think we were the only one's that scored a try.

We have introduced a daily hmo communal area cleaning regime in a managed house, from being a twice monthly clean,except for the weekends,the housemates all chip in the extra revenue.

Hmo daily cleaning is definitely the way to go, I know it adds extra costs, but helps 100% and monitors keeping your finger tips on the cleaning maintenance and repairs required housemate's will pay that extra....plus it identifies the more uncaring mates to house hygiene and slobby one's in the property.

Is Regular Wheelie Black Bins, Recycling Bins and Green Bin cleaning and disinfecting a must to be put onto the H.m.o. Shared Housing Cleaning Maintenance Schedule along with sweeping the bin storage store??? or shell we just ignore it???

Here's a question, should the washing up e.g., baked on food source pans,frying pans,dirty drink glasses, mugs,plates with leftover food on covered in grease be the responsibility of the onsite cleaner to clear up and clean?....or down to the housemate customers.

@Mike
Usually the tenants, but it depends on your agreement/arrangement with the cleaner/tenants.

I am living in 7 rooms house, administrated by private renting company. Living alone since 2 months by now, all other tenants are gone. My 'landlord' is asking me to clean entire house, 2 bathrooms on 2 floors even if I am using only one bathroom myself since I moved here. Also he is asking me to clean all of property - tons of things being left behind by previous occupants in shared kitchen, frozen food in 3 refrigerators, all the stuff left behind everywhere by many people who lives here before.

Parts from a broken bike in garden area, never belongs to me, lying there since forever. No one else left in that house, its now my responsibility by any way to carry on deep cleaning of entire property including areas I never used myself and dealing with all of lost property abandoned there just because I am last person who still lives in that house..?

Daniel, if what you are saying is true, and there is no reason to doubt what you are saying "He's Taking the Piss"

Has ny one got any ideas of how to sort out damages?.Its quite easy to put the rent up and include cleaning but what about fag burns in sofas or pictures ruined...

All I can say is that until that buffoon johnson OK'd the new rule about not being able to include extra costs my life has been hell. Who ever voted for him only have themselves to blame.

Hi I've lived at my place 6 years now there's 6 people who live here yet I'm the only one who cleans the whole house cleans the drive does the front garden back garden then got people not putting there has and electric on been going on 6 years now when you message the landlord and complain he just says sort it out between yourself all I want is my rent you lot have to sort the house out when I moved in he never gave me a tenancy still hasn't yet I'm the only one who is cleaning a 6 bedroom house

Hi, my landlord has a weekly cleaner to clean communal areas in the house share. Hi were I was told that I need to buy cleaning products for the cleaner to use. Is this not the cleaners duty as she gets paid to clean. Even though I clean after myself and buy my own cleaning products?