The house mates communicate via Signal messenger groups, and it is vital for your integration that you check the groups regularly, at least twice per day to stay up to date.
If you don’t have a smartphone, Signal can be operated with a computer. We will help you set it up with one of our smartphones.
Damage risk
Do not scratch the floor, always get help to lift furniture, no matter if it’s newly renovated or old floor
Add felt pads below furniture
No tape on lacquered floors (the acid in the glue damages the lacquer)
Dining room: if you need a clean chair for yourself, tag it with your name.
Living room: no shoes or dirty feet/socks on furniture. Bare feet (with or without socks) walking in the apartment count as dirty because many people use shoes in the apartments.
Don’t vacuum ashes without the special ashes filter – the fine dust damages the machine
Kitchen
We abide by the cleaning standards of whoever has currently the highest in the house. At the moment it means: Leave no evidences – clean all surfaces used on counter, coffee station, dining table. Put all dishes etc. you used in the dishwasher. If the dishwasher is running or full, clean the dishes by hand, don’t leave them waiting for the dishwasher, or take them to wait in your own room.
Dishwasher: No sharp knives, wooden stuff, or non-sticky stuff
Fruit shaped cutting boards: No smelly food such as garlic and onion family on cutting boards for fruits.
The obviously special super sharp “Japanese” knives can’t air dry in the drying rack, please hand dry them and place them back where they belong
German trrash system: We separate in the categores “metal and plastic/wrapping”, “paper”, “glass”, “compost” and “everything else”. Please be aware that we have a money-back deposit system for some bottles.
Dinners: If you can’t provide dinner to the usual time (19:00), or if you must cancel, please announce it in the chat group so people can plan.
Doorbell codes
3 rings for dinner. At 19:00 unless otherwise stated.
4 rings for events, including shopper asking for help bringing groceries upstairs
storm ring for emergencies, such as a fire
normal ringing – we have no buzzer, please go down to open the door, it could be the post office oder delivery!
Obligatory commitments
Wednesday house plenary at 19:00
Pizza Lab cleaning between friday and next thursday
Chores
Cleaning supplies belong in the 1st upper floor bathroom
Understand the reasonging and workings of the task auction and participate
Keys
Don’t leave your keys around
If keys are found lying around, they will be sacked for security reasons
The first people to ask whether a key was found are therefore the house members
You must broadcast loss of keys immediately so that measures against burglary can be taken, for example, exchanging the locks
Food/Shopping
You can only get reimbursed if you have a receipt, be it for the house, for Pizza Lab or Activersity expenses
Reimbursement for house food expenses are balanced via an online tool in our cloud, please ask for a login and instructions
Items in pantry, fridge, and freezer are collective unless labeled with a name
Add labels to non-vegan food
The communal food budget includes vegan/vegetarian items, general hygiene products, and currently excludes:
cheese, meat, fish
pop sodas, juice, alcohol
personal hygiene items
fast-food, sweets
If you make it for the community, you can make sweets/fast-food for everyone though, and buy all necessary ingredients for it, for example for cakes & deserts
Bathroom
Towels hanging without a name label will be washed
Laundry is done for non personal items as part of task auction.
Community Fund
Community fund collects 5 EUR per month per person and is a reserve for house purchases
As an activist-in-residence or intern, we pay this fee for you
Strangers & Visitors
Guests staying overnight must be posted in the group chat to notify other residents
except one-night-stands who will be running around with the host
If you see someone running around in the house who has not been announced, ask who they are, to whom they belong or what they want. Make sure to take them to the person to whom they claim they belong to/are visiting.
Attic
Do not take or store items there without asking the owner
