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Guide to Services - B Section
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Contents:
B
Bathroom Cleaning
Beds
Bike Rack
Service Guide Index
A B C
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G H I J K
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| Bathroom Cleaning |
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Each day housekeeping
staff enter bathrooms at least once to clean and disinfect
the plumbing fixtures and shower areas.� Once a week,
a thorough cleaning is scheduled when additional tasks
may be performed.
We will post a sign on each bathroom's door indicating
the hours it will be closed and unavailable for use until
our cleaning is completed.
The bathrooms must be closed to avoid injury to residents
while we clean.� Our cleaning generally leaves the floor
temporarily wet and slippery.� The cleaning products we
use should not be applied with others nearby.� While housekeepers
work in individual bathrooms, residents will be directed
to use nearby bathrooms elsewhere in the building.
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| Beds |
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Bunked Beds
Many residents find it desirable to bunk their beds.�
This can increase the amount of floor space in your
room.
A bunked bed is created using the two sets of wooden
bed ends and two metal bedsprings already in your
room.� In addition, a hardened metal pin (approximately
�� in diameter and 2‑� in length) must be
inserted into the predrilled holes in each of the
four corner posts of the headboards.� Metal pins
are available from the service desk in your building
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To create a bunked bed
- Attach two headboards to one bedspring.� This becomes
the bottom unit of the bunked bed.
- Insert a metal pin into each of the four corner
posts of the headboards.
- Attach two foot boards to the remaining bedsprings.�
This becomes the upper unit of the bunked bed.
- Set the upper unit on top of the lower unit.� There
are predrilled holes in the bottom of the footboards
that will receive the metal pins and lock the unit
together.
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* * * FOR YOUR OWN
SAFETY * * *
You must use
four metal pins to safely set up
and bunk a bed.�
Do not substitute
your own "pins" for the ones provided
by the University as they may not fit or perform
equally.
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The metal pins
stabilize the unit and prevent separation of the
top and bottom bed units.� Removing one or more
of the metal pins could cause the top bed unit to
slip off of the bottom bed unit.
Loft beds are provided in a limited
number of rooms, mostly triples.� A loft bed is
like a bunked bed except the bottom bedspring and
mattress have been removed to provide space for
some of your furniture, like the dresser and desk.
Our loft beds are installed with hardened
metal pins in each corner post (just like the bunked
bed) and with a metal support brace along the back
of the unit, between the bottom bed ends.� This
brace provides stability for the entire unit and
reduces side-to-side swaying.� Do not remove
this metal brace for any reason.
Problems with your loft bed or any of your furniture
should be reported to x4-WORK.
Remember, obtain additional metal pins from your
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Lofts - Building Your
Own Platform Beds
For fire safety and personal safety
reasons, loft structures and platform beds (except for
University issued loft beds described above) are
not permitted in any residence hall space.� This is
a change in policy from previous years when lofts were
permitted in certain designated bedrooms.
Long Beds
Do your friends call you "Stretch"?�
Can you read the wattage on light bulbs without turning
your head upwards?� Are you taller than 6'5"?� You
may need a longer mattress and bed frame!
We do have a limited number of beds and mattresses for
residents taller than 6'5".� Taller residents typically
inform the Resident Life Assignments staff of these special
needs, and the Assignments staff passes the request along
to us.� Usually before fall semester check-in, we receive
the request for an extra long bed and can have the longer
one in your room before check-in.
If, after checking in, you decide you need a longer bed,
call x4-WORK.� As long as we have additional
beds in storage, we can respond to these requests.� We
will need to limit these requests to people taller than
6'5" as our available supply is limited.
| Mattress Sizes: |
| Regular bed: 36" x 75" |
| Long bed: 38"
x 86" |
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| Bike
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Bicycle racks are installed outside many, but not all
residence halls for the convenience of residents.� A
few halls have a room in the basement where bikes may
be stored by residents during the semesters.
Over the summer months, if our staff find bikes locked
to exterior bike racks or left in the basement bike
rooms, we will remove the bikes which we consider "abandoned"
and begin a year-long process for disposing of them.�
So, please, Do Not Leave Your Bikes With Us Once
You Leave School for the year or we'll assume
you want us to dispose of your property.
Each summer our staff looks for bikes left in and around
residence halls and tags them with a notice telling
the owner that they will be removed to a storage facility
if they have not been moved.� If the bikes are not moved
after two weeks, we assume the owner is not somewhere
on campus during the summer and the bikes are abandoned.�
We will cut any chain and, if need be, any high security
V-lock and remove them to a storage facility on campus.�
Abandoned bicycles are catalogued by location and serial
number and will be held for one year from the date we
pick them up, consistent with campus policies for managing
lost and abandoned property.
If you return to campus in the fall and realize you
left your bike here all summer, we've likely removed
it from where you last stored it.� If you want it back,
please call us at x4-5680 and ask to speak with
a member of our Inventory Crew.� You will need
to supply proof of ownership (e.g., receipt, serial
number or other proof) and a photo ID in order to claim
your bike.� You will not be reimbursed for damage to
bicycle chains or locks.
Bikes which are not claimed after one year are turned
over to Terrapin Trader for sale along with other University
surplus property.
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