Reasonable to wash hair in a washing-up sink?

Tinwheeler

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned the unpleasantness of finding a stranger's hair in the plug hole of a washing up sink. Ugh!

In the hair washers defence, I took a look in the sink when she was finished, and it was spotless.

But could easily not have been.

I wonder if the wardens have been on their customer care course yet?

briantimber

Don't mention the curly ones in the showers....

Sorry, off topic again, I'll find my cushion...

Alphonso Delard

I find, (as I have done on many times, on both CC and privately owned sites), left over dish washing mess (ie bits of food in the bottom of the sink), as repulsive as I would finding hair. Maybe it's just my OCD, but I really dislike having to move other
people's scraps in the bottom of the sink before I start my own washing up.

I'd rather make the next person wait a couple of minutes and leave the sink how I'd expect to find it, it always gets rinsed down and then wiped over with a dish cloth to remove all traces of my washing up, left over Fairy bubbles included.

Wildwood

The sinks are for dishwashing and are clearly labelled so there is no excuse for using them to wash your hair. The toilet cleaning times are also made clear to you so you need to go when they are open. There is usually an alternative toilet facility although
that might not be suityable for hairwashing so I am not sure about that.

Having started when told off by the cleaner I suppose she had little option but to finish but two wrongs do not make a right and wardens should not be rude in the way suggested.

Lin Thack

Personally, I wouldn't want to wash my hair in public; particularly not next to someone washing up their dishes. The shower block is the correct place for personal hygiene and that should have been reinforced by the Warden either at the office or at the
appropriate caravan. I have never used this facility yet, but I would be unhappy to find hairs in the sink I might be prepping fruit and veg in.

spk

I have to say I don't get why anyone other than tent people use wash up sinks when you have a sink in your van, same goes for shower and toilet. In fact I often wonder why we use sites with amenities as we never ever use them

moulesy

Would it be OK, having washed my hair in the washing up sink, to use the tumble drier in the laundry to get it dry? Or is there a risk that it might shrink and look silly when I put it back on? 

spk

wouldn't bother me as we don't use laundry equipment either

Goldie146

I can't imagine wanting to wash my hair in such a public place. Don't your clothes get wet unless you take the upper ones off?

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ValDa

 

I have to say I don't get why anyone other than tent people use wash up sinks when you have a sink in your van, same goes for shower and toilet. In fact I often wonder why we use sites with amenities as we never ever use them

Other than the vans toilet we always use the site facilities wherever we go , shower,dish washing and some laundry. If the facilities offered are not up to scratch we go somewhere else, this way we ( rather me) don't spend our  holiday lugging large quantities
of water about, splash water about  in a caravan that has enough trouble  with keeping rain out never mind introducing  any more AND we actually meet and speak to other campers  at the same time. 

Same here!  The caravan sink is too small, similarly the shower,  the water supply too sparse and not powerful enough, and everything all needs to be supplied with water and the waste removed.  The 'sanitary block' is one of the best sources of recommendations
of routes, campsites, and 'must-see' places nearby, plus of course restaurants, shopping, etc.

Cartledge

Don't have a problem with people washing their hair anywhere. I recall years ago my 12 year old daughter had to wash her hair in our washing up bowl on a site with no facilities. It was on Mull, and the performance was done in the open air, I rinsed her hair with buckets of very cold water from the site tap and a plastic portable bilge pump. We laughed at the squeals of agony at the bone chilling experience!

Live and Let Live. It needn't directly affect you. Move on with a smile.....

brue

The forensic examination of what fellow "campers" are doing never ceases to amaze me...what next I wonder. 

BrianandElaine

I think both parties were wrong in this instance.  The wardens could have waited until others left or the woman left and spoke to her quietly.   The woman should not have been washing her hair in the dish washing/ food preparation area, there are usually
signs up saying dish washing/veg prep only no washing clothes etc.   I have a colleague at work (with long black/grey greasy hair) who used to brush her hair in our kitchen area regularly, the other girls were speaking about it.   When I witnessed it I just
made a comment 'you don't brush your hair in the kitchen do you other people prepare their lunch and make cups of tea/coffee here and we dont want your hairs all over the place'   she has never done it since.   As a child it was drummed into me that a kitchen
in not a place for brushing hair or washing hair, that is done in the bathroom/shower.  I have drummed it into my kids.   I see the dishwashing/veg prep area as a kitchen for a lot of people which is why I think it is wrong to wash your hair there.   We always
use our van for washing dishes, but the facilities for showers as ours is just a small cubicle.