An ongoing battle in my Aquatic Center (AC) is that cleaning staff use cleaning agents to clean windows, all the metal fixtures (and there are lots of them), 3 shower stalls, and floors while people are swimming, at at prime time - lunch hour times from 12 to 2. Despite my pleas to clean after hours, they insist that the cleaning be done while we are swimming. I know many will get on my case about this, but I've been a die hard runner/swimmer, tennis player for 35 years. I value my health and breathing in cleaning chemicals just seems to contradict the point of exercising. My argument is that they wait until classes empty out before cleaning, yet feel no need to do the same in the AC. If I could find another AC, I would leave, but I don't feel this a battle I should have to fight in this milennium. Oh, and I'm a senior who suffers chronic sinus infections. Ironically, they don't enforce the shower rule, and that really skeeves me out.:bitching:
When my pool converted to salt water this Spring they dumped 15 huge bags of salt in the pool within 15 minutes while we were swimming. That night I came down with a vicious sinus infection. When I spoke to the manager, she replied, "salt is safe. You put it on your food." The world is run by idiots.
I have never put 15 bags of salt into my food. In fact, I doubt very much that I have consumed 15 bags of salt in my 52+ year life.;)
My attempts to get the right phone # has been very unsuccessful. I may have to go to the local board of health, or even worse, contact someone at the State level, but I was on the State website and couldn't find anything relating to this issue.
Wanted to update "Fitness and Wellness Center's" decision about my request to clean after hours or at the end of the day.
They agreed to keep the cleaning staff out of the Aquatic Center for 2 hours a day. Although I appreciate it, esp. since the times fall within my usual workout time, it leaves me in a position of having to inhale toxic chemicals if I have to workout earlier or later times in a given day. I am just recovering from pneumonia, despite trying to do everything possible to stay healthy. If I could find another pool nearby, I would join, but this is it for me. The bottom line is they have a new cleaning company, and apparently, cleaning is done at the cleaning staff's convenience and schedule. Argghhh. It makes no sense to me why they need to polish metal and shine windows while the center is full of people exercising (the majority of whom are seniors who already have compromised immune systems.) Should I thank them or continue on my quest to keep cleaning out of the center when people are exercising? They sure wouldn't do this in a spin class or yoga class. I can't find anything online regarding this issue.
Talk to other members (not just swimmers) and get their feeling for it. Maybe get a petition going and turn the signatures over to the managements and/or cleaning company.
Dan
We once got over 30 signatures to get rid of the 30+ classes/lessons they hold in the lap pool and it went nowhere. 30 signatures only included swimmers that came within the 2 hours I swim. If I could've spent full days there, I would have probably obtained over 100 signatures. They don't care what the members want - it's all about $
