New Hut Maintenance System

Discussion about the possible purchase of a hut in the Lake District has brought to the fore a lot of concerns from members about the current state of our existing huts. It is accepted that, as well as aspiring to purchase a new hut, we also need to improve hut maintenance. Money is not an issue and it is fair to say that the budget allocated to maintenance each year is never used up or in any way limited by the Committee. What is an issue however is help from members, particularly in terms of project management. If you feel that you can help in any way then please contact:

Minor items
Many of the concerns are minor and could be quickly addressed if the custodians were aware of them. Minor things can be a major issue to a member visiting a hut, for example the lack of corkscrew! To a custodian who is visiting their hut, something like this is not likely to be obvious, as they do not live there.

Feedback
To square the circle we are going to introduce a new hut maintenance system so that after your visit you give feedback to the Club. In each Hut will be a Maintenance Feed Back Form, where you can note any problems, concerns or even compliment your custodian. This can be returned to the Club by post:

Alternatively use the on-line form which will be automatically emailed to the Club.
OR - Download a copy of the form.

Neil Hewertson has volunteered to run this system for us. Once received the information will put into a database through which the relevant custodian or huts sub-committee person will be informed. Once the issue is dealt with it will crossed off the list of outstanding issues.