Cart Use Guidelines |
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Common Facilities Team
Revised 04/20/25
CARTS: Wooden -vs- Poly or Steel Carts
All Heartwood residents share the use of all utility carts that are not privately owned. We have 2 types of utility carts for use by residents:
We use the large wooden garden carts to schlep our groceries and other items from the parking lot to our homes. We also use them to transport laundry to and from the common house laundry room. These garden carts are a very important part of living at Heartwood. They can hold a lot! Please use them. Our central pathway is designed for foot traffic, garden carts, bikes, and the occasional vehicle. Driving cars on the path is the exception, not the rule.
The black plastic and steel Gorilla carts are used for landscaping-type purposes. These carts can hold up to 1200 lbs! Use these for transporting dirty items such as yard waste and manure and cut wood.
Some cultural etiquette to using our utility carts:
Revised 04/20/25
CARTS: Wooden -vs- Poly or Steel Carts
All Heartwood residents share the use of all utility carts that are not privately owned. We have 2 types of utility carts for use by residents:
- Large wooden Vermont-made garden carts – only use these carts to transport clean items such as groceries, laundry, small children, bagged trash, clean recycling, etc…
- Black plastic or steel Gorilla utility carts – only use for transporting dirty items, like yard waste, dirt, manure, tree limbs, cut wood, etc…
We use the large wooden garden carts to schlep our groceries and other items from the parking lot to our homes. We also use them to transport laundry to and from the common house laundry room. These garden carts are a very important part of living at Heartwood. They can hold a lot! Please use them. Our central pathway is designed for foot traffic, garden carts, bikes, and the occasional vehicle. Driving cars on the path is the exception, not the rule.
The black plastic and steel Gorilla carts are used for landscaping-type purposes. These carts can hold up to 1200 lbs! Use these for transporting dirty items such as yard waste and manure and cut wood.
Some cultural etiquette to using our utility carts:
- Return carts to central storage locations after use. Don’t leave them sitting on your front entryway or in the middle of the path. The fire department requires us to keep the pathways clear for emergency access.
- A cart that is left in your yard or on your front entryway will be assumed to be in use, which means it is one less cart in circulation for others to use. After unloading, return the cart to a central area. Please share the carts.
- If a cart is broken or has a low/flat tire, don’t use it. If you can pump up the flat tire yourself, please do so. There is a rechargeable tire pump on the west exterior wall of the carport in the east parking lot for pumping up cart and bike tires.
- If a cart needs a repair that you cannot do for whatever reason, leave the cart up close to the workshop and then let someone on CFT know. We will fix the cart and return it to circulation.
- We also have standard wheelbarrows for moving landscaping materials and yard waste. Remember to only use the Gorilla carts (black plastic or steel) to move dirty items.
- If you must use a wooden garden cart for transporting yard waste or cut wood, line it with a tarp first and only use the heavy duty carts with the solid tires. The carts with solid tires are the only ones to use “off road.”
- Keep the bed of the utility carts clean. If you notice a dirty garden cart, please go ahead and sweep it out, even if you didn’t make the mess.