On arrival

Bring in bins from street corner and place beside garage wall western side
Open windows upstairs to let fresh air in

Phone Reception

Is hit and miss at best. Connect to WiFi and enable WiFi calls and then you’ll be right to make and receive calls so long as you are in the house.

Shoes

Shoes off policy inside the house please. And you are welcome to use the communal gum boots and save getting your good shoes wet / muddy.

Heating

1. Bathrooms: When you arrive, go round to all the bathrooms and slide on the switch to the side of the small white control panel on each bathroom wall to activate the underfloor heating. That will make the bathrooms yummy and cozy and will also help generate heat throughout the house.

2. Downstairs: There is also a central heating system for downstairs which we will turn on via the app before you get there. Suggest you turn the temperature down to 17 or 18 degrees when you go to bed.

3. Upstairs: There are split systems in each of the bedrooms with remote controls should you need them

Drinking water

Water throughout the house is safe to drink and delicious. (We highly recommend filling up your bottles before you leave.) It is a blend of rain water and mineral spring water and has been 4 times filtered for purity. Please do not drink from any of the taps outside the house or in the yard as these water sources are not filtered.

Hot Water

There is a Rinnai gas hot water system that feeds some of the bathrooms. Where applicable there is a control panel on the wall in each bathroom where you can set the exact temperature of the hot water you want to come out. Occasionally it seems to turn itself off. If you find you are only getting cold water, please make sure the Rinnai Control panel is on in that bathroom and then the hot water should instantly come out to the specified temperature.

Other troubleshooting options for no hot water

1. If no Rinnai control panel, the other troubleshooting option is to make sure the hot water power switch beside the coffee machine is on - it’s the switch that has tape over it saying please don’t turn off. (It should never be turned off - it takes about half a day to warm that system up.)

2. The only other issue is that we could be out of gas and need to switch over to the other gas bottle. Please call one of the help numbers and we’ll talk you through how to do this.

Fireplace

If using the fire - please make sure the flue is open - there’s a chain to the left hand side which needs to be released to a loose position (and then you can tuck it back out of the way) to allow smoke out the chimney. You’ll know if it is not open as the smoke will start filling up the living room (!)

Groceries

You need to BYO all your own food. The closest grocery store is in Lithgow which is 20 mins drive west and has both Coles and Woolworths. For more interesting shopping and dining experiences head to Blackheath / Katoomba / Leura / Wentworth Falls which are 35-45 mins drive. There are basic condiments provided at the house such as olive oil, salt, pepper, tea, honey etc. If you use up the last of anything please let us know, so that we know to bring up replacements with the next visitor. There is a proper italian espresso machine with grinder attached, if you want to bring your own coffee beans.

Rubbish

Bins are either on the RHS of the garage or out on the street across the road. Please place all recycling - hard plastics, metals, glass and paper - in the bins with the yellow lids. All other rubbish please place in the dark green bin. Compost kitchen scraps (plants only – no meat please) can go in compost bin beside woodshed

BBQ

There is a weber BBQ on the verandah which you are welcome to use.

Leaving Checklist

Clean kitchen and BBQ (if used)
Ensure fire is completely out and close flue on fireplace
Take out all rubbish and put bins out on street corner.
Empty water out of coffee machine (so it doesn’t attract ants.)
Take all foodstuffs that you brought back home with you.
Leave used towels on the floor near the laundry
Gum boots back inside the house (so spiders don’t take up residence in them).
Close all windows
Go round all bathrooms and turn off under floor heating, lights and heated towel rails. (Basically turn off all switches in bathrooms.)
Turn off all air con – check both upstairs bedrooms and downstairs central system in foyer.
Return key to lockbox.

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