🏡 Indoor Manual:
♻️ Waste
- Sorting: kitchen → household waste, paper, glass.
- Containers:
- Towards the cemetery → household waste.
- Heading towards Bédoin (D138) on the right-hand side → household waste, paper, PMC, glass.
- Heading towards Utile St Pierre de Vassols (D974) on the right-hand side → same.
- Baskets in the back kitchen for transport.
📶 Wifi & Electricity
- Password: on the door of the cupboard above the microwave.
- Network: Livebox (house) & Amplifi (pool).
- Alarm: cupboard in the back kitchen, only to be activated during absence
- Fuses: cupboard in the back kitchen.
- ❗ Warning: do not use dishwasher + washing machine + air conditioning/heating at the same time = power cut.
- Main switch: wall in the left bedroom.
🔑 Doors & Keys
- Storage room = private.
- Exterior doors: lift the handle before turning the key.
- Keys hanging upon arrival above the microwave: front door + garage door.
- Remote controls:
- Blue: gate (largest button, opens after ±5 sec).
- Black: garage door.
- Spare front door key remains in the key safe.
🧹 Cleaning
- Upon departure: house tidy, dishwasher empty, fridge empty, bins empty.
- Cleaning: Saturday 10 am–3 pm.
- Contact: Concierge - Villa Armajeva
🚑 First Aid Kit
- Anti-allergy tablets, cortisone cream (see info online).
- Mosquitoes → spray or lotion (beware of tiger mosquitoes).
- Wasp/bee sting → sugar, vinegar, menthol toothpaste, raw onion.
- Bite Away: heating pen against bite itching, available at local pharmacy.
- Emergency Numbers – Villa Armajeva
🚭 Smoking
- Prohibited inside the house (smoke detectors present).
❄️ Air Conditioning & Heating
- AC: keep doors & windows closed.
- Living areas: during the day, max. 6–8°C cooler than outside.
- Bedrooms: at night 24°C ideal for sleeping with duvet.
- Heating: use only in cold weather, set thermostats correctly.
🍽 Kitchen
- Check fridge operation upon arrival (back kitchen) and freezer (garage).
- Oven manual: drawer under the microwave.
- Dishwasher: use supplied tablets.
- Hand soap & detergent provided.
- Tablecloths: drawer under microwave and wooden table drawer.
- Cloths and tea towels: drawer under coffee machine.
- Coffee: Smeg espresso, Smeg filter, Dolce Gusto.
- Extras: kettle, toaster, citrus juicer.
🧺 Back Kitchen
- Fridge, washing machine, dryer, drying rack, vacuum cleaner, iron and ironing board.
- Manuals → drawer under the microwave.
- Backpack, shopping bags, cushions for patio chairs available.
📺 TV
- TV Vlaanderen / Netflix → ‘home’ button.
🛏 Bedrooms
- Master: 2× (90×200)
- Right: 2× (80×200)
- Left: 2× (90×200)
- All: ready with summer or winter duvets, fitted sheets, mattress protectors and mosquito repellent plug-ins.
🚱 Drainage
- No blocking waste in sink, washbasin, shower, toilets.
- Unclogging costs = tenant.
📚 Miscellaneous
- Books & games → old chest in hall + coffee table.
🏡 Outdoor Manual:
🛟 Pool Safety
- Always supervise children.
- Open/close the cover with the key switch (garage). Hold the button until fully opened/closed.
- Use the motion alarm when the cover is open with code:
1234User Manual - Heating from May: close the cover at night to retain heat.
- Swimming at your own risk: alarm must always be activated. Owners accept no liability.
🧼 Maintenance and Cleanliness
- Automatic filtration & cleaning: swimming possible.
- Leaves/insects → use the net.
- Maintenance by a professional, usually on Saturdays.
- No self-tanning lotion (damages pool edges).
💡 Lighting and Heating
- Pool & poolhouse lighting: switch in garage, turn off at night.
- Terrace heating: 1 h, button near garage door.
🌬 Sun, Wind & Shutters
- Close or half-close shutters during the day against heat, according to sticker.
- Secure shutters to prevent damage from Mistral wind.
🔌 Electricity & Vehicles
- Electric car charging not possible.
🍖 Barbecue
- Light the left burner: others will follow automatically (lid closed).
- Clean the barbecue and grills (25 € penalty if omitted).
- Spare PROPANE bottle: exchange at Utile St Pierre de Vassols (± 34 €).
🌿 Garden
- Automatic irrigation in the evening: do not touch taps or systems.
- Garden maintenance every 14 days: allow access on Monday.
- Herbs available: rosemary, parsley, basil, coriander, chives, mint, caper bush.
- Lemons at the front door: free to use (twist to pick).
🚭 Outdoor Rules
- No cigarette butts in the garden (cost deducted from deposit).
- Barbecue only on the terrace: any other fire forbidden.
- Close parasols when absent: store the cushions.
- Do not move the furniture.
- No tents/campervans on the property/driveway.
- Video surveillance in place.
🐝 Insects & Nature
- Beehives 200 m away: bees may come to drink from the pool.
- Fewer bees during transhumance (end of May).
- Bee → remove stinger after sting.
- Wasp → can sting multiple times.
- Hornet → not attracted to sweet things, aggressive near nest.
🚫 Animals
- No animals allowed.
