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- Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:16 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Gas Safety Certificate in 2 hours!
- Replies: 1
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emergency plumbers
thanks for this. very useful
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:38 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Urgent advice needed re German guests and recycling
- Replies: 24
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Just checked and there is a deposit of 10cents per bottle on this make. Here is a bit more background in English. They call deposit Pfland it seems-I gave you the word Depot which seems to be used more in Swiss German. http://germanylifestyle.com/shopping-in-germany/deposit-on-bottles-in-germany-pfand
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:23 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Urgent advice needed re German guests and recycling
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3100
No problem at all, glad to help. I'm in the German speaking part of Switzerland. Here too they have significant deposits on the empty beer bottles when they are from particular breweries so this is probably the reason they are taking the empties back. If you tell me the make of the beer, I will be a...
- Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:48 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Urgent advice needed re German guests and recycling
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3100
- Fri Nov 27, 2015 10:45 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: guest/visitors book
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1760
guest/visitors book
Hello all We need a new guest book as the old one is full. We have separate leaflets with information about the cottage and the area. When we started the first guest book, as first timers, we didn't write a "forward" in there and basically bought a visitors' book for people to fill in. Can...
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:58 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Cluster fly time has come round again.
- Replies: 8
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We've had a problem for the last few years >5 years in fact. They hatch in the loft. We noticed that they fly towards the light and through our old ceiling spot lights that had holes for cooling but also let the light in. Now we have changed to either pendant light fittings or modern spot lights tha...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:42 am
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: UK Agencies - English Country Cottages/Rural Retreats?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4429
We used to be with RR. At the time I chose them as they would also employ someone to do the changeovers which suited my circumstances. The commission they take is very high and they have high standards. They accept bookings on any day of the week-a minus if you are running the changeovers yourself. ...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:44 pm
- Forum: UK & Ireland
- Topic: TROUBLED BY WHAT 2016 WILL BRING UK
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2833
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:26 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: booking for summer 2017
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3288
yes 2016 is ahead but 2 of those bookings are from Germany where Sykes has launched their website. luckily I speak German but I guess most guests speak a good level of english. Interesting that Sykes have moved into Germany. A friend who works foe Dr Martins shoe care says this is a target market fo...
- Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:49 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Bookings for 2018
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4263
Re: Bookings for 2018
Only people getting married think that far aheade-richard wrote:I don't have any yet, but since we have threads running on bookings for 2016, and for 2017, I thought I'd start one for 2018
Or maybe you're a vicar?
- Mon May 11, 2015 2:11 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Sykes and how to finish with the company
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1341
I have looked at the contract (we are with Sykes). It says you need to serve a booking Cessation Notice. If the booking cessation notice is received before the 30th June then you need to make the cottage available from the booking cessation notice until the end of the peak period of that calendar ye...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:34 am
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: How many of your guests are from outside your country?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7380
Edinburgh-just for info the Swiss Germans love all things Scottish. They even hold bagpipe tattoos here-check out the major annual one in Basel. In my own experience the Swiss spend most of their income on holidays rather than cars or houses and they have a very good income with a very strong Franc....
- Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:35 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: HolidayLettings or sykes?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10908
- Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:31 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: HolidayLettings or sykes?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10908
- Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:53 am
- Forum: UK & Ireland
- Topic: The Pawson Case
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3056