Advice - I may be losing my perspective!
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Nothing annoys me more than marks on walls! Suitcases, fingerprints..that kind of stuff. I have found a lifesaving product: Vigor Gomme Nettoyante. A rectangular white sponge sold in an orange box of three from French supermarkets. You wet it slightly, rub carefully and goodbye marks. I have removed some 'stinkers' with this little baby!HelenB wrote:Does anyone have any hints and tips for getting marks off walls without repainting?
See http://www.vigor-nettoyants.com/pages/n ... tidien.htm
Suitcase marks, yes, very annoying. We had strange footprint/shoe marks quite a long way up the wall in one of the bedrooms and could not fathom why, I don't remember booking Spiderman in for a holiday. Then it came to us people grabbing shoes and clobbering mossies or whatever.
I usually find just a cloth and warm soapy water does the trick, although I came unstuck once when as I was rubbing a dark mark the cream wall started developing bright red streaks. Hub screamed to leave it alone, the paint was bleeding. Anyway, luckily we nabbed a big pot of the paint from the builders and use that to touch up areas, although it seemed darker (probably the builders watering the original one down) but hub mixed some stuff with it and we get away with it, just.
I usually find just a cloth and warm soapy water does the trick, although I came unstuck once when as I was rubbing a dark mark the cream wall started developing bright red streaks. Hub screamed to leave it alone, the paint was bleeding. Anyway, luckily we nabbed a big pot of the paint from the builders and use that to touch up areas, although it seemed darker (probably the builders watering the original one down) but hub mixed some stuff with it and we get away with it, just.
Don't waste energy on things you can't change.
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We had some American guests staying in our villa in Orlando who put our cordless electric kettle on the gas hob.... I rest my case.
We have just had some guests leave our cottage in Northumberland and in the visitors book they wrote: "we didn't know how to work the washing machine" the machine is a large capacity American machine, even i could work it..the instructions were right on top of the machine..
Also they wrote "could have done with an oven mitt" there was one right next to the cooker, one of those new silicone type,
http://www.legourmetchef.com/Temp_Produ ... ccessories&
we brought it back from America to save keep buying the cloth ones and having to throw them out all the time.
Now I dont know if the 8 that were staying were all blind,or blind drunk on the 2 bottles of wine I left for them, no mention of the wine or flowers in the visitors book though...
We have just had some guests leave our cottage in Northumberland and in the visitors book they wrote: "we didn't know how to work the washing machine" the machine is a large capacity American machine, even i could work it..the instructions were right on top of the machine..
Also they wrote "could have done with an oven mitt" there was one right next to the cooker, one of those new silicone type,
http://www.legourmetchef.com/Temp_Produ ... ccessories&
we brought it back from America to save keep buying the cloth ones and having to throw them out all the time.
Now I dont know if the 8 that were staying were all blind,or blind drunk on the 2 bottles of wine I left for them, no mention of the wine or flowers in the visitors book though...
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Hello Stephen,
I do sympathise! It's so disappointing to make a lot of effort - wine, flowers - and then be confronted with 'niggly' complaints and no acknowledgement of the trouble you have obviously taken.
Goodness me, an oven glove - which you had already, I note - dare I suggest a guest might even go to the expense of purchasing the odd little 'missing' (!) item.....?
I hope you come into a run of appreciative guests
Jenny
I do sympathise! It's so disappointing to make a lot of effort - wine, flowers - and then be confronted with 'niggly' complaints and no acknowledgement of the trouble you have obviously taken.
Goodness me, an oven glove - which you had already, I note - dare I suggest a guest might even go to the expense of purchasing the odd little 'missing' (!) item.....?
I hope you come into a run of appreciative guests
Jenny
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We supply a decent bottle of champagne as part of the welcome pack - on the website we say the welcome pack includes a bottle of wine; we figure it's a nice surprise when they get there and find it's something more special to start their holiday with.
We have never had any reference to it made by departing guests, other than one lady who remarked candidly, on being prompted (I had begun to wonder whether the caretakers were actually leaving the stuff out for guests!) that, funnily enough, she preferred red wine....
So guess what's going to be left out of the welcome pack next year!!
We have never had any reference to it made by departing guests, other than one lady who remarked candidly, on being prompted (I had begun to wonder whether the caretakers were actually leaving the stuff out for guests!) that, funnily enough, she preferred red wine....
So guess what's going to be left out of the welcome pack next year!!
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be
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There's none so queer as folk, Jen! And it's the same the world over.
I'm the only normal one.....
Goats unite!
I'm the only normal one.....
Goats unite!
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Makes you laugh doesn't it. I did have a guest once who said there was no cheese grater, never mind the expensive stuff eh ? but of course there is a cheese grater now.
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We also once had a guest leave a message in the visitors book
that there was no cheese grater !! But there was a cheese grater in the drawer... I did email them and explain that they must have overlooked it as it was and still is in the drawer...
None so queer as folk !! None so daft as folk more like.
that there was no cheese grater !! But there was a cheese grater in the drawer... I did email them and explain that they must have overlooked it as it was and still is in the drawer...
None so queer as folk !! None so daft as folk more like.
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Being a nosy sort of critter, the first thing I do when I arrive somewhere is to explore the cupboards. Then I arrange everything to suit the way I work (kitchen eg) - if you're somewhere for one or two weeks, it's in your interests to check everything out! Or so you'd have thought.
Someone on another thread suggested that you send the contents of your guest manual to your guests together with the confirmation of receipt of balance, map etc. I think this is an extremely good idea, and have started to do so: I suspect people are more inclined to take helpful advice/hints on board when they can read it at their leisure before their arrival (more enjoyable in a sense as it helps them feel the holiday is imminent) - then when they get there and see the property, it all makes sense and they can organise and orientate themselves more quickly. It doesn't solve everything, but goes some way towards helping eg finding the tumble drier and freezer!
Someone on another thread suggested that you send the contents of your guest manual to your guests together with the confirmation of receipt of balance, map etc. I think this is an extremely good idea, and have started to do so: I suspect people are more inclined to take helpful advice/hints on board when they can read it at their leisure before their arrival (more enjoyable in a sense as it helps them feel the holiday is imminent) - then when they get there and see the property, it all makes sense and they can organise and orientate themselves more quickly. It doesn't solve everything, but goes some way towards helping eg finding the tumble drier and freezer!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be