The Heating

The heating is a typical radiator system in the middle, 1st floor and lower ground floor shower room with the addition of underfloor heating in the lower ground floor bedroom and shower room. There is a thermostat on the wall in the kitchen as you walk through to the living room which controls the temperature in the living room and kitchen but you can also use the valves on the individual radiators in all rooms to turn the heating up or down.

The heating is on a timer (on the front of the boiler in the cupboard off the main, 1st floor bathroom) and should come on early in the morning, turn off in the middle of the day and then back on late afternoon for the evening. If you don't need the heating on or the noise of the boiler is bothering you then turn the heating off via the dial with the symbols on the right of the front of the boiler to just the tap for hot water which is on demand.

The underfloor heating in the lower ground floor is controlled using the control pad on the wall as you enter the underfloor cupboard. Press the on button in the centre and then arrow and down for temperature control. The temperature will take a while to change, underfloor heating is not as responsive as a wall mounted radiator.

Please could you turn the heating off if you're generally finding the house too warm and would prefer the windows or doors open. Thank you.

The gas fire in the living room

The gas fire is controlled by a remote handset left on the bookcase – press the bottom left hand button at the same time as the large flame to ignite and hold these down together. You’ll hear clicking from the ignition and the flames will gradually come on followed by some cloudiness of cold air being heated inside the fire before clearing. The flame control on the right hand side of the remote gives you some control over the temperature.

Please turn the fire off when you're not using the living room. Thank you.

Hot Water

The overall potential hot water temperature is controlled via the water dial on the front of the boiler. Typically this works well and conserves use at around one-third of the way around the dial. The temperature of the water to the showers, bath, basins and kitchen sink can then be controlled using the taps.

The Oven and Microwave

The undercounter Zanussi appliance is a combined oven and microwave. Please note - When using in the microwave function use the glass plate and glass or ceramic dishes, do not use metal trays or roasting pans.

These are the relevant User Guide pages -

Rubbish and Food Waste

Please store food waste in the caddy which is under the sink in the compostable green food waste bags. Full bags can be placed in the larger caddy with a green lid in the courtyard bin store.

Loose items of waste for recycling can be placed in the round black bin in the courtyard bin store - these typically include paper, cardboard, rinsed or/wiped rigid plastic, foil (roll up messy food foil trays please), blister packs, rinsed out tins, other small metal items, rinsed glass food jars, drinks tins and glass bottles. We can't recycle soft plastics as yet locally via the main collection.

Place full bags of all other non-food and non-recyclable rubbish in the black bin in the courtyard bin store.

Thank you!