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Cleaning - Housekeeping

A separate, standard housekeeping charge applies to each rental. It covers post-rental cleaning. There is no covered housekeeping service during the rental period. The housekeeping charge includes use of linens, towels and bath mats from our supplies.*

Our cleaning service is contracted to perform normal housekeeping tasks, including washing linens and towels, making the beds, and cleaning and sanitizing the bathrooms and the kitchen. If you use our pots and pans and high-temperature cooking glassware, we expect you to clean those items. Also, please clean after your cooking spills, in particular we ask that you leave the cook-top and the oven as clean as you found them.

The renting guests are requested to perform the following "common-sense" simple tasks before departing:
— wash dishes or place in dish washer and start the washing cycle (no need to empty dishwasher)
— place furniture, if moved, back in original position
— remove trash from the house (place into in-ground can)**
— remove recyclables to bin in left shed (Casa Pacis) or into in-ground trash can at top or driveway ***
— close windows and lower shades, lock house
— remove your foods from the refrigerator
— start washing cycle**** for all those items which you used from our supplies in addition to the regular rental allotment*****.

It is OK to depart even when clothes- and dishwasher are still running.

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* As "regular rental allotment" we provide the linens that are on the beds upon arrival of the guests, as well as one large towel, one hand towel, and one wash towel per guest per rental period. However, there are additional supplies in the closets. As a courtesy, our renting guests are welcome to make use of these additional supplies, but they are then EXPECTED to launder those additionally used supplies.

** Our garbage pickup contractor typically combines trash and recyclables in their vehicles and delivers this to a transfer station, where recyclables are separated from trash. It is, therefore, OK to combine trash and recyclables in the garbage can. Nonetheless, we have separate recycling bins in the left shed at Casa Pacis for our guests to use, to make things easier for the refuse company. Guests at Bella Vista should please add all recyclables to the in-ground garbage can at the top of the driveway.

*** Garbage and refuse pickup is on Wednesday early morning. Be sure to always apply the locking chain to the top of the in-ground garbage can — raccoons would otherwise unquestionably raid those. (Raccoons work en-famille to open the unsecured lid and leave a “battle field”-like appearance around the trash can).

**** Note that we have two washing machines in each house.

***** We will highly appreciate, but do not require it, if our valued guests take the time to start washing also the “allotted” laundry (flat sheet, fitted sheet, and towels) before departing.

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