10 Bagamoya Guest Information

The apartment guide

Cleaning

Cape Town basics

Activities & food

Books, movies, TV

Oopsies

Checking out

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Cleaning

The apartment should be squeaky clean on arrival (if it isn’t, let us know immediately and we’ll fix it).

You will find everything you might need to keep the apartment tidy in the cupboards, including dish soap, organic laundry detergent, hand soap, mops, brooms, floor towels and more.

Charles the cleaner will come and clean after your visit, so you don’t need to be overly pedantic before checkout, but we just ask that you pick up after yourself during your stay and treat it like you would your own home :-)

🚮 Trash and recycling

You can put all garbage and food scraps directly into the garbage bag in the kitchen bin.

You can put recyclable items, such as plastic, glass, tin, in the recycling bags in the two bins at the bottom of the broom closet.

When the bin is full: the bags must be tied shut and you can put them in the garbage room, next to the main entrance gate. Normal garbage goes in the black bins, recycling in the yellow one. There is a key for the garbage room in the apartment, by the entrance. Please remember to lock the garbage room again and to bring the key back in the apartment. You don’t need to take out the garbage or the recycling if these bins aren’t full, as Charles will handle this after checkout.

Dishwasher

Everything can go into the dishwasher except these, which you should hand wash:

Wooden cutting boards - Since we use the eco-mode for the dishwasher, the boards tend to warp/break, from all the moisture of sitting in steam for 3 hours...

Knives - Apparently this blunts them a lot

It takes 3.5h for the dishwasher to finish; only run it when it is full (otherwise, select 1/2 mode).

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Take a tablet

Put it in the tray

Lock the tray

Turn on the machine

Eco mode. Press start.

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Wooden floors

You can sweep or vacuum the wooden floors, as needed.

If you drop any liquid, please dry this immediately, as our floors are oiled (not varnished), meaning pools of water/liquid can get under the oil and will stain the wood permanently.

If you need to mop, please only use the red mop and only use the Better Earth organic wood floor cleaner (mix a small 5-10ml with a litre of water). Don’t use any bleach or other soaps on the floor.

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If the mop is out of liquid.

Take off the bottle.

Add 5ml (1-2 teaspoons) of the Better Earth cleaner and fill with water

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🧺 Laundry

Washing:

Feel free to use the eco-friendly laundry powder in the cleaning cupboard.

Please only run the washing machine when you have a full load of laundry. It’s a small machine; so a full load is pretty small :-)

To save energy, select “cold” water — We find that our clothes wash perfectly in cold water with this detergent. (And we’re pretty outdoorsy, so our clothes have been put to the test!)

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Make sure the door clicks properly shut

Add a spoonful of laundry detergent

Power on

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Move the dial and it will light up on Cotton (1.5h cycle)

Select Quick 30 if you want a quicker 30 min cycle

Select 1400 spin and Cold (or 20 degrees)

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Press the Start/pause button ⏯️

(Note, the machine will play a jingle when it is done cleaning or drying, but you will need to wait another three minutes before you’ll be able to open the door.)

Drying:

The washer has a dryer function (turn the dial to the left), but to be honest, it’s not great in these two-in-one machines, and we hardly ever use it. You’ll find that almost no apartments in South Africa have tumble dryers, so this is the “South African” way. Please consider hang drying instead. You have two options for this:

Use the wooden drying frame (clothes horse), which you can find in the main bedroom closet.

Use a washing line on the balcony. You can find a white nylon line with two carabiners (and a lot of clothes pins) in a tub in the cleaning/broom closet. You can hook this up to the two bolts on the patio. Just remember to pin everything down, and take clothes in if the wind gets too crazy!

Your clothes should dry overnight or within a few hours in summer.

If you really need to use the dryer feature...

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If you haven’t started the laundry yet (meaning there are dirty clothes in the machine), you can select the Dry feature and it will dry your clothes after the washing is done.

If the washing cycle has already completed or you just added something damp-but-clean you want to dry, you’ll need to select cupboard dry. You can select “no spin” as it should not be needed on damp clothes.

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Wednesday cleaning (optional)

If you would like our trusty cleaner Charles (who has been working for neighbours in the building for the past decade) to come and tidy up during your stay, please let us know and we can arrange this. He is currently only available on Wednesdays. He will sweep and mop the floors, dust the surfaces, clean all the rooms, and if requested, wash your sheets and towels. However, he won’t be responsible for any of your personal laundry (washing or ironing).

Cleaning fee (end of stay)

After checkout, Charles will straighten up the flat again to the way it was before you checked in, so you don’t need to to scrub the place before checking out. Please leave R400 in cash on the cabinet by the WiFi / nannycam for him.

Note that he won’t throw out any food (and the apartment might be unoccupied for weeks after your departure), so please don’t leave food behind that may spoil on the counters or the fridge 🙏

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for a full checkout checklist.

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