Responsibilities

As a helper of the House you are expected to contribute something with whatever skills you have or want to learn. You can use your skills to build something new, learn new skills in design / art / gardening / building /painting /decorating, etc.

There are three things you are expected to do during your stay. These are as follows:

1. Maintain the garden by:
   • Planting and picking vegetables
   • Clearing weeds
   • Watering plants
   • Cutting the grass
   • Planting new plants
2. Welcome and take care of Airbnb guests:
   1. Airbnb guests have priority of the upstairs double room
   2. Prepare the room for the guests before they arrive:
      • Put fresh sheets on the bed and wash dirty sheets
      • Place new towels on the bed (one for each guest)
      • Sweep or vacuum floor
      • Tidy up and remove any trash or recycling left behind
   3. Give them a tour of the house
3. Keep the place clean and tidy
   • Clean bathroom
   • Manage trash and recycling

Upon arriving checklist

When you arrive at the house and it has been empty for a while:

• Check to see what is growing in the garden that might need to be harvested
• Check to see if there is food in the refrigerator and freezer to be eaten or disposed of
• Check to see if there’s any laundry hanging inside the house

Before leaving checklist

If you are leaving the house and suspect no one will be at the house for a while go through this checklist to make sure the house is good to be left empty:

• Clean any sheets, towels and linens you’ve used
• Clean out drain trap in sink and empty into compost
• Empty compost bin
  • Whatever you’re keeping compost in, dump it into the outside compost and wash out the container
• Make sure all the windows are closed
• Tidy up
  • Sweep floors
  • Clean off tables
  • Put any tools, bikes and stuff left out in the yard back in the garage