Do you spray full strength?
Dilute 50-50 with distilled water?
It sounds like you’re suggesting full strength.
I continue to be amazed at the wide and deep fount of knowledge you’ve accumulated/curated as well as your incisive logic. Thank you for being such an active member of this forum.
I bet it was liberated by a previous guest and the turnover crew didn’t notice it missing. I imagine it was probably a rather nice one, owing to the fact that it was in a wine country STR.
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Bastards won’t sell it to me in California.
Exactly. I spoke with the owner who said hers kept disappearing. I suggested attaching one to the wall or putting it in the
the advert thstcezchbparty should bring their own!
Or order a bunch of customized ones for less than $5 a pop with the name of your airbnb on them. If they take one stick another out there for the next guest.
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Using bleach in water for mopping the floor makes the floor very slippery when it gets wet again (personal experience in tile floors)
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bingo! which is why we don’t put “nice” bottle openers in our listings. I had a nice cheese knife set i’d bought from the local cheesery and one went walkies. sigh
i’ve mentioned this before I’m sure. when i was researching ozone machines i learned that pot growers use them to kill gnats and other bugs, but it doesn’t kill the plant. (curious if that means it kills any “good” bacteria too). I don’t remove any plants and so far they’ve been ok, but i rarely run the machine for more than 20mins. I also have to round up the cats (only 2! 
) and dogs and make sure they are safely locked outside or in another room.
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We have a small private entrance STR. I like your comments! Don’t want more than wine glasses and acrylic glasses for drinking (besides hot drinks and recyclable plastic for bathrooms) because I’m not trying to encourage drinking… but my typical guest is 2-3 nights, maybe 4.
I found this most helpful!! Everything I’ve ordered from this (mostly just sheets, duvets, and duvet covers, was fabulous
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_bZ8BLATEU0QGY6bbx-7QhsTJT9MEcCv_PuzFvcH3ys/edit?pli=1#gid=0
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For many, leather furniture is a big NO.
Many people will not stay at a place with leather sofas.
Hmmmm… I did not notice ‘leather sofa’ listed in amenities. I wonder how you filter for this kind of choice?
Reminder, reuse is the best way to help our planet. A sofa that already is in the home is better than a new purchase - and many say that leather is the most resilient covering.
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Why would people not stay due to leather furniture? I’m trying to figure out if those are my core demographic.
Is this a vegan thing? Or a sweaty folks stick to the furniture thing?
So your first post on this forum is some cryptic warning which you don’t bother to explain?
Based on my most strident vegan friend I’d say that’s the issue. But it’s not an issue worth considering unless someone is trying to appeal specifically to vegans.
Every time I see a post about “_____ wouldn’t stay there,” my first thought is “so what?” No airbnb is going to appeal to everyone and if they try, they’re going to be very generic and sterile. I won’t stay in an Airbnb with mounted trophy animals on the wall, US flags in the pictures, or overt Christian images like crosses on the walls. Not one host has gone out of business because of it.
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Hi, I am new to this forum.
I agree with Ikea for glassware. I am amazed how durable it is and I have gotten comments about the “quality” of my wine glasses.
for dishes, I have Fiesta in mixed colors. So far, the investment has paid off. I needed to replace on bowl and one mug over five years.
Concerning bedding and towels, my cleaner loves that all my linens are the same. She says it makes her job easier.
My Sunbrella furniture fabric is wearing like iron.
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A thumbs up to simple appliances. My first coffee maker was nothing special and I selected it because of the insulated stainless steel carafe. I was shocked by the number of people that couldn’t figure out how to screw on the lid. The lid was necessary to get the machine to brew.
That IS the issue. We used to have a couple of throw pillows, on the sofa, that were natural unbleached linen on the back with big wooden buttons to close the pillow cover, and beige stitched suede leather on the front. Once in a while we’d come to do the turnover and find those two pillows flipped so that the leather was toward the back and no other changes to the pillow layout.
It may have been those guests just didn’t like the feel of the suede, or it could have been vegans, feeling disgusted to touch what was once a living being. We brought those pillows home and replaced them with some 100% synthetic fluffy things that don’t seem to offend.
We continually improve our listing incrementally.
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I would say religious artifacts are, to me, the one reason I would storm out of an airbnb indignantly demanding money back. Animal skins? I prefer that to plastic Naugahyde etc as it is less environmentally damaging and anyway, the sofa is there so this is the best use. But hosts who feel that their need to push their ‘faith’ scare me more than anything. Hypocrisy and lack of feeling for guests is advertised when a cross or a picture of a 1950s white guy with a ‘heavenly’ glow around him is forced on me.
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