Welcome to the fun of learning French appliances! haha On the dryer your easiest best is the EXPRESS button as a general overall basic clothes. for towels and jeans COTON setting is the best Upper right corner. For washing, same thing. if you have a general Express I always use that for everything as some of those other cycles can go for 2.5hrs! Upper left corner is your Coton and that goes for most everything. you can change the temperature of the water from 30-40 if you have dirtier clothing. 40 for dirtier. You have an Express button on the right that is also a basic easy one to use. Unless you are washing silk or wool, none of those other buttons are really necessary. I just ignore them all. Hopefully you know, on your dryer. where it says BOSCH that is a drawer! you have to pull it out after every load and empty the water! If you don't empty the cannister of water it won't dry the clothes. Good luck. Its all a HUGE learning curve here. Americans living in France for 8yrs now. Bonne Chance!
Oh wow!!! Thank you so much! I am screen shotting this to save so I remember! And oh my gosh, I did not know about the drawer in the dryer! Gah. Welp, grass is better empty that. Thank you!!!
@@LetsBuyAChateau hahaha I Wondered if you knew about the drawer. Most people don't. we didn't when we first used it, could not figure out why the towels wouldn't drive!! Good luck with CA bank accounts, they do NOT want Americans due to the tax law reporting to the US> its not them, its America's rules. Bonne Chance
It will be so fun shopping there for furnishings! I know it must be overwhelming but enjoy the process…it will be amazing. The house empty is already gorgeous! Your views are beautiful, too. It will all fall into place. Enjoy ❤
Oooh I love the little faces on your fireplace vents! I was about to ask if you’d seen the little people on the outsides of shutters yet, then you showed some. Aren’t they cute? 😊
The low seating chair is 19 century mother nursing chair for baby, Someone gave me one many years ago.Bank will sort out in time moving to another country some things go a--wall .Washing machine check out on everyones friend Google what buttons to push. I'm sure your buttons are already pushed. LOL. Remember to stop worrying it;s like sitting in a rocking goes no where. Watching from Australia.
What adventure to buy a house in the French country side or in the little town ! It's very very quiet. The price is low but you must find a way to avoid that the time would be long, too too long. To settle in France, you must contact American and English people leaving here before. You can find them on the web. They could give you good advices, and traps to avoid, and the processes and approaches to do for banks, healthcare, insurance... I imagine that's not simple for British or American people. It's an other way of life to understand before settling in successfully.
Thank you for that. Appreciate it! I have joined a few Facebook groups that will help us adjust. And I've found some nearby because of that. That'll help for sure 😀
I have heard other chateau owners in France saying that homeowners insurance is impossible to get for their buildings, so that might have to go on the back burner list. Chin up! We're pulling for you.
Thank you so much! I appreciate that! I'm going to see if our banker can finagle something for the time being. I understand that they sell insurance as well. If I can just get a bank account that'll feel like a dream come true 🙏😅
It will take time and once u get the Bank account setup it be easier , i thought u had to have a bank account to buy a house over there and to have Electricity and all that to the house . The house is beautiful try and not stress it happen its all so new to u and your family too .
To buy the house, I just needed to transfer money from my currency exchange account to the notaire. So that was pretty easy. Really looking forward to having the bank account set up! I have been talking with and working with a contact at my local bank there in France. Together we're getting this necessary documents and all that. Hopefully soon! Thank you so much for all of your support! I really do appreciate it.
The first stand is for cotton, sheets etc , the second means it dry enough to put your clothes in the dresser , the third is they are still moist for ironing, the fourth is fitness clothing, synthetic, then serviettes means towels. Then a quick dry, then warm . You have minutes to normally, you then can add per 10 minutes of you push time .. kts the second from the left on the black screen. Also empty the left big thing it fils with the water that comes of the clothes, and the filter , open the door and in the door there is a lint filter. The is one also on the bottom left ,
I use the right side constantly , and the 20 min warm and then add per 10 min , to dry . If you add a synthetic to your laundry it will dry untill the synthetic is dry. Its a sence dryer , so ifthe syntic is dry it will stop to dry. So you prefer to seperate your clothes.
VERY NICE PLACE , you must work on making it home , ask for help from local friends to have basics like starter beds, and first room with table and the rest things for the family ,....
Yes - and thank you!! It does look depressing empty like that, doesn't it? I do actually have a friend I'm meeting up with in a couple of weeks who will help us out with furniture. I'll do my absolute best to make it feel comfortable 😁. Thank you!
You can look up the appliance model online and get an English manual. don’t forget to empty your dryer condenser of water. Btw they will never dry like a North American big dryer. Most Europeans will hang clothes to dry because electricity costs are so high. Get a drying rack or two to put in your empty rooms.
Thank you! Yes, someone else just told me today about that condenser with water in it! Oh my gosh I had no idea. Definitely going to get a couple of drying racks! Good idea.
Wow. So much to navigate. Hope all goes well and planning on following your journey so l can one day be a fellow expat in France with my family. Will try to convince my brother to move there also. He's in Toronto and you cannot purchase a home under $500,000 there. Will you set up your home for guests to rent accomodations in the future? Hope to visit France in the Spring of 2025. All the best for what lies ahead.
Thank you so much! I appreciate you following along. I hope it helps inspire you. Oh my goodness, I have some friends that hat are real estate agents in Toronto. Oh my goodness, those prices are out of hand! We have a separate cottage in the backyard and also a basement apartment that we will rent out. Cottage has two bedrooms. The basement apartment currently has ones but we discovered a second and maybe a third to redo 🙂. Good luck on your search! Keep me posted on your plans 🙂.
The low chair, is a ladies slippers chair!!! Meant for a ladies bed chamber/ room or ladies dressing room for before bed or at a ladies vanity for putting on make up!!!
Oh my gosh is it? It was so low to the ground. I thought it was so funny haha... A chair! The only one I could find so I bought it 😂. I guess this will have to go into a bedroom! Thank you for that!
55 euro’s for that chair is far too much. You should rent a little van type car and go to Emmaeus . There they sell beautiful secondhand ( donated ) firniture for almost nothing.
hello, it take 5 mns to open a credit agricole account online, with a bill of FAI, elictricity, etc.. justifying where you live, and a ID card! bon courage
I did try that online! It said since I was a non-food-Time resident I had to do it in person. But I will say my local contact at my local CA Bank has been doing his best to help us sort through it! It's not quick and it's a lot of back and forth.... But I just might get there 🙂
@@LetsBuyAChateau after I had long covid, I couldn't find the most simple words. I am much better now but when I'm tired it still hits me! I don't think I will ever really be the same again. I completely understand! I love what y'all are doing!
Welcome to the wacky world of EU appliances. The washing machines are pathetically small, the detergent is horrible, there is no functional bleach - and they break after three years. The dryer? You have a condensing dryer - it is not vented to the outside, so the water is collected in the container which pulls out on the top left. Empty it after every load. Here’s a fun fact - there is an additional vent which collects lint and clogs solid every month - it is underneath the drum, and that bottom front panel drops down - revealing this vent. Pull it out, clean it - snap it back. When clothes don’t get dry, it’s invariably this hidden vent that’s clogged. Pro tip? After your tiny little load of wash is done - find the additional spin cycle on your machine, and run the extra spin. These machines are twinky, under-powered beasts, and the extra spin means you won’t have to run them through the dryer six times. You got this.
@@LetsBuyAChateau - happy to help! Nobody told me anything when we moved - and had to figure it out by trial and error. We blew up a brand new vacuum cleaner, a complete stereo system, and my precious stand-mixer, when we first got here - didn’t know the electrical voltage was 220 !
@@janechamblesswright119Oh wow! Yes that would be so sad.... I will be selling my KitchenAid stand mixer in the US prior to us leaving. I'll miss that! That would be sad to watch it die in front of your eyes because of the darn voltage. 😮
@@Kim-J312 - American voltage is 120v Europe voltage is 220v There are plug adaptors to fit American two prong plugs into the three-prong European configurations (ireland prongs are different from France, different from Spain…..) But these only sorta “dumb-down” the bigger voltage - and these adaptors burn out quickly. Something with a big electrical pull like a clothes dryer would simply catch fire. Other fun electric facts? You cannot get an electrician to install a socket in a bathroom. Against the law?! So if you want to use a hairdryer - you’re standing in the kitchen… Also, no chandelier-type light fixtures in a bathroom - it must be completely closed, and only be able to open it with a screwdriver. (So much for my custom-designed antler chandeliers which I had made for our bathroom fixtures in NY…) Europe has a completely different view of just about everything, as Americans, we just took for granted. It takes awhile to adjust, and you must be patient with the process.
@@LetsBuyAChateauyou have to return to the US for your visas. Have all your docs ready for that. I hope you are taking some French lessons, especially in a smaller town/village where most will not and do not speak English.
Oh yes, we're already back in the US to begin next phase planning! I already speak French, pretty decently, the rest of the family is currently learning 🙂@@billieford9683
The village is gorgeous! Like a painting!
It really is! Just beautiful.
Welcome to the fun of learning French appliances! haha On the dryer your easiest best is the EXPRESS button as a general overall basic clothes. for towels and jeans COTON setting is the best Upper right corner. For washing, same thing. if you have a general Express I always use that for everything as some of those other cycles can go for 2.5hrs! Upper left corner is your Coton and that goes for most everything. you can change the temperature of the water from 30-40 if you have dirtier clothing. 40 for dirtier. You have an Express button on the right that is also a basic easy one to use. Unless you are washing silk or wool, none of those other buttons are really necessary. I just ignore them all. Hopefully you know, on your dryer. where it says BOSCH that is a drawer! you have to pull it out after every load and empty the water! If you don't empty the cannister of water it won't dry the clothes. Good luck. Its all a HUGE learning curve here. Americans living in France for 8yrs now. Bonne Chance!
Oh wow!!! Thank you so much! I am screen shotting this to save so I remember!
And oh my gosh, I did not know about the drawer in the dryer! Gah. Welp, grass is better empty that. Thank you!!!
@@LetsBuyAChateau hahaha I Wondered if you knew about the drawer. Most people don't. we didn't when we first used it, could not figure out why the towels wouldn't drive!! Good luck with CA bank accounts, they do NOT want Americans due to the tax law reporting to the US> its not them, its America's rules. Bonne Chance
I wish you a very beautiful life in France and I wish you much happiness for your family.
Thank you so much. I appreciate that!
It will be so fun shopping there for furnishings! I know it must be overwhelming but enjoy the process…it will be amazing. The house empty is already gorgeous! Your views are beautiful, too. It will all fall into place. Enjoy ❤
Awwwhhh thank you!! You are the sweetest! I'm going to do my best!
Hello,
All the best with your new venture, and set up your account. The front of a fireplace is called the hearth.
Hearth!! Gah, yes! Sorry... I was still recovering from jet lag brain 😂
Oooh I love the little faces on your fireplace vents! I was about to ask if you’d seen the little people on the outsides of shutters yet, then you showed some. Aren’t they cute? 😊
Those little faces are so cute and unexpected! 😍
The low seating chair is 19 century mother nursing chair for baby, Someone gave me one many years ago.Bank will sort out in time moving to another country some things go a--wall .Washing machine check out on everyones friend Google what buttons to push. I'm sure your buttons are already pushed. LOL. Remember to stop worrying it;s like sitting in a rocking goes no where. Watching from Australia.
Awwhh thanks 😊. Yep, we'll get it all figured out eventually! 😜
Lovely home! The town looks gorgeous, may I ask which town it is? Thank you for the vlog.
Thank you!! We're in the department of the Vienne. In Saint Savin, a little town about 45 minutes from Poitiers.
What adventure to buy a house in the French country side or in the little town ! It's very very quiet. The price is low but you must find a way to avoid that the time would be long, too too long. To settle in France, you must contact American and English people leaving here before. You can find them on the web. They could give you good advices, and traps to avoid, and the processes and approaches to do for banks, healthcare, insurance...
I imagine that's not simple for British or American people. It's an other way of life to understand before settling in successfully.
Thank you for that. Appreciate it! I have joined a few Facebook groups that will help us adjust. And I've found some nearby because of that. That'll help for sure 😀
Beautiful home. Not to worry you’ll get everything sorted. It’s a process 😊
Yes! Thank you! Appreciate that!
On TH-cam, there is a company that advertises helping people to transition to France. They can intercede in a lot of different areas.
So much to learn! 🙂 That's why we're taking it slow. Don't want to do any missteps! Thank you!
I have heard other chateau owners in France saying that homeowners insurance is impossible to get for their buildings, so that might have to go on the back burner list.
Chin up! We're pulling for you.
Thank you so much! I appreciate that! I'm going to see if our banker can finagle something for the time being. I understand that they sell insurance as well. If I can just get a bank account that'll feel like a dream come true 🙏😅
It will take time and once u get the Bank account setup it be easier , i thought u had to have a bank account to buy a house over there and to have Electricity and all that to the house . The house is beautiful try and not stress it happen its all so new to u and your family too .
To buy the house, I just needed to transfer money from my currency exchange account to the notaire. So that was pretty easy.
Really looking forward to having the bank account set up! I have been talking with and working with a contact at my local bank there in France. Together we're getting this necessary documents and all that. Hopefully soon!
Thank you so much for all of your support! I really do appreciate it.
@@LetsBuyAChateau Ok , it will happen look forward to your next trip back .
The first stand is for cotton, sheets etc , the second means it dry enough to put your clothes in the dresser , the third is they are still moist for ironing, the fourth is fitness clothing, synthetic, then serviettes means towels. Then a quick dry, then warm . You have minutes to normally, you then can add per 10 minutes of you push time .. kts the second from the left on the black screen. Also empty the left big thing it fils with the water that comes of the clothes, and the filter , open the door and in the door there is a lint filter. The is one also on the bottom left ,
I use the right side constantly , and the 20 min warm and then add per 10 min , to dry . If you add a synthetic to your laundry it will dry untill the synthetic is dry. Its a sence dryer , so ifthe syntic is dry it will stop to dry. So you prefer to seperate your clothes.
I'm going to screenshot this to save it till I remember!! 😃 Thank you!
Fantastic 😊
I would leave it on coton extra sec, which is extra dry😉
Thank you! Gah... We had no idea 😂.
VERY NICE PLACE , you must work on making it home , ask for help from local friends to have basics like starter beds, and first room with table and the rest things for the family ,....
Yes - and thank you!! It does look depressing empty like that, doesn't it? I do actually have a friend I'm meeting up with in a couple of weeks who will help us out with furniture.
I'll do my absolute best to make it feel comfortable 😁. Thank you!
Sur le manuel d utilisation vous avez une version anglaise 😊
I bought it used so I had manual 🤷♀️
@@LetsBuyAChateauyou just need to ask Google for it.
I do it often
You can look up the appliance model online and get an English manual. don’t forget to empty your dryer condenser of water. Btw they will never dry like a North American big dryer. Most Europeans will hang clothes to dry because electricity costs are so high. Get a drying rack or two to put in your empty rooms.
Thank you! Yes, someone else just told me today about that condenser with water in it! Oh my gosh I had no idea.
Definitely going to get a couple of drying racks! Good idea.
when are you permanently relocating over to france?
We'll be there permanently in the spring, that's the plan so far! No specific date quite yet
Wow. So much to navigate. Hope all goes well and planning on following your journey so l can one day be a fellow expat in France with my family. Will try to convince my brother to move there also. He's in Toronto and you cannot purchase a home under $500,000 there. Will you set up your home for guests to rent accomodations in the future? Hope to visit France in the Spring of 2025. All the best for what lies ahead.
Thank you so much! I appreciate you following along. I hope it helps inspire you.
Oh my goodness, I have some friends that hat are real estate agents in Toronto. Oh my goodness, those prices are out of hand!
We have a separate cottage in the backyard and also a basement apartment that we will rent out. Cottage has two bedrooms. The basement apartment currently has ones but we discovered a second and maybe a third to redo 🙂. Good luck on your search! Keep me posted on your plans 🙂.
Baguette Bound TH-cam channel has “How Tosl including banking, insurance, etc.
We have been working with our banker contact, he's been great! Just trying to find a way to get the documents he needs. 🤞🤞🤞
The low chair, is a ladies slippers chair!!! Meant for a ladies bed chamber/ room or ladies dressing room for before bed or at a ladies vanity for putting on make up!!!
Oh my gosh is it? It was so low to the ground. I thought it was so funny haha... A chair! The only one I could find so I bought it 😂. I guess this will have to go into a bedroom! Thank you for that!
We used our Google translate in the photo mode to understand the washer and dryer. It will help. I promise
Good call!! And someone else just told about the drawer with water in it?! Crazy.
Bureaucracy can be tricky at the best of times but in another language it must be very difficult, keep plugging away
Thank you! Appreciate that!
Pt.10 "The part in front of the fireplace." The hearth.
Yes!!! Gah thank you. Didn't sleep well and recovering from jet lag... Some words just didn't come to mind 🙈
55 euro’s for that chair is far too much. You should rent a little van type car and go to Emmaeus . There they sell beautiful secondhand ( donated ) firniture for almost nothing.
I definitely plan to go to Emmaeus! We ran out of time, but that's on my list of things to do!
Yes, the cost of the chair was too much. Might want to find another place.
hello, it take 5 mns to open a credit agricole account online, with a bill of FAI, elictricity, etc.. justifying where you live, and a ID card! bon courage
I did try that online! It said since I was a non-food-Time resident I had to do it in person. But I will say my local contact at my local CA Bank has been doing his best to help us sort through it! It's not quick and it's a lot of back and forth.... But I just might get there 🙂
I think 'froisage' means 'wrinkles'
😊
Loving your journey. You can’t sit on the floor or survive with one chair. Maybe a couch? Understand your funds are tight but…….
Working on it 😅
Hearth.
Yes! That's it 🙃. I was operating on jet lag brain...
@@LetsBuyAChateau after I had long covid, I couldn't find the most simple words. I am much better now but when I'm tired it still hits me! I don't think I will ever really be the same again. I completely understand! I love what y'all are doing!
Welcome to the wacky world of EU appliances. The washing machines are pathetically small, the detergent is horrible, there is no functional bleach - and they break after three years.
The dryer?
You have a condensing dryer - it is not vented to the outside, so the water is collected in the container which pulls out on the top left. Empty it after every load.
Here’s a fun fact - there is an additional vent which collects lint and clogs solid every month - it is underneath the drum, and that bottom front panel drops down - revealing this vent. Pull it out, clean it - snap it back. When clothes don’t get dry, it’s invariably this hidden vent that’s clogged.
Pro tip?
After your tiny little load of wash is done - find the additional spin cycle on your machine, and run the extra spin. These machines are twinky, under-powered beasts, and the extra spin means you won’t have to run them through the dryer six times.
You got this.
Haaaa! Oh my gosh! We didn't know all this. Thank you!! I'm screen shotting this and saving it so I remember. Thank you!!
@@LetsBuyAChateau - happy to help!
Nobody told me anything when we moved - and had to figure it out by trial and error.
We blew up a brand new vacuum cleaner, a complete stereo system, and my precious stand-mixer, when we first got here - didn’t know the electrical voltage was 220 !
@@janechamblesswright119Oh wow! Yes that would be so sad.... I will be selling my KitchenAid stand mixer in the US prior to us leaving. I'll miss that! That would be sad to watch it die in front of your eyes because of the darn voltage. 😮
Dam, couldn't you get an American dryer w plug for outlet for France?
@@Kim-J312 - American voltage is 120v
Europe voltage is 220v
There are plug adaptors to fit American two prong plugs into the three-prong European configurations (ireland prongs are different from France, different from Spain…..)
But these only sorta “dumb-down” the bigger voltage - and these adaptors burn out quickly. Something with a big electrical pull like a clothes dryer would simply catch fire.
Other fun electric facts? You cannot get an electrician to install a socket in a bathroom. Against the law?! So if you want to use a hairdryer - you’re standing in the kitchen…
Also, no chandelier-type light fixtures in a bathroom - it must be completely closed, and only be able to open it with a screwdriver. (So much for my custom-designed antler chandeliers which I had made for our bathroom fixtures in NY…)
Europe has a completely different view of just about everything, as Americans, we just took for granted. It takes awhile to adjust, and you must be patient with the process.
Can you not use google translate
I didn't think of it right away! Forgot technology that can help was sitting right there 🙈.
hou de moed er in ik zou eens horen bij andere mensen die in Freankrijk gaan wonen zijn hoe zij die papieren allemaal inorde kregen
Yes, that will be a job we will tackle next! Buying the house..then getting out plans in order, then applying for our visas.
@@LetsBuyAChateauyou have to return to the US for your visas. Have all your docs ready for that.
I hope you are taking some French lessons, especially in a smaller town/village where most will not and do not speak English.
Oh yes, we're already back in the US to begin next phase planning!
I already speak French, pretty decently, the rest of the family is currently learning 🙂@@billieford9683