Today started off with a train to Paris, a slightly over 6 hour trip, but no change of trains necessary, and I have bought the ticket sufficiently in advance to be in First Class for 28Euros! Nice smooth, if long ride all the way to Gare De Lyon, where after walking a few miles of tunnels you can connect to the 1 line and 2 stops later be at the apartment. Went in the door and place was just below a Sauna, so turned off the heat in the front hall and bedroom, fortunately left the living room one on as that one adjusts to lower temperatures. After grocery shopping and heading over to Rue Montorgueil for a little dinner, I spent a good hour trying to get either heater to come back on. Europeans love cryptic and meaningless symbols on their appliances and no amount of button pushing produced any kind of result other then works like “No” and “stop” and other strange characters. Usually the secret to operating European appliances is to google the model number and you can find an owners manual in English. Up till now this has always worked for me, but maybe these heaters pre date the internet? Eventually, gave up put an extra duvet on the bed so that I was buried under about 6-8 inches of blankets and called it a day. By some strange turn of fate the heater came on for awhile in the middle of the night. I strongly suspect these were programmed at one point and now the time is not correct and the whole thing is screwed up, but believe me it’s not something any normal mortal is going to figure out, and I’m really good at this stuff. I miss my baseboard heaters that just had a dial for the temperature and stayed where you put them. Sent an email to Adrian asking for help, I think all of us who share the apartment would just like a manual mode so that we can set the heat where we want and have it STAY there. For your amusement, here are some pictures.
France Explorations, and Camino Del Norte, Spain 
My housemates are likely wondering why I’m laughing so hard. ” Europeans love cryptic and meaningless symbols on their appliances”
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Lachlan, we ran into troubles like that with the recent Tokyo Air BnB. The place was very cold—–the windows were inexplicably open when we arrived on December 24—– and we couldn’t get the heater to work. We finally figured out that when you press the “On” button, nothing would happen initially. Then after a hiatus of about five minutes, the machine would start producing warm air. We called the Air BnB host at first; is there anyone you could call in the building?
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Yes, a normal way to handle. This is to Google the model number and find an English language owners manual in this case that doesn’t seem to be available. I have the developer working on it.
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We appear to have the same washing machine and I’m quite proud that I just figured out how to run it only on dry. I think I understand your oven symbols and at least you can read them. Ours has black on black so I have to get my nose right up to it at night to see what I’m selecting. On the other, try pushing both of the opposite arrows at the same time. That often lets you reset it. Otherwise just have a glass of wine!
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They’re sending over a maintenance guy to help me with it, but I will try to trick of pressing on both buttons. For most of the morning, he was coming out as it should but then one of them stopped so annoying.
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And I would’ve had just a glass of wine but when you’re freezing all night long under six or 8 inches of covers, it’s not so great. I ducked taped over event in the window, that none of us wanted and allows noise and airflow in.
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Is this your fractional? Seems like the agency could/should be helpful. And I wonder if one of the other owners has hidden the manuals away in a drawer somewhere.
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Yes, we have all the appliance manuals except for the heaters. They found a version online, but still can’t figure it out. I have them Producing heat so it’s fine.
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