Glossary

The two lines that settle the furniture

A room check is the short written exchange about your bed, your floor space and your building, settled before an hour is agreed rather than at the door.

Two questions carry most of it. How long and how solid is the bed, and how much clear floor is there around it. A third joins them when the building is old: whether there is a lift, and how many flights there are if not.

Why it happens in writing

Because furniture is a factual matter and factual matters are settled badly out loud. A guest who types that the bed is a short double and the frame creaks has solved the problem. A guest who says nothing has moved it to the doorway, where it becomes a conversation neither person wanted to have with their coat still on.

What it can change

The format sometimes, the surface often, the length occasionally. A bed that is shorter than you leads to floor work, which is an ordinary answer rather than a downgrade. A room with clear space on one side only rules out some formats and leaves others untouched. Where a room genuinely cannot hold what you asked for, you are told that before anything is agreed, and the formats page sorts the whole list by what it physically needs.

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the message

Written enquiries, in English, at any hour of the clock

Say which door she is coming to

Give the building or the district, the hour you want her there and how long for. Anything about your own body that changes how the room should be set goes in the same message, and it is read as a practical note rather than as an apology.

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Longer questions go to [email protected], which is read more slowly than a booking thread.