We’ve received a few emails from people who are finding difficulty in changing the details of their homes on the website.

It’s an easy process, but you have to bear in mind that you have a profile as a USER and then you have the profiles of your HOMES. So, if you want to change the photos of your home, the videos, the dates of availability, or any of the details about your home (e.g.:  facilities, activities, exchange preferences…) then you need to do the following:

Firstly, you need to click on “My account” in the top right hand corner of the page.

Once you have done that, you will be taken to the My Account page, which is divided into two sections. “My account” at the top, then underneath that the “My homes” section. In the “My homes” section you have a selection of tabs such as “Edit, availability, photos” etc, and it is from here that you can upload more photos, change the availability on the calendar, change the details on “How do you get to your house” etc.

To change your user photo, your screen name, the languages you speak and your countries of preference, you need to click on “My Account”, and then on “Edit profile.”

When we think of all of the tremendously impressive architecture we have imprinting ourselves on our own selves on our natural environment, or the advances we have made in medicine over the centuries (transplants, genetic screening), it would seem that we are pretty smart. So… washing machines… shouldn’t be that perplexing.

Yet they are! And how!

There are some things in life that are sent to test us. Setting the video is one of those. Working out how to use a foreign washing machine is another.

So one of the things that we can do for our exchange partners, to make everything run a lot smoother (and not least to put our minds at rest about things getting broken) is to leave out some instructions of how the main house-hold gismos work. If you’re doing exchanges with people where there is no common language, then why not try a couple of diagrams? Biro sketches.

So what should we bear in mind for instructions, technology wise?

The washing machine.

The dishwasher.

The shower.

The heating.

The hot-water.

The television.

The VCR.

The radio.

The computer.

The internet/Wifi.

There may be more, depending on how technologically advanced your house is. But some things to bear in mind.