Operating manual
Dazzle
Everything particular to this treehouse. The shared essentials — water, logs, waste, departure — are at the bottom of the page.
- Dorset
- Guest information
- Dazzle
A printed copy of this lives in the guest folder inside, with QR codes to short films for the stove and the pizza oven.
The ceramic stove
- Open the air intake fully by pulling the lever below the glass door towards you.
- Build a Jenga-like square of kindling, four or five layers high, at the back of the chamber.
- Drop a lit firelighter into the hole in the middle, shut the door, and let it burn down to embers.
- Add kindling and small logs in a tipi, split side down.
- Once the starter logs have gone, add larger ones and ease the lever back.
The stove sits between the sitting room and the bedroom and warms both at once, so it needs less wood than you might think. Loading too many logs at a time blackens the glass without making the room warmer.
Never leave it unattended when lit, never run it with the door open, and never dry clothes or towels near it.
The hot tub
The circular tin tub on the rear deck is left empty and clean. Fill it with fresh hot water just before you want it, and use plenty — the metal takes a lot of heat out of the first fill.
The bubbles button is by the hot and cold tap controls.
Cover it between uses, or you will be fishing leaves out.
The shower room
En-suite, with a flushing loo and a heated towel rail. On-demand hot water, so allow a minute or two for it to come through.
The cargo net
Slung over the stream below the prow deck, and the single best place on this site to spend an hour with a book. Two people is fine; standing up on it is not.
It stays out in all weathers and will be wet after rain — give it a while in the sun before you commit to it.
The hammock
Store it under cover by the back door when you are not using it, or it comes back damp and mouldy.
The bedroom
The central glass spine is what makes the interior, and it also means the room gets light early. Blinds and shutters are fitted throughout — close the spine blind last, once you are in bed.
The electric blanket is dual control, with a handset each side of the bed by the mattress.
Water and hot water
Mains water throughout, and good to drink. Hot water is heated on demand, so give it a couple of minutes to arrive; after that it is plentiful.
Never put wet wipes down the loo — they block the biodigester and do not degrade.
Logs
Your basket is filled before you arrive. Help yourself from the log store when it runs low — refills are free. Extra kindling and firelighters are in the honesty shop.
Fire safety
- Enclosed lanterns only. No tea lights, no unguarded candles.
- Never leave the stove, barbecue, fire pit or pizza oven unattended.
- Do not move the barbecue or fire pit off its metal safety disc.
- Leave all embers and ash for us to clear.
Waste
Bins are at ground level below the steps, split four ways: glass, recycling, food waste and general waste. There is a full breakdown on the guest information page.
Leaving
Out by 10am, and move your tag on the in/out board to ‘departed’ as you pass. Nothing else to do.
Text or call the duty phone — the number is below the in/out board at the camp centre, and it can change during a stay.
The pizza oven
Allow forty-five minutes. The first one is always the worst one.