User`s guide
Appendix A
Special Features of First Floor Apartments
Features that are unique to the rst oor apartments include “lt and turn” windows, forced air
heang, air condioning, and individual washer and dryer. First oor residents also have a dier-
ent trash drop-o locaon. Read on for more details.
Washer/Dryer
First oor units are equipped with a stacked washer/dryer. There are a
couple things to note about these machines:
They are front loading, therefore require less soap than top loading machines. •
Readtheinstruconsforfrontloadingmachinesonyourlaundrydetergentto
determine the proper amount of soap to use.
The washer and dryer can operate at the same me.•
Heang and Air Condioning
Heang: First oor apartments have forced air heang (unlike baseboard heang in the •
rest of the building).
Air Condioning: First oor apartments are also equipped with air condioning.•
Thermostat• : A single programmable thermostat controls both the heat and AC for the
enre apartment (unlike the zonal heang systems in other apartments).
Trash and Recycling
The garbage and recycling containers for rst oor residents are located in the loading dock.
Tilt and Turn Windows
The lt and turn windows in rst oor apartments have two opons for opening - either at the
side or at the top. In either opon the window opens inward.
To lock the window, turn handle so that the handle is vercal and pointed down.•
For a side-open window, push the handle to the horizontal posion and pull open. •
For a top-open window, turn the handle even further so that it is vercal but pointed up •
and pull open.
Top-opened, handle upSide-opened, handle horizontal
Locked, handle down
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