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Help with big house and garden

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The experience

We have a large house set in beautiful Irish countryside, and we need help with painting and decorating and gardening, some of this involves heavy lifting and digging. also welcome help with cleaning and preparing beds for guests. We're a friendly family and we try to make sure that there's time for enjoying the Irish experience, we like to play music and we dance, happy to involve any helpers. We live 30 mins walk to lake for walking, swimming,

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

What you get

3 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 23 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We work 6 hours a day during 4 weekdays generally , but we're quite flexible if you want extra time off you can work 3 long days a week and go exploring other days.

Activities & Shift

Over the summer we generally paint the outside of the house, weed the shrubbery, do landscaping works, and there is always cleaning and decorating inside the house. We have a couple of rooms for bed and breakfast so need cleaning most mornings

Rules

We don't allow drugs in the house and we don't drink alcohol except on special occasions.
If you want to drink alcohol you buy it yourself