Brit here! Lots of this is nonsense - most bathrooms don't have carpet, we absolutely have curtains as well as or instead of blinds, doors open in a variety of directions depending on what works better for the space, sometimes summers do get very hot, we do have utility rooms in lots of homes, garden/yard size varies hugely and some homes have very large ones, most people nowadays heat their homes a lot in winter although to be fair, I was raised to layer up with jumpers before heating the space to be less wasteful of fuel. I'd love it if the creators of this cited their sources.
Maybe this depends on where you live but I've only been into houses with those plastic blinds and I could count them on a single hand. Where I am it's net curtain and then curtains either plain or pattern.
Yeah I think its one of those "so wrong it has to be to drive comments" type things these videos do. Every house bar one I've lived in in the UK had curtains, every apartment in California had blinds.
UK plugs are designed with one bigger & slightly longer pin at the top. This is because on a socket, the two smaller holes have a flap behind them which prevents accidental electrocution eg. Kids poking wires or knitting needles/thin sharp objects into them. When you put the plug into a socket, the bigger pin mechanically pushes the flaps open so that the smaller pins can fit.
We have outlets for shavers right beside the sink in many homes in the UK. Also if you visit the UK youll find that a large majority of houses have curtains and have done for centuries. The three prong plug was done for one reason, safety. The third prong grounds the electricity to protect anyone who uses a metal-encased appliance from electric shock. Also most bathrooms (every bathroom iv ever been in my entire life) have lino, not carpet. In 43 years of being a human I have never been in a bathroom that had carpet in it.
Those British outlet sockets in fact are 240V (sometimes with 120v as well) and have a small isolating transformer in them which isolates the mains live and neutral from you so that you'd have to be in contact with both pins at once to get an electric shock from them. They can only be used for low power devices such as shavers and electric tooth brushes, but never for hair dryers and curling tongs.
OMG I wanted to go into the reason for the third prong but when I initially posted I assumed it would be beyond most people's interest (I wasn't sure how many Brits would be watching and of those I really didn't think may would care to correct the information. I was actually worried I'd get people having a go and calling me a pedant!) Thank you for clarifying the plug thing. The design is actually safer, although some claim it's excessive and we do allow low-voltage items like toothbrush chargers and shavers to be plugged into 2-prong bathroom sockets. I will still always prefer our plugs and feel slightly concerned about those 2-prong bathroom sockets! I grew up in older houses that did not have power outlets in the bathrooms and we managed fine. I've subsequently spoken to people who've asked how we 'coped' without things like hair tools and shavers and I've explained that we either didn't care to use those things OR we plugged them in in a different room. You'd think they were 12, talking to someone in their 90s. They're grown adults and I'm in my early 30s, it blows my mind how sheltered and incompetent some people are.
Yeah I feel like all these American channels find a single person from the UK who's never lived anywhere outside of central London to provide all their information. Curtains are in every house I've been in (only small/modern flats will ONLY have blinds), mixer taps are very common in most builds or bathrooms/kitchens from this century, many houses I've been in have utility rooms (or at least dryers) and British weather makes outdoor washing lines almost unusable, there was no mention of indoor drying racks. Also I have no idea what this air-vent/sausage thing on windows is meant to be... Also by "plumbing on the outside", do they mean drain pipes for the gutters?
@@TheMightyHams More like, at least 25 Canadian channels, maybe even as many as 50 as around 20 of them are owned by the same company (2 of which aren't as obvious as the others), get all their information from a Welsh-born Canadian, who has lived in Canada for most of his life, has no interest in the UK, loves typical geek stuff like anime and sci-fi mainly from Japan, can't speak properly, and puts on a fake English accent. He also blocks you straight away, whenever you point out any of his factual mistakes or mispronunciations, which appear in every single video he narrates.
No screens over our windows, but generally houses remain bug free :) Also sewage pipes are generally not outside 😂 the pipes you’ll see are from guttering for the rain water from the roof
Most sewage pipes from toilets are external on U.K. properties. Even bungalows (which I live in now) have an external pipe directly from the back of the toilet, through the wall which then goes down at 90° through the ground to the main sewage piping. On 2 storey properties they are the same as well. Only time this won’t be the case is if a toilet has been constructed after the property has been built where it the room has been built away from an external wall. This then means additional internal remodelling on other rooms to run the pipe work will be required to join up to the main sewage pipe work.
Brit here. When we hang our clothes outside as the weather and climate is different, our clothes don’t smell. They actually smell fresh as the air is so different here. Also we don’t have carpets in the bathrooms. It’s really rare these days but in the 90s and before that it was common. We do have curtains too as well as blinds. Or either/or. Plus it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of window tax. I used to love having our milk delivered but they don’t do it anymore. Being a Londoner too - it’s the first time over heard of carp to carp walleting 😂. Also unrelated - but you have the most adorable dog ❤
The window tax was introduced in 1696 (1748 in Scotland) and repealed in 1851. It affected houses built during that time, but not houses built after 1851.
Why am I so offended by the curtain lie 🤣 Blinds are getting more common for sure but curtains are definitely used, or a mixture of the two in the home depending on the room - blinds are definitely better for bathrooms & kitchens. People well off with nice big houses have utility rooms, it's one of my things I'd want my dream home to have. Most people here also think carpet in bathrooms is a no no, we aren't in the 1970s anymore
The British electric plug is a design icon with multiple levels of safety designed into it. You need to check that out. The pipes on the front of houses are normally the rainwater drain pipes from the gutters. Mains water pipes bringing water into the house are normally underground to prevent frost damage and waste water pipes are generally on the rear or side of the house. I haven't seen carpet in a bathroom for years, all you'll normally find is a small toweling mat next to the bath/shower to stop you slipping when you have wet feet.
I lived in England from late sixties to early seventies and at that time milk was still delivered daily, and you shook the bottle to mix the milk and cream together as it was fresh off the farm and separated out. We put letter catchers on the inside of the mail slot to keep our dog away from the mail. Once a week the corona man came and you could buy bottles of soft drinks and bet on the football pool. In the summer the Mr. frosty van came and you could buy popsicles and sundaes twice a week. Never did see carpet in a bathroom.
Living in the country, you went to the farm for milk, baker, butcher and mobile shop came twice a week, if you wanted anything special they would deliver it next visit. The mobile library came once a week. There was still the old “privy” in the garden, but we did have a scene inside
Ah, the good old days when milk, fizzy pop, bread, groceries and betting on the pools were all available at your door. Our Coop milk man was called Tom and he had false teeth.
In London, UK, my parents house and both sets of grandparents houses had fully carpeted bathrooms. All had curtains too. Never heard of a milk door let alone seen one!
Brits don't use curtains... I am flabbergasted at the inaccuracy lol. I challenge you to go down a street without seeing curtains everywhere pretty much anywhere in the UK
I am 46 years old, and have lived in the UK my entire life. I have never seen a milk door 😂 Also, most houses do have curtains, although blinds are popular they are often installed in ADDITION to the curtains 👍🏽
I’m 79 years of age. Born in the U.K. and lived here all my life. Like you, I’ve never seen or even heard of a milk door - cat flaps yes, milk doors no. In fact, in many rural areas milk is no longer delivered to your door, you buy from a local shop or your favourite supermarket. I buy long life milk from the supermarket. I’d have thought blinds in preference to curtains was a minority choice. Most houses I know of have only one or two blinds at most. Often they are in combination as curtains help to keep warmth in.😊
I'm 36, my Granddad's old house had a milk door. Strangely it was on the side door and not the front. He also had a coal chute and still got coal delivered to it into the mid-90's. In the late 90's the local council stepped in and removed all the old house features as soon as his lease expired. The house is almost unrecognisable now, looking much more 'modern.'
Never seen a milk door and everybody got curtains blinds are installed secondary and yes i did know the queen she used to come round my nans house every weekend for a cup of tea and a fag
The window tax was referred to as 'Daylight Robbery' since they were taking away the natural light, so that's where the saying comes from. It's now commonly used in situations where you're being ripped off/swindled.
Hi Guys, British lady here.😀 Carpets in bathrooms was around in the seventies, think it was so the bathrooms were warmer on your feet as a lot of the older built houses didn’t have heating in the bathrooms. Most bathrooms now have tiles or a waterproof lament flooring. I’ve got wooden blinds in my kitchen , Roman black out blinds in my bedroom and Venetian blinds in my other rooms. I also have air conditioning in my bedroom for when the good old British weather gets too hot. Also gardens vary in size from small upwards to massive depending where you live, my last home had a really good size garden. The new build I’ve just bought as a smaller garden. We also have utility rooms, and a lot of new built houses have en-suite bathrooms in at least two bedrooms and a master bathrooms which everyone can use. Plus a downstairs toilet, my downstairs toilet as a shower cubicle as well, plus a washing machine built in. We never go with out heating are home in the winter, it comes on automatically when the room drops below 20 degrees. We have electric outlets in bathroom’s to charge your razor and toothbrush, they are different to our normal electric sockets. Think the video is certainly well out of date and certainly wrong in some parts, think the guy got some wrong information. Lol But enjoyed watching it, it made me smile. Take care guys. 💕💕🇬🇧
Indeed, I remember us getting a gas heater in the bathroom around 1977, Many a burnt bottom was claimed by it, not only my family but cousins, aunties & uncles as well, good times
You sound absolutely minted. Me here with a 20 sqaure foot back garden, 1 bathroom, 3 bedroom house on a crap council estate Can't wait to move to Brighton for uni
Your heating didn't go below 20C all winter?! Your bills must've been astronomical! I live in the family home - a 20s/30s build 3-bed semi in Greater London - with my mother, and we couldn't afford to have the heating above 18C (even that was a rare treat - mostly we heated to 16C max and layered up with warm clothes and blankets) because despite only heating the rooms we were in, the bills were still ~£200 a month, if not more. And we're on what's considered a cheaper tariff! What with such high household bills, crazy fuel prices and 20%+ increases in food prices, it's a wonder how many people get through the winter months. Our groceries are especially pricey because I'm coeliac (me, Mum and the dog eat gluten free!) and dairy intolerant, so a loaf of bread is easily £4+ now and coconut/almond milks are ~£2 per litre. It's almost unbelievable how much the cost of living has increased over the past decade, but given the lunacy that was Brexit (and the numerous crises that followed it), the current situation isn't really surprising.
@@leannepentecost9580 honey, it's capitalism - not crisis. They use a 'crisis' as a means to milk the working class. Clearly the OP here is middle to upper class by the sounds of it 😭
Anna: unless you live in a highly polluted area, "Outdoors smell" is the natural smell!! Don't understand your explanation at all, but each to their own!😊
Yes, Line dried washing is one of my favourite smells. Maybe it smells different where they live. We also use fabric softner to stop our clothes drying stiff.
Washing dried outside smells and feels so much more fresher. Your jeans to be stiff are because it's cold outside then I would use a dryer. I do understand if you're not in a city then maybe your clothes won't smell as fresh but apart from that outside makes your clothes feel more fresh
I’m in my 70s and live in England and have never heard of a milk door. Also practically everyone has curtains and most bathrooms are not carpeted. We also have utility rooms and waste bins mostly live at the back of the house and are wheeled out on collection days. So as much as I enjoy your reaction to these videos, this one was not a good one.
I'm in my 70's also and as a kid we always had lino. When I got married in '71 I put carpet in my bathroom and have done so ever since. There's bath/shower mat and mat in front of the loo which can be washed as required, should some one gets their aim wrong.
I am the same age and did see a milk door on the house my parents bought when I was about 8, my father bricked it up almost immediately, it was a thing for Victorians not current population, bins only live at the front of houses without a rear access, seen this a lot in the south but the north tend to have some form of access to the rear of the house
It CAN get very hot and humid, as we're never more than 70 miles from the coast anywhere in the country! But because our homes are more compact, it can feel quite stifling on those days and weeks when it gets around the 80s/90s and higher, which have been more frequent the past few decades. That'd be the high 40s for us as we use celsius instead of fahrenheit.
Bins are only put on the front path on collection day. In many town it is an offence to leave them out. The pipes on the front of houses are for rainwater from the roof. No carpet on bathrooms. There are no 'pillows' for window draughts.
The light switch thing is so that if you enter a dark room you place your hand on the switch, and press it down which is more natural that having to press 'up'. Obviously if you have two-way switches, it can be either up or down. The door thing isn't correct any more. Maybe in older houses. Carpets in bathrooms (we only call a room with a bath or shower a 'bathroom'. What you call a half bath we just refer to the 'toilet' or the 'loo' - which is more casual slang apparently originating fro m the days when waste was thrown out of the window, and they would shout 'below' to warn passers by that something unpleasant is on its way). The curtain thing is absolute rubbish - no idea where they got that from! The UK electric plug is about the safest plug design on the planet. They are big for a reason, and have many many safety features built in to the design. Look at Tom Scott's video on this. You wont see bug screens on windows. Most Brits prefer fresh air rather than manufactured 'freshness' (also applies to drying the washing outside - it smells 1000 times fresher). High energy prices (remember we pay almost 3 times what you do for petrol / diesel) mean we rarely dry our clothes or cool our houses using energy. Power outlets in the bathroom is not completely true. We have low voltage (12v) sockets for shavers, toothbrushes etc, which have a pin configuration that means you can't plug heavy load items in them. These sockets have transformers to reduce the voltage built in and are double earthed (grounded). Land is scarce here and property values are way higher than most of the USA, hence small houses and gardens. Never seen a 'milk door' in my life. I think these 'facts' were made up by someone who saw the UK in a book once.
And the book was published in like the 1920's and they read it a long time ago and I think some of the "facts" might have come from that well known reliable source the bloke down the pub
@@jaybe2908 The air vents in window frames is a thing, though most can be closed, they are normally installed if there is a source (potential source) of Carbon Monoxide in the room, a fire place, gas fire, gas cooker/hob or gas central heating. The draught excluders are normally at the base of a door. I'm sure, I had heard of milk doors, I have looked at many old houses that could potentially be the right type (old town houses, old vicarages...) but have never seen any. Given Brits sense of humour, it could be a cat-flap joke.
I can confirm we have curtains. In fact, most houses have thick curtains because it keeps the cold out. A lot of houses might have curtains and blinds to block out the light at night. A lot of this video is based on our older population. In most houses, there are mixer taps, I have them and my house is 120 years old. Unless you're old, most bathrooms have hard flooring, not carpet, for example, mine is tiled. We still have milkmen that deliver milk to the door.
Taking your garbage to the street is a fairly recent innovation. It was only introduced when they changed the garbage trucks and allowed the councils to employ fewer refuge collectors. Prior to that we had a metal bin that was often kept at the back of the house and the garbage collectors were known as binmen. It was very common for people to give the milkman, binmen, coalman (if you had coal delivered to your home) and the paperboy/girl a Christmas bonus tip as a thankyou for their work over the year. Only the paper boy/girl now get that tip. Depending on the route you had/have the paper boy/girl could get over £100 in Christmas tips and for somebody under 16 that was a very nice bonus to get coming up to Christmas.
Most UK homes don't have carpeted bathrooms any more, usually it's tile or vinyl in newer houses, or lino in older ones. Also curtains are fairly common :)
Just your friendly Brit here to fact check some of these. Not all of our interior doors are like that, and carpet in the bathroom is not longer a thing either. That was something back from the 70s 😂 Also we do have VERY HOT summers, we just live without AC's. It’s the same with our rubbish bins, if it's at your door and not pulled near the road they'll just leave it -_- oh also curtains are still somewhat popular but not as much as other alternatives. Love your videos :)
Come on mate, a very hot summer here is one where the hottest temperature is between 25-30C (77-86F). Kentucky, for example, routinely has 35C (95F), which would bring the country to a stop here.
You also should've pointed out that we also do have very humid weather. I mean we're an island, obviously the humidity is going to by high most of the time. A stereotype is that we complaining about the heat when it isn't "that bad" but it is. Our buildings aren't made for the heat but the cold and so when the summer comes every building without AC is like a furnace. Having high humidity prevents the sweat on our bodys from evaporating and therefore we stay hotter for longer. Other countries with consistent hot weather have structures designed to keep them cool, like raised buildings to allow much more airflow, or buildings on the ground but designed to pull colder air much higher up down to ground level in the form of air vents. AC wasn't used because the summers weren't as hot as they are now, we're having more consistently hot summers where as having 35c weather was uncommon. That being said as the summers have become warmer and warmer and the cost of AC has reduced more companies have been installing it into their buildings. Most if not all major companies have AC installed now. Office buildings for the most part (at least where I live) have installed it. AC over the last five years has become a lot more popular probably because it has become somewhat more affordable for home owners to have installed. On my road of fifty houses around five houses had AC installed either before or after the summer of last year, there may be more houses with it I just haven't bothered to look. Lastly, for anyone who doesn't live in the UK. When I said our houses are made for the cold this is because our houses are designed to insulation specifications, what I mean by this is that you have to achieve a certain rating for houses to be approved, this might not have been such a big thing back in the day, I'm not qualified to answer that. Therefore, our houses use brick which is a good insulator and we have two lots with a cavity aka double skinned. Within this cavity is a type of insulation that is either breathable or has breathing space if it's a insulation board of some sort, so you can use something like Rockwool, PUR or PIR. Then on top of that you might use a insulating plasterboard on the walls (interior). The roof will have a cavity for insulation as well as the floor. So basicly the roof, floor and walls will be insulated in various forms be it brick, actual insulation, or some other material with natural or artifical insulating properities. Then our windows are double sometimes even tripple glazed. In sort, double glazing is two panels of glass with cavity in the middle. So you get two panes of glass and spacers along the bottom, top and sides to create an air gap, these can be 2mm spacers upwards. Glazing can be left with just air or filled with Argon gas. Argon is a much better insulator as it is much more efficient at preventing heat from escaping. Triple glazing is three panes of glass with two cavities. Double glazing |_| Triple glazing |_|_|.
We don't have carpets in Bathrooms usually, its an old old thing. Most British windows are 'double glazed' (in modern houses) meaning they have two panes of glass with a seal to keep air between them and help retain heat in winter, we don't have to use the things we say they do to stop a draught. We also totally use curtains ALL THE TIME, my house has net curtains (like a mesh) to allow light in and two huuuuuge mega curtains which are really thick, again to keep heat in. We usually don't have AC, British summers can me quite mild with only a week or two of really hot days so its not really needed, we just open a window when it gets warm. We don't usually use bug screens we prefer to spend our summers swatting annoying flies. The pipes on the front of our houses ARE NOT sewage pipes, they are called drainpipes and are attached to the guttering of our roofs and they drain rain water from our roofs into a channel cut into the pavement (sidewalk) that allows it to drain into the gutters in the street. I am 45 years old and have never seen or heard of a milk door.
Always enjoy your videos. I think a lot of these differences are misconceptions coming from dated info or potentially the authors staying in a small rented house. Cheap blinds instead of curtains, nowhere for bins other than infront of the house, cold and damp, dated interiors with carpeted bathrooms and seperate taps all scream dodgy student accommodation in a large city, been there done that :). I would say in normal houses: we do have curtains, some people do have blinds or shutters but often that is in addition to the curtains; Seperate taps are pretty rare now although thay are making a resurgence with classic victorian style interiors making a trendy comeback; Carpet in bathrooms was big in the 70s but pretty much died out by the 90s. Bins are put in front of the house on collection days but are normally at the back or side, although some terrace streets will keep all their bins in a side alley together. However, to be fair, in places like London and birmingham where space is premium some original side alleys are now developed or used for parking so bins are often out front all the time.
5:59 Older bathrooms are likely to still have carpet in them, but as people renew them they are more likely to have laminated or tile floors. You might still have a rug though in newer bathrooms.
laid carpet in bathrooms was like a 70s/80s thing and is no longer done. Most houses have been redecorated since then and have removed the carpet. At most you will find a small rug in the bathroom that you can easily be put through the washing machine, like a towel.
Some of these things simply do not exist anymore….carpets in toilets/ bathrooms is definitely not the norm! Milk bottle doors…..never ever seen one and I’m 60 years old. Britain is so much smaller than USA….so you have to realise that our homes and outdoor space will of course be much smaller, but a lot of new builds will have utility areas. Hanging out our washing to dry is normal to us and I can assure you our clothes do not smell of outdoors. We do it because it saves us money 🤷♀️ and line dried clothes will last much longer. Driers are expensive to use. Our plug system is great and safe….no brainer.
I do think clothes have an ‘outside’ smell but it is a nice smell, I know a lot of people that say they love getting into bed after they’ve dried their sheets on the line because they smell outdoorsy and fresh, I think washing smells much cleaner after drying outside
I've lived in the UK all my life and have never ever heard of a "milk door" or people not having curtains, Every house on my street has curtains and always has, In the 70s & 80s thick curtains were a must as most houses were single pane glass windows
We don't have pipes on the front of our houses to take stuff in. We have downpipes from the gutters to take rainwater down to a drain. I have never seen a milk door ever. No-one has carpet in the bathroom any more. Blinds are a new thing and lots of people still have curtains. Great fun though. Thanks guys xx
LOL "No one has carpet in the bathroom any more"... have you even seen properties in London? LOADS still have carpets! Especially properties that are NOT for rent!
One thing not mentioned is roofs in the US, the shingles/Tiles are flimsy and need changing say at 10 years. In the UK, many use slate tiles which are natural quarried and so will last forever. Alternatively prefabricated individual tiles are very thick and so never need changing, or if broken invidual tiles can be replaced. Construction is also different, having internal prefabricated block,then a cavity, mostly insulated, and the outer construction either natural stone or solid brick. Very little wood is used apart from the skeleton inside to hold the plasterboard/drywall, and also the roof trusses which are covered with waterproof felt for if the tiles fail on top of it in bad weather. The roof trusses are not fuuly boarded with chipboard but have wood slats spaced out to take the tiles
The humidity here in the UK is immense. That is why we can't handle our recent (the last 10 years or so) hot summers. We can handle the same heat and more, in countries that don't have as much humidity. We love that in fact...such a difference to our weather. We also have some mosquitos here but (In Scotland) the most annoying beasties are Midges (Scientific name: Culicoides impunctatus) which are tiny beasties which can get under our clothes and swarm around us in the evenings. So we burn Citronella candles if we're sitting outside after 5/6pm. The candles aren't 100% effective so we still get bitten, just not by as many. They bite us and make us itch to an inch of our lives, with horrible red bumps too. It's the females that bite us when they're trying to develop their eggs. Their saliva is the reason we itch so much...allergens.
Actually, our washing machines are often washer-dryers (according to Wikipedia, you'd call them a combo washer dryer). Plus, you can put a clothes horse in a room to dry clothes, so you don't need to use a clothes line. Additionally, the curtains one is wrong. There are curtains in the room I'm in right now.
I think some people dry clothes outside, but that's also a thing they mostly still do in Southern parts of Europe where it's warmer. All my relatives air dry from the window in Italy.
Carpet in bathrooms is most definitely a thing of the past, i dont think many people here in Northern Ireland have this anymore and we do have curtains on our windows, we have blinds to cover windows and curtains as side features but can be pulled closed on colder months
There is so much wrong in this video. Has this person ever actually been to the U.K?? Blinds are only usual in kitchens and bathrooms, otherwise everyone has curtains. Carpeted bathrooms haven’t been popular since the 70/80’s. No one has it now. And that’s just a couple. And drying washing outside is the best! Nothing gives me more joy than washing that smell of drying outside. And it’s so much better for the environment than dryers. Not to mention much cheaper.
I have never once moved my hands between the taps, mixed the water in the bowl or bought an attachment to wash my hands 😂 Never seen a carpet bathroom either
I love watching you two interact, it's wonderfully wholesome. I do want to say that t here's a lot of misinformation in this video though. Most people don't have carpeted bathrooms, they're predominantly tiled or linoleum. Although this may have been more common back in the 50's, before most people had central heating. The "sewage pipes" are actually drain pipes, which funnel the rainwater from the guttering along the roof line down into the sewers. I've also never lived anywhere that had blinds and not curtains. Some will have both, but a good set of heavy curtains keeps the heat inside the room way better than any blind would. Anyway, keep making these great videos.
Hi we are a new subscribers. Love the video contents on both channels. I see a lot of Brits have commented about this video you both watched and commented upon, the "sausage" draft excluder, that was a snake shape thing that lay against the bottom of the door, my parents had one, but the bit of the video I wanted to comment on was the part of the video you watched about air condition units. Anna you mentioned humidity, here in England in the very hot months, temperature's and the humidity level can become very bad. and uncomfortable especially at night. As the years have pass by this humidity has grown worst, for this fact only we have a small portable a/c unit for them unbearable nights.
Milk still gets delivered to your door from dairies if you want it, it just costs more than getting it from a shop. Some of these are out of date or wrong. We use curtains. New build properties can no longer have a pull cord in the bathroom, it has to be a switch outside. You'll be hard pushed to find a house with carpet in the bog Generally only terraced houses keep their bins out the front from what I've seen, due to no easy rear access. Other houses just stick them out on the kerb on bin day but keep them out the back for the rest of the week
We still use a milkman. Nothing better than milk in a glass bottle. Not to mention they. Also deliver out bread. If you can get one near you, it’s worth the extra cost, Highly recommended
New builds most certainly can have pull switches, Its just that changes to electrical regulations (compulsory RCD's) mean it is now safe to have switches
1, the washing on the line is the best thing ever, we love the smell of outdoors and the softener on our clothes!! 😍 2, it’s not carpet really in the bathroom they’re bath matts which are made to soak up the water when you’re getting out the bath and saves you getting the floor soaking. It’s brilliant 😂
until the 80's carpet in the bathroom was a bonus but now practicality has ruled and its back to tiles/vinyl in the bathroom. it was mainly because houses were not normally heated at that time so the bathroom floor was COLD!, In the 50's when I got up in the morning in the winter it was not unusual for the net curtains to be frozen to the windows, with only the living room fire to heat the house. It seems much of the info in this vid is from the 50's much of it is not applicable today.
I can’t imagine where some of this information comes from but ………..! The vast majority of British homes will have curtains at their windows. The majority of British homes will have central heating systems! Many British homes are “terraced” and the only access to their back gardens is through the house! Would you want to take your bins backwards and forwards through the house? There is a huge variety of window styles in the UK and you cannot make any generalisations about them! Very few people have carpet in the bathrooms!
On the front of the council house I live in, there's a waste pipe coming from the toilet running along the outside wall. I assume this is what is referred to as a "sewage pipe." The top of the pipe goes to roof guttering level to allow ventilation. I've always assumed this is normal building practice, but apparently not. If the waste pipe is fitted on the inside of the property, wouldn't there be problems if the waste pipe fractured?
Yes allot of properties (real estate) don't utility rooms hence we are only an island and as you saw smaller houses hence we have a washing machine in the kitchen, if space was really tight then some people would have a washer dryer combo but you have to take laundry out for the drying as it doesn't take full loads. Washers and dryers are not done by cubic feet or area of any kind it's done in rated weight capacity and they range from 5kg (11lb) to 13kg (28lb) and washer dryers will have both rated capacities on the front. Also we do use temperatures for our washes (40C/104F) rather than use words (hot, warm, cold) and spin speeds are in numbers also not words as some laundry needs to be spun at certain speeds like 600rpm whereas 'slow' in your case could be 800rpm
We have 2 blinds in this house and 9 windows, all have curtains. Even the rooms where we have blinds also have curtains. On the heating front a) it is expensive and b) our bedding tends to be different than in the USA so we have duvets, like thick comforters. You don't need to heat the whole house (ie downstairs) when everyone is in bed snuggled under a thick duvet.
That double tap cartoon is hilarious. They don't look anything like that! Also, the single spouts we have now have a tube within a tube so the hot and cold are still separate. A lot of people don't know that.
It is humid here in Scotland Summer and Winter. I just checked and we currently have 91% humidity (I’m writing this in April). I always hang my washing outside as it’s so much fresher however I live in the countryside. I never use a dryer. In winter or when it’s raining, I hang it in our utility room which has the heating controls and the boiler so it’s always warm in there. We still have our milk delivered. In fact we have all of our groceries delivered to our door from the supermarket, ordered online.
There are a lot of RUclips channels that tour new British houses. There are a lot of things in them that are fundamentally different than new American houses. I suggest you go find those channels and watch some tours and draw your own conclusions on the differences. Things I've noticed comparing NEW houses in both countries: 1. Closets/wardrobes are not automatically put into bedrooms in the UK. While there may be a natural space to put it, you might have to upgrade to get one or buy your own after moving in if you wanted it. Conversely, in the USA, a room wouldn't be able to be marketed as a bedroom without a closet as part of the construction. 2. Main entrance hallways/foyers in the UK are usually fully separated from adjacent rooms by doors, this is even true if that door only separates the entrance hallway from a part of the house that's considered open plan. This part is often at the back of the house and combines the kitchen, informal dining area and possibly a family lounge type space. In the USA, entrances are usually not separated from adjacent rooms by doors, even in the case of rooms that might be considered more formal. Varying sized cased openings might be the transition from the foyer to an adjacent room but without an actual door. In other cases, there may not even be a wall at all separating spaces. 3. Bathrooms and half baths in the UK are typically much much smaller than their American equivalent, even in smaller homes in the USA, the ensuite bathroom can be quite spacious. Pedestal and wall hung sinks are pretty common in the UK where most American bathrooms have the wash basin mounted within cabinetry with storage underneath. 4. Laundry machines are not put under the kitchen counter in the USA, even in small starter homes, and there is always a space to have both a washer and dryer. In many newer homes in the UK, there are now laundry rooms that are similar to the USA accessed from the kitchen, but there are still starter homes in the UK where the laundry machine is provided under the kitchen counters. 5. Refrigerators on average are substantially larger in the USA than in the UK. Ovens and sinks also seem to be smaller in the UK in comparison. 6. If a garage is attached to a house in the USA, it almost always has direct access into the house, typically through the laundry room or directly into the kitchen. It's quite common for it to go like this: garage>laundry>kitchen. While there are now many UK houses with laundry rooms attached to the kitchens, very few I've toured online have direct access to the garage through them. 7. It's still common to see radiators in each room in the UK and you almost never see that anymore in the USA. 8. In almost all UK homes I've toured on RUclips, the staircases seem much narrower. This tends to be true even in the case of homes that are upscale or considered luxury. 9. My perception by video is that ceiling heights and doors seem a tad shorter in the UK than in the USA. 10. The UK seems to be much more carpet oriented than the USA where wall to wall carpet has really fallen out of favor in new homes. If you are going to find carpet in a new American home, you are most likely to find it in the bedrooms. I haven't seen any carpet in any bathroom on any UK house tour. That was a load of crap in the video. 11. While I find UK kitchens to be quite clever with their storage options built into the kitchen cabinetry, storage in general in UK homes is much less than the USA. Homes in the USA have a much larger percentage of their overall square footage assigned to storage. This includes entry closets for coats, walk-in pantries for food, walk-in closets in bedrooms, linen closets near the bedrooms and bathrooms, and just extra storage closets cleverly tucked into spaces throughout the house. In so many videos I've watched, the UK tour guides make a big deal of having storage under the stairs. I have to laugh that they think it's gracious. 12. In some parts of the USA, basements are pretty common, while in other parts of the country you won't find them at all. Yet in other parts of the country, you'll really only find a basement if the property is built on a sloping lot and part of that basement is daylighted and accessible to outside. I have yet to see a UK video with a basement of any kind. Maybe they have them but I don't get the sense that they are common. Walk-up attics are not typical in the USA but they also aren't uncommon at a certain price point and above. I haven't seen such a thing yet in any UK tour. Americans seem to have more access to unfinished extra space in their houses (but certainly not all Americans). 13. The average house in the USA is detached, while the average house in the UK seems to be at least semi-detached (or as Americans would call it, a duplex). There are definitely attached homes in the USA, but when you say "house" to someone in the USA, they automatically think of a fully detached house with its own yard/garden. 14. Lastly, and this won't come a a big surprise, houses in the USA are generally much larger than in the UK. Room sizes are generally larger in the USA and it wouldn't surprise me if the average 3 bedroom home in the USA was actually larger than the average 5 bedroom house in the UK.
Yes we use curtains, we do have flying bugs but typically don't have bug screens and carpets in houses help keep the house warmer and dampen sounds. Energy costs in the UK arnt high, they are astronomical and we don't prefer to wear lots of layers of clothing... we just can't afford to heat our homes as much as we would like. We can store our garbage cans in the bedroom if we like... we just have to make sure its at the roadside on collection day. Most modern houses or those with younger owners no longer have carpets in the bathroom.
Very rare to find bathrooms with carpets, usually tiled floors. Lots of homes have curtains rather than blinds on their windows. Biggest difference is in energy usage. The average UK home uses 2,500KWH per year whilst it is 12,500KWH in the USA (5 times more power wastage)
As someone who lives in the UK, the "Brits don't use curtains and only use blinds" quote isn't completely accurate. It depends on the person. Some people use curtains, and others use blinds. It's not exclusively blinds like the video stated. Our house is a mix of both. Some rooms use curtains while other rooms use blinds.
You might want to look into UK plug wiring. The top pin is earthed and is longer than the other two. It's a safety feature. The reason for the length is that if you look at the socket the bottom are closed off they have a feature to stop anyone from pushing anything in and getting a shock. The top pin opens these to allow the bottom prongs in. Also these two prongs are coated so that if only partially in and touched they wont shock. Lastly the inside wiring if the plug... the cable to the top prong is longer than ghe other two and has slack built in so that there is no chance of getting an electric shock if the wiring is pulled or comes loose.
There has been a lot of brainwashing of the British public regarding these plugs. The truth is they are not safer than in most European countries. The German earthed plug is a magnificent design as are Swiss earthed plugs. They do the same job as UK plugs without being the size of a half brick.
To be fair the size of the plug isn't really a problem, size of a brick or not, most appliances are plugged in where they are placed, fridge, TV, microwave etc,so not really something you would need to carry around on your person etc
Havea look at the plugs... the top prong is longer... the bottom two are half coated in non metallic material... the sockets require the top to be opened before the bottom two will open. Looking at thse will show that it is not brainwashing. Go look. When I was at school everyone was shown how to wire plugs as part of science curriculum. Also there is a fuse in plugs as additional safety measure. UK has higher voltage 240 as opposed to other places which is why these measures are required. It's not brainwashing.... its science.
It may not seem as though our temperatures get that high over here but being surrounded by sea, the UK gets a lot of humidity and precipitation so it can be unbearable in summer months.
The statistics confirm this. On average in the summer it rains on one in three days. To have a long dry hot period is the exception. Average summer temperatures, even in the hottest parts, don't justify using air con.
I am from the UK. Hanging clothes outside is the best! Move to Bournemouth, you guys would love the seaside town. Carpet in the bathroom is usually a small piece around the toilet and next to the bath. otherwise, almost every bathroom is tiled floors.
A lot of ‘tosh’ on this! The pipes you see on the outside ofBritish houses are to drain rain water via the gutters,quite a lot of us have utility rooms, most people don’t have carpet in their bathrooms but do have curtains at their windows.Bins are usually hidden away and only put in front of the house on collection day.
I’m a retired post man or PDO(Postal Delivery Officer or to Americans a mail carrier) and from all my experience I’ve only once ever encountered a house that had anything like a “milk-door “ which was actually a large horizontal wooden flap which you could lift open wide enough to put the mail including any packages through onto a shelf inside the porch along with any bottles of milk by placing them end first through the wall then twisting the bottle upright again on the shelf which had an upright edge to prevent anything falling off the shelf. Also some houses that have the appearance of having a built over window have actually been built like that to maintain a level of symmetry to the “face” of the building and have nothing to do with the old window tax, this is mainly amongst Georgian style or period houses, when symmetry was the “ in style”.
I'm a working postman, I have a house on my route which has a "fake" window, not a bricked up one, but recessed and painted, like you say done for symmetry but also to avoid the tax, that's what they teach school kids on trips.
I’m a Brit (English to be exact), I don’t use blinds, only curtains. For the record last summer was into the 40’s which is into the hundred degrees Fahrenheit but we only have it that hit for a few weeks at most & because of our humidity, it’s more bearable (or it is for me) so we don’t need air conditioning & plus there’s the cost aspect to running air conditioning. As for drying our clothes outside, that obviously only happens when dry/warm enough outside & as we don’t tend to get people regularly making fires outside, it has little affect on the smell of our clothes. When it is too cold/wet outside to dry clothes they go on clothes airers or radiators (when the Russians aren’t putting energy prices through the roof! And you are right, we don’t tend to have so many bugs here so very few houses have screens on the door’s & windows.
High humidity means less ability for a human to get rid of heat via moister (sweat), hence we suffer more from heat in summer, than many other countries.
the humidity is horrible, if youre saying the humidity makes it bareable youve never experienced dry heat like the middle east or something, cause there you can be hot af, and it feels way lighter on your skin cause your sweat can actually evaporate, you dont feel sticky and clamy
Most homes in my large extended family have washers and dryers either in the kitchen or dining room behind folding doors. This is also where a lot of housing on military bases have them. And most of my doors are centrally located so some open to the right and some to the left.
The higher voltage, strange plugs and bathroom pull cords are actually a by-product of copper shortages after WWII. To save on the amount of wiring used in new homes a wiring system called the ring main was developed. It used less wiring, but to make it work the voltage had to be higher. That is why our plugs and sockets are engineered for massive levels of safety. For example every plug has it's own fuse in addition to a fuse in the main distribution board.
Hi! Unless you’re in a really polluted area it’s most fresh and great for the planet to hang clothes out to dry outdoors. We had a dryer when I lived with my parents but I now just have a heated clothes airer which can be used indoors if the weather is bad plus it uses far less energy.p.s We have mixer taps at home and I live in a house that was built in 1900. Most people have moved from the old plumbing to having a boiler which provides hot water.
Generally speaking, separate utility rooms are only a thing in larger, more expensive houses here in the UK. Our houses are quite small compared to the US.
We have washing machines AND dryers in our kitchens but there are houses with utility areas - it just depends on who built the homes and where they are in the country. Some small homes have their utility room in the cellar (basement) or just off the kitchen but more often than not, our clothes washing appliances are in the kitchen (and it doesn’t matter if they are small properties or not ! I live in a one bed, ground floor apartment that only has 4 rooms to the whole place ! I have a narrow ‘galley’ kitchen and in it I have a large washing machine which will take a 13kg load and a smaller 9kg load condenser dryer, along with other large electricals
Hi, I'm in my 50's and from the UK. I also have American cousins because my Aunt went over in the 1950's and became a citizen and had two girls who both still live in Florida. My cousins both now have grandchildren and even great grandchildren! As people have already mentioned the carpet in the bathroom thing is a thing of the past. You may still find it in some older homes but its rare. A lot of people have even gone over to laminate flooring in the living spaces with maybe just a few rugs used. Although we have technically come out of the European union we have a adopted a lot of European ideas over the years especially when it comes to houses. Mixer taps are now a lot more common in kitchens although bathrooms still often have double taps. Curtains are pretty common with net curtains in front of windows as well. Even with blinds people still tend to have curtains I would say. As for milk doors....I can honestly say I've never seen one! Very few people seem to get milk delivered these days and just pick it up from the supermarket along with everything else. Supermarkets also deliver too if you cannot get out.
I have a tumble dryer, but when the sun is out, the clothes go on the line to dry. It doesn't make the clothes as soft, I will admit that, but you save soooo much money on electric bills. And it really doesn't take long to dry on a sunny day. I just want to add as well, even though our weather doesn't get as hot as yours; our houses are literally built to retain heat. This means our summers are absolutely unbearable, because there is nowhere to go to get cooled down. Inside is baking, outside is baking. We definitely need Aircon, and I envy you guys for having ways to cool down.
6:54 grew up in a house built in 1640 never saw blinds except on modern builds and that was with curtains in conjunction, always had curtains in every room, except maybe the kitchen. Carpet in the bathroom yes and i have to hoover it every Saturday, but what is not mentioned is that the toilet, sinks and next to the bath are mats that you change every week and wash. 9:10 nope nope nope, cavity walls, double glazing, without the heating on even when -10C outside it would be 65F (18C) inside and then you have the central heating system kick in I am sure some places have pipes outside the home, maybe, but in every house i have lived in in the UK the pipe system is internal to the walls, maybe a kitchen sink drain might be outside but water in is underground and then inside the building comes up, and loo and bath drains feed into the sewer system internally and then to the sewer mains under the house remaining under the road. The average width of a terraced house is around 4.4m. not the 3.5m mentioned in the video. But that is in mayor metropolitan cities, again the house i grew up in was 10 metres wide and about 18 metres deep and was two stories, though the one i lived in before i was 11 years old was 15 metres wide and 12 metres deep and it was not a large house in my village, it all depends on if you are in a busy city centre or an area build during the industrial revolution for factory workers or in a farming community. But even then workers terraces might only be a one bedroom house, and over time they have been knocked though or they were wider. In My mum's village still gets the milkman every day coming with fresh milk there are lots of other issues with other issues, but the living on the street is quite common. walking is more common than in the US so step out into the street but again in smaller communities, bins are put beside the house where my parents live the morning of the collection, in the next town over the bins are put out the back not the front but a few streets away they are put out the front, but the local council asks you take them in after they are collected. It is about where the trucks can get to. In some cities you might keep them in your front yard... The plugs yes switches but they missed out the most important thing, until very recently everyone had to learn how to wire a plug at school, as appliances came without the plugs attached often, and the earth pin is longer than the neutral or live pins, the socket itself has a lever inside it that has three little covers that stop people being able to put their fingers in, the earth pin is the longer one as that is the one that moves the lever and opens the covers for the live and neutral pins and the earth pin must be covered for a percentage with insulating tape so if you touch it by accident you do not get fried, the insulation covers to the point where if you pull the plug out it is insulated until the point that the shutters are shut so live is disconnected. meaning unless you have the worlds smallest fingers you can not get your fingers to the live and neutral during the time they are connected to any power.
Brit here, maybe in the 90s bathrooms had carpet jit anymore, we use curtains and blinds and we don't have screens on our windows we just deal with the few bugs we gat to get relief from heat we also buy fans. We have dryers if we have room but we do put clothes outside only in the summer because otherwise they would get very wet.
We have a utility room but still have a washing machine and dryer in the kitchen. I have turned our utility room into my home studio. We also have mixer taps and some limited air con. Tiles bathroom floor. Remote low voltage switching for bathroom lighting. We use both curtains and blinds. Depends which room. Kitchen vertical blinds, lounge curtains. Bedrooms mixed depending on height of the floor from the ground. We have 3x more floor space inside the house than garden. The house has five levels. The trend for bathrooms is going towards complete wet rooms.
The door thing was wrong, and all my doors opened to the wall. So think it just depends. We also do have curtains, I have not seen a house without curtains
in London we dry our clothes indoors on drying racks with central heating and put them all over the radiators. if we dont have dryers.. hanging clothes outside is a luxury we rarely get the weather for them to dry..love your videos ❤
I'm from Bristol in the UK and on the air conditioning section, I could say that we could really use them during the summer especially during June to late August humidity Is high with hot weather windows and fans don't work when there's no air and the fans circulate hot air air cons are only really found in shops and businesses but not in the home
Love your vids! In the A/C section, you asked if we have high humidity here in the UK. We certainly do in the summer. Humidity can go as high as 90%+, which is very very uncomfortable when the temperature is 32c (94F)+, and at night time the house can often be 28c (86F) with high humidity. It's just unbearable sometimes in the summer, and I wish we did have A/C, but it's not worth it for the amount of time we'd actually use it, as out super hot humid summers often only last a month or so
I live in the UK, and I've also lived in South Africa. SA also has no electrical outlets in bathrooms; power outlets that turn on and off; washing machines in the kitchen (bigger houses would have a separate laundry ["utility"] room); light switches that you press down to turn on and up to turn off; used to also have carpets in the bathrooms, but only in very old houses; windows that open to the outside; also use curtains but some people still prefer to put blinds up (or both); also no air conditioning in all the houses, and temperatures get excessively hot and humid in SA; In the UK, I have yet to see a house with water and sewerage pipes on the outside of the house (maybe very old houses?); and I have yet to see a Milk door, although you can still have fresh milk delivered to you house every morning, it just gets left outside your front door. Love your reactions.😊
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog Your 'most', is not really accurate. It could be that in your experience many have but I've spent time travelling and living up and down the UK and it is not a common thing, though I have seen it.
@CambridgeDad You see those pipes that usually go past the guttering of houses on the outside, the one with a vent on it? That's called a soil pipe and is connected to your toilet, the majority of low rise housing have the same system. I know new builds more than often have them on the inside now, though.
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog perhaps a regional thing, but where i live it’s only old or rural houses that on not connected to the mains that have them. Most have air admittance valves or vents are built into the roof or fake chimney’s.
As well as the house having a circuit breaker for safety reasons, some plug sockets have them too. Many houses do have utility rooms. Not all switches are up for off and down for on, we have two way switches e.g. on staircases which can operate the opposite way depending which was switched on first. Hardly anyone puts carpet in the bathroom or toilet nowadays, it went out of fashion years ago.
Pressing a switch down is on because it exposes the top of the switch, which has a red rectangle on it so you can see from further away whether it's on or not.
Every room in my house apart from kitchen and bathroom has curtains. Bathroom carpets were a thing many years ago and wasn't normal carpet,it had some sort of waterproof bottom to it. I can't think of any family or friends houses that have seperate taps. Our electricity is a lot more powerful than yours and would be incredibly dangerous in our bathrooms. Also there is a minimum distance from water supply's in the kitchen too for sockets and switches.
There are homes and public places where the hot tap is on the right ! My sister’s home has this and she lives about 10 miles from me but still in Greater Manchester (England, U.K.). Usually it’s a regional thing.
Lots of houses have utility rooms, I think most of the facts in that video are from back in the day. Love your channel, you both always bring a smile to my face ♥
Some of the new house's in the UK now come with sockets in the bathroom, and we do have dryers we have them in the kitchen.. and the washing machine is connected to pipe to the sink, so the waste water form the washing machine goes down the same hole as the sink water.
Carpet in bathrooms was a terrible thing, I mean there's a toilet in there 😅 so yeah we don't do that any more. As for blinds, I still thought it was posh people get them lol. Oh and its only a back yard if it's like a tiny paved area, otherwise it's the back garden, even the small ones. Love to all xx
I'm 46 and never been in a bathroom with carpet in. Virtually Every house has curtains. The door thing is wrong thsts not a thing we do. No letters are put under front doors its impossible. Good video just not very accurate oh and iv never heard of a milk door either 😊😊
Most of the UK smells like flowers (well it does where i live) so clothes smelling of outdoors is not bad. We also use fabric softener so they are not stiff and smell nice.
one thing as a Brit that I notice every time I visit America, the plug sockets in the USA feel so unsafe. The plugs seem to move around when slotted in, and don't feel secure. In the UK the plugs go in and feel completely secure and can never fall out even if the wire is pulled.
If you don't like the smell of outside - what on earth is going on where you live? I love the smell of our clothes when they dry outside, fresh and clean smelling.
Brit here! Lots of this is nonsense - most bathrooms don't have carpet, we absolutely have curtains as well as or instead of blinds, doors open in a variety of directions depending on what works better for the space, sometimes summers do get very hot, we do have utility rooms in lots of homes, garden/yard size varies hugely and some homes have very large ones, most people nowadays heat their homes a lot in winter although to be fair, I was raised to layer up with jumpers before heating the space to be less wasteful of fuel. I'd love it if the creators of this cited their sources.
couldn't put it better myself!
I have never seen a 'milk door' or heard of a postman putting post under the door. In fact 80% of this video is nonsense!!
Pretty much what I was going to say.
I can remember in my time in Britain in the 1980s carpet in some bathrooms. Really weird!
Don't recognise many of the things pointed out. So outdated. Proves that you shouldn't believe everything you see on the Internet.
Not sure where the idea we don't have curtains came from. Every single house I have ever been in has them.
I was about to comment the same thing, literally every house I’ve ever been to as well 😂
Maybe this depends on where you live but I've only been into houses with those plastic blinds and I could count them on a single hand. Where I am it's net curtain and then curtains either plain or pattern.
Always had curtains and blinds, bigger houses do have utility room,
This was one of the main points for me that I felt inaccurate.
Yeah I think its one of those "so wrong it has to be to drive comments" type things these videos do. Every house bar one I've lived in in the UK had curtains, every apartment in California had blinds.
UK plugs are designed with one bigger & slightly longer pin at the top. This is because on a socket, the two smaller holes have a flap behind them which prevents accidental electrocution eg. Kids poking wires or knitting needles/thin sharp objects into them. When you put the plug into a socket, the bigger pin mechanically pushes the flaps open so that the smaller pins can fit.
We have outlets for shavers right beside the sink in many homes in the UK. Also if you visit the UK youll find that a large majority of houses have curtains and have done for centuries. The three prong plug was done for one reason, safety. The third prong grounds the electricity to protect anyone who uses a metal-encased appliance from electric shock. Also most bathrooms (every bathroom iv ever been in my entire life) have lino, not carpet. In 43 years of being a human I have never been in a bathroom that had carpet in it.
Those outlets are 12v
Those British outlet sockets in fact are 240V (sometimes with 120v as well) and have a small isolating transformer in them which isolates the mains live and neutral from you so that you'd have to be in contact with both pins at once to get an electric shock from them. They can only be used for low power devices such as shavers and electric tooth brushes, but never for hair dryers and curling tongs.
OMG I wanted to go into the reason for the third prong but when I initially posted I assumed it would be beyond most people's interest (I wasn't sure how many Brits would be watching and of those I really didn't think may would care to correct the information. I was actually worried I'd get people having a go and calling me a pedant!) Thank you for clarifying the plug thing. The design is actually safer, although some claim it's excessive and we do allow low-voltage items like toothbrush chargers and shavers to be plugged into 2-prong bathroom sockets. I will still always prefer our plugs and feel slightly concerned about those 2-prong bathroom sockets! I grew up in older houses that did not have power outlets in the bathrooms and we managed fine. I've subsequently spoken to people who've asked how we 'coped' without things like hair tools and shavers and I've explained that we either didn't care to use those things OR we plugged them in in a different room. You'd think they were 12, talking to someone in their 90s. They're grown adults and I'm in my early 30s, it blows my mind how sheltered and incompetent some people are.
I am 52 and have moved a lot and i have never lived in a house with shaver outlets.
@@nealgrimes4382 only new houses put them in. Iv'e fitted a few as an electrician. Others get them fitted as extras, or part of light fitting/ mirror
As soon as I hear an American voice narrating how Britain 'is', I already know most of it is gonna be wrong xD
Most of the people on RUclips telling the world about the UK are Canadians, who know even less.
Xd lol i get offended when Americans narrate
Yeah I feel like all these American channels find a single person from the UK who's never lived anywhere outside of central London to provide all their information. Curtains are in every house I've been in (only small/modern flats will ONLY have blinds), mixer taps are very common in most builds or bathrooms/kitchens from this century, many houses I've been in have utility rooms (or at least dryers) and British weather makes outdoor washing lines almost unusable, there was no mention of indoor drying racks. Also I have no idea what this air-vent/sausage thing on windows is meant to be... Also by "plumbing on the outside", do they mean drain pipes for the gutters?
Unless they actually live here.
@@TheMightyHams More like, at least 25 Canadian channels, maybe even as many as 50 as around 20 of them are owned by the same company (2 of which aren't as obvious as the others), get all their information from a Welsh-born Canadian, who has lived in Canada for most of his life, has no interest in the UK, loves typical geek stuff like anime and sci-fi mainly from Japan, can't speak properly, and puts on a fake English accent. He also blocks you straight away, whenever you point out any of his factual mistakes or mispronunciations, which appear in every single video he narrates.
Brits most certainly do use curtains!
I quite like the idea of making these "educational" videos for Americans and just slipping in these weird lies for no reason. Top trolling.
Wtf i don't know anyone who doesn't have curtains and most also have blinds
I agree. The creator of this video must be confusing Greece for Great Britain because they both begin with G. 🙄
Never been in a house here in the U.K. that doesn’t have curtains. Blinds have started to replace net curtains, but not the main curtains.
Why are these videos narrated by Americans, who don’t know what they are talking about.
No screens over our windows, but generally houses remain bug free :)
Also sewage pipes are generally not outside 😂 the pipes you’ll see are from guttering for the rain water from the roof
Most sewage pipes from toilets are external on U.K. properties. Even bungalows (which I live in now) have an external pipe directly from the back of the toilet, through the wall which then goes down at 90° through the ground to the main sewage piping. On 2 storey properties they are the same as well. Only time this won’t be the case is if a toilet has been constructed after the property has been built where it the room has been built away from an external wall. This then means additional internal remodelling on other rooms to run the pipe work will be required to join up to the main sewage pipe work.
Brit here. When we hang our clothes outside as the weather and climate is different, our clothes don’t smell. They actually smell fresh as the air is so different here. Also we don’t have carpets in the bathrooms. It’s really rare these days but in the 90s and before that it was common. We do have curtains too as well as blinds. Or either/or. Plus it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of window tax. I used to love having our milk delivered but they don’t do it anymore. Being a Londoner too - it’s the first time over heard of carp to carp walleting 😂. Also unrelated - but you have the most adorable dog ❤
The window tax was introduced in 1696 (1748 in Scotland) and repealed in 1851. It affected houses built during that time, but not houses built after 1851.
They used to have a window tax in the 18th century
Why am I so offended by the curtain lie 🤣
Blinds are getting more common for sure but curtains are definitely used, or a mixture of the two in the home depending on the room - blinds are definitely better for bathrooms & kitchens.
People well off with nice big houses have utility rooms, it's one of my things I'd want my dream home to have.
Most people here also think carpet in bathrooms is a no no, we aren't in the 1970s anymore
It annoys me also. This video they are reacting to is American made, certainly not British made
I thought I was hallucinating when I was looking at my curtains 🤣
@@clairehill1963 Yea exactly hahah who gave a random american permission to make a video about the UK full of lies and exaggerations lol
@@allthingsminifig9263 bright sun do it about every video they make ...they are the worst next to watch mojo for it
The no curtains bit pissed me off too! But then what do you expect from an AMERICAN giving BRITISH facts 🙄
The British electric plug is a design icon with multiple levels of safety designed into it. You need to check that out. The pipes on the front of houses are normally the rainwater drain pipes from the gutters. Mains water pipes bringing water into the house are normally underground to prevent frost damage and waste water pipes are generally on the rear or side of the house. I haven't seen carpet in a bathroom for years, all you'll normally find is a small toweling mat next to the bath/shower to stop you slipping when you have wet feet.
In my 29 years on earth living in Scotland, I have never seen a carpet in a bathroom once
I used to have bathroom carpet, it was a very small room and I would regularly wash the carpet in the bath.
My mum still has a carpeted bathroom 😂 it’s gross.
@@TriMarko im 30 in liverpool, same
I lived in England from late sixties to early seventies and at that time milk was still delivered daily, and you shook the bottle to mix the milk and cream together as it was fresh off the farm and separated out. We put letter catchers on the inside of the mail slot to keep our dog away from the mail. Once a week the corona man came and you could buy bottles of soft drinks and bet on the football pool. In the summer the Mr. frosty van came and you could buy popsicles and sundaes twice a week. Never did see carpet in a bathroom.
Had to laugh at the 'corona man', would have completely different meaning today.
Living in the country, you went to the farm for milk, baker, butcher and mobile shop came twice a week, if you wanted anything special they would deliver it next visit. The mobile library came once a week. There was still the old “privy” in the garden, but we did have a scene inside
Ah, the good old days when milk, fizzy pop, bread, groceries and betting on the pools were all available at your door. Our Coop milk man was called Tom and he had false teeth.
There was the candy apples seller man who came down our street in the 90s until his sad death
@@mallon201 Damn enterprising of him to collect your football pools at the same time as delivering soft drinks, though! 🤪
In London, UK, my parents house and both sets of grandparents houses had fully carpeted bathrooms. All had curtains too.
Never heard of a milk door let alone seen one!
Brits don't use curtains... I am flabbergasted at the inaccuracy lol. I challenge you to go down a street without seeing curtains everywhere pretty much anywhere in the UK
I am 46 years old, and have lived in the UK my entire life. I have never seen a milk door 😂 Also, most houses do have curtains, although blinds are popular they are often installed in ADDITION to the curtains 👍🏽
I’m 79 years of age. Born in the U.K. and lived here all my life. Like you, I’ve never seen or even heard of a milk door - cat flaps yes, milk doors no. In fact, in many rural areas milk is no longer delivered to your door, you buy from a local shop or your favourite supermarket. I buy long life milk from the supermarket. I’d have thought blinds in preference to curtains was a minority choice. Most houses I know of have only one or two blinds at most. Often they are in combination as curtains help to keep warmth in.😊
All I saw as a kid was milk bottle holders on doorsteps
I'm 36, my Granddad's old house had a milk door. Strangely it was on the side door and not the front. He also had a coal chute and still got coal delivered to it into the mid-90's.
In the late 90's the local council stepped in and removed all the old house features as soon as his lease expired.
The house is almost unrecognisable now, looking much more 'modern.'
Never seen a milk door and everybody got curtains blinds are installed secondary and yes i did know the queen she used to come round my nans house every weekend for a cup of tea and a fag
closest i ever saw to a milk door was a couple of bricks and a roof tile on top at my grandpie's
The window tax was referred to as 'Daylight Robbery' since they were taking away the natural light, so that's where the saying comes from. It's now commonly used in situations where you're being ripped off/swindled.
Hi Guys,
British lady here.😀
Carpets in bathrooms was around in the seventies, think it was so the bathrooms were warmer on your feet as a lot of the older built houses didn’t have heating in the bathrooms.
Most bathrooms now have tiles or a waterproof lament flooring.
I’ve got wooden blinds in my kitchen , Roman black out blinds in my bedroom and Venetian blinds in my other rooms. I also have air conditioning in my bedroom for when the good old British weather gets too hot.
Also gardens vary in size from small upwards to massive depending where you live, my last home had a really good size garden. The new build I’ve just bought as a smaller garden.
We also have utility rooms, and a lot of new built houses have en-suite bathrooms in at least two bedrooms and a master bathrooms which everyone can use. Plus a downstairs toilet, my downstairs toilet as a shower cubicle as well, plus a washing machine built in.
We never go with out heating are home in the winter, it comes on automatically when the room drops below 20 degrees.
We have electric outlets in bathroom’s to charge your razor and toothbrush, they are different to our normal electric sockets.
Think the video is certainly well out of date and certainly wrong in some parts, think the guy got some wrong information. Lol
But enjoyed watching it, it made me smile.
Take care guys.
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Indeed, I remember us getting a gas heater in the bathroom around 1977, Many a burnt bottom was claimed by it, not only my family but cousins, aunties & uncles as well, good times
You sound absolutely minted.
Me here with a 20 sqaure foot back garden, 1 bathroom, 3 bedroom house on a crap council estate
Can't wait to move to Brighton for uni
And air conditioning 😭 I have never met a single Brit or heard of one who has air con...
Your heating didn't go below 20C all winter?! Your bills must've been astronomical! I live in the family home - a 20s/30s build 3-bed semi in Greater London - with my mother, and we couldn't afford to have the heating above 18C (even that was a rare treat - mostly we heated to 16C max and layered up with warm clothes and blankets) because despite only heating the rooms we were in, the bills were still ~£200 a month, if not more. And we're on what's considered a cheaper tariff! What with such high household bills, crazy fuel prices and 20%+ increases in food prices, it's a wonder how many people get through the winter months. Our groceries are especially pricey because I'm coeliac (me, Mum and the dog eat gluten free!) and dairy intolerant, so a loaf of bread is easily £4+ now and coconut/almond milks are ~£2 per litre. It's almost unbelievable how much the cost of living has increased over the past decade, but given the lunacy that was Brexit (and the numerous crises that followed it), the current situation isn't really surprising.
@@leannepentecost9580 honey, it's capitalism - not crisis.
They use a 'crisis' as a means to milk the working class.
Clearly the OP here is middle to upper class by the sounds of it 😭
Anna: unless you live in a highly polluted area, "Outdoors smell" is the natural smell!! Don't understand your explanation at all, but each to their own!😊
Yes, Line dried washing is one of my favourite smells. Maybe it smells different where they live. We also use fabric softner to stop our clothes drying stiff.
They do smell of outside though lol. I prefer it, but depends what your outside smells like ofc
Washing dried outside smells and feels so much more fresher. Your jeans to be stiff are because it's cold outside then I would use a dryer. I do understand if you're not in a city then maybe your clothes won't smell as fresh but apart from that outside makes your clothes feel more fresh
You see I live in Cumbria. With little to no pollution. But I don't like my clothes smelling like outside so I do get it 😂
I love my washing hanging to dry outside 🫶🏻 I live in Edinburgh a heavy populated city & my washing smells so fresh.
I’m in my 70s and live in England and have never heard of a milk door. Also practically everyone has curtains and most bathrooms are not carpeted. We also have utility rooms and waste bins mostly live at the back of the house and are wheeled out on collection days. So as much as I enjoy your reaction to these videos, this one was not a good one.
I'm in my 70's also and as a kid we always had lino. When I got married in '71 I put carpet in my bathroom and have done so ever since. There's bath/shower mat and mat in front of the loo which can be washed as required, should some one gets their aim wrong.
I am the same age and did see a milk door on the house my parents bought when I was about 8, my father bricked it up almost immediately, it was a thing for Victorians not current population, bins only live at the front of houses without a rear access, seen this a lot in the south but the north tend to have some form of access to the rear of the house
It CAN get very hot and humid, as we're never more than 70 miles from the coast anywhere in the country!
But because our homes are more compact, it can feel quite stifling on those days and weeks when it gets around the 80s/90s and higher, which have been more frequent the past few decades.
That'd be the high 40s for us as we use celsius instead of fahrenheit.
Bins are only put on the front path on collection day. In many town it is an offence to leave them out.
The pipes on the front of houses are for rainwater from the roof.
No carpet on bathrooms.
There are no 'pillows' for window draughts.
The light switch thing is so that if you enter a dark room you place your hand on the switch, and press it down which is more natural that having to press 'up'. Obviously if you have two-way switches, it can be either up or down.
The door thing isn't correct any more. Maybe in older houses.
Carpets in bathrooms (we only call a room with a bath or shower a 'bathroom'. What you call a half bath we just refer to the 'toilet' or the 'loo' - which is more casual slang apparently originating fro m the days when waste was thrown out of the window, and they would shout 'below' to warn passers by that something unpleasant is on its way).
The curtain thing is absolute rubbish - no idea where they got that from!
The UK electric plug is about the safest plug design on the planet. They are big for a reason, and have many many safety features built in to the design. Look at Tom Scott's video on this.
You wont see bug screens on windows. Most Brits prefer fresh air rather than manufactured 'freshness' (also applies to drying the washing outside - it smells 1000 times fresher). High energy prices (remember we pay almost 3 times what you do for petrol / diesel) mean we rarely dry our clothes or cool our houses using energy.
Power outlets in the bathroom is not completely true. We have low voltage (12v) sockets for shavers, toothbrushes etc, which have a pin configuration that means you can't plug heavy load items in them. These sockets have transformers to reduce the voltage built in and are double earthed (grounded).
Land is scarce here and property values are way higher than most of the USA, hence small houses and gardens.
Never seen a 'milk door' in my life.
I think these 'facts' were made up by someone who saw the UK in a book once.
And the book was published in like the 1920's and they read it a long time ago and I think some of the "facts" might have come from that well known reliable source the bloke down the pub
I've never seen a 'milk-door' either, I think someone is mis-identifying a catflap.
Or air vents above window, with cushion thing to stop draughts? nope doesn't happen here, only in some bathrooms
@@peterhopkins4748 I have it was here on Utube and the house was in Canada.
@@jaybe2908 The air vents in window frames is a thing, though most can be closed, they are normally installed if there is a source (potential source) of Carbon Monoxide in the room, a fire place, gas fire, gas cooker/hob or gas central heating.
The draught excluders are normally at the base of a door.
I'm sure, I had heard of milk doors, I have looked at many old houses that could potentially be the right type (old town houses, old vicarages...) but have never seen any. Given Brits sense of humour, it could be a cat-flap joke.
I can confirm we have curtains. In fact, most houses have thick curtains because it keeps the cold out. A lot of houses might have curtains and blinds to block out the light at night.
A lot of this video is based on our older population. In most houses, there are mixer taps, I have them and my house is 120 years old. Unless you're old, most bathrooms have hard flooring, not carpet, for example, mine is tiled.
We still have milkmen that deliver milk to the door.
I think they get the carpet confused.. they could mean bath and toilet mats
i havent seen a milkman in about 20 years tbh, guess it depends on the place
@@artemislogic5252 making a comeback apparently!
Taking your garbage to the street is a fairly recent innovation. It was only introduced when they changed the garbage trucks and allowed the councils to employ fewer refuge collectors. Prior to that we had a metal bin that was often kept at the back of the house and the garbage collectors were known as binmen. It was very common for people to give the milkman, binmen, coalman (if you had coal delivered to your home) and the paperboy/girl a Christmas bonus tip as a thankyou for their work over the year. Only the paper boy/girl now get that tip. Depending on the route you had/have the paper boy/girl could get over £100 in Christmas tips and for somebody under 16 that was a very nice bonus to get coming up to Christmas.
Most UK homes don't have carpeted bathrooms any more, usually it's tile or vinyl in newer houses, or lino in older ones.
Also curtains are fairly common :)
Just your friendly Brit here to fact check some of these. Not all of our interior doors are like that, and carpet in the bathroom is not longer a thing either. That was something back from the 70s 😂 Also we do have VERY HOT summers, we just live without AC's. It’s the same with our rubbish bins, if it's at your door and not pulled near the road they'll just leave it -_- oh also curtains are still somewhat popular but not as much as other alternatives. Love your videos :)
While my Dad was away on a break with us, my sister sneaked in and finally changed the carpet in his bathroom to lino! 😅
Come on mate, a very hot summer here is one where the hottest temperature is between 25-30C (77-86F). Kentucky, for example, routinely has 35C (95F), which would bring the country to a stop here.
You also should've pointed out that we also do have very humid weather. I mean we're an island, obviously the humidity is going to by high most of the time. A stereotype is that we complaining about the heat when it isn't "that bad" but it is. Our buildings aren't made for the heat but the cold and so when the summer comes every building without AC is like a furnace. Having high humidity prevents the sweat on our bodys from evaporating and therefore we stay hotter for longer. Other countries with consistent hot weather have structures designed to keep them cool, like raised buildings to allow much more airflow, or buildings on the ground but designed to pull colder air much higher up down to ground level in the form of air vents.
AC wasn't used because the summers weren't as hot as they are now, we're having more consistently hot summers where as having 35c weather was uncommon. That being said as the summers have become warmer and warmer and the cost of AC has reduced more companies have been installing it into their buildings. Most if not all major companies have AC installed now. Office buildings for the most part (at least where I live) have installed it. AC over the last five years has become a lot more popular probably because it has become somewhat more affordable for home owners to have installed. On my road of fifty houses around five houses had AC installed either before or after the summer of last year, there may be more houses with it I just haven't bothered to look.
Lastly, for anyone who doesn't live in the UK. When I said our houses are made for the cold this is because our houses are designed to insulation specifications, what I mean by this is that you have to achieve a certain rating for houses to be approved, this might not have been such a big thing back in the day, I'm not qualified to answer that. Therefore, our houses use brick which is a good insulator and we have two lots with a cavity aka double skinned. Within this cavity is a type of insulation that is either breathable or has breathing space if it's a insulation board of some sort, so you can use something like Rockwool, PUR or PIR. Then on top of that you might use a insulating plasterboard on the walls (interior). The roof will have a cavity for insulation as well as the floor. So basicly the roof, floor and walls will be insulated in various forms be it brick, actual insulation, or some other material with natural or artifical insulating properities. Then our windows are double sometimes even tripple glazed. In sort, double glazing is two panels of glass with cavity in the middle. So you get two panes of glass and spacers along the bottom, top and sides to create an air gap, these can be 2mm spacers upwards. Glazing can be left with just air or filled with Argon gas. Argon is a much better insulator as it is much more efficient at preventing heat from escaping. Triple glazing is three panes of glass with two cavities. Double glazing |_| Triple glazing |_|_|.
@@tomarmstrong5244 but they have air conditioning Britain doesn't.
@@tomarmstrong5244 It was 41C (105F) last year. We can get very hot summers.
We don't have carpets in Bathrooms usually, its an old old thing.
Most British windows are 'double glazed' (in modern houses) meaning they have two panes of glass with a seal to keep air between them and help retain heat in winter, we don't have to use the things we say they do to stop a draught.
We also totally use curtains ALL THE TIME, my house has net curtains (like a mesh) to allow light in and two huuuuuge mega curtains which are really thick, again to keep heat in.
We usually don't have AC, British summers can me quite mild with only a week or two of really hot days so its not really needed, we just open a window when it gets warm.
We don't usually use bug screens we prefer to spend our summers swatting annoying flies.
The pipes on the front of our houses ARE NOT sewage pipes, they are called drainpipes and are attached to the guttering of our roofs and they drain rain water from our roofs into a channel cut into the pavement (sidewalk) that allows it to drain into the gutters in the street.
I am 45 years old and have never seen or heard of a milk door.
Always enjoy your videos. I think a lot of these differences are misconceptions coming from dated info or potentially the authors staying in a small rented house. Cheap blinds instead of curtains, nowhere for bins other than infront of the house, cold and damp, dated interiors with carpeted bathrooms and seperate taps all scream dodgy student accommodation in a large city, been there done that :). I would say in normal houses: we do have curtains, some people do have blinds or shutters but often that is in addition to the curtains; Seperate taps are pretty rare now although thay are making a resurgence with classic victorian style interiors making a trendy comeback; Carpet in bathrooms was big in the 70s but pretty much died out by the 90s. Bins are put in front of the house on collection days but are normally at the back or side, although some terrace streets will keep all their bins in a side alley together. However, to be fair, in places like London and birmingham where space is premium some original side alleys are now developed or used for parking so bins are often out front all the time.
5:59 Older bathrooms are likely to still have carpet in them, but as people renew them they are more likely to have laminated or tile floors. You might still have a rug though in newer bathrooms.
laid carpet in bathrooms was like a 70s/80s thing and is no longer done. Most houses have been redecorated since then and have removed the carpet. At most you will find a small rug in the bathroom that you can easily be put through the washing machine, like a towel.
I used to work in a carpet shop and people definitely do still have carpet in their bathrooms. It maybe less common now, but it’s still done
Some of these things simply do not exist anymore….carpets in toilets/ bathrooms is definitely not the norm! Milk bottle doors…..never ever seen one and I’m 60 years old. Britain is so much smaller than USA….so you have to realise that our homes and outdoor space will of course be much smaller, but a lot of new builds will have utility areas. Hanging out our washing to dry is normal to us and I can assure you our clothes do not smell of outdoors. We do it because it saves us money 🤷♀️ and line dried clothes will last much longer. Driers are expensive to use. Our plug system is great and safe….no brainer.
That comment from Anna was interesting, laundry products are advertised as having a "line fresh" smell.
I do think clothes have an ‘outside’ smell but it is a nice smell, I know a lot of people that say they love getting into bed after they’ve dried their sheets on the line because they smell outdoorsy and fresh, I think washing smells much cleaner after drying outside
@@Linz1489 I love my clothes and bedding that smell like natural fresh air instead of fake flowers and what not.
4:00 washing machines in Britain are in the kitchen area near the backdoor, or just inside the extension/run that goes to the backyard.
I've lived in the UK all my life and have never ever heard of a "milk door" or people not having curtains, Every house on my street has curtains and always has, In the 70s & 80s thick curtains were a must as most houses were single pane glass windows
I think they have been watching too much Downton abby.
We don't have pipes on the front of our houses to take stuff in. We have downpipes from the gutters to take rainwater down to a drain. I have never seen a milk door ever. No-one has carpet in the bathroom any more. Blinds are a new thing and lots of people still have curtains. Great fun though. Thanks guys xx
LOL "No one has carpet in the bathroom any more"... have you even seen properties in London? LOADS still have carpets! Especially properties that are NOT for rent!
Clothes lines maintain your fabrics and don't shrink them. They also smell better!
@uutthyu exactly! I wouldn’t line dry in a busy place with lots of cars. Mine is great line dried.
One thing not mentioned is roofs in the US, the shingles/Tiles are flimsy and need changing say at 10 years. In the UK, many use slate tiles which are natural quarried and so will last forever. Alternatively prefabricated individual tiles are very thick and so never need changing, or if broken invidual tiles can be replaced. Construction is also different, having internal prefabricated block,then a cavity, mostly insulated, and the outer construction either natural stone or solid brick. Very little wood is used apart from the skeleton inside to hold the plasterboard/drywall, and also the roof trusses which are covered with waterproof felt for if the tiles fail on top of it in bad weather. The roof trusses are not fuuly boarded with chipboard but have wood slats spaced out to take the tiles
The humidity here in the UK is immense. That is why we can't handle our recent (the last 10 years or so) hot summers. We can handle the same heat and more, in countries that don't have as much humidity. We love that in fact...such a difference to our weather. We also have some mosquitos here but (In Scotland) the most annoying beasties are Midges (Scientific name: Culicoides impunctatus) which are tiny beasties which can get under our clothes and swarm around us in the evenings. So we burn Citronella candles if we're sitting outside after 5/6pm. The candles aren't 100% effective so we still get bitten, just not by as many. They bite us and make us itch to an inch of our lives, with horrible red bumps too. It's the females that bite us when they're trying to develop their eggs. Their saliva is the reason we itch so much...allergens.
No no no we don’t have carpets in bathrooms what year is this guy talking about 1890 😂 and I still have milk delivered to my door 😊
I have carpet in my bathroom.
Actually, our washing machines are often washer-dryers (according to Wikipedia, you'd call them a combo washer dryer). Plus, you can put a clothes horse in a room to dry clothes, so you don't need to use a clothes line. Additionally, the curtains one is wrong. There are curtains in the room I'm in right now.
I know 1 person with a combined washer/drier. Everyone else has separates.
I think some people dry clothes outside, but that's also a thing they mostly still do in Southern parts of Europe where it's warmer. All my relatives air dry from the window in Italy.
@@MarlaSingersCancer I always dried my clothes outdoors up until I moved to a flat a few years ago. Now I don't have that option.
Carpet in bathrooms is most definitely a thing of the past, i dont think many people here in Northern Ireland have this anymore and we do have curtains on our windows, we have blinds to cover windows and curtains as side features but can be pulled closed on colder months
There is so much wrong in this video. Has this person ever actually been to the U.K?? Blinds are only usual in kitchens and bathrooms, otherwise everyone has curtains. Carpeted bathrooms haven’t been popular since the 70/80’s. No one has it now. And that’s just a couple. And drying washing outside is the best! Nothing gives me more joy than washing that smell of drying outside. And it’s so much better for the environment than dryers. Not to mention much cheaper.
I have never once moved my hands between the taps, mixed the water in the bowl or bought an attachment to wash my hands 😂 Never seen a carpet bathroom either
I love watching you two interact, it's wonderfully wholesome. I do want to say that t here's a lot of misinformation in this video though. Most people don't have carpeted bathrooms, they're predominantly tiled or linoleum. Although this may have been more common back in the 50's, before most people had central heating. The "sewage pipes" are actually drain pipes, which funnel the rainwater from the guttering along the roof line down into the sewers. I've also never lived anywhere that had blinds and not curtains. Some will have both, but a good set of heavy curtains keeps the heat inside the room way better than any blind would. Anyway, keep making these great videos.
Hi we are a new subscribers. Love the video contents on both channels. I see a lot of Brits have commented about this video you both watched and commented upon, the "sausage" draft excluder, that was a snake shape thing that lay against the bottom of the door, my parents had one, but the bit of the video I wanted to comment on was the part of the video you watched about air condition units. Anna you mentioned humidity, here in England in the very hot months, temperature's and the humidity level can become very bad. and uncomfortable especially at night. As the years have pass by this humidity has grown worst, for this fact only we have a small portable a/c unit for them unbearable nights.
4:02 we do have those here most people have they in a small room normally next to the kitchen which we do call it a utility room it’s just smaller
Milk still gets delivered to your door from dairies if you want it, it just costs more than getting it from a shop.
Some of these are out of date or wrong. We use curtains.
New build properties can no longer have a pull cord in the bathroom, it has to be a switch outside.
You'll be hard pushed to find a house with carpet in the bog
Generally only terraced houses keep their bins out the front from what I've seen, due to no easy rear access. Other houses just stick them out on the kerb on bin day but keep them out the back for the rest of the week
nowhere within 100+ miles of me has milk deliveries anymore
@@SteveInScotlandit's making a massive comeback down south.
We still use a milkman. Nothing better than milk in a glass bottle. Not to mention they. Also deliver out bread.
If you can get one near you, it’s worth the extra cost, Highly recommended
Pull chords exist, they're rare, but still legal.
New builds most certainly can have pull switches, Its just that changes to electrical regulations (compulsory RCD's) mean it is now safe to have switches
Lots of people use curtains here
1, the washing on the line is the best thing ever, we love the smell of outdoors and the softener on our clothes!! 😍
2, it’s not carpet really in the bathroom they’re bath matts which are made to soak up the water when you’re getting out the bath and saves you getting the floor soaking. It’s brilliant 😂
until the 80's carpet in the bathroom was a bonus but now practicality has ruled and its back to tiles/vinyl in the bathroom. it was mainly because houses were not normally heated at that time so the bathroom floor was COLD!, In the 50's when I got up in the morning in the winter it was not unusual for the net curtains to be frozen to the windows, with only the living room fire to heat the house. It seems much of the info in this vid is from the 50's much of it is not applicable today.
I can’t imagine where some of this information comes from but ………..!
The vast majority of British homes will have curtains at their windows.
The majority of British homes will have central heating systems!
Many British homes are “terraced” and the only access to their back gardens is through the house! Would you want to take your bins backwards and forwards through the house?
There is a huge variety of window styles in the UK and you cannot make any generalisations about them!
Very few people have carpet in the bathrooms!
Outside smelling clothes is the best thing! Is your outside really smelly or something?
Sewage pipes or stink pipes definitely are not normally on the front of any houses! They mean drain pipes for gutter rain water I suppose.
On the front of the council house I live in, there's a waste pipe coming from the toilet running along the outside wall. I assume this is what is referred to as a "sewage pipe." The top of the pipe goes to roof guttering level to allow ventilation. I've always assumed this is normal building practice, but apparently not. If the waste pipe is fitted on the inside of the property, wouldn't there be problems if the waste pipe fractured?
Some larger houses have utility room. I’ve got washing machine, tumble dryer, which is only used during winter.
Yes allot of properties (real estate) don't utility rooms hence we are only an island and as you saw smaller houses hence we have a washing machine in the kitchen, if space was really tight then some people would have a washer dryer combo but you have to take laundry out for the drying as it doesn't take full loads. Washers and dryers are not done by cubic feet or area of any kind it's done in rated weight capacity and they range from 5kg (11lb) to 13kg (28lb) and washer dryers will have both rated capacities on the front. Also we do use temperatures for our washes (40C/104F) rather than use words (hot, warm, cold) and spin speeds are in numbers also not words as some laundry needs to be spun at certain speeds like 600rpm whereas 'slow' in your case could be 800rpm
We have 2 blinds in this house and 9 windows, all have curtains. Even the rooms where we have blinds also have curtains.
On the heating front a) it is expensive and b) our bedding tends to be different than in the USA so we have duvets, like thick comforters. You don't need to heat the whole house (ie downstairs) when everyone is in bed snuggled under a thick duvet.
That double tap cartoon is hilarious. They don't look anything like that! Also, the single spouts we have now have a tube within a tube so the hot and cold are still separate. A lot of people don't know that.
It is humid here in Scotland Summer and Winter. I just checked and we currently have 91% humidity (I’m writing this in April).
I always hang my washing outside as it’s so much fresher however I live in the countryside. I never use a dryer. In winter or when it’s raining, I hang it in our utility room which has the heating controls and the boiler so it’s always warm in there.
We still have our milk delivered. In fact we have all of our groceries delivered to our door from the supermarket, ordered online.
There are a lot of RUclips channels that tour new British houses. There are a lot of things in them that are fundamentally different than new American houses. I suggest you go find those channels and watch some tours and draw your own conclusions on the differences.
Things I've noticed comparing NEW houses in both countries:
1. Closets/wardrobes are not automatically put into bedrooms in the UK. While there may be a natural space to put it, you might have to upgrade to get one or buy your own after moving in if you wanted it. Conversely, in the USA, a room wouldn't be able to be marketed as a bedroom without a closet as part of the construction.
2. Main entrance hallways/foyers in the UK are usually fully separated from adjacent rooms by doors, this is even true if that door only separates the entrance hallway from a part of the house that's considered open plan. This part is often at the back of the house and combines the kitchen, informal dining area and possibly a family lounge type space. In the USA, entrances are usually not separated from adjacent rooms by doors, even in the case of rooms that might be considered more formal. Varying sized cased openings might be the transition from the foyer to an adjacent room but without an actual door. In other cases, there may not even be a wall at all separating spaces.
3. Bathrooms and half baths in the UK are typically much much smaller than their American equivalent, even in smaller homes in the USA, the ensuite bathroom can be quite spacious. Pedestal and wall hung sinks are pretty common in the UK where most American bathrooms have the wash basin mounted within cabinetry with storage underneath.
4. Laundry machines are not put under the kitchen counter in the USA, even in small starter homes, and there is always a space to have both a washer and dryer. In many newer homes in the UK, there are now laundry rooms that are similar to the USA accessed from the kitchen, but there are still starter homes in the UK where the laundry machine is provided under the kitchen counters.
5. Refrigerators on average are substantially larger in the USA than in the UK. Ovens and sinks also seem to be smaller in the UK in comparison.
6. If a garage is attached to a house in the USA, it almost always has direct access into the house, typically through the laundry room or directly into the kitchen. It's quite common for it to go like this: garage>laundry>kitchen. While there are now many UK houses with laundry rooms attached to the kitchens, very few I've toured online have direct access to the garage through them.
7. It's still common to see radiators in each room in the UK and you almost never see that anymore in the USA.
8. In almost all UK homes I've toured on RUclips, the staircases seem much narrower. This tends to be true even in the case of homes that are upscale or considered luxury.
9. My perception by video is that ceiling heights and doors seem a tad shorter in the UK than in the USA.
10. The UK seems to be much more carpet oriented than the USA where wall to wall carpet has really fallen out of favor in new homes. If you are going to find carpet in a new American home, you are most likely to find it in the bedrooms. I haven't seen any carpet in any bathroom on any UK house tour. That was a load of crap in the video.
11. While I find UK kitchens to be quite clever with their storage options built into the kitchen cabinetry, storage in general in UK homes is much less than the USA. Homes in the USA have a much larger percentage of their overall square footage assigned to storage. This includes entry closets for coats, walk-in pantries for food, walk-in closets in bedrooms, linen closets near the bedrooms and bathrooms, and just extra storage closets cleverly tucked into spaces throughout the house. In so many videos I've watched, the UK tour guides make a big deal of having storage under the stairs. I have to laugh that they think it's gracious.
12. In some parts of the USA, basements are pretty common, while in other parts of the country you won't find them at all. Yet in other parts of the country, you'll really only find a basement if the property is built on a sloping lot and part of that basement is daylighted and accessible to outside. I have yet to see a UK video with a basement of any kind. Maybe they have them but I don't get the sense that they are common. Walk-up attics are not typical in the USA but they also aren't uncommon at a certain price point and above. I haven't seen such a thing yet in any UK tour. Americans seem to have more access to unfinished extra space in their houses (but certainly not all Americans).
13. The average house in the USA is detached, while the average house in the UK seems to be at least semi-detached (or as Americans would call it, a duplex). There are definitely attached homes in the USA, but when you say "house" to someone in the USA, they automatically think of a fully detached house with its own yard/garden.
14. Lastly, and this won't come a a big surprise, houses in the USA are generally much larger than in the UK. Room sizes are generally larger in the USA and it wouldn't surprise me if the average 3 bedroom home in the USA was actually larger than the average 5 bedroom house in the UK.
Yes we use curtains, we do have flying bugs but typically don't have bug screens and carpets in houses help keep the house warmer and dampen sounds. Energy costs in the UK arnt high, they are astronomical and we don't prefer to wear lots of layers of clothing... we just can't afford to heat our homes as much as we would like. We can store our garbage cans in the bedroom if we like... we just have to make sure its at the roadside on collection day. Most modern houses or those with younger owners no longer have carpets in the bathroom.
Yep. Non slip vinyl floor with an absorbent and warm cotton rug that can go in the washing machine.
I keep hearing this about carpeted bathrooms, but I have never seen one in my life! Also wtf, I've never lived anywhere without curtains?!
When I moved into my first house the first thing I did was rip out a carpet in the bathroom. OMG the smell 🤮 they are so unhygienic.
@@susie7356 How long ago was that?
@@victoriawilliams8196 25 years but even then that was the first one I’d ever encountered. I’m 49
Very rare to find bathrooms with carpets, usually tiled floors. Lots of homes have curtains rather than blinds on their windows. Biggest difference is in energy usage. The average UK home uses 2,500KWH per year whilst it is 12,500KWH in the USA (5 times more power wastage)
As someone who lives in the UK, the "Brits don't use curtains and only use blinds" quote isn't completely accurate. It depends on the person. Some people use curtains, and others use blinds. It's not exclusively blinds like the video stated. Our house is a mix of both. Some rooms use curtains while other rooms use blinds.
You might want to look into UK plug wiring. The top pin is earthed and is longer than the other two. It's a safety feature. The reason for the length is that if you look at the socket the bottom are closed off they have a feature to stop anyone from pushing anything in and getting a shock. The top pin opens these to allow the bottom prongs in. Also these two prongs are coated so that if only partially in and touched they wont shock. Lastly the inside wiring if the plug... the cable to the top prong is longer than ghe other two and has slack built in so that there is no chance of getting an electric shock if the wiring is pulled or comes loose.
Yes, and now the fuse is on the outside, easily replaceable - no need to open up the plug like before!
There has been a lot of brainwashing of the British public regarding these plugs. The truth is they are not safer than in most European countries. The German earthed plug is a magnificent design as are Swiss earthed plugs. They do the same job as UK plugs without being the size of a half brick.
To be fair the size of the plug isn't really a problem, size of a brick or not, most appliances are plugged in where they are placed, fridge, TV, microwave etc,so not really something you would need to carry around on your person etc
Havea look at the plugs... the top prong is longer... the bottom two are half coated in non metallic material... the sockets require the top to be opened before the bottom two will open. Looking at thse will show that it is not brainwashing. Go look. When I was at school everyone was shown how to wire plugs as part of science curriculum. Also there is a fuse in plugs as additional safety measure. UK has higher voltage 240 as opposed to other places which is why these measures are required. It's not brainwashing.... its science.
It may not seem as though our temperatures get that high over here but being surrounded by sea, the UK gets a lot of humidity and precipitation so it can be unbearable in summer months.
The statistics confirm this. On average in the summer it rains on one in three days. To have a long dry hot period is the exception. Average summer temperatures, even in the hottest parts, don't justify using air con.
I am from the UK. Hanging clothes outside is the best! Move to Bournemouth, you guys would love the seaside town. Carpet in the bathroom is usually a small piece around the toilet and next to the bath. otherwise, almost every bathroom is tiled floors.
A lot of ‘tosh’ on this! The pipes you see on the outside ofBritish houses are to drain rain water via the gutters,quite a lot of us have utility rooms, most people don’t have carpet in their bathrooms but do have curtains at their windows.Bins are usually hidden away and only put in front of the house on collection day.
I’m a retired post man or PDO(Postal Delivery Officer or to Americans a mail carrier) and from all my experience I’ve only once ever encountered a house that had anything like a “milk-door “ which was actually a large horizontal wooden flap which you could lift open wide enough to put the mail including any packages through onto a shelf inside the porch along with any bottles of milk by placing them end first through the wall then twisting the bottle upright again on the shelf which had an upright edge to prevent anything falling off the shelf.
Also some houses that have the appearance of having a built over window have actually been built like that to maintain a level of symmetry to the “face” of the building and have nothing to do with the old window tax, this is mainly amongst Georgian style or period houses, when symmetry was the “ in style”.
I'm a working postman, I have a house on my route which has a "fake" window, not a bricked up one, but recessed and painted, like you say done for symmetry but also to avoid the tax, that's what they teach school kids on trips.
I’m a Brit (English to be exact), I don’t use blinds, only curtains.
For the record last summer was into the 40’s which is into the hundred degrees Fahrenheit but we only have it that hit for a few weeks at most & because of our humidity, it’s more bearable (or it is for me) so we don’t need air conditioning & plus there’s the cost aspect to running air conditioning.
As for drying our clothes outside, that obviously only happens when dry/warm enough outside & as we don’t tend to get people regularly making fires outside, it has little affect on the smell of our clothes. When it is too cold/wet outside to dry clothes they go on clothes airers or radiators (when the Russians aren’t putting energy prices through the roof!
And you are right, we don’t tend to have so many bugs here so very few houses have screens on the door’s & windows.
Idk where in the UK you are but where I am summer is always 90%+ humidity
@Kemii yes. It's horrendous. I go to Italy, Spain, Portugal ect and the humidity isn't nothing like the UK.
High humidity means less ability for a human to get rid of heat via moister (sweat), hence we suffer more from heat in summer, than many other countries.
the humidity is horrible, if youre saying the humidity makes it bareable youve never experienced dry heat like the middle east or something, cause there you can be hot af, and it feels way lighter on your skin cause your sweat can actually evaporate, you dont feel sticky and clamy
Most homes in my large extended family have washers and dryers either in the kitchen or dining room behind folding doors. This is also where a lot of housing on military bases have them. And most of my doors are centrally located so some open to the right and some to the left.
The higher voltage, strange plugs and bathroom pull cords are actually a by-product of copper shortages after WWII. To save on the amount of wiring used in new homes a wiring system called the ring main was developed. It used less wiring, but to make it work the voltage had to be higher. That is why our plugs and sockets are engineered for massive levels of safety. For example every plug has it's own fuse in addition to a fuse in the main distribution board.
Hi! Unless you’re in a really polluted area it’s most fresh and great for the planet to hang clothes out to dry outdoors. We had a dryer when I lived with my parents but I now just have a heated clothes airer which can be used indoors if the weather is bad plus it uses far less energy.p.s We have mixer taps at home and I live in a house that was built in 1900. Most people have moved from the old plumbing to having a boiler which provides hot water.
We do have curtains!!!! Where did that fact come from? Good post BTW🤔
The black pipes that run up the side of walls are draining pipes for the rain. I’ve never seen a house with sewer pipes that run up the side
Generally speaking, separate utility rooms are only a thing in larger, more expensive houses here in the UK. Our houses are quite small compared to the US.
"Wait, he means taps, hes already wrong" why do I feel so proud of you guys right now? 😅🥰
As well as all the inaccuracies and lies others have pointed out - no postal worker ever slid post under a front door.
We have washing machines AND dryers in our kitchens but there are houses with utility areas - it just depends on who built the homes and where they are in the country. Some small homes have their utility room in the cellar (basement) or just off the kitchen but more often than not, our clothes washing appliances are in the kitchen (and it doesn’t matter if they are small properties or not !
I live in a one bed, ground floor apartment that only has 4 rooms to the whole place ! I have a narrow ‘galley’ kitchen and in it I have a large washing machine which will take a 13kg load and a smaller 9kg load condenser dryer, along with other large electricals
Hi, I'm in my 50's and from the UK. I also have American cousins because my Aunt went over in the 1950's and became a citizen and had two girls who both still live in Florida. My cousins both now have grandchildren and even great grandchildren! As people have already mentioned the carpet in the bathroom thing is a thing of the past. You may still find it in some older homes but its rare. A lot of people have even gone over to laminate flooring in the living spaces with maybe just a few rugs used. Although we have technically come out of the European union we have a adopted a lot of European ideas over the years especially when it comes to houses. Mixer taps are now a lot more common in kitchens although bathrooms still often have double taps. Curtains are pretty common with net curtains in front of windows as well. Even with blinds people still tend to have curtains I would say. As for milk doors....I can honestly say I've never seen one! Very few people seem to get milk delivered these days and just pick it up from the supermarket along with everything else. Supermarkets also deliver too if you cannot get out.
I have a tumble dryer, but when the sun is out, the clothes go on the line to dry. It doesn't make the clothes as soft, I will admit that, but you save soooo much money on electric bills. And it really doesn't take long to dry on a sunny day.
I just want to add as well, even though our weather doesn't get as hot as yours; our houses are literally built to retain heat. This means our summers are absolutely unbearable, because there is nowhere to go to get cooled down. Inside is baking, outside is baking. We definitely need Aircon, and I envy you guys for having ways to cool down.
6:54 grew up in a house built in 1640 never saw blinds except on modern builds and that was with curtains in conjunction, always had curtains in every room, except maybe the kitchen.
Carpet in the bathroom yes and i have to hoover it every Saturday, but what is not mentioned is that the toilet, sinks and next to the bath are mats that you change every week and wash.
9:10 nope nope nope, cavity walls, double glazing, without the heating on even when -10C outside it would be 65F (18C) inside and then you have the central heating system kick in
I am sure some places have pipes outside the home, maybe, but in every house i have lived in in the UK the pipe system is internal to the walls, maybe a kitchen sink drain might be outside but water in is underground and then inside the building comes up, and loo and bath drains feed into the sewer system internally and then to the sewer mains under the house remaining under the road.
The average width of a terraced house is around 4.4m. not the 3.5m mentioned in the video. But that is in mayor metropolitan cities, again the house i grew up in was 10 metres wide and about 18 metres deep and was two stories, though the one i lived in before i was 11 years old was 15 metres wide and 12 metres deep and it was not a large house in my village, it all depends on if you are in a busy city centre or an area build during the industrial revolution for factory workers or in a farming community. But even then workers terraces might only be a one bedroom house, and over time they have been knocked though or they were wider.
In My mum's village still gets the milkman every day coming with fresh milk
there are lots of other issues with other issues, but the living on the street is quite common. walking is more common than in the US so step out into the street but again in smaller communities, bins are put beside the house where my parents live the morning of the collection, in the next town over the bins are put out the back not the front but a few streets away they are put out the front, but the local council asks you take them in after they are collected. It is about where the trucks can get to. In some cities you might keep them in your front yard...
The plugs yes switches but they missed out the most important thing, until very recently everyone had to learn how to wire a plug at school, as appliances came without the plugs attached often, and the earth pin is longer than the neutral or live pins, the socket itself has a lever inside it that has three little covers that stop people being able to put their fingers in, the earth pin is the longer one as that is the one that moves the lever and opens the covers for the live and neutral pins and the earth pin must be covered for a percentage with insulating tape so if you touch it by accident you do not get fried, the insulation covers to the point where if you pull the plug out it is insulated until the point that the shutters are shut so live is disconnected. meaning unless you have the worlds smallest fingers you can not get your fingers to the live and neutral during the time they are connected to any power.
Brit here, maybe in the 90s bathrooms had carpet jit anymore, we use curtains and blinds and we don't have screens on our windows we just deal with the few bugs we gat to get relief from heat we also buy fans. We have dryers if we have room but we do put clothes outside only in the summer because otherwise they would get very wet.
We have a utility room but still have a washing machine and dryer in the kitchen. I have turned our utility room into my home studio. We also have mixer taps and some limited air con. Tiles bathroom floor. Remote low voltage switching for bathroom lighting. We use both curtains and blinds. Depends which room. Kitchen vertical blinds, lounge curtains. Bedrooms mixed depending on height of the floor from the ground. We have 3x more floor space inside the house than garden. The house has five levels. The trend for bathrooms is going towards complete wet rooms.
We use our outside utility room for bicycles. Washer in the kitchen. Drying rack in front of the big fireplace in the dining room.
The door thing was wrong, and all my doors opened to the wall.
So think it just depends.
We also do have curtains, I have not seen a house without curtains
in London we dry our clothes indoors on drying racks with central heating and put them all over the radiators. if we dont have dryers.. hanging clothes outside is a luxury we rarely get the weather for them to dry..love your videos ❤
I'm from Bristol in the UK and on the air conditioning section, I could say that we could really use them during the summer especially during June to late August humidity Is high with hot weather windows and fans don't work when there's no air and the fans circulate hot air air cons are only really found in shops and businesses but not in the home
Love your vids! In the A/C section, you asked if we have high humidity here in the UK. We certainly do in the summer. Humidity can go as high as 90%+, which is very very uncomfortable when the temperature is 32c (94F)+, and at night time the house can often be 28c (86F) with high humidity. It's just unbearable sometimes in the summer, and I wish we did have A/C, but it's not worth it for the amount of time we'd actually use it, as out super hot humid summers often only last a month or so
A month??? More usually a week at most. The official description of a British summer is 'three hot days and a thunderstorm'!!
Like today! 30°C, no wind & humid as hell!!!
I live in the UK, and I've also lived in South Africa. SA also has no electrical outlets in bathrooms; power outlets that turn on and off; washing machines in the kitchen (bigger houses would have a separate laundry ["utility"] room); light switches that you press down to turn on and up to turn off; used to also have carpets in the bathrooms, but only in very old houses; windows that open to the outside; also use curtains but some people still prefer to put blinds up (or both); also no air conditioning in all the houses, and temperatures get excessively hot and humid in SA;
In the UK, I have yet to see a house with water and sewerage pipes on the outside of the house (maybe very old houses?); and I have yet to see a Milk door, although you can still have fresh milk delivered to you house every morning, it just gets left outside your front door.
Love your reactions.😊
Most houses with an upstairs have sewage pipes on the outside. Very common. Usually brown in modern houses.
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog Your 'most', is not really accurate. It could be that in your experience many have but I've spent time travelling and living up and down the UK and it is not a common thing, though I have seen it.
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog 99% of pipes on outside are gutter drains, that collect rain from the roof. Nothing to do with sewage!
@CambridgeDad You see those pipes that usually go past the guttering of houses on the outside, the one with a vent on it? That's called a soil pipe and is connected to your toilet, the majority of low rise housing have the same system. I know new builds more than often have them on the inside now, though.
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog perhaps a regional thing, but where i live it’s only old or rural houses that on not connected to the mains that have them. Most have air admittance valves or vents are built into the roof or fake chimney’s.
As well as the house having a circuit breaker for safety reasons, some plug sockets have them too. Many houses do have utility rooms. Not all switches are up for off and down for on, we have two way switches e.g. on staircases which can operate the opposite way depending which was switched on first. Hardly anyone puts carpet in the bathroom or toilet nowadays, it went out of fashion years ago.
Pressing a switch down is on because it exposes the top of the switch, which has a red rectangle on it so you can see from further away whether it's on or not.
Every room in my house apart from kitchen and bathroom has curtains. Bathroom carpets were a thing many years ago and wasn't normal carpet,it had some sort of waterproof bottom to it. I can't think of any family or friends houses that have seperate taps. Our electricity is a lot more powerful than yours and would be incredibly dangerous in our bathrooms. Also there is a minimum distance from water supply's in the kitchen too for sockets and switches.
Yep... got curtains
The term “Daylight robbery” stems from the days of the window tax. People bricked up windows to save paying tax.
There are homes and public places where the hot tap is on the right ! My sister’s home has this and she lives about 10 miles from me but still in Greater Manchester (England, U.K.). Usually it’s a regional thing.
Lots of houses have utility rooms, I think most of the facts in that video are from back in the day. Love your channel, you both always bring a smile to my face ♥
Not if you're poor. I have never lived anywhere with a utility room, just a washer and dryer in the kitchen.
As a Brit I’ve never seen or been in anyone’s house that has carpet in their bathroom 😬
That's because you've never visited me. I've never lived in a house that didn't have carpet in the bathroom.
Some of the new house's in the UK now come with sockets in the bathroom, and we do have dryers we have them in the kitchen.. and the washing machine is connected to pipe to the sink, so the waste water form the washing machine goes down the same hole as the sink water.
Another Brit here. Never heard of a milk door, and I used to deliver milk back in the old days!!
Carpet in bathrooms was a terrible thing, I mean there's a toilet in there 😅 so yeah we don't do that any more.
As for blinds, I still thought it was posh people get them lol. Oh and its only a back yard if it's like a tiny paved area, otherwise it's the back garden, even the small ones.
Love to all xx
I'm 46 and never been in a bathroom with carpet in. Virtually Every house has curtains. The door thing is wrong thsts not a thing we do. No letters are put under front doors its impossible. Good video just not very accurate oh and iv never heard of a milk door either 😊😊
Most of the UK smells like flowers (well it does where i live) so clothes smelling of outdoors is not bad. We also use fabric softener so they are not stiff and smell nice.
one thing as a Brit that I notice every time I visit America, the plug sockets in the USA feel so unsafe. The plugs seem to move around when slotted in, and don't feel secure. In the UK the plugs go in and feel completely secure and can never fall out even if the wire is pulled.
if your clothes smell of outside you're doing something wrong lol
If you don't like the smell of outside - what on earth is going on where you live? I love the smell of our clothes when they dry outside, fresh and clean smelling.