The purpose of the pull cord in the bathroom is to prevent electrocution. The actual switch is in the ceiling and cant get easily wet. It's illegal to have a light switch in a bathroom. You also can't have power sockets in bathrooms unless the bathroom is really big and they are far away and they must have a ground fault trip protection. British bathroom is the place you're least likely to be electrocuted.
The pull cord electrical switches in bathroom or shower rooms , are for safety as wet hands touching a standard switch can risk electrocution. The mains voltage in the U.K. is 230 - 240 volts AC , in the USA it’s only about 110 volts . Also the electrical safety standards are inferior in the USA & other parts of the American continent compared to the U.K. electrical safety standards ,especially in bathrooms . Also some U.K. bathroom & kitchen sinks do have hot & cold mixer taps , the cold tap in the UK also supply’s fresh drinkable water . If there are two separate taps , the plug is placed into the sink & the hot tap is turned on first to fill sink to desired level , if too hot , the cold tap is turned on to reduce the water temperature in the sink .
In the US a house that is 30 years old is considered an old house where in the UK, a house like mine that is around 70 years old is considered fairly new. For context there's a house just a couple of miles down the road from where I live that dates back to the 1300s. It is not a museum. It's still owned and used as a regular home. In the US there is more of a tendency to demolish the old and then build new homes on the same plot of land where in the UK we preserve, adapt and update our existing houses more.
I agree. Where I live now, the whole street is Victorian, about 150 years old. The last house was younger than me. Before that I lived in York, where I lived it was Georgian and early 19th century but just around the corner was a mid-14th century house, it went up for sale while I lived there. Some friends of mine lived in a house built in the 12th century for a while, although they moved out to a new build after that.
I don't think that was a very good video, it was rushed and not clearly described. The washing machine in the kitchen is normal for us Brits so we would not get it mixed up with the oven etc!! The pull cord in the bathroom to operate the light, is the safety issue to prevent wet hands touching electrical outlets.
hello. about the pull cord, the thing that you are worried about it doing is exactly what it is actually preventing from happening, no need to worry there.
Washing machines are traditionally fitted in the kitchen because that's where the plumbing is. Older houses didn't even have indoor bathrooms when they were built, and bathrooms are too small for a washing machine in most cases anyway, so the washing machines go in the kitchen where they can get water! Most UK homes don't have a utility room to use.
Electric kettles are not just used to boil water to make tea. As well as using to add hot water to instant snacks, such as pot noodles and cup a soup, boiling water in an electric kettle saves time when cooking dried pasta, etc, on the stove. A kettle takes around a couple minutes to boil water. Add the boiling water to the pasta in a pan, and continue to cook on the stove as normal. Saves having to wait several minutes for water to boil on a stove.
When i was born we lived in a 1960s house Moved to a new build house in the 1990 I moved into a shared house bult in the 1870s with friends Moved into a flat in a comverted 1850s house Moved into a small house built in the 1990s Moved into another small house built around 1900 Now live in a house built in the 1930s The ones built in the 1800s were nice and spacious and my current 1930s house is on the larger size and its lovely.
It very much depends on the area. But yes, there is a lot of (particularly) 19th century housing in industrial and former industrial areas, much of it fairly small. Where I live in one of the valleys of South Wales, there is street after street of terraced houses built to house the coal miners.
Houses are being built EVERY DAY in the UK !! We don't all live in castles and half timber Tudor homes !! This ids Not a" typical" British home. This is a student house ! No one has to pull a ceiling cord to get hot water !!!! 2 taps are the normal thing in UK houses . Old and new ! When you use the plug it saves water. We Brits have water metres fitted to our homes and get charged for how much we use. NOT an Au pair ! She said STUDENT ! That is a BIG fridge for the UK. Unless you have a large house in the UK you will not have a dedicated laundry room. That is NOT a water heater. It's a central heating boiler. Kitchens are closed off because of fire regulations.
I would say that across Europe (especially in the larger cities) it is a very mixed bag when it comes to the age of the buildings! Especially in places where the Second World War destroyed A LOT, it is difficult to find really old buildings, but in areas that were not affected by the bombing, a large part of the medieval old towns remained - you can't generalize about that! In Germany it's the same: basement, ground floor, first (upper) floor, second (upper) floor..., attic or attic storage!
she is wrong about the two tap system , you put hot water in sink with cold water to wash your hands . The kitchen sink is the same but different you use old water or hot then make it comfortable for you or hotter for the dishes and untensols , after you do that as the water is dirty i get a 1 litre jug with hot water where the dishes on dashboard and put hot water onto the dishes and the water goes to the sink The saucpans and other frying base i clean seperately in hot water and leave them to the water is warm enough to put my hands in to wash them then they are transfered over to the dashboard. many have dishwashers by the way
I suppose there's no reason a washing machine can't be plumbed in somewhere else, it's just that's where there happens to be a water supply naturally. I suppose. It's so unremarkable that I don't think about it. The kettle thing was a surprise when I first learned about it, because we take it for granted. 'Put the kettle on' is a common refrain here.The separate faucets (or taps as we call them) are not a thing in newer homes, so I think that'll be dying out over time.
American here. An example of how new things are here: I've lived in dozens of places, and not one place was older than 20 when I started. In about a quarter of them, my family was the first to live on that spot in known history. Brand-new construction, zero archaeological record.
Millions of homes still have two taps for their sink. It isn’t just old houses as these are still readily available and we have actually just bought a new one! My house was built in 1850 and I don’t consider it to be old. Some of us swill off the sops before drying the washing up, particularly glasses and cups. What absolute rubbish about the height of the toilet, what correlation is there between height and hygiene. Why is it more hygienic, I can’t see that because you are lower it is more hygienic, why? The answer is the power of the flushing water. Without wishing to be insensitive, wasn’t it Ground Floor Zero at the Trade Centres, not 1st floor zero? I’m sorry you don’t appear to have assimilated the reasons behind a lot of these British things, but it was entertaining.
The purpose of the pull cord in the bathroom is to prevent electrocution. The actual switch is in the ceiling and cant get easily wet. It's illegal to have a light switch in a bathroom. You also can't have power sockets in bathrooms unless the bathroom is really big and they are far away and they must have a ground fault trip protection.
British bathroom is the place you're least likely to be electrocuted.
The pull cord electrical switches in bathroom or shower rooms , are for safety as wet hands touching a standard switch can risk electrocution. The mains voltage in the U.K. is 230 - 240 volts AC , in the USA it’s only about 110 volts . Also the electrical safety standards are inferior in the USA & other parts of the American continent compared to the U.K. electrical safety standards ,especially in bathrooms . Also some U.K. bathroom & kitchen sinks do have hot & cold mixer taps , the cold tap in the UK also supply’s fresh drinkable water . If there are two separate taps , the plug is placed into the sink & the hot tap is turned on first to fill sink to desired level , if too hot , the cold tap is turned on to reduce the water temperature in the sink .
In the US a house that is 30 years old is considered an old house where in the UK, a house like mine that is around 70 years old is considered fairly new.
For context there's a house just a couple of miles down the road from where I live that dates back to the 1300s. It is not a museum. It's still owned and used as a regular home.
In the US there is more of a tendency to demolish the old and then build new homes on the same plot of land where in the UK we preserve, adapt and update our existing houses more.
I agree. Where I live now, the whole street is Victorian, about 150 years old. The last house was younger than me. Before that I lived in York, where I lived it was Georgian and early 19th century but just around the corner was a mid-14th century house, it went up for sale while I lived there. Some friends of mine lived in a house built in the 12th century for a while, although they moved out to a new build after that.
I don't think that was a very good video, it was rushed and not clearly described.
The washing machine in the kitchen is normal for us Brits so we would not get it mixed up with the oven etc!! The pull cord in the bathroom to operate the light, is the safety issue to prevent wet hands touching electrical outlets.
Remember that UK houses are nearly all built from brick or stone with a slate or tiled roof. It seems American houses are usually built from timber.
hello. about the pull cord, the thing that you are worried about it doing is exactly what it is actually preventing from happening, no need to worry there.
Washing machines are traditionally fitted in the kitchen because that's where the plumbing is. Older houses didn't even have indoor bathrooms when they were built, and bathrooms are too small for a washing machine in most cases anyway, so the washing machines go in the kitchen where they can get water! Most UK homes don't have a utility room to use.
Electric kettles are not just used to boil water to make tea. As well as using to add hot water to instant snacks, such as pot noodles and cup a soup, boiling water in an electric kettle saves time when cooking dried pasta, etc, on the stove. A kettle takes around a couple minutes to boil water. Add the boiling water to the pasta in a pan, and continue to cook on the stove as normal. Saves having to wait several minutes for water to boil on a stove.
When i was born we lived in a 1960s house
Moved to a new build house in the 1990
I moved into a shared house bult in the 1870s with friends
Moved into a flat in a comverted 1850s house
Moved into a small house built in the 1990s
Moved into another small house built around 1900
Now live in a house built in the 1930s
The ones built in the 1800s were nice and spacious and my current 1930s house is on the larger size and its lovely.
It very much depends on the area. But yes, there is a lot of (particularly) 19th century housing in industrial and former industrial areas, much of it fairly small. Where I live in one of the valleys of South Wales, there is street after street of terraced houses built to house the coal miners.
Houses are being built EVERY DAY in the UK !! We don't all live in castles and half timber Tudor homes !!
This ids Not a" typical" British home. This is a student house !
No one has to pull a ceiling cord to get hot water !!!!
2 taps are the normal thing in UK houses . Old and new !
When you use the plug it saves water. We Brits have water metres fitted to our homes and get charged for how much we use.
NOT an Au pair ! She said STUDENT !
That is a BIG fridge for the UK.
Unless you have a large house in the UK you will not have a dedicated laundry room.
That is NOT a water heater. It's a central heating boiler.
Kitchens are closed off because of fire regulations.
I would say that across Europe (especially in the larger cities) it is a very mixed bag when it comes to the age of the buildings! Especially in places where the Second World War destroyed A LOT, it is difficult to find really old buildings, but in areas that were not affected by the bombing, a large part of the medieval old towns remained - you can't generalize about that!
In Germany it's the same: basement, ground floor, first (upper) floor, second (upper) floor..., attic or attic storage!
A £160 per week guest would be treated like royalty here in Durham.
You could rent a whole cottage for that
Go on Girl!
she is wrong about the two tap system , you put hot water in sink with cold water to wash your hands .
The kitchen sink is the same but different you use old water or hot then make it comfortable for you or hotter for the dishes and untensols , after you do that as the water is dirty i get a 1 litre jug with hot water where the dishes on dashboard and put hot water onto the dishes and the water goes to the sink
The saucpans and other frying base i clean seperately in hot water and leave them to the water is warm enough to put my hands in to wash them then they are transfered over to the dashboard.
many have dishwashers by the way
I suppose there's no reason a washing machine can't be plumbed in somewhere else, it's just that's where there happens to be a water supply naturally. I suppose. It's so unremarkable that I don't think about it. The kettle thing was a surprise when I first learned about it, because we take it for granted. 'Put the kettle on' is a common refrain here.The separate faucets (or taps as we call them) are not a thing in newer homes, so I think that'll be dying out over time.
In the northeast of the U.S., old homes are from the 1700's and in the U.K. much older, e.g. 15000s.
American here. An example of how new things are here: I've lived in dozens of places, and not one place was older than 20 when I started. In about a quarter of them, my family was the first to live on that spot in known history. Brand-new construction, zero archaeological record.
Why on earth would you be worried about the washing machine?? 😂😅😂
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The worry seemed to be confusing it with the oven...!!
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Millions of homes still have two taps for their sink. It isn’t just old houses as these are still readily available and we have actually just bought a new one! My house was built in 1850 and I don’t consider it to be old.
Some of us swill off the sops before drying the washing up, particularly glasses and cups. What absolute rubbish about the height of the toilet, what correlation is there between height and hygiene. Why is it more hygienic, I can’t see that because you are lower it is more hygienic, why? The answer is the power of the flushing water.
Without wishing to be insensitive, wasn’t it Ground Floor Zero at the Trade Centres, not 1st floor zero?
I’m sorry you don’t appear to have assimilated the reasons behind a lot of these British things, but it was entertaining.
Not typical house.
Only a few houses are built in the uk each year, we have to fit 8-10 familes in every home now due to increase in population.