It's funny to me to hear that "American homes" have such and such. We are as diverse in our home choices as the size of our country. What types of heating and/or cooling we have depends on what the climate is like where we live. Many in the northern states don't have air conditioners. Many, if not most, in the south do not have fireplaces. My home has an electric heat pump that heats and cools, because we have extremes here of 120°F and -11°F! I've lived in this house since '93. The size of our homes depends on which state, which city, which small town, which rural area, the size of our family, our income, etc. There are also many here who are into "tiny homes". I❤️you guys!
I think that Europeans are used too different countries as having different cultures while their own country has the same culture because of size, American is just so big they don't realize that many states have different cultures
I am in the Midwest in a rural area and we heat our home with a wood burning furnace an fireplaces. I have the option to use my propane furnace but I am not willing to pay the cost. We spend the summers cutting and splitting firewood. You are so right…homes are so different here in the US and it all depends on where you are.
Right, our extreme temperatures in Dallas, Texas range from -2°F/-19C to 113°F/45C, but we have a variety of heating/cooling options that depend upon the age of the home and the income level of the resident. Most of us here have either a natural gas central heating unit combined with a central AC, (of which we have one for each floor of our house), or an electric central heating/AC unit. Meanwhile, when we visit our friends in Seattle, everyone has either no AC or a small split unit AC and usually some small baseboard heaters or wall heaters.
Actually in the south and SW we do have fireplaces. We even get to use them a few times a year. Ps, I live in Texas and every home I’ve lived in, has had a fireplace.
True in most areas. Here (North Carolina), if you have a wardrobe (furniture) in that closet-less room, that stays with the house, then you can call it a bedroom. That may very state to state.
Where I live it can be a bedroom without a closet but it has to have an escapable window to be "habitable". Most states don't require closets but some smaller localities do.
Yes I don’t believe it’s necessarily required by law in most states but from a real estate listing perspective they generally will not call something a bedroom unless it contains a closet.
One other thing he did not mention in the video that Americans would find mind blowingly crazy is that most houses and often even apartments in Germany do not have a proper kitchen. There is a room that has all the places to hook up a kitchen but people move with their entire kitchen. I mean stove, sink, cabinets, refrigerator the whole thing is owned by the tenant/homeowner and they take it with them when they leave. Wher I live in the US a house is not considered legally habitable unless it contains a working stove. When I built my house 15 years ago I had to purchase a stove along with the house. I was allowed to upgrade it but I was not allowed to buy it on my own later and have it installed. They could not certify the house as habitable without a working stove. They probably required a sink as well but it wasn’t something I even inquired about but I did inquire about the stove.
@@dennislbrown In Arizona, an appraiser won't count it as a bedroom in the valuation unless it has built in closet. It really is funny how each state has its own rules about random things.
You have to have a strong back to have a French door fridge. My sister insisted on having one, then (due to her being older and not in shape), she could barely pull the bottom drawer out. I'm also getting older so prefer the 2 door model.
No doubt, it's funny that Europeans think the opposite in literally every video I've seen that mentions the toilet water level (and seem to think our toilets are full up to the top). It's just basic physics, the farther something falls the more velocity it has when it hits....Splash! And having to use the toilet brush after every number two is not appealing to say the least.
NO, toilets in the USA are NOT "full to the top" with water. I have no idea where this idea came from but it's not true. Toilet bowls in the USA are from 1/3 to at most 1/2 full of water.
I guess I'm just used to what we have here. I like our forced air furnace/AC setup. The double hung windows with screens, the much bigger 2 door fridge/freezer with cold water and ice right through the door fridges, the very easy to use round door knobs we have, the walk in closets and our commodes that do not require 3 flushes to empty like most European ones. I think those window louvers are in the windows, not outside. If they were outside, a peeper could just lift them to see in. We also have windows with the blinds embedded between the dual panes if you want to pay for them.
the window shutters are outside and no, you cant just lift them up and peep into someone's house. They are more like security anti theft shutters. I lived in europe and everybody has them.
Yeah, I looked them up, they run in tracks attached to the window, I can see they might be good, for blocking out light and peeper people. Some here, in the states, are actually between the window panes, embedded. They stay clean and dust free as long as the frame stays intact.
The water in toilets in th U.S. are not filled to the top as I think you guys are imagining. Generally the water may be filled to where you originally thought the German toilet was filled(but turned out it was much less) or less depending on the toilet and local ordinances. Keyless entry on our doors has become very popular here.
We have incorporated fridges over here in USA made to look like the cabinets but they are extremely high end. Also, some windows but mostly doors have built in blinds that you can adjust open or closed and up or down or just half way up. I love those. Never have to dust the blinds.
I visited a house here in the us that had a giant fridge (6ft/~1.8 meters wide that looked like part of the wall. The handles were hidden in the “wall panel” sides. I wanted one until I learned the smaller version would cost about 10 thousand dollars. I never even asked what the full version would cost. 😂
@@HyperWolf We have the Thermador 30" fridge/freezer built in columns with stainless panels. The combination gives us a 5' wide unit. We bought them along with a 48" range (plus 54" range hood) and a couple of dishwashers (one was free when you bought the fridge and freezer) about 3 years ago while we were building the house. Because it was a package we got a pretty good discount, but everything is an add on when it comes to the refrigerator and freezer. Each unit was about $6000, plus two door panels at $500 each and two handles at $250 a piece. Buy the time you add delivery the fridge/freezer combo is about $15k. The 36" units are about $300 more per unit. Kitchen appliances came to about $30,000.
@@rich7447 Now I’m glad I didn’t ask in the moment. I don’t even want to imagine the face I would have made… Thanks for giving me a better idea about how much it costs with everything involved and not just the basic initial costs. Maybe one day I’ll be able to afford something like that.
@@HyperWolf Happy to help. These went in house number 6, two of which were modified spec builds, for us. We had a good idea of what we liked and didn't like, so we bought a building lot (just over 2 acres) and custom built. During a build the extra cost of higher end appliances doesn't look as bad. I was a little annoyed when the dealer wanted $600 to deliver everything. It felt like I was buying a car and the list of extra charges were endless.
There are several different houses and number of floors in US houses. I lived in one that had 4 floors. The regular toilets have about the same amount of water as shown here, many have less and higher pressure for water conservation. They do not go to the top…. Yuck. Window coverings vary but you can purchase doors and windows with the blinds inside the 2 layers of glass. I’ve seen some that automatically switch to a “block out” color, no window coverings. You have to get the fridge with the water and ice dispenser on the outside of the door. Never need to open the door to access either.
I used to work for the City Sewer Dept. and I'll tell you low flow toilets (etc.) are not helping to save water much if at all. Areas with 'modern' low-flow plumbing have more problems with plugging and soap/grease build up because of stagnant flow. Sure it's a feel good short lived moment for the home owner but in reality it takes THOUSANDS of gallons of water to free up blocked lines to keep them flowing. The worst lines we encountered with solid waste build up were industrial areas due to lack of showers, sinks etc.
@@suem6004 This is just me speaking but what I personally do once a year is fill up every possible home source (sinks, tubs, toilets) and release them all at once to flush out you lateral. Also beware of root aggressive trees/shrubs; a good local nursery will tell you what to avoid.
It takes at least twice to flush just the paper with the pee even.. Suu they aren't saving anything. Now over there if they flush that hard like that one did then that wouldn't be an issue
Question for any Germans out there or Brits as well. How can you not heat some of the rooms in your house during the winter particularly if it’s something like a kitchen or a bathroom that has water? At least where I live in the US in Northern Illinois that would be a recipe for disaster in the form of frozen pipes and flooding. The way I control how warm or cool a room is is by opening or closing the heating vents in that room. That way even if I leave a room cooler some little bit of heat will get into the room and still keep it from getting below freezing which is a real possibility here.
@@MarySpain1958 Same in Indiana. It gets COLD around here sometimes. Not as bad as Wisconsin or Minnesota but still pretty nasty. I think the coldest i've ever seen was -12 F (but we average 5-20 degrees F during winter) We had to literally put a heater under the house to keep the pipes from freezing and just curl under the blankets while our space heaters kept the pipes from exploding.
I'm in Michigan. I close off half my house in winter with no issues except I have one bathroom at the very far end of the house. I keep a small space heater in there set to the lowest setting, which keeps it in the low 40s. I only have to do that for about a week a year when it drops below zero.
Given that heat rises, everything downstairs needs to be closed off from upstairs or all the heat just rises to the top floor. Not a lot of ‘open plans’.
Couple of things. In the U.S. the deadbolt is used to lock the door, and the doorknob or lever is used to open it. Replacing the deadbolt with a keypad is a godsend, you can unlock without a key. In Germany, when you move house, you take the kitchen... cabinets, countertops, appliances and all. That is probably why he has an integrated fridge/cabinet. U.S. toilets have more water by design. There is a trapway (P-trap) built into the unit. It is designed to hold water, and the water in the bowl need to be high enough to fill this trap. The function of a P-trap is to trap sewer gases from entering the room. BTW. Water usually fills only half the bowl and are limited to 6 liters a flush.
Yes. It’s the sudden influx of water into the bowl that causes a standard American residential toilet to flush/drain. Dumping a big pan of water in will do the same.
One of the things he didn’t mention and it’s probably because he’s talking about houses as opposed to apartments or flats. I used to watch a UA-cam channel about an American living in Germany and one of the major differences was their kitchens. When you rented an apartment in Germany it didn’t come with a kitchen! You actually had to buy your own kitchens ( refrigerators, stoves ovens sinks, counters and cupboards everything except the walls and floor) and then have them installed into your apartment a whole lot of people that were from Germany and maybe elsewhere in Europe said that that made so much more sense and they liked it. I can’t imagine that because what if the kitchen that I buy fits the one apartment but doesn’t fit my next apartment ? where does one go about storing a whole kitchen?!
It was a similar situation in Paris. My best friend’s sister had to basically part out her apartment when she moved. Wardrobe to kitchen. Even the lighting. The apartment came with no electrical lighting, just bare wires in the ceiling.
@@Markle2k I can't imagine being an 18 year old kid in that situation. You get your first big people job. You plunk down your entire life's savings (about $1,300 at that point) on rent and, then, have to plunk down another few grand on appliances and fixtures? I bet the "appliance debt" is just as bad as "college debt" is in the U.S.
@@Markle2k I’m surprised the landlord would be brave enough to allow that. I mean if I had to install my own lighting, I would electrocute myself and burn down the whole place!!
With toilets in the USA it really depends on where you live plus some other things. Some states have passed laws on how much water a toilet can use (or something like that). So some states have low water toilets that are absolute garbage while others have a classic toilet with a high water level. Also it really depends on the people who build the house/business. It's cheaper putting in a low water toilet than a classic one.
@@yia01 Which is ridiculous. It’s the only county in metro Atlanta with such regulations. They will not put the water in the new owners name or switch it on unless the faucets and toilets have been verified low flow. That is my problem with it. That is one reason no one wants to move to DeKalb county. Dictatorial mismanaged county government. It’s a disgrace.
As of 1992 all toilets sold in the US can use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Energy Policy Act of 1992. I don't really see the point since I pump water out of a hole in my backyard and dump it into a septic system in my front yard.
Here in USA I think alot if not most modern homes have keyless / keypad doors. It's great for when we lived in another state and rented our house to people. We just gave them the combination then after renting we could change the code.
I like how when the doorbell battery starts dying it tells me. I had an experience with one doorbell it just sounded like demons in the matrix growling at me. There's lots of settings with the doorbells where you can make it whistle at people when they show up or make them glow at night so people see the button. It feels sorta like a video game because growing up a doorbell to me was always an old school ding dong button. These new ones ding dong, they wee woo. They doo doodle loo do. Most of the time You ignore it totally the main thing is when everyone's asleep at 3am and you're chilling on your phone if some lunatic or crackhead comes to your door you can see what they're doing
Thats kind of funny they don’t have enough room to have a big fridge, or walk in closets or large yards but can have a shower separate from the bathtub.
Deliberately replaced door locks requiring a key to lock and unlock the door from inside when I moved in. I had visions of trying to find the key, the RIGHT key, then fit it in the keyhole to unlock the door and escape during a fire when seconds are critical. Dead bolt locks are infinitely better.
Where I live only real old houses have radiant heating & newer ones you can have zone heating. Here most appliances stay with the home & are even a selling point because bathrooms & kitchen upgrades are a worthwhile selling investments here. By code here you can't call a bedroom a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet.
Man I hate stupid regulations. In my county I would have no limits. You call it a bedroom or you call your extra bedroom the closet you do whatever you want man we would have the most free real estate in the market. Some guy across the street probably living in a teepee and his stock portfolio doing really well his teepee have 3 floors. No permits. If it falls and kills somebody that's their fault if it was due to faulty unsafe construction. "It hAs To hAvE A ClOSet" shoot I hope Karen doesn't become the inspector because if she ever comes to the house I might live in if there was no limits it would be a bit peculiar. I saw a guy who lived in a lake and he wanted to build.a water slide into the lake and they told him mhe couldn't have any none perfectly attached structures to his house so he nailed it to his deck. Who cares man, pound the legs of that thing in real deep so it couldn't fly away in a hurricane boom who cares man
The blinds are not on outside they are in between the window panes. Very cool...we do have them in the US just not as common. Good thing about them is no dust. It just can't get to them
I had thought of getting blinds that were between the thermopanes because of the dust and also they will not blow around when the window is open. However, with the crank out windows, (casement style) if the window is cranked open the blinds don't provide much privacy, especially if it is dark outside and you have lights turned on in the room.
you guys shouldn't worry about apologizing for pausing the videos...these videos all exist on their own...people are always free to just watch the original video...the whole reason to watch them here is your comments and banter...
I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (my kids inherited my Italian citizenship from me) and my kids are gonna be shocked when I finally get around to taking them to Italy (They're 3 and 19 months, so there really hasn't been a good time to travel since they've been born). My house in the States is 4,000 sqft (372 m2) while my house in Italy is only 1,200 sqft (111 m2). Oh, and the house in the States has an attached three car garage while the house in Italy has street parking only (but I don't keep a car there, so it doesn't matter).
@@adventureridergirl Wow what an ignorant comment. The party in charge is Brothers of Italy. Their platform is are conservatism, nationalism,nativism, Euroscepticism,and opposition to immigration. This nothing like the Republicans party.
Two things I found interesting coming from the midwest, houses don't have a typical style of garage per se. I've seen connected and stand alones, along with a ton of the far less popular carports. Another is the idea of not heating rooms in the winter! I actually have a device to plug into the sockets to help warm up pipes bc heating sometimes isn't enough in some rooms with not enough insulation. I couldn't imagine going all winter without using heat in some rooms
I have an older home where I can shut off parts in the winter. The bad part is, one of my two bathrooms is in the "cold" part so, I have to have a small space heater, set to the lowest setting, in there on the sub-zero days. It's not too bad, though. Sub-zero days are usually less than a week a year.
@@NarwahlGaming just a weird concept yo me lol bc even at 23F degrees pipes can freeze and that's more costly than heating. Plus I can just close vents to the inside rooms that aren't used as much, which allows air through still, but pushes air to other areas of the house.
@@Lyrabela Yeah. I guess the difference is; I don't have central heat. I heat my house with a pellet stove so, no forces air through vents. I have replaced many a pipe, in my day, but, not in 20 years or so since I got my system figured out. 5 degrees Fahrenheit seems to be the magic number where I have to start thinking about the heater. And, it's on an Alexa plug device so, if I'm at work and forget - _bloopity bloop!_ 😁
Don't like radiators. They take up a lot of space and the one place I lived with them, the hot pipe supplying it could be touched easily so babies and toddlers had to be watched constantly. It was an older home so more modern ones may be safer.
As anywhere I'm sure, it depends on where you live. In the south very few have basements and are more of the pier and beam or slab style foundation, while up north many people have basements.
Nooo..... toilets in America typically fill halfway up to the rim. It does NOT fill to the rim. The only way your bottom gets wet is if you fail to put the seat down first ... like when you're drunk, or maybe four years old. :-)
I modify all my new toilets to 5 gallons, where I live water is not an issue at all. My doors have either fingerprint, keypad, Wi-Fi or a key to open. I do like the blinds in the German windows, but it will not work with decorative grids. I also use heat pumps for heating and cooling, that are Mini splits one for almost each room.
In our state a room must have a closet or they are not counted as a bedroom. You think not a big deal but it is, that means you can’t list your home for sale with those listed. Meaning if you have 4 bedrooms and only one has a closet you must list it as a one bedroom.
In California, attached garage is very common but homes built before the 60s, it's common to have detached garages or the garage may be in the backyard with a extra long driveway. Detached garages are being brought back in many larger middle & upper end homes.
California's climate makes it easy to walk to your home from the detached garage. In the North, the weather is so brutal in the winter, being able to unload your groceries from the garage directly into the house (as opposed to across the icy sidewalks) is safer and warmer.
In America, it depends on where the house is built. We have houses that are built right up against each other in the city and much further apart on a larger lot in the country. Older homes in America have radiant heat, some have wall-heaters, some have central heating, and some have individual heaters which are electric and are in every room. All American bedrooms must have a closet and two points of entry, one must be a door and the other can either be a door or window. When I was in Denmark, our bathroom had the toilet in the shower, which was a walk-in shower about twice the size as the one shown, with a tile floor, no shower pan.
As an American I don’t care for any of the listed German homes. I mean I love super tall ceilings but with our summer heat & winter below zero temperatures it’s not very feasible. 😁🥰
That toiler water level looks just like it does in the US. I don't know why people think it is higher in the US. MILLIE, when you get your American refrigerator, don't get the side by side. They aren't wide enough for a large pizza. Get the French doors with the freezer on the bottom.
So many houses I've lived in and been in, in the US have the same ceilings (known as 1 and a 1/4 story or 1 and a half story house) depending on how far up the wall the angle is.
Hi! I always love watching you both, but this was by far my fave! Watching you giggle made me laugh too! Oh & I’m glad you didn’t bleep out that one certain bit 🤣 By the way, I’m 🇬🇧 half Brit half American 🇺🇸 born & raised in the US. 😊
There is nothing I like better about German homes as opposed to American homes. I really hate the windows in Germany and I can't imagine living with that refrigerator and no freezer! Also, the water in the toilets in America does NOT fill the bowl but probably does have more than in Europe. We are switching over to high efficiency toilets now.
I hope by high efficiency you don't mean one of those crap ones that clog up easily. Because people say we need to conserve water when water is more abundant than dirt
It is NOT common for houses to separated by a kilometer or so in the U.S.! So, my American house is an old 1929 bungalow. Single story, detached garage, two bedrooms one bath. The houses are close together. I can look easily into my neighbor’s house if the curtains were open (not that I would!). I do like those windows but they would not look appropriate in my old bungalow.
Good lord our toilet doesn’t have much more water than the one shown, where in the world do people get the idea our toilets are full of water? The only time a toilet is full to the top is if it’s plugged and someone try’s flushing it more than once!
Split-level houses depends on the area. Most houses have two or more floors. I have lived in Europe, and , in particularly, Germany. The house where I stayed was separate, so that also depends.
Older homes in the US that still have old toilets, are more likely to have toilets with little water. The concern of a half filled toilet over flowing really isn't that much of a concern unless you try to flush a toilet that's already fill. The way they work is beneath the rim of the toilet where the seat rests, are many holes that release the water that causes the swirl effect. Once the water reaches those holes, there's equilibrium of water pressure that causes the water from continuing to flow.
I guess our house is typically American by most standards. We live in 13 acres, but we are in rural Texas, so our plot is actually one of the smaller ones. Of course most of our neighbors have cattle or run deer leases. ( for deer hunting) It's 4 bedroom with 3 bathrooms. Right now there are only 4 of us living here, but throughout the years we've sometimes packed as many as 10 people living here. It's an old house, and did actually have central air conditioning, but a storm a few years ago collapsed the old deck on the unit and crushed it, so we now rely on several window units. One in each bedroom and one in the kitchen/ breakfast area. The den and dining room we don't bother with because we never use them anymore. I occupy the master bedroom, so I have the most closet space, 2 walk in closets. Plus I have a small office/sitting room attached. The rest of the bedrooms are pretty standard. It's a good thing we don't have those low ceilings, seeing we have twins who are 6'6" living here. Kitchen wise we have a standard American refrigerator, plus a big chest freezer. Comes in handy since the grocery store is a bit of a drive. Hell, one of my doctors is 130 mile round trip. We also have that standard American convenience, a garbage disposal in the sink. And American toilets are only about half full, not up to the brim. Unfortunately I don't have that common European convenience, the bidet. Oh, I'd never open a window here without a screen. We have a creek (slow flowing) on the property and it's a wonderful mosquito breeding ground. I dare not walk outside in the evening without insect repellent on.
Why do European windows not have screens??? I can’t understand why? It just makes sense.. I can’t imagine opening my windows and all the bugs coming ..
@@hrussell9677 true. south boston i was in a highrise. east boston was houses stacked on top of each other. in lowell half the city is stacked. the other half is open
I’ve suggested to several reactors to check out the Dollar Princesses. I didn’t know about this part of history between England & America. Fascinating.
Please note that most American houses are no where near as nice as some of them shown. A ranch style with 1 car garage, with a small plot of land, usually 1/2 acre or less is more common. And since the majority were built in the late 40s to mid 70s, most don't have the amenities mentioned. The German windows would be nice (with screens).
Except you cannot put furniture in front of them easily. And window coverings - interior shutters/blinds/shades/curtains - are a huge issue when opening or closing the window.
Door knobs or handles are more common here but newer ones are either fingerprint controlled or code controlled although keys are still around. It’s just an added security. At least you have what you need.
It really doesn’t have to do with size. Just how big a housing complex is. There are housing complexes where each house is only a couple feet apart due to them trying to squeeze as many houses as they can on the lot.
The water in US toilets is rarely even close to the top 😂 it goes maybe a couple of inches higher but no typical toilet will fill to a significant level
The toilet water level is way exaggerated its probably only a quarter to maybe a third full but definitely not near the top of the bowl and American bathrooms are all different depending on when your neighborhood was built and also how expensive your home is. There are many different styles and types found throughout the USA but goes for many of the things listed.
It's a casement window, meaning it's double paned with a space between. You can get blinds installed in custom casement windows so you never need to buy blinds again. These are semi-modern, within the last 30 years or so. (if you'd like to see them in action in the US, look for a Pella store- and no, I'm not affiliated, but at one time I really wanted to replace all my double paned windows!)
From what I understand, the lack of closets goes way back to a time when homes were taxed by the number of doors they had. So, a regular closet would cost more, so people went with free standing closets.
On the original video, someone from Germany told me he was wrong about them not having freezers. Also, in the US a large number of houses built before the 60's, you will find the slanted ceiling on the second floors, or third floor on the large houses.
All American subs should send Millie a photo of our refrigerators. Our toilet water level is not as high as is presumed by many in Europe. I think that I'd choose the German windows to add to my American home. I really like the outside rolling shade for them.
@@rich7447 The shade isn’t between glass - the shade is metal and held within a frame that is attached to the window. Shades like this are great for blocking direct sunlight and are widely used in homes throughout the Middle East like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. They are also good for keeping out dust during dust storms. Often, they are controlled with a remote control. And, no, a person cannot move them up or down from the outside.
@@houseofaction They aren’t flimsy shades made of some fabric. They are metal and are fitted in a frame. They’re often controlled with a remote, but this guy’s isn’t. The cannot be opened or moved by a person standing outside.
11:30 The longer the drop, the bigger the splash. It kind of balances out. Also on big ones, it'll just sorta slide into the water instead plopping down into low water.
That integrated fridge is not common in the US. It exists but it is usually in very expensive homes of millionaires who hired interior decorators to do up their kitchens. Most people just have the big refrigerator of their choice in their big kitchen and these days, they are mostly stainless steel. If you live in an apartment though, the space is smaller, so the fridge has to be smaller too.
Homes in the US do come with door knobs but after market products, like shown for Germany, can be purchased. Other after market security solutions are Deadbolt locks to prevent break-ins. You can also get programmable keypads, finger print reader or combined locks that may use keypad or print reader with a cellphone app. Originally from Google, you could get a device that can voice control everything in your home. Lots of newer companies offer similar products. This helps even if you are off at work or around the world & you can't recall if you set the home security, locked any doors, including the garage door, you can use your phone to run down anything in your home u forgot to turn off or on. Your door bell can ring your phone anywhere in the world, you can view & video persons at your front door or anywhere on your property & speak to them as if you were home. It's good for catching break-ins or porch pirates, aka package thieves. In case of fire, some homes have aftermarket sprinkler systems. Security is big in the US so cameras are everywhere & police often give secured homes greater priority simply because video & audio allows cops to be lazy & solve those cases quicker.
I am in rural US and we heat our home with a wood burning furnace. We even have a wood burning cooktop stove in our kitchen as well as an electric stove. I love homes with character. New/modern homes are not my cup of tea!
You have an indoor wood burning furnace or, one of those outdoor, stand-alone units? I used to have an indoor fireplace as my only heat but, splitting wood got old, fast. I upgraded to a wood pellet stove. The gas company was installing new lines down our road and came knocking, asking if I wanted a hook up. I said no. He asked how I was getting heat - since I didn't have a visible propane tank outside. I told him "Wood pellets" and he said, "You can't do that! It's not reliable. What if the power goes out?" I'm, like, "Really? What happens to your furnace if the power goes out?" "Oh, yeah..." 😂 I was expecting a visit from the county after that for "concerns" but, they probably told him to beat it if he reported me.
@@NarwahlGaming It is an indoor wood burning, full house furnace. We have 2 wood stove fireplace inserts…one in the kitchen and one in the living room. I don’t like my bedroom heated so we usually only use the fireplaces. We haven’t used the whole house furnace in a few years. We have propane for our water heater so when we do fill the tank, it lasts about 2 years. Pellet stoves are great! Splitting wood does get old but my in laws are retired and get bored so they come over and split wood pretty frequently to stay active. We had one evening where the power did go out and we were fine with the fireplaces and we could even cook with our stove if we needed to. I wouldn’t hook up either if they were offering lines to our house.
roll down metal shutters are common on the Continent. We lived in Switzerland and all apartments have them - cheap places and fancy places all have them.
And I will add a thought.... If anything is better, works better, functions better, looks better and is better for american houses... You can bet it WOULD be in American houses. Home buyers and owners would demand it.
American toilets are 1.28 gpf/4.8 lpf. For new installations to reduce water waste. The thing I like the most is the windows, and I have seen them here with insect screens. But they are very expensive.
When I moved to England in the 80’s our refrigerator couldn’t fit through the front door without 1st removing the door. And it couldn’t fit in our kitchen so we left it in the entry hall, by our stairs. The movers moved it last because they didn’t know what it was.
My son was stationed in Germany for 4 yrs and the thing about the closets was one of the unusual. About the blinds we have blinds between two sheets of glass. They don’t get dirty and you adjust them from inside. The toilet, I wonder about how difficult it is to work on? Just wondering. Our water level in our toilet is about the same as you were talking about. The newer ones!!
I like the windows. The metal that slides up and down that gives you more safety. The only issue is, I use air conditioners that go into the windows. I don't have central air
Please clarify a bungalow. Here they often small 3 room cabin type home. 3 rooms not 3 bedrooms, deep in the country (woods,/forest) using well water and maybe a generator for electricity, within walking distance of a lake.
The full toilet in America is a fallacy. Toilets typically in the US are 1.5 liter tanks and same level of bowl water as he shown his was. Only about halfway. Water conservation is key nowadays and government tends to give a rebate for cost of installing a updated 1.5 liter toilet. I'm 60 years old and never in my life saw a toilet filled to the top. That's unrealistic. So don't believe when people say American toilets are topped off with water.
It's funny to me to hear that "American homes" have such and such. We are as diverse in our home choices as the size of our country. What types of heating and/or cooling we have depends on what the climate is like where we live. Many in the northern states don't have air conditioners. Many, if not most, in the south do not have fireplaces. My home has an electric heat pump that heats and cools, because we have extremes here of 120°F and -11°F! I've lived in this house since '93. The size of our homes depends on which state, which city, which small town, which rural area, the size of our family, our income, etc. There are also many here who are into "tiny homes". I❤️you guys!
I think that Europeans are used too different countries as having different cultures while their own country has the same culture because of size, American is just so big they don't realize that many states have different cultures
I am in the Midwest in a rural area and we heat our home with a wood burning furnace an fireplaces. I have the option to use my propane furnace but I am not willing to pay the cost. We spend the summers cutting and splitting firewood. You are so right…homes are so different here in the US and it all depends on where you are.
Right, our extreme temperatures in Dallas, Texas range from -2°F/-19C to 113°F/45C, but we have a variety of heating/cooling options that depend upon the age of the home and the income level of the resident. Most of us here have either a natural gas central heating unit combined with a central AC, (of which we have one for each floor of our house), or an electric central heating/AC unit. Meanwhile, when we visit our friends in Seattle, everyone has either no AC or a small split unit AC and usually some small baseboard heaters or wall heaters.
Actually in the south and SW we do have fireplaces. We even get to use them a few times a year. Ps, I live in Texas and every home I’ve lived in, has had a fireplace.
A bedroom literally can't be called a bedroom legally without a closet where I live.
True in most areas. Here (North Carolina), if you have a wardrobe (furniture) in that closet-less room, that stays with the house, then you can call it a bedroom. That may very state to state.
Where I live it can be a bedroom without a closet but it has to have an escapable window to be "habitable".
Most states don't require closets but some smaller localities do.
Yes I don’t believe it’s necessarily required by law in most states but from a real estate listing perspective they generally will not call something a bedroom unless it contains a closet.
One other thing he did not mention in the video that Americans would find mind blowingly crazy is that most houses and often even apartments in Germany do not have a proper kitchen. There is a room that has all the places to hook up a kitchen but people move with their entire kitchen. I mean stove, sink, cabinets, refrigerator the whole thing is owned by the tenant/homeowner and they take it with them when they leave. Wher I live in the US a house is not considered legally habitable unless it contains a working stove. When I built my house 15 years ago I had to purchase a stove along with the house. I was allowed to upgrade it but I was not allowed to buy it on my own later and have it installed. They could not certify the house as habitable without a working stove. They probably required a sink as well but it wasn’t something I even inquired about but I did inquire about the stove.
@@dennislbrown In Arizona, an appraiser won't count it as a bedroom in the valuation unless it has built in closet. It really is funny how each state has its own rules about random things.
Not called walk-in wardrobes. They are walk-in closets. A wardrobe is a piece of furniture. Millie needs a French door refrigerator!!!
I second with the French door refrigerator. 🥰
It can also be a collection of clothes
We don't have wardrobes in the U.S. because of all the lions and witches that come with them
You have to have a strong back to have a French door fridge. My sister insisted on having one, then (due to her being older and not in shape), she could barely pull the bottom drawer out. I'm also getting older so prefer the 2 door model.
I've only heard of "wardrobes" being called Armoires in the U.S.
11:31 It actually splashes less the higher the water. Also, less residue left after
No doubt, it's funny that Europeans think the opposite in literally every video I've seen that mentions the toilet water level (and seem to think our toilets are full up to the top). It's just basic physics, the farther something falls the more velocity it has when it hits....Splash! And having to use the toilet brush after every number two is not appealing to say the least.
That's interesting. Pfft
@@themourningstar338 With a low enough water level the whole turd sticks to the bowl.
NO, toilets in the USA are NOT "full to the top" with water. I have no idea where this idea came from but it's not true. Toilet bowls in the USA are from 1/3 to at most 1/2 full of water.
I guess I'm just used to what we have here. I like our forced air furnace/AC setup. The double hung windows with screens, the much bigger 2 door fridge/freezer with cold water and ice right through the door fridges, the very easy to use round door knobs we have, the walk in closets and our commodes that do not require 3 flushes to empty like most European ones. I think those window louvers are in the windows, not outside. If they were outside, a peeper could just lift them to see in. We also have windows with the blinds embedded between the dual panes if you want to pay for them.
the window shutters are outside and no, you cant just lift them up and peep into someone's house. They are more like security anti theft shutters. I lived in europe and everybody has them.
Yeah, I looked them up, they run in tracks attached to the window, I can see they might be good, for blocking out light and peeper people. Some here, in the states, are actually between the window panes, embedded. They stay clean and dust free as long as the frame stays intact.
I would not trust a toilet mounted on the wall instead of the floor. I’d feel like it’s going to fall off the wall while I’m on it.
LoL 😅😅
It's called a throne not a old folks staircase escalator
They need to compare houses in similar city sizes. Many of these differences were not standard, but random.
Also, no screens on the windows is insane.
The water in toilets in th U.S. are not filled to the top as I think you guys are imagining. Generally the water may be filled to where you originally thought the German toilet was filled(but turned out it was much less) or less depending on the toilet and local ordinances.
Keyless entry on our doors has become very popular here.
In many states, the heating is central heated air with vents in each room, and you can shut the dampers for rooms that are not occupied.
You can't beat the comfort of central air!
I like the ones where the floor heats up and the heat rises. You wake up on the cold days and your toes are on warm tiles.
We have incorporated fridges over here in USA made to look like the cabinets but they are extremely high end. Also, some windows but mostly doors have built in blinds that you can adjust open or closed and up or down or just half way up. I love those. Never have to dust the blinds.
I visited a house here in the us that had a giant fridge (6ft/~1.8 meters wide that looked like part of the wall. The handles were hidden in the “wall panel” sides. I wanted one until I learned the smaller version would cost about 10 thousand dollars. I never even asked what the full version would cost. 😂
@@HyperWolf We have the Thermador 30" fridge/freezer built in columns with stainless panels. The combination gives us a 5' wide unit. We bought them along with a 48" range (plus 54" range hood) and a couple of dishwashers (one was free when you bought the fridge and freezer) about 3 years ago while we were building the house. Because it was a package we got a pretty good discount, but everything is an add on when it comes to the refrigerator and freezer. Each unit was about $6000, plus two door panels at $500 each and two handles at $250 a piece. Buy the time you add delivery the fridge/freezer combo is about $15k. The 36" units are about $300 more per unit. Kitchen appliances came to about $30,000.
@@rich7447 Now I’m glad I didn’t ask in the moment. I don’t even want to imagine the face I would have made… Thanks for giving me a better idea about how much it costs with everything involved and not just the basic initial costs. Maybe one day I’ll be able to afford something like that.
@@HyperWolf Happy to help. These went in house number 6, two of which were modified spec builds, for us. We had a good idea of what we liked and didn't like, so we bought a building lot (just over 2 acres) and custom built. During a build the extra cost of higher end appliances doesn't look as bad. I was a little annoyed when the dealer wanted $600 to deliver everything. It felt like I was buying a car and the list of extra charges were endless.
There are several different houses and number of floors in US houses. I lived in one that had 4 floors. The regular toilets have about the same amount of water as shown here, many have less and higher pressure for water conservation. They do not go to the top…. Yuck. Window coverings vary but you can purchase doors and windows with the blinds inside the 2 layers of glass. I’ve seen some that automatically switch to a “block out” color, no window coverings. You have to get the fridge with the water and ice dispenser on the outside of the door. Never need to open the door to access either.
I used to work for the City Sewer Dept. and I'll tell you low flow toilets (etc.) are not helping to save water much if at all. Areas with 'modern' low-flow plumbing have more problems with plugging and soap/grease build up because of stagnant flow. Sure it's a feel good short lived moment for the home owner but in reality it takes THOUSANDS of gallons of water to free up blocked lines to keep them flowing. The worst lines we encountered with solid waste build up were industrial areas due to lack of showers, sinks etc.
My plumber said the same thing as he replaced our laterals
@@suem6004 This is just me speaking but what I personally do once a year is fill up every possible home source (sinks, tubs, toilets) and release them all at once to flush out you lateral. Also beware of root aggressive trees/shrubs; a good local nursery will tell you what to avoid.
It takes at least twice to flush just the paper with the pee even.. Suu they aren't saving anything.
Now over there if they flush that hard like that one did then that wouldn't be an issue
The shade on the window is actually sandwiched between the glass. Yea no dusting
My grandparents house had a radiator. But it was built in 1900 and it still has a coal shoot from when it was coal heated.
Question for any Germans out there or Brits as well. How can you not heat some of the rooms in your house during the winter particularly if it’s something like a kitchen or a bathroom that has water? At least where I live in the US in Northern Illinois that would be a recipe for disaster in the form of frozen pipes and flooding. The way I control how warm or cool a room is is by opening or closing the heating vents in that room. That way even if I leave a room cooler some little bit of heat will get into the room and still keep it from getting below freezing which is a real possibility here.
Guess they have milder Winters don't worry about pipes freezing and bursting. In VA .it's a concern
@@MarySpain1958 Same in Indiana. It gets COLD around here sometimes. Not as bad as Wisconsin or Minnesota but still pretty nasty. I think the coldest i've ever seen was -12 F (but we average 5-20 degrees F during winter) We had to literally put a heater under the house to keep the pipes from freezing and just curl under the blankets while our space heaters kept the pipes from exploding.
I'm in Michigan.
I close off half my house in winter with no issues except I have one bathroom at the very far end of the house.
I keep a small space heater in there set to the lowest setting, which keeps it in the low 40s.
I only have to do that for about a week a year when it drops below zero.
Given that heat rises, everything downstairs needs to be closed off from upstairs or all the heat just rises to the top floor. Not a lot of ‘open plans’.
Couple of things. In the U.S. the deadbolt is used to lock the door, and the doorknob or lever is used to open it. Replacing the deadbolt with a keypad is a godsend, you can unlock without a key.
In Germany, when you move house, you take the kitchen... cabinets, countertops, appliances and all. That is probably why he has an integrated fridge/cabinet.
U.S. toilets have more water by design. There is a trapway (P-trap) built into the unit. It is designed to hold water, and the water in the bowl need to be high enough to fill this trap. The function of a P-trap is to trap sewer gases from entering the room. BTW. Water usually fills only half the bowl and are limited to 6 liters a flush.
Yes. It’s the sudden influx of water into the bowl that causes a standard American residential toilet to flush/drain. Dumping a big pan of water in will do the same.
It is nice to be able to unlock without a key.
I've never seen a toilet with the bowl more than half full anywhere I've been in America in the 38 years I've been alive.
One of the things he didn’t mention and it’s probably because he’s talking about houses as opposed to apartments or flats. I used to watch a UA-cam channel about an American living in Germany and one of the major differences was their kitchens. When you rented an apartment in Germany it didn’t come with a kitchen! You actually had to buy your own kitchens ( refrigerators, stoves ovens sinks, counters and cupboards everything except the walls and floor) and then have them installed into your apartment a whole lot of people that were from Germany and maybe elsewhere in Europe said that that made so much more sense and they liked it. I can’t imagine that because what if the kitchen that I buy fits the one apartment but doesn’t fit my next apartment ? where does one go about storing a whole kitchen?!
Guess you selll them piece by piece IDK 😶
Sounds awful. Tell them it's 2022 not 1822.
It was a similar situation in Paris. My best friend’s sister had to basically part out her apartment when she moved. Wardrobe to kitchen. Even the lighting. The apartment came with no electrical lighting, just bare wires in the ceiling.
@@Markle2k I can't imagine being an 18 year old kid in that situation.
You get your first big people job. You plunk down your entire life's savings (about $1,300 at that point) on rent and, then, have to plunk down another few grand on appliances and fixtures?
I bet the "appliance debt" is just as bad as "college debt" is in the U.S.
@@Markle2k I’m surprised the landlord would be brave enough to allow that. I mean if I had to install my own lighting, I would electrocute myself and burn down the whole place!!
With toilets in the USA it really depends on where you live plus some other things. Some states have passed laws on how much water a toilet can use (or something like that). So some states have low water toilets that are absolute garbage while others have a classic toilet with a high water level.
Also it really depends on the people who build the house/business. It's cheaper putting in a low water toilet than a classic one.
DeKalb County in Georgia requires low flow everything. Such a pain in the rear when selling them. But it’s only that county not the whole state.
@@causticchameleon7861 u can alway get a pressurize toilet tank, itll pass the gallon per flush.
@@yia01 Which is ridiculous. It’s the only county in metro Atlanta with such regulations. They will not put the water in the new owners name or switch it on unless the faucets and toilets have been verified low flow. That is my problem with it. That is one reason no one wants to move to DeKalb county. Dictatorial mismanaged county government. It’s a disgrace.
As of 1992 all toilets sold in the US can use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Energy Policy Act of 1992.
I don't really see the point since I pump water out of a hole in my backyard and dump it into a septic system in my front yard.
I can't believe King of the Hill did an episode about the complaints of low water toilets but if any show can pull it off it's them.
In our former home in Germany we had the those blinds usually metal inside the windows. Basically inside double paned glass
Here in USA I think alot if not most modern homes have keyless / keypad doors. It's great for when we lived in another state and rented our house to people. We just gave them the combination then after renting we could change the code.
I like how when the doorbell battery starts dying it tells me. I had an experience with one doorbell it just sounded like demons in the matrix growling at me. There's lots of settings with the doorbells where you can make it whistle at people when they show up or make them glow at night so people see the button. It feels sorta like a video game because growing up a doorbell to me was always an old school ding dong button. These new ones ding dong, they wee woo. They doo doodle loo do. Most of the time You ignore it totally the main thing is when everyone's asleep at 3am and you're chilling on your phone if some lunatic or crackhead comes to your door you can see what they're doing
Thats kind of funny they don’t have enough room to have a big fridge, or walk in closets or large yards but can have a shower separate from the bathtub.
Deliberately replaced door locks requiring a key to lock and unlock the door from inside when I moved in. I had visions of trying to find the key, the RIGHT key, then fit it in the keyhole to unlock the door and escape during a fire when seconds are critical. Dead bolt locks are infinitely better.
Where I live only real old houses have radiant heating & newer ones you can have zone heating. Here most appliances stay with the home & are even a selling point because bathrooms & kitchen upgrades are a worthwhile selling investments here. By code here you can't call a bedroom a bedroom if it doesn't have a closet.
Man I hate stupid regulations. In my county I would have no limits. You call it a bedroom or you call your extra bedroom the closet you do whatever you want man we would have the most free real estate in the market. Some guy across the street probably living in a teepee and his stock portfolio doing really well his teepee have 3 floors. No permits. If it falls and kills somebody that's their fault if it was due to faulty unsafe construction. "It hAs To hAvE A ClOSet" shoot I hope Karen doesn't become the inspector because if she ever comes to the house I might live in if there was no limits it would be a bit peculiar. I saw a guy who lived in a lake and he wanted to build.a water slide into the lake and they told him mhe couldn't have any none perfectly attached structures to his house so he nailed it to his deck. Who cares man, pound the legs of that thing in real deep so it couldn't fly away in a hurricane boom who cares man
The blinds are not on outside they are in between the window panes. Very cool...we do have them in the US just not as common. Good thing about them is no dust. It just can't get to them
I had thought of getting blinds that were between the thermopanes because of the dust and also they will not blow around when the window is open. However, with the crank out windows, (casement style) if the window is cranked open the blinds don't provide much privacy, especially if it is dark outside and you have lights turned on in the room.
It’s common for us to leave our fridge and other appliances when we move, whether they’re integrated or not.
you guys shouldn't worry about apologizing for pausing the videos...these videos all exist on their own...people are always free to just watch the original video...the whole reason to watch them here is your comments and banter...
I'm a dual US/Italian citizen (my kids inherited my Italian citizenship from me) and my kids are gonna be shocked when I finally get around to taking them to Italy (They're 3 and 19 months, so there really hasn't been a good time to travel since they've been born). My house in the States is 4,000 sqft (372 m2) while my house in Italy is only 1,200 sqft (111 m2). Oh, and the house in the States has an attached three car garage while the house in Italy has street parking only (but I don't keep a car there, so it doesn't matter).
Going to be really shocked now that the party of Mussolini is in charge.
@@LancerX916, the "right wing" in Italy would be left wing in the States, calm down.
@@adventureridergirl Wow what an ignorant comment. The party in charge is Brothers of Italy. Their platform is are conservatism, nationalism,nativism, Euroscepticism,and opposition to immigration. This nothing like the Republicans party.
Wow, I can't even decide which of these 2 pointless comments that have zero to do with the video is more stupid. The parrot or the liar 🤔
Two things I found interesting coming from the midwest, houses don't have a typical style of garage per se. I've seen connected and stand alones, along with a ton of the far less popular carports.
Another is the idea of not heating rooms in the winter! I actually have a device to plug into the sockets to help warm up pipes bc heating sometimes isn't enough in some rooms with not enough insulation. I couldn't imagine going all winter without using heat in some rooms
I have an older home where I can shut off parts in the winter.
The bad part is, one of my two bathrooms is in the "cold" part so, I have to have a small space heater, set to the lowest setting, in there on the sub-zero days.
It's not too bad, though. Sub-zero days are usually less than a week a year.
@@NarwahlGaming just a weird concept yo me lol bc even at 23F degrees pipes can freeze and that's more costly than heating. Plus I can just close vents to the inside rooms that aren't used as much, which allows air through still, but pushes air to other areas of the house.
@@Lyrabela Yeah. I guess the difference is; I don't have central heat.
I heat my house with a pellet stove so, no forces air through vents.
I have replaced many a pipe, in my day, but, not in 20 years or so since I got my system figured out.
5 degrees Fahrenheit seems to be the magic number where I have to start thinking about the heater.
And, it's on an Alexa plug device so, if I'm at work and forget - _bloopity bloop!_ 😁
@@NarwahlGaming that makes sense! Always interesting how much of a difference the type of climate, heating/ventilation really changes things!
While our toilets have fuller bowls, they are generally designed so that 1 flush while clogged will still fit. Just don't try a 2nd one right away.
If you close the lid before you flush (which is recommended), you won’t get any splashing.
Don't like radiators. They take up a lot of space and the one place I lived with them, the hot pipe supplying it could be touched easily so babies and toddlers had to be watched constantly. It was an older home so more modern ones may be safer.
As anywhere I'm sure, it depends on where you live. In the south very few have basements and are more of the pier and beam or slab style foundation, while up north many people have basements.
Nooo..... toilets in America typically fill halfway up to the rim. It does NOT fill to the rim. The only way your bottom gets wet is if you fail to put the seat down first ... like when you're drunk, or maybe four years old. :-)
I modify all my new toilets to 5 gallons, where I live water is not an issue at all. My doors have either fingerprint, keypad, Wi-Fi or a key to open. I do like the blinds in the German windows, but it will not work with decorative grids. I also use heat pumps for heating and cooling, that are Mini splits one for almost each room.
In our state a room must have a closet or they are not counted as a bedroom. You think not a big deal but it is, that means you can’t list your home for sale with those listed. Meaning if you have 4 bedrooms and only one has a closet you must list it as a one bedroom.
Very interesting! I love these videos about the differences between America and other countries ❤️
In California, attached garage is very common but homes built before the 60s, it's common to have detached garages or the garage may be in the backyard with a extra long driveway. Detached garages are being brought back in many larger middle & upper end homes.
California's climate makes it easy to walk to your home from the detached garage. In the North, the weather is so brutal in the winter, being able to unload your groceries from the garage directly into the house (as opposed to across the icy sidewalks) is safer and warmer.
In America, it depends on where the house is built. We have houses that are built right up against each other in the city and much further apart on a larger lot in the country. Older homes in America have radiant heat, some have wall-heaters, some have central heating, and some have individual heaters which are electric and are in every room.
All American bedrooms must have a closet and two points of entry, one must be a door and the other can either be a door or window.
When I was in Denmark, our bathroom had the toilet in the shower, which was a walk-in shower about twice the size as the one shown, with a tile floor, no shower pan.
Is this an indication of too little or too much fiber in the diet? Tile floor sounds a little difficult to truely clean to s higher degree
I definitely would opt for the windows, but I would also want a screen.
As an American I don’t care for any of the listed German homes. I mean I love super tall ceilings but with our summer heat & winter below zero temperatures it’s not very feasible. 😁🥰
That toiler water level looks just like it does in the US. I don't know why people think it is higher in the US.
MILLIE, when you get your American refrigerator, don't get the side by side. They aren't wide enough for a large pizza. Get the French doors with the freezer on the bottom.
american toilets have more water. european toilets have barely any water in them. I much prefer american toilets.
So many houses I've lived in and been in, in the US have the same ceilings (known as 1 and a 1/4 story or 1 and a half story house) depending on how far up the wall the angle is.
Water is NOT up to the top in a US toilet. Plus we have both low flow and high flow toilets.
Hi! I always love watching you both, but this was by far my fave! Watching you giggle made me laugh too! Oh & I’m glad you didn’t bleep out that one certain bit 🤣 By the way, I’m 🇬🇧 half Brit half American 🇺🇸 born & raised in the US. 😊
There is nothing I like better about German homes as opposed to American homes. I really hate the windows in Germany and I can't imagine living with that refrigerator and no freezer! Also, the water in the toilets in America does NOT fill the bowl but probably does have more than in Europe. We are switching over to high efficiency toilets now.
I hope by high efficiency you don't mean one of those crap ones that clog up easily. Because people say we need to conserve water when water is more abundant than dirt
I love it when you guys are just natural
It is NOT common for houses to separated by a kilometer or so in the U.S.! So, my American house is an old 1929 bungalow. Single story, detached garage, two bedrooms one bath. The houses are close together. I can look easily into my neighbor’s house if the curtains were open (not that I would!). I do like those windows but they would not look appropriate in my old bungalow.
Good lord our toilet doesn’t have much more water than the one shown, where in the world do people get the idea our toilets are full of water? The only time a toilet is full to the top is if it’s plugged and someone try’s flushing it more than once!
an inward opening window is a very bad idea. the swing of which will knock over items in its path.
I think those blinds are in-between the window planes
Split-level houses depends on the area. Most houses have two or more floors. I have lived in Europe, and , in particularly, Germany. The house where I stayed was separate, so that also depends.
Older homes in the US that still have old toilets, are more likely to have toilets with little water. The concern of a half filled toilet over flowing really isn't that much of a concern unless you try to flush a toilet that's already fill. The way they work is beneath the rim of the toilet where the seat rests, are many holes that release the water that causes the swirl effect. Once the water reaches those holes, there's equilibrium of water pressure that causes the water from continuing to flow.
I guess our house is typically American by most standards. We live in 13 acres, but we are in rural Texas, so our plot is actually one of the smaller ones. Of course most of our neighbors have cattle or run deer leases. ( for deer hunting) It's 4 bedroom with 3 bathrooms. Right now there are only 4 of us living here, but throughout the years we've sometimes packed as many as 10 people living here. It's an old house, and did actually have central air conditioning, but a storm a few years ago collapsed the old deck on the unit and crushed it, so we now rely on several window units. One in each bedroom and one in the kitchen/ breakfast area. The den and dining room we don't bother with because we never use them anymore. I occupy the master bedroom, so I have the most closet space, 2 walk in closets. Plus I have a small office/sitting room attached. The rest of the bedrooms are pretty standard. It's a good thing we don't have those low ceilings, seeing we have twins who are 6'6" living here. Kitchen wise we have a standard American refrigerator, plus a big chest freezer. Comes in handy since the grocery store is a bit of a drive. Hell, one of my doctors is 130 mile round trip. We also have that standard American convenience, a garbage disposal in the sink. And American toilets are only about half full, not up to the brim. Unfortunately I don't have that common European convenience, the bidet.
Oh, I'd never open a window here without a screen. We have a creek (slow flowing) on the property and it's a wonderful mosquito breeding ground. I dare not walk outside in the evening without insect repellent on.
As someone who's lived by himself for 15 years, 4 people in a house sounds like a nightmare.
I couldn't imagine 10! 😂
I lose all respect for any house as soon as I know it has a bidet
You can get those German windows in AMERICA. Plus you get screens to keep bugs out.
Single floor is nice as you age or become injured and stairs become a barrier.
Why do European windows not have screens??? I can’t understand why? It just makes sense.. I can’t imagine opening my windows and all the bugs coming ..
Most places I have been in, there is a door lock and a dead bolt. I even have a security door on my house.
not everywhere tho. i am from Boston. you can literally reach out your window and touch your neighbors window.
Depends where in Boston. Some neighborhoods have more space than that.
@@hrussell9677 true. south boston i was in a highrise. east boston was houses stacked on top of each other. in lowell half the city is stacked. the other half is open
I’ve suggested to several reactors to check out the Dollar Princesses. I didn’t know about this part of history between England & America. Fascinating.
When we lived in Germany, nobody told me about the windows. The first time I opened it and the window started to tip inward, I thought I'd broken it!
Please note that most American houses are no where near as nice as some of them shown. A ranch style with 1 car garage, with a small plot of land, usually 1/2 acre or less is more common. And since the majority were built in the late 40s to mid 70s, most don't have the amenities mentioned. The German windows would be nice (with screens).
Except you cannot put furniture in front of them easily. And window coverings - interior shutters/blinds/shades/curtains - are a huge issue when opening or closing the window.
Door knobs or handles are more common here but newer ones are either fingerprint controlled or code controlled although keys are still around. It’s just an added security. At least you have what you need.
Both of you killed me! 😄
Toilet splashing is not the problem you seem to think.
It really doesn’t have to do with size. Just how big a housing complex is. There are housing complexes where each house is only a couple feet apart due to them trying to squeeze as many houses as they can on the lot.
The water in US toilets is rarely even close to the top 😂 it goes maybe a couple of inches higher but no typical toilet will fill to a significant level
My favorite thing was the blinds. I have cats and never thought of that. So cool. 😎 Blinds are too expensive in my house anymore😏
the blinds aren't external, they're actually sandwiched between layers of glass.
The toilet water level is way exaggerated its probably only a quarter to maybe a third full but definitely not near the top of the bowl and American bathrooms are all different depending on when your neighborhood was built and also how expensive your home is. There are many different styles and types found throughout the USA but goes for many of the things listed.
It's a casement window, meaning it's double paned with a space between. You can get blinds installed in custom casement windows so you never need to buy blinds again. These are semi-modern, within the last 30 years or so. (if you'd like to see them in action in the US, look for a Pella store- and no, I'm not affiliated, but at one time I really wanted to replace all my double paned windows!)
From what I understand, the lack of closets goes way back to a time when homes were taxed by the number of doors they had. So, a regular closet would cost more, so people went with free standing closets.
On the original video, someone from Germany told me he was wrong about them not having freezers. Also, in the US a large number of houses built before the 60's, you will find the slanted ceiling on the second floors, or third floor on the large houses.
All American subs should send Millie a photo of our refrigerators. Our toilet water level is not as high as is presumed by many in Europe.
I think that I'd choose the German windows to add to my American home. I really like the outside rolling shade for them.
I think the shade is between the layers of glass. We have something similar available in our more expensive windows.
outside shades make no sense, anyone can just open the shades
@@daviddodds30 The shade is between the glass. We have something very similar on our side door.
@@rich7447 The shade isn’t between glass - the shade is metal and held within a frame that is attached to the window. Shades like this are great for blocking direct sunlight and are widely used in homes throughout the Middle East like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. They are also good for keeping out dust during dust storms. Often, they are controlled with a remote control. And, no, a person cannot move them up or down from the outside.
@@houseofaction They aren’t flimsy shades made of some fabric. They are metal and are fitted in a frame. They’re often controlled with a remote, but this guy’s isn’t. The cannot be opened or moved by a person standing outside.
Ranch style homes are good for older people or handicapped.
11:30 The longer the drop, the bigger the splash. It kind of balances out. Also on big ones, it'll just sorta slide into the water instead plopping down into low water.
Oh Lord. I would be locked out all the dang time! Lmao
Biggest difference between European homes from U.S. homes. U.S. homes have fuel for heat.
That integrated fridge is not common in the US. It exists but it is usually in very expensive homes of millionaires who hired interior decorators to do up their kitchens. Most people just have the big refrigerator of their choice in their big kitchen and these days, they are mostly stainless steel. If you live in an apartment though, the space is smaller, so the fridge has to be smaller too.
I wouldn't want any of the things about gean. Her. German houses l like the us ones much better
@@karenstjohn8603 are you drunk?
Homes in the US do come with door knobs but after market products, like shown for Germany, can be purchased. Other after market security solutions are Deadbolt locks to prevent break-ins. You can also get programmable keypads, finger print reader or combined locks that may use keypad or print reader with a cellphone app. Originally from Google, you could get a device that can voice control everything in your home. Lots of newer companies offer similar products. This helps even if you are off at work or around the world & you can't recall if you set the home security, locked any doors, including the garage door, you can use your phone to run down anything in your home u forgot to turn off or on. Your door bell can ring your phone anywhere in the world, you can view & video persons at your front door or anywhere on your property & speak to them as if you were home. It's good for catching break-ins or porch pirates, aka package thieves. In case of fire, some homes have aftermarket sprinkler systems. Security is big in the US so cameras are everywhere & police often give secured homes greater priority simply because video & audio allows cops to be lazy & solve those cases quicker.
Those windows in Germany! Love those! So easy to clean!
It makes me laugh so hard every time they mention the water in U.S. toilets "going all the way to the top" 😂
I lived in Germany for 6 years. Had heated floors. Loved that feature
It's not external the blinds are between the window panes
There's several inches between the seat and the water in an American toilet 🚽 There's more water, but they are not close to full.
I am in rural US and we heat our home with a wood burning furnace. We even have a wood burning cooktop stove in our kitchen as well as an electric stove. I love homes with character. New/modern homes are not my cup of tea!
You have an indoor wood burning furnace or, one of those outdoor, stand-alone units?
I used to have an indoor fireplace as my only heat but, splitting wood got old, fast.
I upgraded to a wood pellet stove.
The gas company was installing new lines down our road and came knocking, asking if I wanted a hook up.
I said no.
He asked how I was getting heat - since I didn't have a visible propane tank outside.
I told him "Wood pellets" and he said, "You can't do that! It's not reliable. What if the power goes out?"
I'm, like, "Really? What happens to your furnace if the power goes out?"
"Oh, yeah..." 😂
I was expecting a visit from the county after that for "concerns" but, they probably told him to beat it if he reported me.
@@NarwahlGaming It is an indoor wood burning, full house furnace. We have 2 wood stove fireplace inserts…one in the kitchen and one in the living room. I don’t like my bedroom heated so we usually only use the fireplaces. We haven’t used the whole house furnace in a few years. We have propane for our water heater so when we do fill the tank, it lasts about 2 years. Pellet stoves are great! Splitting wood does get old but my in laws are retired and get bored so they come over and split wood pretty frequently to stay active. We had one evening where the power did go out and we were fine with the fireplaces and we could even cook with our stove if we needed to. I wouldn’t hook up either if they were offering lines to our house.
roll down metal shutters are common on the Continent. We lived in Switzerland and all apartments have them - cheap places and fancy places all have them.
I like hearing your comments especially when it's comparison videos. I also don't mind you pausing the video
And I will add a thought.... If anything is better, works better, functions better, looks better and is better for american houses... You can bet it WOULD be in American houses. Home buyers and owners would demand it.
I really like those German windows and outside blind things.
In some American cities a bedroom must have a closet to be considered a bedroom.
American toilets are 1.28 gpf/4.8 lpf. For new installations to reduce water waste. The thing I like the most is the windows, and I have seen them here with insect screens. But they are very expensive.
When I moved to England in the 80’s our refrigerator couldn’t fit through the front door without 1st removing the door. And it couldn’t fit in our kitchen so we left it in the entry hall, by our stairs. The movers moved it last because they didn’t know what it was.
My son was stationed in Germany for 4 yrs and the thing about the closets was one of the unusual. About the blinds we have blinds between two sheets of glass. They don’t get dirty and you adjust them from inside. The toilet, I wonder about how difficult it is to work on? Just wondering. Our water level in our toilet is about the same as you were talking about. The newer ones!!
I literally want James to get her a damn giant fridge more than i want anything in my own life lol
They need a Sub-Zero
She can create an Amazon wish list and you can buy one for her.
I like the windows. The metal that slides up and down that gives you more safety. The only issue is, I use air conditioners that go into the windows. I don't have central air
The window blinds are inbetween the panes of glass that make up a thermal window.
Please clarify a bungalow. Here they often small 3 room cabin type home. 3 rooms not 3 bedrooms, deep in the country (woods,/forest) using well water and maybe a generator for electricity, within walking distance of a lake.
The full toilet in America is a fallacy. Toilets typically in the US are 1.5 liter tanks and same level of bowl water as he shown his was. Only about halfway. Water conservation is key nowadays and government tends to give a rebate for cost of installing a updated 1.5 liter toilet. I'm 60 years old and never in my life saw a toilet filled to the top. That's unrealistic. So don't believe when people say American toilets are topped off with water.
I think the window blinds you like are in between the panes of glass . So they are neither inside nor outside !