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I'm surprised she didn't start with mailboxes: we don't have them. Mail is delivered straight through a slot in the front door, not to a mailbox at the edge of the property. Even in flats (apartments), mail is delivered to the main door of each flat.
Except where the mailboxes are in the foyer of the flats
@@inthekitchenwithpenn1 which is almost universal in new build apartment blocks.
And mail is called post
Also because we don't have mailboxes Mail or Post is not collected from each house. If you want to mail a letter you have to post it in a post box, they are usually on street corners (but NOT every corner) or can be set into walls. They are painted bright red in colour. Post is collected once a day. Parcels have to be taken to the post office to be weighed for posting, because they won't fit into the slot of the street post box.
@@jazmo6662 Same applies here in Ireland but instead our post boxes are green. Again normally on street corners or set into walls. Everything else applies here as well.
British houses are incredibly diverse because houses are either really modern or really old, people building their own homes or having renovations.
Or anything between
@@AndrewJLeslie yes, exactly, thank you! I was struggling with the wording. 😅
@@AndrewJLeslie i was thinking that most council house are inbtewwen what is a huge chunk of our housing stock
@@joesmith8701 council houses aren’t a “huge chunk” lol, the number of council estates is probably similar to the number of gated communities, the extreme ends. the majority Is just normal houses
@@phantom8699 have u never been to towns and citys arcouse the country is your idea of a council estate a tower block becon tree in london has a population of 100 thousand thats 1 estate also wythamshaw in manchester has one of 60 thousand
I used to have a separate washer and drier but find that hanging clothes on a washing line in the fresh air to dry is so much better.
Unless it rains and you have to do it again, or birds get on your line 😂
@@Jodiice1981 The rain is the final rinse lol
@@Jodiice1981 If you have a spinning washing line, lay a twowel over the top horizontally, secure it with pegs, now hang things vertically under the towel. Rain or birds only get the towel/s on top
separate toilet and bathroom is fairly common, especially in older houses. it comes in useful if you need to use the toilet while someone is in the bath.
They have them often in modern builds as well. Keeps the foul air away from the people taking a bath.
Most houses have a toilet in the bathroom in the UK. I don't think I have *ever* been in one that didn't. Perhaps this being a pretty small (London I guess) Terraced house is the reason. It is pretty unusual these days to not have one upstairs and one downstairs in a house.
@@memkiii My 1950s house still has a separate toilet and I don’t have one downstairs. A lot of houses in my street have removed the wall between the toilet and bathroom to make an all in one. I actually prefer to keep them separate as I think it’s more hygienic.
Even not in older houses, it just makes sense lol, this guys acting like it doesn’t make sense, u don’t go to the toilet then need a bath every time so it’s not needed it the same room lol, most toilets have a basin in to clean ur hands
Our house has a separate toilet downstairs and upstairs. The bathroom is upstairs too. Ours was built in the 1930s i think
Yeah, the separate bathroom/loo thing isn’t in every house. Neither is the separate tap thing (though they are quite common). Nice t-shirt.
also utility rooms (where the washing machine and dryer) are normal in bigger homes. But being a Victorian house they are very set in there flooring arrangements, also that house is probably built in 1880 is.
Yeah, it's generally the older houses that have separate rooms for the toilet. Modern ones will usually have the toilet and bath in the same room. The house I grew up in was built in (I think) the 60s and had an integrated bathroom, then the house I moved into during/after university was Victorian and had a separate toilet, and the house I'm living in now is also Victorian but it had a major renovation in the 70s and they put the toilets into the bathrooms then.
Having lived in both types of house, I can definitely say I prefer the separate toilet/bathroom. It means you can have a nice bath in peace, even if someone else has to poop like RIGHT NOW.
Yeah, here in the UK is varies, ksut like in different countries, I've seen that with it too
As a Swede that isn't strange at all but washing machine in the kitchen is insane... It is, that is where you cook your food which means that the smells of cooking is everywhere and drying your clothes will suck that right into them.
Hot and cold taps are still in older houses and we don't really want to change them, we want to preserve them here in Sweden.
So yeah, other than the insanity with your laundry, yer fine.
@@michaelmay5453 driers are vented to the outside
Look up the safety of UK plugs, you will be terrified to use your US plugs when you see the differences!
Although, to be fair, they use lower voltages, which makes the actual power supplied safer.
@@malcolmrowe9003 But for the same wattage, that means a higher current is needed... Current baddd
@@2001jadenable I thought voltage was the more dangerous, although it's been some time since I studied the dangers of electricity, so I could easily be wrong.
@@malcolmrowe9003 it's a bit of both really, 1000V with a milliamp of current won't do anything to you as that level of current would make no difference . Meanwhile, if you was to go outside and decide to make a circuit with you cars battery and your body, you would also be fine as despite the battery having a cranking capability of hundreds of amps, the 12v isn't enough to overcome the resistance in your body and create a circuit.
However, once you get into the 100s of volts, making a circuit in your body is no trouble whatsoever, this is when the current becomes dangerous too you.
Long story short, you're gonna have a really bad day either way if it's 110V or 240V
@@malcolmrowe9003 - it isn't voltage that kills you, it's CURRENT. You can touch the top of a spark plug on your car, if you want. That could be anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 volts, and it will make you snatch your hand away - but it won't kill you. In contrast, if you get yourself strapped across 120 volts, but the circuit can provide 20 amps, that's plenty enough to kill you.
You have to realise that with all these videos, they represent about 10% of what is actually available. Separate hot and cold taps, separate toilet, washing machines in the kitchen etc applies to 'some' homes. They're a representation, not the norm. Most videos that explain differences between our two countries are designed to create a reaction by using extreme observations. Take them with a pinch of salt
I think you’re completely wrong. You think only 10% of us have a washing machine in the kitchen? I only know one person who doesn’t and a separate utility room. Many houses will have one bathroom and one room with a separate toilet. I think that you are the one that seems to not have a full awareness of what most English homes are.
Nah, these are the norm. Go to any terrace in any street here up North and you would be lucky to find mixer taps or a bathroom big enough to fit a toilet in as well. Modern homes are the minority, I've lived in a dozen different places and never seen a utility room, have only ever once had mixer taps (my current house is a new build) and had seperate toilets in most (though have lived in a few places with communal showers so only had a toilet and sink in the flat for those). My friends homes are the same and I have lived in a few different counties so I know that it's not just a Northern thing, The Midlands and Scotland were the same (lived 3 different places in Staffordshire and one in Moray).
Also, a lot of bigger houses nowadays have a 'downstairs bathroom', which is basically just a toilet and a wash basin to wash your hands afterwards. This is in addition to the traditional upstairs bathroom which has all the stuff (including another toilet).
We have the usual bath/shower/bog upstairs. But downstairs we have an outside toilet. It's amazingly convenient when we're entertaining outside in the summer!
(It doubles up as storage for garden furniture in the winter)
upstairs loitet/bathroom??? lucky you
@@England91 why, what do you have?
Thank Christ for the downstairs toilet. My upstairs one broke today, the damn thing is crappy...literally 😆
I think that would be called a cloakroom, It's not a bathroom if it doesn't have a bath in it, it is just a loo. (Whatever teh Americans say!) OK. I know, it may not have cloaks in it either.
If you go back to the generation that grew up with "outhouse" toilets in the UK, they would have thought that having a toilet indoors was "disgusting". So they had to be introduced in stages. I lived in a 1930s built bungalow in the 1960s. That had the toilet behind a door, just inside and to the side of the back door. With another door into the kitchen proper. Which made a tiny "porch with doors on three sides. The bath was in an alcove in the kitchen under a large wooden lid. Then in the 1970s, our council/local authority house built in the 1950s, had a similar downstairs toilet to the side of the back door, and an upstairs toilet in it's own room next to the bathroom. This was before the "closed coupled" toilets replaced the old toilets with high cisterns/tanks up on the wall with pull chains. Which were much harder to keep clean.
My family had an outside 'earth closet' until 1957, when all the water was laid on in the village. A bathroom was added at the rear of the property, made of breeze blocks. I've moved since, but it's still there and awaiting demolishment. I've had to redig the drain a couple of times, the last time for an effluent digester to be put in place. I'm thankful to be on the mains now and not have to do that task again! Electric was put in around the same time and when we had power outages, in the early 70s, we brought the Aladdin lamps out of storage. I still have those . . . just in case!
I remember the toilet,(netty), across the backyard next to the coal house, we did have a hot cistern in the back kitchen like, but most hot water came off the fire/range till the council put the plumbing in hot water and tanks in the attics, 70s, Co Durham.
@@geoffwheadon4277 Unfortunately, we didn't have an attic. The hot water tank in the scullery/washroom backed onto a rayburn in the kitchen. my dad built an airing cupboard around both the cold water tank at the top and hot water cylinder underneath. The soot door was right next to that. My job was to clean out the soot. What a 'lovely' job! But, there'd be a problem if it wasn't done!
@@josefschiltz2192 happy days eh mate lol, best regards from County Durham
@@geoffwheadon4277 And best regards back. 🙂! from Suffolk.
For the 3 pin plug, the top pin is the earth. It's a longer pin that goes in first. This lifts windows that cover the live and neutral holes in the wall socket. When you pull the plug out the windows cover them back up making them doubly safe.
On the plug itself, the the live and neutral pin are plastic ¾ the way up so if your fingers went around the plug when pulling it out you shouldn't get a shock. All belt and braces over here mate 😁
we also have an earth because the power in the uk is 240 volts whilst in the states its only 110
The large pin in the electric plug is not jest to earth the electricity to ground, it also lifts up the access to the positive and negative connections if the two little inner blanks are not lifted, the pins will be blocked and the plug will not locate the electricity. How boring an I being?
@@alanthompson7216 To be fair the State's have a 3-pin socket as well its only certain products which are 2 pin, and we have them too, if you look at your phone charger, you'll notice the top pin is plastic, the rules on them are pretty similar to the US having 2 pins in that its only if the thing you touch is a conductor that you need the earth pin. The safety shutter however is on all plugs and thus the need for the third pin, even though its not really doing anything.
first in last out for maximum protection is what i was taught at college.
@@alanthompson7216 230V* 240V was the old amount
My house, and every house I’ve lived in, main differences: generally smaller than US houses, separate taps in the bathrooms (mixer in the kitchen), and no sockets in bathrooms unless you get a specific shaver plug fitted. Washing machine in the kitchen for most unless you’ve got a big enough house for a utility room, off the kitchen - would never be in the bathroom. On and off switch for sockets because danger danger high voltage… letterbox in your front door so post comes directly in and you can go and retrieve it naked if you want! Old houses have separate toilets but most do have the full toilet/bathroom upstairs haha (my mates old house had the bathroom at the back of the house behind the kitchen because it was built before bathrooms were a thing indoors). We do not have air con that’s true because it would not be worth it for 95% of the year 😂 for the short time it gets unbearably hot we just complain and consider buying a fan and then buy said fan, and complain about the noise of the fan in the night. And then eventually learn to live with the noise of the fan and have to turn it off and get used to silence because it’s endless winter again. Hope that summarises :)
An ex of mine once rented a house where the washing machine was behind a cupboard door in the bathroom, but that's obviously pretty unusual.
You're quite right. In most houses, the toilet is in the bathroom. In my house, we have a bathroom with a toilet upstairs and another toilet without bath downstairs. Mixer taps are horrible. They never get hot or cold enough. I have one in my kitchen and I have to boil a kettle to get hot water. Separate taps are best. It's easy for us to wash our hands because most of us like to do so in very hot water anyway and if we don't, we know how to use a sink (put the plug in and mix the water to the perfect temperature, then wash your hands in the sink).
I know this is being picky but in a bathroom/toilet it is called a basin and in the kitchen it is called a sink. 😉
what i'm learning from some of the comments is that people never wash their hands with actual hot water.
@@julietessam2999 My family have always called them sinks, no matter what room they are in
@@W0rdsandMus1c agree. A sink is a sink regardless of the room. I don’t know anybody who calls it a basin, so much so I actually thought it was an American word
@@Xemmag85X 🤣🤣
It's quite simple..You go to the loo in the bathroom, as many have toilets in them...Equally, there are small separate rooms for toilets also..Most modern homes have mixer taps now..I only ever see separate taps in older homes..Yes, there are washer/dryers in kitchens, but many homes have utility (laundry) rooms for these appliances. She forgot to mention that the postman delivers letters straight through our front doors...We don't have to go outside in all weathers to collect the mail..And pigeons are not going to fly into open windows either...We also do have some homes that have air conditioning, because each year it seems to get hotter and hotter whenever we have a heatwave, global warming and all that...I hope that has cleared that up...☺️😜
Most houses now have a combined toilet and bathroom unless they haven’t been renovated. I have a 1930s house and the toilet and bathroom have been knocked through into one at some time in the past (before my time). Almost all new build houses have more than one toilet, usually a bathroom with loo and a separate downstairs cloakroom with loo and sink.
You have to remember we used to have the toilet outside in the garden, old newspapers or magazine for toilet roll, the toilet would eventually be brought into the houses and would still be in its own room, (water closet or WC). The bath would be an old tin bath that was brought out of the shed and placed infront of the open fire and then filled up with hot water boiled in the kitchen with the kettle or pans of hot water. Later on, the modern houses incorporated inbuilt baths and toilets, first in seperate rooms, then the same room. the room would still be called the toilet, or bathroom even though it now had both in along with a sink. the seperate water taps was because the cold water was treated at the waterplants and provided as drinkable water, plumbed in from the main street, where as the hot water would be plumbed in aswel, but would go to a storage tank in the attic, (this would normally have the familys old coats or blankets covering the top of the tank to stop it freezing in the winter), then to a hot water boiler tank, then to the hot water pipes and taps (you could also get the hot water by having a heatable tank built in next to the main fireplace of the main room and this would be used when the fire was built up and on and thus possible contamination from fireplace and not recommended for drinking.
my old house that I grew up in was built in 1932 we had a back boiler, and our bathroom was down stairs next to the kitchen. but when the local council remodelled all of the houses to be up to standard in 1981, they rejigged the upstairs of our house, put the boiler in an airing cupboard and boarded up the fireplace in the bedroom that my big sister and I shared, and cut several square foot from my parents room to build the bathroom &toilet upstairs . then moved the kitchen around downstairs and made it the same size as the living room on the ground floor.due to our house still having coal fires up un til the 80s we didn't have any central heating ( radiators) until 1996 when the council were offering newer tenants walk in showers and double glazing ( they had to give us electric heating before we could get double glazing) most social housing ( council housing) are being updated but some even in 2022 still have separate toilets and bathrooms ( like the house I live in now) and a few still have coal fires and single glazed windows and doors.
My current house was built in 1994. We have a combined bathroom/loo. However, our downstairs loo has separate hot and cold taps, so yes I do that mixing the water in my hands thing. My previous house was built in 1938 and when we renovated we decided to knock the separate bathroom and loo into one.
It's very common for people to have two toilets. One on its own and one in the bathroom. Tis is because, as she said, many toilets were originally outside and were then moved in. However, many people then installed a toilet in the bathroom as that's more convenient. The most common though is for people to have one toilet in the bathroom only.
Tbh - having a separate loo can be an advantage at times. You’ve just got in the bath for a long relaxing soak and someone needs to use the toilet....no one needs that especially if it’s a number 2 😅
Washer/dryers don’t work that well - the dryer cycle takes forever.
I’ll always want two taps - if you want a glass of cold water sometimes it takes awhile for it to run through and be cold enough 🤷♀️
It's so much better to have a seperate washer/dryer. The cycles on a combi machine take twice as long due to it drying differently
I think having the toilet separate from the bathroom is a good thing, if you're in the bath you don't want someone coming in and taking a dump in the same room!
We have a downstairs cloakroom so somebody can be in the bath or shower whilst somebody else can take a "dump" downstairs.
@@CamcorderSteve That's interesting that you call it that. To me a cloakroom is just somewhere you hang up your coats and whatnot, I would never have thought of it as somewhere to use the toilet.
That photo in the thumbnail. Yep. Us Brits don't have electricity. We wash outside, we have candles. Too charge our equipment, we use the sun
I don't use the sun, I use the wind produced by people 😁
@@petebennett3733 Very nice. How do you collect this?
@@corriehingston6744 in a bag
Wow, you're posh. We wash in a ditch and have to peddle a bicycle to charge our Nokia 3210 😜
@@IanDarley Damn. I just have to leave my gadgets outside to get the sun rays so sometimes my gadgets simply die due to the sun hiding behind the clouds
Most households in Australia have a separate toilet...it makes sense too because someone can use the bathroom while someone is using the toilet. In fact most newer Australian bathrooms are totally separated from each part of the bathroom...the vanity mirrors and sink is separate from the shower and bath room and usually has no door separating it from the rest of the house...this is good because someone can brush teeth, dry hair, wash hands or do make-up while someone is using the toilet and someone else is using the shower (which both have separate doors) leading off from the vanity area.
Also good to keep splashing, smelly toilet water away from the area you go to get clean...and away from your toothbrush (splashes).
It may make sense, but just like you guys also tend to have a separate laundry room and tend to only have single floor properties, the 'space' limitation is not an issue. It certainly is in the UK! So essentially newer house builds tend to have combined, but not always, because it is more spatially economical.
Originally, when the loo came in from outside it was sometimes called the water closet, W/C. Forget the pigeon thing, we're not infested nationwide. Modern houses are set up more like what you're used to. Predominately houses in UK are stone or brick, modern houses can be whatever. Single storey wooden buildings are generally known as sheds.
Loo is French for water and I think toilet is French for dressing room.
@@L1am21 Loo is derived from the french L'eau (the water) and toilet is derived from Toilette (the process of washing oneself, dressing, and attending to one's appearance), hope that helps :)
I have 24 inch solid stone walls.
The separation of toilet and bathroom was common in houses built around the turn of the last century. In recent times a second loo downstairs has become a recent addition. The wife wants to extend our house at the back so we can have a second toilet.
Extend?? Just plant a big bush by the door :)
@@The_Original_Geoff_B I don't think she fancies squatting in the garden! I'm tall enough to wazz in the kitchen sink, so we'll have to extend.
My house was built in 1911. Originally it didn’t have the toilet in the bathroom, but rather than an outdoor toilet it had a separate toilet off the utility room at the back of the house (still there) at some point though a toilet was added into the bathroom. I know it’s had central heating and mixer taps since the 80s. We’ve also used the utility to free up some kitchen space, so we have our Washing machine out there - just a washing machine though. Washer-dryers don’t really have a good reputation.
My house was a former pub built in the early 1700's.
I have a well.. Its been tested and its safe to drink.
I dont have central heating, as it would be far to expensive to fit. Wall are made from stone.
Combined washer dryers don't work as well though.... your clothes are not dry coming out, more light damp... but they dry pretty quick from there.
There often is a toilet in the bathroom, but not always... so if you want the toilet, don't beat around the bush, say you need the toilet... if you want a bath, say you want a bath.
And you can't just push things into British plugs.... the 3rd pin is longer than the power pins, and it presses a button that opens a cover that is over the powered parts of the socket.
Combined washer dryers do work well if you use them right. Unfortunately most people don't realise the dryer only works with a half load and try to dry a full load with limited success.
It's not every house that the toilet is separate but you'd be surprised with just how many there are. It's about 50/50 in my experience.
It's definitely common to have a separate toilet and bathroom over here, but it's equally common to have them combined too, it just depends on the area you are living in. For example, in my last house, the toilet was in a room by itself, and the bath/shower and sink were in the room next to it. My current house has a downstairs toilet room with a sink, an upstairs bathroom with all amenities, and an outdoor toilet room.
Understandably it sounds confusing, but we tend to use the phrase "I'm going to the bathroom" interchangeably with "I'm going to the loo." It only really becomes more distinguishable with "loo" if you're specifically asking for the toilet, since it may be in a separate room. 😅 Hope this helps! 😂
The two taps for hot and cold are because the hot water often comes from a tank and might be contaminated. Two taps prevent any siphoning of that water into the cold water pipes.
Newer systems are different and do have mixer taps.
My mum's house (built 1960s) had a separate toilet upstairs next to bathroom, later they knocked the wall down to make it one room. Older homes had outside toilet, but then most converted a bedroom upstairs (or downstairs depending on space) to fit a bathroom/toilet in.
J.T,
Some houses have loos downstairs and a bathroom with loo upstairs,
Some have separate loos and bathroom upstairs.
It just depends on the layout of the house or flat.
We also have washing machines that have a quick wash which only takes 14 minutes and also have 2 hour cycles as well.
"Us brits find it rather charming" I hate separate taps! 😂 it's so annoying! There's only a small window where the hot tap is usable before it feels like it's burning your skin
Hi JT, in most modern(ish) houses the bathroom does include the toilet, the wash basin, and the bath and/or shower. In older houses, there is sometimes a separate room that just contains the toilet. I would say the vast majority these days, no matter the age of the house, the bathroom has been renovated so it includes the toilet in the same room as the other fixtures. Also, we don't all have separate taps for hot and cold water. I live in a Victorian Terrace but it has one bathroom with everything (including the toilet) and a mixer tap (aka one tap in the basin that does both hot and cold water).
We use a plug in the sink so mix the temperature we like. The reason why no plug outlets in the bathroom was because we had a lot of deaths from electrical items falling in baths and electicuting them. It seemed to be a weekly occurrence for a time. Parliament made a law to stop it happening.
In Britain, the bathroom is where one takes a bath. The English really like to take long hot soaks, maybe not so much these days. Don't know if showers/showering has gain in popularity in the recent years. Having a separate washing machine and dryer are more convient on washing day. After washing one load of cloths, they can be placed in the dryer (to dry) and another load of washings can be started without having to wait for the one machine to be free. British homes tend to be more compact than ours so there isn't usually room dedicated just to do the laundry.
My brother’s house had a separate toilet to the bathroom. When they had their building work done, they had the wall between the toilet and bathroom taken out so it’s now all one room.
For family home definitely better to have toilet and bathroom seperate.
The british bathroom will contain the bathtub and/or the shower cubicle, sink to wash hands and usually the flushing toiled. We mostly have proper mixer taps these days. Some howes to not have the flushing toiled in the bathroom and may have a separate small room for it.
With the combined washer/driers we have, usually, you take out half the clothes before engaging the drier cycle - allows more room to tumble.
the air-conditioning thing - currently it's 25C and I'm working from home in gym shirt & shorts. we're big on having electric fans to circulate the (warm!) air.
oh yes - letters and small parcels come direct through the front door via the letterbox.
The loo is the toilet. Whether it’s combined with the bathroom or not. Generally, I’d say the separate toilet/bathroom does apply to older houses. I grew up in one that was built in 1948, and they were separate there.
Most bathrooms have a toilet in them now, but back a time, it wasn't uncommon if there was only one toilet in a house it would be separate from the bathroom. I have done several projects where the instruction was to remove the partition wall between the toilet and bathroom to make a modern bathroom. However, it doesn't matter if its a W.C. or a bathroom you can still say "I'm going to the loo" .
Yes, basically, if the room has a toilet, it can be called 'the loo' regardless of whatever other amenities it contains.
Nah most are separate? Idk where u live lol but in normal houses most toilets are separate
My house was built in 1937. Toilet is in the bathroom. My sisters house was built in the 1880's, she has a separate toilet/ bathroom. so it depends on when the house was built.Some houses has outdoor toilets and when they were modernised they had baths and toilets installed at the same time in the same room.
I havent come across many UK houses that dont have a separate cloakroom
with a "toilet" and wash basin ! Older houses can be smaller and less
well fitted as many of them will be 150 years old ... Houses built since
the second world war are bigger and more up to date !
Whilst I agree that housed built prewar tend to have separate toilets, it's not always the case. I lived in a 1960s flat with combined toilet and bath and then in a 70s house with separate toilet and bathroom. No hard and fast rules.
Yes, brought myself in a house with bathroom and toilet (loo) walled off but parallel to each other. It's really handy. You don't have to ask someone to get out of the bath so you can use the loo.
Separate toilets are usually in larger homes, where there's room to have two rooms for the bath and toilet.
Some homes have "en suite" bathrooms, which means they are attached to the bedroom, rather like the bathroom in a hotel room.
Some homes have a bathroom (or bathrooms) and a separate WC (meaning Water Closet - contains a toilet and hand basin) downstairs, often near the front door, intended for use by visitors.
A lot depends on the age and size of the house. e.g:
- I live in a little 2 bed terrace built in 1910. There is one small bathroom on the ground which you have to go through the kitchen to access. It includes a toilet , basin, bath and a shower over the bath with a moveable screen. My washing machine is in the kitchen because it's the only place with plumbing (except the bathroom) and enough room.
- My parents have a modern 4 bed detached house. It has a utility room which contains their washing machine and dryer. They have a downstairs toilet which contains just a loo and basin, an upstairs bathroom with a loo, basin, bath and over bath shower and the master bedroom has an ensuite containing a loo, basin shower and bidet.
- At uni I lived in a big victorian 3 story house made of stone with a slate roof. It had a separate toilet with a loo and basin on each floor and two bathrooms each containing a bath with over head shower and a basin. It also had a cellar.
One thing to remember is that many of our older houses were built before mod cons like electricity, hot water and central heating or in some cases even running water, were widely available. These were added later.
My house was built in 1900. It had an outside toilet when it was first built, but then that was taken away & moved into the bathroom. Next door still has an outside toilet as well as one in the bathroom.
Nice to see you back to health JT . I just love your videos xxx
it used to be the cold on the kitchen was on the mains and the hot was tank fed, the taps in the bathrooms were normally tank fed.Having a water tank used to be a Regulation going back to the fire of London. Now days many hones have all taps on the water mains due to the increase in combination boilers and unvented cylinders.
1. Not all houses have their washer machine in the kitchen. My current house there is a utility room next to the kitchen where we have a washer machine & a tumble dryer. It all depends on the size of the house.
2. Most houses DO have a toilet in the bathroom but some older houses have separate toilet 🚽 to the bath 🛀. Also many houses fight have a bathroom or two with a toilet AND a separate downstairs toilet.
3. The reason brits don’t have plug sockets in the bathroom is because we have a higher current here in uk.
4. Not all British houses have separate hot & cold taps. Only one sink in my house has separate hot and cold taps. All the rest of the sinks & baths all have mixer taps.
JT. With Toilets and Bathrooms many houses are different over here? In ours, we have a small room with a toilet and sink/basin in it downstairs and upstairs a room with a bath with shower, sink (wash basin) and a toilet all in the one room. Depending on size and layout, I would think the majority of houses in the UK just have the one combined room.
It's definitely a great idea to get out of the house on a regular basis. Even if it's just to people watch, or go somewhere for the scenery. You owe it to yourself.
Any other day I'd have said "nonsense, we don't get pigeons in our houses"
Except today...working from home, I heard the cooing of a pigeon visitor.
So yeah, it IS a thing apparently.
A few weeks ago, I had a crow fall down the chimney. Big clatter then this thing staring at me through the fire-guard.
I had a pigeon customer in a shop I worked in. And the other day, I had to quickly shut the window at home when I noticed a small bird (a Blue Tit, I think) hovering around trying to get in!
I remember the loo bath hot cold taps thing when I was growing up, I havent seen it for 30 years except in old houses.
Having separate bath and wc rooms are a thing that varies across countries.
I'm in sweden and the apartment buildings I've live in city-side has been varied. Where I grew up and the previous place I lived in both (built in the early 70s) had separate WC and Bath rooms, and where I live now have a combined WC+Bathroom (built in the late 80s).
I actually prefer the separate ones overall - one notable thing is if I'm having someone over; it allows for one to take a bath/shower (or shave, or apply make-up, or...) without being interrupted by calls of the nature of the other person. (Also, it basically cuts down to the "time to wait for the bathroom" to "how long it takes to answer the call of the nature", so showers and such are stress-free).
Also, I honestly prefer to brush my teeth in toilet-free rooms (not to mention where my toothbrush is being stored).
(Aside: having combined washer/dryer is awesome, especially the models with timers. You just fill it up (either in batch or whenever washings are generated) and then set it to have everything washed and dried about 15min before you feel like folding the laundry. Or if living in an apartment, you set it up at 07:30(am) and also toss in your towel from the morning shower, set the timer to start at 13:00 (so you won't disturb your neighbours) and you'll have a clean and mostly dry laundry when you get home from work that you can fold while waiting for the dinner to get done)
Growing up the toilet was always separated as more modern its normally in the bathroom or wet room shower room i have wet room with basin n toilet upstairs and combined toilet sink downstairs xxxx
No, the bath and the toilet aren't always in different rooms but when speaking of the loo we mean the toilet. And a public toilet is never called a bathroom (since there's not bathing facilities) or a restroom. Now THAT is an entire American expression. Who tf rests in the bathroom? Having said that, I have spent a few nights hugging the toilet in my youth...
Maybe it should be the relief room as you go there to relieve yourself?
Modern houses and houses that have had work often have a toilet in the bathroom, but it's not always the case. My old family home had a separate bathroom and main toilet.
The seperate bathroom & toilet are usually found in older houses.. although some people choose to have them seperate as it means someone can still go to the toilet whilst someone else is in the bath x
Nope, they are found in many new builds as well. The age of the building doesn't make much difference,
Great show and topics!
I’ve never lived in a house with a separate “loo” and I’m in my 50’s.
Only a handful of Victorian and later builds have this, having not being yet modified.
As for the washer dryer, never had or will have one. Double problem ie, if it breaks then you’ve lost essentially 2 machines with one hit!
Pre divorce house we had a utility room, now I’m free again, large enough kitchen to have both a separate washer and dryer.
Hope you picked up on the letter box where mail is placed directly through into the home (often to be savaged by the family dog through you can buy a cage to catch and protect this from happening. True!
Keep up the good work TJ, kind regards from Altrincham (8 miles south of Manchester).
FIRE!
My house was built in1962 & it has a bathroom & toilet combined. My parents' was built in 1968 & they have them separate. They upgraded it in the 1980s & again a couple of years ago, when they took out the bath when age meant they can't get in it anymore, & they made the shower bigger. Both times they wanted to keep the 2 rooms separate. It never bothered me but, when I've visited since owning my own place , I can see how I prefer everything to be in a single room now. It never entered my mind when I was younger that it was a hassle, then I moved into my own home.
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Growing up we lived in an old build , the loo was outside & the sink & bath off the hall. I think it was standard for those times! x
Lot's of newer builds have a Loo & Bath in one room plus a separate Loo downstairs. It really just depends on the property the same with the washing machine, lot's of homes today have utility rooms for their laundry needs but there's still a large amount who wash in the kitchen.
Sometimes the toilet is in the same room as the bath/shower/sink. More often than not, if someone asks for the the bathroom they will be directed to...the bathroom. But if you want the toilet, it's best to ask for that by name. Loo is another name for toilet (as in the thing you "go" on) as is "bog", "lav", "smallest room", "kazi/kahzee", "throne room", and other names. Quite often we don't have bidets either. She's weird! I've never seen having seperate taps as "something charming" - it's just something I've grown up with - it's always been the norm. Silly womsn! They aren't going to get "a room full of pigeons" if the window is opened for any length of time! She's definitely a strange one! 🤣
When I was in England in the late sixties early seventies we lived on military bases and the bathrooms had the toilets in them but off base they didn’t. All the kitchens had washers and sometime dryers in them. Even in the USA that was where they were. The only time the washer and dryer weren’t in the kitchen was if the house had a basement and then they were in the basement. I now live on a Native American reservation and most newer homes have them in the kitchen. Older homes have them in the bathroom. The homes as old as my grandparents home usually had the washing machine way at the back near the clothes line and had a big sink and counter area in it for cleaning fish and game.
Our loo, is in the bathroom, which is pretty normal for most UK homes. It’s not always the case, and I had one mate actually partition their bathroom and add an extra small sink, so that the toilet was separate for hygiene reasons.
Depends on the style of house, and where they decided to stick the loo when they got moved inside more than anything.
But all the terraced houses in my area got the same standard treatment and the loos are in the bathrooms.
In the UK toilets are not always in the bathroom but they usually are. The majorities of bathrooms have toilets. Some homes have a separate shower/bathroom for the master bedroom, and some homes have a second toilet on the ground floor and also in the cellar, and sometimes even in the attic. It depnds on the type of home, how big it is and what renovations have been done. I still remember homes that had them outside in the garden.
I don't think having wasing machines in the kitchen is normal. As a Brit I have always thought it was normal as I didn't know any different but after seeing how the Aussies and Americans do thing I think what they do makes more sense. Having a separate dedicated laundry room makes much more sense. You don't want odours from kitchens and bathrooms interfering with your fresh laundry.
In the UK I think we have not done this and always had them in the kitchen simply because of space constraints and most of our homes being a lot older. The combined washer dryers do make more sense though especially the ones with the ability to add items after you started the wash and realised you forgot something. I think a lot of US and Australian appliances tend to be more industrial and not as modern as British, German, Scandinavian, Japanese, Korean etc. That is why you have a lot of top loaders and separate washers and dryers.
In WWII my grandad served in Normandy, Belgium, Germany and helped liberate Belsen. He was on a motorbike with his friend in the sidecar with the machine gun. I think they delivered messages to and from the front lines and sometimes behind them too. There was one occasion when they ended up in a ditch and had to hide from the Nazis when they were in Belgium. My grandad and his friend tossed a coint o decide who would spend the night on the porch and who would sleep in the outside toilet. They were in the garden and at the home of some Belgian people but didn't know if they were friendly or not to the Allies. My grandad got the toilet. In the morning he was fast asleep and the door opened wide and startled him and woke him up. There was a big fat Belgian woman looking at him with a shocked and surprised face. It was okay though because they were friendly and she invited him and his mate inside for breakfast with her husband and her. They eventually made in back and continued on.
Hiya... In many (mostly older) houses the toilet is often in a room next to the bathroom, and was like there where I used to live about a year ago... Most places nowadays opt to merge the 2 rooms, and in some cases simply remove the wall between them, along with one of the doors, and fitting over the gap.
The toilet thing really depends on each individual house. Older houses are definitely more likely to have the separate, since the toilet used to be at the bottom of the garden (watch Steptoe & Son for a great example of this on tv) and when the toilets were moved inside, homes didn't always have the space. However, there are exceptions. My house is an early to mid 19th century cottage and the bathroom was remodelled and extended a little to fit a toilet, so our bathroom is all together.
As for the windows, I've never had any pigeons, but I did once wake up to a cat sitting on the end of the bed looking at me. I don't own a cat 😂
Good to see you back JT. 🔥
In most English houses of course there is a toilet in the bathroom, just also we have a separate one downstairs, possibly with the exception of places like Peterborough and Kings Lynne where they use the street as a toilet.😋
You need to clarify that last remark ... they are not places inhabited by we
British !
Only in English houses? How very limiting for you. I'm sure we have them throughout the UK, just like we have plenty of homes with separate toilets and bathrooms.
I'm English mate, not primitive like other parts of Britain where it's still the stoneage lol.
King's Lynn I found confusing when I visited a couple of times as no one seemed to be from Norfolk. Then I read that it was selected as overspill back in the day. With most overspill New Towns being 20 or 30 miles from London. I can only suspect that the people who ended up at the Wash were being actively discouraged from ever coming back. I assume that those who followed the river in the hope of finding London again gave up around Peterborough! Lol
The one time i called at Kings Lynne at a pub fir a meal, i attempted to put a sachet of vinegar on my chips and it was congealed like jam, that is a fact lol. God knows how many years it was sitting there to make vinegar congeal, hence my negativity there... Similar reasons with Peterborough lol.
My grandmothers old house, in Pocatello Idaho, had separate facets for both hot and cold water in her bathroom as well, for sink and bathtub, (no shower) plus in her kitchen too.
In addition to the facets she had a slot for mail at her front door.
In Australia the Outhouse/Dunny/Loo/Toilet/Privy/WC/Thunderbox basically were originally built outside in the backyard, gradually with indoor plumbing and sewerage systems moved into the Bathroom....however it is very often that you'll find houses with 1 bathroom with Loo in, and a separate Loo as well. Or simply separate for those who want to take a bath, and not be interrupted.
The toilet was called a Water Closet, after the battle of Waterloo it was nicknamed the loo. Most modern homes have a bathroom and loo combined. An en-suite which is a shower and loo off the main bedroom and a cloakroom downstairs which is a small room with a loo and washbasin. I’eau is French for water, this also could be linked to the origin of the water closet being called the loo.
Hot taps are not always instantly hot as there is cold water in the pipes. Put the plug in the sink and mix the water, simple. If you watch some of the older Hollywood movies you will see two taps being used in public toilets etc in the US.
Love your emphasis on not moving much; a man after my own heart!
My childhood home had a sperate toilet/bathroom. The house I live in now isn't separate but the shed that used to be the outdoor toilet is still outside.
We have a lot of old houses that predate electricity and running water, they would have had an outside toilet probably an earth closest and bathing was done in a metal bath with the water heated on the stove and you'd be lucky if you got first go at the bathwater! These old buildings have since had electricity and plumbing added but floor plans don't always allow for putting the bath and toilet in the same room.
We have a loo in the bathroom (upstairs) and a loo in the cloakroom (downstairs). She demonstrated a washer/drier which are OK for single people but useless for a family and not very efficient anyway. A separate front loading washing machine and separate tumble drier (or washing line) is more common. Incidentally, if you want to mix hot and cold, you put the plug in!
The thing that would really amaze you is how much smaller UK houses are compared to American ones. The average UK home is a third of the size of the average US home.
And house prices in some areas would absolutely blow your mind. In Oxford, where I live, just a one bedroom apartment can set you back between $300,000-$550,000. It's mad.
I’m not sure how old this video is but the bathroom thing is only in older homes and so many are being converted. Also most taps have been converted to mixer taps. Great to have you back you are so entertaining,thanks 🌸🌷🌷🌸🌸
I've lived in a couple of houses with a separate toilet and bathroom but a lot of houses have them together. Also in most of the houses I've lived in we turn the bathroom light on a switch outside of the room instead of the cord switch. it's handy having switches on the plug sockets coz we can turn them off if we are not using the appliance. it's a great way to stop 'vampire' appliances wasting energy. And I have to say there is something about having two taps. I redid the bathroom a few years ago and thought about having a shared tap for both hot and cold water but I just love having two taps. We even do the crazy running your hands under water that is too hot and too cold at the same time craziness but it's almost like a tradition. We just can't help ourselves.
Alot of houses have separate toilets from the bathroom , but also a lot have a room a downstairs loo that is just a loo and sink , then there is a bathroom upstairs with both in , many different options , it's handy if you want to use the loo whilst someone is in the bath because it's two separate rooms .
We have a bathroom with toilet, sink and shower which is a disabled wet room (eventually will have the shower out and bath put in) and downstairs we have just a room with a toilet in it (under the stairs cupboard that's been converted into a downstairs toilet). We have the separate taps. Also we have a separate washing machine and dryer. The duo machine is a bit more fancy. Xx
Since 1990, most homes have mixer taps.
Most homes from 1975 onwards have a bathroom with toilet, and a lot have a second toilet room too.
Yeah I think it’s definitely older houses where the toilet and bathroom are separate. The house I lived in when I was young had a separate toilet room to the bathroom but my house I have now doesn’t, although I do have a downstairs loo, no bath in there 👍🏻 My Grandparent’s had an outside loo and I used to use it as it was a novelty but was usually crawling in spiders 🕷
Washer Driers are good in that they save space. On the down side, the drying capacity is lower than the washing capacity, so you either don't fill the washing machine, or you need to empty about half the load of wet clothes before drying the rest. They are also expensive and tend to be less reliable. You also need to be able to vent the damp air, not always easy given he cramped nature of the kitchen, which is why you have it in the first place.
The cord light switches are being phased out and in some council regions not even permitted to be newly installed, as they're not deemed as safe. The reason is that these have been installed in rooms where there may be high humidty or steam from either the bath or shower, and as the cord is exposed this can actually "wick" the moisture in the air up into the housing where the switch and wiring is and can cause shorts, and result in fires. Instead, in new builds or if being renovated the switch would need to be installed outside the bathroom/toilet/shower-room etc to avoid this.
It cannot wick thru the cord into the switch... There is a seperator in the cord before it goes into the switch to prevent this
I was only thinking yesterday we hadn't seen you with paddle & ball😦🤣A separate toilet is so handy if someone is in the bath/shower🚿🛀
Not many people have driers and washers combined, most have a separate dryer or no dryer at all and hang the wet washing outside or in winter on the radiators.
Depending on where you live and house size, the bathroom can be separate from the toilet or they are integrated as one or even have both integrated and separate all in one house. We call the toilet, the loo, toilet, lav, lavatory, ladies, gents, etc. The bathroom is the room where you shower or bath, not necessarily the loo ! We are not permitted light switches in our bathrooms so most common is a light pull that has a long cord on it that comes down from the ceiling. Others have the light switch fitted outside the bathroom or loo. Some bathrooms/ loos have sensor activated lighting too.
Not all washing machines in the UK have integrated driers. I have a separate washing machine and a separate tumble drier in my kitchen.
Most houses when built back in the 60’s 70’s had separate toilets, new builds generally have a toilet in the bathroom and maybe a downstairs loo too
Glad to hear you're feeling better x. Love the t shirt. Yeah the 2 tap thing it's a skill not to burn your hands under the hot tap. I do exactly the same thing she did. The only thing not mentioned in the kitchen was the washing up bowl. A common thing here in the UK but not in Australia ( as I found out, much to my confusion) not sure if they're in the USA ( I don't think so). X
Some houses have an outlet for dryers here (usually in the utility room) before condensers were a thing, I've one in my garage which I use because condensers are crap... Also almost all new built houses since the 60s have a combined toilet and bathroom 😅 but having them separate is VERY common as we rarely knock down any houses or buildings, we cling to them and renovate 😂😂
Love my washer dryer but still love to line dry.
7 years ago, I bought a 75 year old house.
Before I moved in, I renovated and decorated it.
It's actually a reasonably sized house, compared with modern British houses but I still had to think about space efficiency.
The bathroom upstairs was completely replaced and I made sure there were mixer taps on the sink, bath and shower. It also has an integral loo.
Downstairs, the kitchen was OK , so I replaced the taps with a mixer tap.
I prefer mixer taps, but it's a lot easier to use a two tap sink than was shown in the video, which was just as well, as I forgot to update the downstairs loo sink with a mixer tap. 🤣
Something else you don't have in the USA - A beautiful, Queens English accent like that lovely lady.
Ok, so again, this is London! Go to outside villages and things are different. In my village houses right up until the 60s were built with outside toilets and a fair few houses still have them, which also means these homes have separate bathrooms and toilets. Some even have the toilet in one tiny room then the sink and the bath in another!
Also, only new homes don't have a water tank. The vast majority of homes do still have a hot water tank. This is not drinkable water!
Having separate taps was because of old heating systems, in these homes they had stale water tanks that heated it. Because of this the hot water is not safe drink. Today modern heating systems like the boiler can produce instant heat through the cold pipes which is safe to drink and therefore compatible with mixer taps.
my first home as a child had a working and used outside bog, had to walk out the kitchen back door to an out building 15 ft from the house had a old coal boiler that heated water for the washing and a mangel ,a coal shed at the end ,then moved into a house that had a out the backdoor into a garage and into a bog ,these houses were very earl victorian and 1900 houses
Mainly older houses (pre 50s) that have the toilet separate from the bathroom, usually a separate room next door to the bathroom or if the house is really old it was in a spider infested shack in your back garden 🥶
The seperate bathroom/Toilet situation is usually down to space JP, the more expensive the house the bigger it is usually, unless you're paying for location but in the main it's down to space, a seperate toilet to a bathroom not only is convenient but also adds value to your property because of the convenience thing.
You can tell she's from the affluent south, as she thinks loos were brought inside from the Victorian period, which ended in 1901... Only, outside loos were still commonplace in working class communities throughout the 1960s and early 70s... In the tenement blocks of cities like Glasgow, they were usually also communal, with at least four families often sharing one loo on their communal landings, or is some cases, out in the back courts and yards. Nor did any of those homes have baths, incidentally - apart from the old zinc one that was placed in front of the kitchen range each Friday evening, filled with water boiled up in pots there. The whole family would often share the same water, too - showers were the preserve of the rich, only; most people had just one bath a week - while cubicles with hot baths and towels could be hired within most steamies - or municipal laundries, where women went to do their washes if there was no communal wash-house at the foot of their gardens, nor greens on which fresh laundry could be hung out to dry. As late as the 1970s, manual wringers and mangles were still used widely when the time came in summer to wash the blankets - while most kitchens usually had rope-operated pulleys that offered some indoor hanging space... Hot baths were naturally an occasional luxury of course - and perhaps more common would be a weekly visit to the swimming baths, which usually involved passing through hot showers, too.
Most modern bathrooms do have loos these days, but it's not uncommon to find that they are separate. Quite often there will be an upstairs bathroom with loo - and a second toilet downstairs, perhaps off the back porch of under the stairs - and occasionally accessible only by stepping outside into the garden... Nor was there always soft tissue paper - the habit of using old newspaper squares largely giving way to Izal - a supposedly medicated thin, tracing-type paper that was shiny on one side; hard on tender young skin and little more absorbent than stainless steel! Carbolic soap made every public convenience smell like the ones at school and the insides of town halls and suchlike, too. Every community has its poor of course, but it is certainly true tod say, today's generations really don't know that they're even born!
I'm 66 and we used to use my nans Izal for Tracing pictures out of comics ( didn't take much to please us) and Red Carbolic soap takes me straight back to my nan and grandads house, their bathroom was off the kitchen, great big roll top bath with Lions claws feet, the dog used to sleep underneath it, Ah memories
Glad I found this channel!