American Reacts to 4 Ways British and American Houses Are VERY Different! *NO A/C!?*
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Basically here in England we learned from The Three Little pigs. We understood that straw and wooden houses could be easily blown down so we tend to build ours of brick.
Yip
Many a truth in fairy tales and nursery rhymes
😊
Not just how easily American houses can be blown down, but also how quick that wood and plastic will burn down. I've seen videos where a small fire starts in the living room and within 3 minutes every square foot of the gaff is ablaze 😕
Id love to see a brick house that can withstand a class 5 tornado or hurricane lol
@chitster it's possible now with the oceans warming up. I think the strongest we've had here was a category 2 hurricane. It took down trees, wooden structures and the odd house roof. It took lives also, but there wasn't many houses felled. Now the way they are throwing up houses here, nowadays? That could be a different story. They're certainly not building them the same way that they used to
@@chitster I think you are correct Once Florida disappears under the water it wouldn't really matter what type of house you have.
I'm in Scotland know why there's no A/C.Because it's always bloody freezing 😂
Aye, same in the née ware carld the North East... 😢😢😢
Except for two or three days when we are roasted alive 😂
Summer's on a Wednesday this year. Wish I knew which one, I'd get the Factor zero ready 😢
Cold is OK. The problem is when it is wet windy and cold at the same time - which is what Scotland is like. No wonder the Romans never bothered to conquer Scotland.
@@victoria6468 And eaten alive. You can't forget the midges. It's not a real summer in Scotland unless you've had to spit out at least one midge that you've nearly swallowed.
Living in London, the $450,000 would probably get you a car parking space
You can 10 terrace house in bradford for $450,000
I saw a walk-in cupboard in London that would make Harry Potter blush, go for £500,000 about ten years ago, prices in London are bloody schizophrenic depending in what Manor you live in.
was about to say, 450k for several acres of land and a mansion, compared to spending 950k on a normal sized 3 bed/2 bath house in London.
The trade off is that there's way more the space in the US for you to live on, but you also live in the arse of nowhere, so it takes 2 hours to buy milk when you need it. Whereas in the the UK, you have way less space, and are crammed into a shoebox sized house, but there's also a corner shop your hallway, so on the way to make a cup of tea in the morning, you can grab a pint of milk without having to leave your house. /s
Might get you a dog house, but only in somewhere like Barking
An early Victorian mid terrace workman's cottage goes for £999, 950 around here. A three up, two down, 22 ft wide, terraced house for £50 shy of a million 🤯. Doesn't even have a parking space, the garden is about 30ft by 22ft. That's SW London, head across the River, and the same will cost you another £250k.
I would argue that combined washer/dryers in the UK are worse than a separate washing machine and tumble dryer. The only real reason to buy a combined one is because you don't have space for both.
We have separate ones for good reason.
Don't have a washing line 😮
Agreed. It's like washer/dryers have to much to do to be good at either...the most schizophrenic of all white goods...😊
Washer/dryers are the least reliable piece of equipment of ever seen.
I had a combination washer/dryer years ago. The drum gets ridiculously hot on the dryer cycle that you worry that it’s going to scorch the fabric, yet it never seemed to act fully dry the contents within a reasonable time, I absolutely hated it. I now have a smaller kitchen, so I don’t have the room for a separate dryer but I have quite happily gone without one for quite a few years now.
I have a washer drier - for good reason too :)
Small kitchen, no space for a second one - plus, it washes fine and dries fine. Never really had one that doesn’t.
Every house in the uk has a kettle. It’s odd not to have one. They are cheap, and do the job quick. Probably because our mains electricity is a higher power. We can have sockets in the bathroom, but they are half our normal strength, and only for shavers and electric toothbrush chargers.
I've got shaver/toothbrush sockets in my bathroom. One of them is 240v and the other is 120v. Doesn't need to be half the voltage. It varies a lot but I'd say most people don't have any sockets in the bathroom.
If we don’t have electric kettle, we have a stove top kettle. Even if you are not a tea drinker, there would still be a kettle. What do you do if you need hot water? Cooking, cleaning, or a hottie?
@@RyanSmith-on1hqthink the bathroom ones have to be that shape in order for condensation not to get into the socket. Our voltage higher but don’t think it’s to do with voltage like you said just condensation etc, they have a little plastic sleeve that slides across when you plug something in. Bathroom steam etc.
@@sailingayoyothat’s what I just said- I use the kettle for so much.
We can have sockets 230v in UK bathrooms but they have to be (I think) 3 meters away from the bath to comply with British electrical regs but not many people have bathrooms that big in the UK
You don't need AC when we only have 3 weeks of half decent weather a year.
Best to build a house that keeps the warmth in.
Three…Whole…Weeks..? You must live in Devon!
@@frugalitystartsathome4889 2 weeks in june, 1 week in september. usual surrey bs mate.
@@mej6519 Could have done with some AC when it was 42c a couple of years ago. It's always hotter in my flat than outside, it was awful. (42c = 107f)
@@mej6519sorry but there is no way that we only get 3 weeks in Surrey. Last year was bad but usually you have a lot more good weather here than up North.
@@WyndStrykeI know right? My kids and I debated sleeping outside on the trampoline but then remembered that the fox comes to jump on it every night and probably wasn’t the best idea, so we just laid inside and waited for death. 😂
I won’t be the only one who groaned when Lawrence appeared on the screen, it looks like he might have done some research though. Good interesting video JT, I’m glad you survived the eclipse 😁
i hate his take on what he thinks is British
Me too
Yeah I used to quite like him back I the day but he has lived in the US for so long that many of his ideas of British life are quite outdated.
TBF I think he did quite well here.
@@ac1646 yeah this was one of his better vids.
In a recent survey it was estimated that 95-96% of British houses had an electric kettle. All offices etc have them. Plus 90% of hotel and B&B rooms have them.
And those 4 to 5% of houses that don't have one are probably derelict!
Yeah, whereas the only time I've even SEEN a 'stovetop' kettle in the last 30 years was when we were out camping
@@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526 I had one a few years ago... But I was living on a narrowboat at the time.
well you can now can built in boiling water in taps so don't need a kettle. My work doesn't have a kettle just a hot water boiler tap
@@Bridgercraft I have a stovetop one. Boil the water, and decant into a flask for use throughout the day. Stays hot for about 8 hours.
Man, with your weather you still need a dryer?? That's what washing lines were invented for, although we never have the weather to use them often.
Ha ha
I was born in former Yugoslavia with a very clear distinction between the each season. So in the winter it gets down to -22 C and in the summer it can get up to +42C at which point they have an Amber alert.
Then I moved to Greece, between Athens and Naxos so winters are mild and summers do get hot but there’s always some breeze.
No 24 years in London where I have this Victorian dryer and I never ever used dryer to dry my clothes.
The best thing ever is when in the middle of winter you take your wet laundry outside to freeze and it gets totally solid and then bring it in close to fireplace. There’s no better smell of freshly washed laundry than that. My son he’s so silly and uses dryer but eventually it damages your clothes faster and i just don’t like the feel. Not to mention the electricity bills these days since Americans started that war on our continent.
It always makes me laugh seeing how Americans react to our brick houses, especially when most Americans live in houses made of wood or trailers 🤷🏼♀️
I'd like to see how they react after they have been blown away by a gust of wind.
Jealous I believe may be their expression 😢
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud You are aware there are brick houses in certain areas of the US, right? New England in particular has them. You're also aware there are many wood frame homes that are very sturdy and have lasted many years, right? Wood is plentiful here so it's commonly used. It does happen to be cheaper than brick too, but it also has some give which is important to withstand certain weather phenomena. I wouldn't trade my large, lovely home for any house in the UK, so no, I'm definitely not jealous.
When I moved to Los Angeles for a while I was horrified by their flimsy windows & house construction which were little more than rendered sheds. if these houses were built in the UK they would last maybe 5 years, & the drafty windows will annoy with their wind induced rattling as perpetual hypothermia takes hold.
@@cookielady7662
Nooooo...... don't undermine my mockery 🤫
Thatched roofs are made of reeds not straw.
The ignorance of people 😂
long straw is the most common actually followed by combed wheat and water reed.
We have lovely Savannah grass here that makes beautiful thatching
Mostly it's a luxury lifestyle thing here
So a lot of resorts use thatched bungalows for the aesthetic
$450,000 for the colonial sounds cheap in a city where a two bedroom flat costs £300,000 (that's $380,000).
450k gets you a fucking mansion in Belfast hahahaha
That's what I was thinking! $450,000 (£354,982) isn't going to get much where I live. In Kent where I am the average house price is £400,000 and flats or condos are ranging from £180,000 to £300,000.
London is ridiculous
@@Shamushead That's not London prices; most 1-bedrooms will cost much than £350k+, let alone a 2-bedroom.
@@richardjohnson2026ohhh you're making me laugh mate. Try Sydney prices, second most unaffordable property market in the world, to Hong Kong.
Almost everyone uses electric kettles here.
The only person I know who doesn't, lives on a narrow boat.
Some Americans haven't seen one... ever... 😮
Kettle and narrow boat
I live on a narrow boat and I have an electric kettle gas is to slow.
@@narrowboatbb
I sure plenty of people do. Just in my case that's the only person I know who doesn't have one.
When I'm travelling around and have no electricity then I use gas and the funny thing about the Americans is that an American invented the electric kettle 😂😂
@@narrowboatbb So you boil water every time you want a cuppa? I have a stove top one and I boil water in it, once, then decant it into a flask. It stays hot for about 8 hours.
Older houses.... from the 70's?
How short is the average life span of a house in America?
Until the wind blows 😂
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud No wonder they are all aghast at the architecture they see ,visiting the UK and Europe.
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud When I worked in Washington DC there were plenty of houses over two centuries old. They seem to have done alright.
@@wessexdruid7598Built by Europeans in the style they built them where they came from.... as opposed to planks?
someone told me there that modern timber houses last 20-50 years, the old colonial houses are built very differently because the English built those like their houses back home. it seems to depend where you are, the colonials are mainly to the East & the modern timber houses are out West. this same California resident told me that in Hollywood there are very few homes 100+ years old, these are considered ancient. they are often demolished & replaced very quickly comparatively. a big problem I hear with wooden homes is termites.
JT, i live in the north england, our houses, are the row houses as you call them, terraced we call them, 130 years old, and still good condition,
Aye, that says it all. I love MY North East.
I'm a Piyakka, from County Durham. And love our terrace 😊
The north UK is here in Scotland. You live down south in the north of England 😊
@@RollerbazAndCoasterDad your right, i have edit that, it was, a mistake, talking to americans calling it UK, i agree, i have edited comment
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud im county durham also, not your county durham name,
@RollerbazAndCoasterDad
Figggghhhhtttt 😡
We all know there's no such place as Scotland
Me mam always said she was from there... we found a good nut house, comfortable, after all, it wasn't her fault
Surely with the amount of sun you get you hang your washing out to dry rather than use a tumble dryer
Nope, in many places you are not allowed to hang washing out, in some areas, like where I am the front yard isn't allowed to have a fence, and if the grass goes beyond a certain height you are warned and if you don't mow it they will come round and do it, and bill you for it
@@colinbrown9549 That sounds like hell. In the UK to fence or not is normally your own choice, in some areas the height of front garden fences is restricted to three feet, and back fences to six feet, and everywhere that I have lived if you wanted a wildflower meadow in the front garden to help wildlife that was OK. The only time I came across a place where fences were not allowed in the front I helped the owners plant a hedge. Some of the neighbours didn't like it but there was nothing they could do because a hedge isn't a fence. The last time I went past there around 2/3 of the gardens had hedges round them.
hanging out washing in California will dry your clothes crisp & sun bleach & fade them very quickly. plus of course the petty HOA rules often prevent the washing being hung out. this would probably provoke a fine.
@@colinbrown9549 Doesnt he live somewhere rural?
@@Llama_charmer I don't live in a rural area though JT does
Garbage disposal (masserators) are illegal in many countries because the small problem at your end becomes a big problem for the water/sewerage system! One of the reasons why water is expensive! You can get imprisoned in Portugal, I believe.
I have a macerator in Scotland and we have to have the waste go under our garden in a special drain sump scenario
which is a pity i think it would be great for getting rid of the hair when you are done shaving
We had a stove top kettle when I was a child, but when electric kettles came out, us Brits swapped to those. They have a MAJOR advantage: they switch themselves off. It was such a novelty to be able to leave the room and know the kettle wasn't going to boil dry or you had to stop what you were doing to stop it whistling all through the house.
Electric kettles are also the most efficient way to boil water.
@@billyhills9933 only if you don't over fill.
@@martinwoollett8468 I would have thought that overfilling would have reduced the efficiency of any heating method.
In winter when I have my range lit 24/7 I have 3 stove top kettles on it all the time so that I always have hot water.
Where you a child in the early 1920s? The auto-off ones date from 1955. The very first electric kettle came out in 1890, the submerged heating element dates from 1922..
We live with buildings and structures where 1,000 years is really old. So our idea of structurally well built implies a degree of permanence. There are stonebuilt walls of Neolithic dwellings on our Orkney isles SKATHA BRAE that are older than the great pyramids of Giza (5,000 years).
Properly built the British bulldings Last for years 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Centuries
Except the new ones, which subside, flood or will have scaffolding around them a few years later.
My house built in 1863 in 2007 I had the roof refreshed, needed some new slates. Don’t know when the central heating was put in it was here when I moved in 35 years ago replaced the boiler in 2007 as well. Don’t need a/c got thick walls keeps it cool in summer and warm in winter. I would never buy a house under fifty years old as I am not a fan of these new wood frame buildings. My mate lives in one and if someone puts a plug in one room you can hear them doing that in the next room as theses houses only have stud walls. All my walls are brick 😊
Centuries even. Like mine. 1860.
@@Sofasurfa same here in my 1860 home. Solid brick. Great to keep warm in winter and cool in summer but a bugger to hammer a nail in to hang a picture.
We never use a dryer. We either hang our washing outside on a washing line, or if its raining we hang them inside in front of a radiator.
dryers shrink clothes and cost too much to run just impractical considering you can have things dry within a day or a day like today we had 4 loads of washing on all dried within hours lol free drying the US misses out on that
Thatched roofs last 100 years. many of the houses using Thatch are over 500 years old...!
You have to change the thatch regularly though.
@@pisquared1827I think they’re guaranteed for about 25 years though, so there is probably maintenance checks that should be carried out every few years or so but the roof itself should last a few decades before any major work is needed.
Not the ones where I grew up. They all burnt down due to a combination of chimney fires or fireworks night rockets landing on the roof! Also, insurance costs for thatched roof house is also insane! As JT said, nice to look at but not necessarily to live in.
@@pisquared1827 Which is a problem as there are not many thatchers around now and there is a shortage of suitable straw and reed
@@colingoode3702 they treat them these days BUT you are correct many villages have stringent fire rules with thatched houses in the area.
You know you only get about 2 total eclipses in your life locally. I think the eclipse was more important than this 😂
What
There's been an eclipse...
We wouldn't know in the Northeast
There has to be a Sun for that 😢
Summer is no a Wednesday this year 😢😢😢
I think Kentucky only got a partial eclipse tbf
That's what *I* thought. I remember the one in 1999 here in UK. Everyone was outside to experience it. It was the most amazing thing as it grew darker and darker and the birds stopped singing. It went dark really fast and was just like night time fo what seemed like several minutes before getting light again. I am really glad I could experience something so unique.
I think I lived through four including one total eclipse...
Did think he missed something there.
In England we also have a lot of 70s style simple houses and also quite a lot of tower blocks
Oh please don't
Most are so diabolical aren't they 😮
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud there all hideous. I think they should all be renovated
" Older houses...built in the 70s"
Such a different perspective on what is old.
Ours was built in the 30s.
There are houses near us that were built when Cromwell was in charge.
Mine was from the 1870'S
Some guy tried to kill Cromwell when he stayed in one of our local pubs.
1870s here too
Ours was built in the 1830s - and it isn't even the oldest one on the street! 😂
Yeah, the 70s may as well be a new build
Between 95% and 97% of homes in England have and use electric kettles.
I live in a ground-floor flat, in a converted Victorian three-storey terrace.
What used to be one huge family home, is now SEVEN individual, self-contained flats.
Apparently, the street I live in was one of the most desirable addresses in the city......... 100 years ago!! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm sure it still looks lovely. 😊😊I too live in a Victorian house converted into flats (first floor; which is second floor in the US) and I love it! There are basement flats and attic flats, and because we are basically a row of terraces, we all know each other in our own 'house' block. 😁
I love watching 'My lottery dream home' huge houses in America and so cheap, the same here in the UK wouldn't even by a garage!!
Regarding the plugs in the bathrooms, there's a reason for that- here in the UK there's a legal requirement to keep plugs a certain distance from the bath so you CAN'T accidentally (or otherwise) fry yourself. Helnce, no plug sockets in the bathroom.
The one exception is for electric razors, which have a weird nonstandard plug so it's only them that can be plugged in there.
Here in the UK it would be very rare, almost impossible, to get a house the way you did.
Hardly anybody lives in 'trailers' in the UK. There are some trailer parks but these are usually for vacation use, with few as regular homes. The voltage in the UK is 240 volts, which is twice the power of that in the US, which is why we have safety plugs, & no sockets in the bathroom.
You are not missing out on a garbage disposal, we had one and it decided to break down and block the sink on Christmas day just before we were about to start preparing lunch! As for combined washer dryers, they aren't very good at the drying part of the process. We have separate washer and dryer, but I hang about 70% of my clothes to dry because they all seem to say 'do not tumble dry' nowadays - and even when the label says you can tumble dry the clothes, they end up shrinking anyway!
I've only lived in 3 places in my life and all were totally different styles. First was a ground-floor flat in a huge Georgian townhouse, second was a small Victorian terrace and now I live in a post-war 1950's semi-detached. I do love all the different house styles we have here!
My mid terrace house is 100 years old this year 🎉
Youth... 😂
Mine is about 140 years old. I was born in a house that was from the 1700s
Mine is 121 years old, 2 up 2 down with 1960s extension for kitchen and bathroom, teeny tiny rooms and the house next door is currently for sale for £675,000!! Madness!! Others on the row sold a few years ago for just over half a million...
@hannahrowlands2285
Piss on a stick... really.
I saw a 5 bed detached new build, a Really top one, big gardens for £299,000
Where I live
Move to where us peasants exist
❤️from Northeast England ❤️
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud it's mad where I live - I think the south is always more expensive anyway but we're just across the river from Windsor castle! That explains it!
As a rule I wouldn't listen to a word Lawrence says. He's been out of the UK for so long he is hopelessly out of date on almost every subject related to the UK. For once the only aspect he doesn't have a clue about is the price of houses now. Remember that in the UK once you've built a house it tends to stay built - we don't have hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes to dismantle them. When it comes to kettles you have to take into account that we have a household electrical system that runs at twice the voltage and doesn't have everything trip out when you apply a heavy load to the system.
Love that the standard reactions are flowing again after the move.
You need to look into Hyperia Uk. Opens next month.
8 mins....I am early....I don't know why I am watching this, I live in UK....I just need to look out my window....
😂
The kettle issue is in part down to the mains supply deficit, ( 240v /110v ) . A traditional kettle probably boils water just as fast as an electric one at 110v.
110 volt kettle is a lot slower to boil compared to 240v.
A normal US socket outlet cannot provide the same power (kW) due to limitations on the Amp carrying capacity of the outlet.
Which actually doubles the time it takes. Gas is more time efficient in the US.
The reason *we* don't have plugs in the bathroom is because 240V and water isn't a great combination. You only have 110V over there which is barely a tickle.
Also the wood panelling on the typical American houses reminds me of the traditional weatherboard cottages in the area of the UK I'm from (Sussex). I really like that style of house.
I was thinking the same. I lived in West Sussex and my boyfriend at the time, lived in Kent. Love the style.
To add; do you think it was due to ship building in Kent? Lots of wood available?
We have a washer dryer but have never used the dryer as we have an old fashioned pulley & in the dryer windy weather we hang it outside. Nothing better than freshly washed and wind blown bedding.
Actually,most newer sinks/baths in uk have combined taps (faucets)...but,obvs there are still many (mostly) older ones with separate taps btw all you need is to put a plug in to mux hot and cold🎩
When I was younger we used to have a kettle that had a whistle and you put it on the stove. The whistle was very important, once my sister put the kettle on and forgot the whistle, then forgot she'd put the kettle on. When she remembered she found a molten lump of metal that had once been the kettle. My mum was not happy! 🤣🤣
We have electric kettles but in case of power cuts I also have a stove top in a cupboard. I try to hang my laundry on a line in the garden when it's not raining because it costs nothing and smells so fresh from blowing in the wind.
agreed, I've never had a drier, and wouldn't ever buy one, as it's a waste of electricity, when you can hang the washing on a line outside, or on an air drier inside near a radiator. Houses in the US are plenty big enough to have space for an air rack to dry clothes surely. it'd save so much energy. I've only ever used one when I had to do washing at the laundry.
Hey JT, love your stuff, much love to you, Anna, the dogs and cats, and anything else you happen to adopt :D
After some of the HOA'S that I've read about I would never live in one
In the USA, 40% of the housing stock, overall, is in an HOA - but *82% of all new builds are.* Developers discovered they are a licence to print money.
7:57 Will someone let that dog out 😂
Condos are lease hold flats, shared common areas and shared facilities costs. But a lease is all you get, no outright purchase, effective long-term prepaid rental, and a massive con with no authority and all the expense.
DO NOT GET A WASHER/DRIER! They DO NOT work well enough to use, and they use SO MUCH electricity whilst the condenser drier fails to dry things. 🤣
Agreed don't get them, unless you are short on space.
They are expensive to buy.
Tend to be more expensive to run.
Tend to have slower spin speeds.
And if you fill the washer, you need to unload then reload, half into the drier, as they normally have 1/2 the drying capacity compared to their washing capacity.
They work well enough if you don't have room for both.
@@stephenlee5929 and far more to go wrong, our last 2 normal washing machines were bad enough, conking out after less than 2 years .. fingers crossed the current one lasts better....
The roof is thatch not straw- made from reeds🏴
I like the way people carve names and dates into brick work. I have notes carved into the brick work on my side wall and some day I am going to do the same.
Who said it tough to leave a mark on the world was talking absolute tosh 😊
Hi there. The narrator in the video which we all are watching just now is soo out of date on many levels.....he left the U.K. 11 years ago,and I don’t know when he made this video,but I wouldn’t hold too much store by what a lot of things he says about the U.K. !!!
Only 11? He talks as if it was 111.
When I was a kid, we had a gas kettle - you fill it with tap water and boil it on the stove until it whistles and then you could pour it in your cup or mug or a tea/coffee pot. My parents eventually invested in an electric kettle because it was deemed safer. And the design of these have changed over time too. First off we had a kettle with a detachable flex, so you could unplug it to fill the kettle without getting the socket wet. Then came lift- off kettles, which have a base with a flex running to the plug and the socket to power the kettle is underneath it, where if you were to overfill the kettle, the socket wouldn’t get wet. These tend to be the current type, but there are ‘water saver’ type kettles too - I own one of these. It is a kettle you can either fill at the tap, or fill with a bottle or other container - I fill it this way as I have Arthritis in my hands and can’t hold a full kettle most of the time. It then fills a receptacle inside with enough water for a mug (200ml) and boils that only, dispensing it into the mug automatically. The mug sits on a drip tray in case of any spillages; it’s based on a coffee maker without the coffee ! Mine is called a ‘One Cup’ so you can look it up to see what it looks like.
I don't think I know anyone who doesn't use an electric kettle, unless the electricity is out or the kettle is broken.
I know
It's unthinkable that some Americans haven't seen one 😮
Or camping :)
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloudthey only have 110V electricity and that means the power available from a socket is much less so an electric kettle can take more than twice as long to boil as it does in the U.K. - which means a stove kettle can often boil quicker, which is rarely the case in the U.K.
Growing up, we always had stove kettles and I didn’t experience regularly using an electric one until I bought one for myself when I left uni I think. I think electricity came down in price and made them more attractive or something - growing up we had “economy 7” electricity and would try to avoid using any during the day as it was so much more expensive than overnight, so maybe that’s why? Never thought about it before.
@@sputukgmail
When economy 7 came in, we actually started putting the heating on 🥶
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud 😂same! Although, not until we had frost on the inside of the windows
Love how the Brit conveniently forgot to mention 'council houses' (which make up quite a large sum of housing in the UK)🤨
Not a fraction of what we had before Thatcher.
Council houses are not a style though, it’s historically who built them. There are also very few “council houses” these days, as most have been sold off to housing companies to manage and the councils have not been allowed to replace any that were sold through the right to buy scheme for even longer than that.
But maybe you meant semi-detached as a style of housing, as I think he skips them?
That's not a style. Plenty council houses look like those terraced houses.
@@philjones45 I don't dispute. And may she rot.
@@michaelprobert4014 No they don't, one assumes you've never been on a council estate.
Everyone here has an electric kettle, the only time we would maybe use a stovetop kettle is when camping. We use (usually) ceramic teapots, which you put tea and then add boiling water to, which is then poured into cups which have milk in, my family only tend to use a teapot if lots of people are visiting.
Also we have stone houses usually the local stone. Most thatched roofs are made from reeds I believe, there's a thatched cottage just down the road. We also have bungalows (I'm currently in one) which are on 1 level. There are places called allotments which aren't attached to properties but are like gardens for people who don't have one. Most people will have a garden shed which can be very simple for garden equipment or fancy ones that are like an extra room. We tend to use hedges, wooden fence panelling and maybe walls to differentiate boundaries of properties.
I wish the insect screens were more easily accessible here, I'm allergic to bees so it would be nice to be able to open a window without the worry of coming across a bee.
From Wikipedia: Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed-trapping air-thatching also functions as insulation. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries, usually with low-cost local vegetation. By contrast, in some developed countries it is the choice of some affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home, would like a more ecologically friendly roof, or who have purchased an originally thatched abode.
The crooked house in Lavenham is 600yrs old . 😊
Ha ha hearing a really super posh expensive house described as "wow no less than $450,000" like thats a big deal ! thats only £360 thousand ! thats the average house price here,and it would get you a very normal small house,a large posh house with a large garden would be £1million ++++
Electric kettle always - except if there is a power outage then its a saucepan on the stove-
Thanks for sharing- love seeing the differences😊
I personally have both a stovetop and an electric kettle. My stovetop one is essentially just a large glass kettle that I treat like an big tea/coffee pot, so I can just make either a pot of tea or coffee and reheat it throughout the day as required (I don’t own a microwave but even if I did, tea especially doesn’t taste quite right after it’s been reheated in one). My electric kettle gets used purely for boiling water for either individual drinks or cooking.
I'm in my 5th house in Britain ( i was a home birth in 1968) The house my and my wife have lived (my 5th) in since '96 is the oldest built in 1926 all of the others were new builds. We've got a separate washing machine and dryer. I'm a lorry (truck) driver and the last time i used a stove kettle was about 4 years ago when i used a portable gas burner stove for hot water when i was having nights away from home, apart from that i haven't used one in years, as we've always had an electric kettle. Our house used to be semi detached but the previous owner had a house built where the garage would've been for an elderly relative, with an interconnecting door. Then before she moved out she had the houses officially separated. Also in Britain it helps if you and your neighbours, on both sides, have a live and let live attitude. The previous neighbour on one side was an utter arsehole. He moved out about 4 years ago, the man that lives there now is fantastic. We feel that the devil "went down to Georgia" and an absolute angel moved in, in comparison!!! Also my sister has just sold her 2 bedroomed house in London for £430,000 =$545,100. But that shows how expensive London is.
He did not explain Tudor houses are not all wood, you can easly seethe dark beams outsid but the crean pannels are Wattle and Dorb. W& D is thin strips of wood coverd in Dorb which is lhym, annimal shit and hay plua water mixed together its pushed into the strips of wood. It then gets a lhym wash over it making it cream, its very waterproof and it breaths, it also lasts.
I used to live in a house which had a 1,000 year old end 4 rooms 1 had been a hay loft and 1 was a barn you could tell by the stone aroune the edge of the room. It also had closer beams on 2 sides of the roof this would have been to push the hay down. Anywas 2 Canadians stayed for one night, so they were in my 1k old bedroom. In the morning we asked if they slept, no they hadent because they were freeked that the room was older than there country.
Waste dissposals ar agenst the law becaus we recycle.
There's nothing like a house made of sh*t 😂
I just had to check as you made me think I’ve been getting it wrong my whole life - but it’s wattle and daub, not dorb. I learned about it maybe 50 years ago but you had me paranoid I’ve been getting it wrong the whole time and it wasn’t derived from daubing things on (or is it visa versa? Does the word daubing come from putting daub on the walls?)
@@sputukgmail Daub -
1. a patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance. "a daub of paint"
2. plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall. "wattle and daub"
@@wessexdruid7598 yeah - but I don’t know the etymology - is daub (the verb) the source for the noun or visa versa.
@@sputukgmail It's not hard to look it up...
_"1275-1325; (v.) Middle English dauben
If you liked some of the older style houses/properties shown for the UK you should maybe check out the town of Ludlow in Shropshire, it has quite a few Tudor and Georgian properties in it but it has a hotel called The Feathers which is a Tudor black and white building. One of my Grannies was from Ludlow and so every summer my Dad and his brother were taken there to visit their Granny (this was from the mid forties until the early sixties) and they would often stay at The Feathers. My Dad hated it because he was convinced it was haunted. It was built in 1619 (so is actually Jacobean but very much a ‘fancy Tudor style) and though built as a home, became a hotel around in around 1670.
You might also be interested in Skara Brae, which is located on Orkney and is a small village that is older than either Stonehenge or The Great Pyramids of Giza. It’s a group of small stone built houses (because very few trees grow on Orkney, Shetland or the Outer Hebrides) that are still very recognisable as homes. It is estimated that Skara Brae was built sometime between 3000BCE and 2500BCE making it part of the Neolithic era and over 5000 years old.
BC. NOT “ BCE”🤦🏻♀️
@@FallenAngel9979 both are actually used. BCE is the term that isn’t based on Christianity and stand for Before Common Era and CE (Common Era) is the non Christianity version of AD. So I wasn’t incorrect in the terminology used, so I didn’t require correction.
My nan had a stove top kettle that whistled. That was in the 70's. I couldn't imagine doing it now. I have a one cup electric kettle. You fill it like a normal kettle and push a button and it dispenses one cup of boiling water so much faster than waiting for the kettle to boil. It's also safer to use for me because I have neuropathy in my hands, so no lifting kettle full of boiling water.
The weather varies so much throughout the country. I am in Northamptonshire, which is in the East Midlands and I have had to buy an a/c unit as the past 3 years we have had heat waves every year, in my area. I live in a 2nd floor brick 1980s built flat (apartment), and it is really an energy saving home. Only trouble with chocolate box homes is the maintenence and re thatching of the thatched roof. My friend has one, and it costs her thousands for re thatching every so many years.
I had to look twice but the second building (the first brick one) is in def the one in my hometown. It's no longer a residential house, its now a local museum. Half of our town centre is built in that georgian era (it was rebuilt along time ago after a huge fire that burnt the older part down) so alot of buildings in the centre have that style but most are now shops inside (converted). The upkeep on old houses is much harder especially if they are grade listed so alot of those in town centres are now shops below and sometimes a flat upstairs....there are a few still as proper homes but it's more like 1 in 40.
You say about pressing the button for the washer then pressing again for the dryer. On a washer dryer you dont have to press a button to start drying it's one cycle.
New subscriber. Couple of points for you. The washer dryer combo. It has pros and cons, most will be able to auto start the drying cycle. They work as a condenser dryer as the warm air with any fluff and water vapour hits a cold metal plate. There is an extra electronic magnet water valve that during drying drips water on to the plate. So as the moist air hits the plate the water vapour condenses back into water the fluff is also caught on to the plate, the combined fluff and water ends up in the sump and pumped out of the waste. The limitation is that with the size of the drum you are more limited if combined wash/dry cycle or a just as a dryer. So you can only put in the load of laundry that can tumble on that cycle. About a third less than full wash. So if your has a ten pound max load, if drying just over six pounds
If you do a second wash as a dryer now you have three. wash/cycles. My biggest pain is if you need multiple two or more loads. You cannot start the next load until the dryer part is finished.
My first home was an early victorian terrace circa 1850’s, second a Victorian terrace circa 1890’s. Now live in a detached Victorian house built in 1887, yes our houses are built to last
I love the idea of having the house delivered that blows my mind ❤ thanks for this it comes to something I learn about my own country from you JT it’s bizarre but I like it
JT I was just thinking you are rural and then you butterfingered that very word . I live out in the sticks here in the uk so am a proper country bumpkin .
I'm from County Durham and so a Peasant. Do you put Monkeys Blood on your ice cream? Or is that just us?.... actual question... for real... 😮
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud you aint no peasant . you are a grockle as you have a fridge in ur fancy house to store luxury snacks in .when you just have an outside cold tap and a fire pit you can claim to be an actual peasant . I spent a long time off grid and the wolds gone mad in the meantime . how goes it on ur island are u still baking the hedgehogs in clay ?
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Hahaha... when I was a kid we really had a brass tap outside. A shed with the bog in it 😂
Huh soft gits, Cumbria here, I lived in a hole in the road 😂😂😂
The combined washer/dryers you can buy in the UK are not ideal: they are intended to save space rather than increase the convenience of mechanical washing and drying.
Firstly, you cannot normally seamlessly dry clothes after washing: the load capacity for drying is smaller than for washing so some laundry items normally have to be removed between the two and the same washing cycle, unless the loadwas small to begin with, will normally require several, manually initiated drying cycles. Of course any clothes bot suitable for machine drying need to be removed in any event.
Secondly, unlike having two separate machines, washing and drying of different loads of laundry cannot be done in parallel so the laundry process takes longer.
Thirdly, a washer/dryer is typically less effective at drying clothes thoroughly and may require a longer drying cycle and/or damper results at the end.
I have had combined washer/dryers for 40 years so can attest to their usefulness despite the flaws.
Thatched roofs use waterproof reed stems. They are incredibly waterproof and has high insulation properties but tit is very expensive, we have a couple of houses like that in our small village.
English houses did used to use stove kettles the whistling ones I’ve used many times, but electric kettles boil the water so much quicker, that’s why most people in the UK have electric powered kettles now.
I might be out of date, but as far as I know in the UK you can not get a mortgage to build a house out of wood. JT, I think your house is nice but in the UK we would call it a Static Caravan, they are holiday homes. However there are some high end ones usually built as retirement villages for seniors.
Yes you can, especially self builds
Wooden housing in England died a death after the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was decreed that the rebuilt city would not use wood as the primary construction material because of the risk of another fire and the rest of the country followed suit over the decades.
Meanwhile much of our timber was being diverted away to build wooden ships for the ever-expanding navy.
The $450,000 house you said, in the uk you could only really get a small 3 bed maybe 4 bed with a small garden for £450,000
I've always been sceptical of washer/dryer combos. Anyway, they tend to take up more room than I can spare in my teeny tiny kitchen as I can barely fit the smallest washing machine available on the market as it is.
"We literally moved into a field" JT 2024. 😎
I've noticed in America that many houses the downstairs is open plan, where as in the UK most rooms are separate. I much prefer separate because you can just close the kitchen door if you're cooking smelly food and you don't have the smell going all around the house.
It's because of the difference in climate. In the cold, you want to keep heat in, draughts out - when it's hot, you want big, airy spaces.
I went my whole adult life having to buy a new electric kettle every 2 to 4 years because the manufacturers *ENSURE* that the on/off switches are _SO_ flimsy and made out the thinnest plastic. This goes for expensive as well as cheaper brands. This didn't used to be the case; electric kettles in my parents' era went on for decades ... it had to be the element that died before the thing was finished, and even then you might be able to get the necessary part replaced. Once these newer kettles' switches snap they're completely unfixable and _of course_ out of warranty (you better believe the manufacturers ensure those switches will outlive the warranty!). The longer this went on, the more I felt like I was an idiot to keep lining the kettle companies' pockets for them, so I finally bought a beautiful stove-top kettle. I'm sure it takes a bit longer to heat and uses a bit more electricity (I don't have a gas stove), but at least I'm saving the cost of all the new kettles and there are fewer things going into landfill.
Putting the water in the microwave is CRAZY JT!!!! Plug in kettle all the way! Only issue we get with this, is after time it gets limescale depending on where you live (North of england has softer water, meaning less limescale and I believe this is due to it being less built up and South of England, is hard water with more limescale.)
I have never been to ANY House in the UK 🇬🇧, that’s had a stove kettle?? Everyone I know. Has an electric Kettle. No messing around when it comes to having a brew!!!! 😮😮laugh ❤❤❤😂😂😂
The cottages near where I keep my horse were originally built in 1658. Obviously, they have had work done since then but they are beautiful!! From North of UK 🇬🇧
There'll be a lot of UK houses that are older than the US.
Houses built with brick and stone have walls with thermal mass which means they'll be cooler in summer and (so long as you can heat them) warm in winter. During recent hot summers my house has been cool enough inside that I've pulled a long sleeve top on.
Houses built with timber frames and thin walls don't have the same ability to control the internal temps without a large AC unit.
Midges will get past any size of mosquito screen
We have an electric kettle in the house but on our narrowboat and camper van we use a stove top kettle.
My house is 150 years old and made of stone. It is quite large for a British house even though it is a terraced house (row house) being about 2000sqfeet
We have houses like yours in the uk. They are rare though and we call them prefabs. (Prefabricated buildings).
11:05 "this house would be expensive, at least $400,000" One thing I do love is how cheap the houses actually are there 😊
I live in Leicestershire in an apartment with NO A/C, No Dishwasher, No Garbage disposal xx
Surely Americans must have used kettles at one point. It’s okay for them to say “we use the microwave”, but microwave ovens are a relatively new invention. They weren’t even developed until the 1970s, and weren’t in every house until the 1980s, so how was water boiled prior to that. They must have used stove top kettles, right? And yes, every Australian and British home has a microwave too, but we didn’t throw out our kettles when we got them. We have both.
We have stove top kettles too, but the electric ones don't use gas (the hob can be electric or gas) and they turn themselves off. (You don't really need to keep an eye on it like you do with a stove top one).
I live in the driest part of the UK, the east coast of England, and have AC.
I Don't have a tumble dryer though as it's windy here and that's free 😁
Washing line ftw, plus clothes are so much nicer dried outside.
Electric kettles for tea at home much faster which helps with our national tea addiction and turns it’s self off which is also handy 😊
I remember a longtime ago going to America, New England and Boston, and I was amazed how very British the environment looked. The houses had front and back gardens, there was a little high st, with post office, parish church, town square, even some places a local cricket green. I was stunned. It felt like being in the British isles itself. The only subtle difference was, you’ll see American flags in some places.
Most of us have a stove top kettle as a back up, but we use electric kettles because they are much faster.
I didn't know my pan was called a stove top kettle... I feel all posh now. Thanks 😂
Most brick houses use Accrington NORI bricks. Look it up, you will find some suprises.
I live about 4 miles from the brickworks.
We also use a lot of slate roofs.
You should of filmed this after the eclipse mate that was something you would remember for ever 😔
I wish people would stop mentioning the eclipse. I live in Northeast England and we've not seen that funny orange ball for an eon.
Summer is on Wednesday 😂
Love the videos. It's crazy you said an old house was the 70s. The house I own now is 60s, and I class it as a newish house. The house I grew up in was a house built in the 16th century, and that was old it was an old workers cottage for a farm that my family lived in for 5 generations
we often have mixer taps here now, not many houses these days have seperate taps for hot and cold here, still exists but not as common as mixer taps, similarly some of us do have the waste disposals in the sinks, they are not common but do exist here, its personal preference really
Apart from the early 1960s i can't ever remember using a stove top kettle in the home. The only time i would use one now is if i were to go camping and there was no electric hook up available!