American Reacts to 4 Ways British and American Houses Are VERY Different! *NO A/C!?*

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[gentleeventful]

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.

[lilmsmetal]

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.

[missxsoph]

I'm in Scotland know why there's no A/C.Because it's always bloody freezing 😂

[lvckUK]

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.

[davidjrandall]

Living in London, the $450, 000 would probably get you a car parking space

[mej]

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.

[mervinmannas]

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.

[ShaneH]

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 😁

[seanmc]

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,

[keithhurst]

Thatched roofs are made of reeds not straw.

[antiqueinsider]

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.

[ac]

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.

[ArtilleryAmy]

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 🤷🏼‍♀️

[NatalieAbb]

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.

[anitaherbert]

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).

[nihtgengalastnamegoeshere]

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.

[onyxstewart]

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!

[joygallavan]

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 ++++

[markprior]

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.

[vahvahdisco]

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.