Hey from the UK here, 9:25. Aircon is uncommon because the UK has a colder climate, their homes are built with brick and insulation to keep heat in. During heat waves it's unbearable, but your more likely to be freezing in the winter then being too warm in the summer.

These are called conservatories or even a sun room, they are actually a room to let in the sunshine, you can have fold back doors to open the whole thing up on to maybe a decking structure. Fabulous things, always on the side or back never the front.

We definitely still use the outside clothes line in most homes, the newer apartments and homes use dryers. Jamaican living is more aligned to the UK living.

I remember my American friend saying why do your clothes smell so nice , I just said we hang them out in the garden rather than use an expensive dryer and clothes smell naturally better when they dried in the breeze or sun...

The house sizes I found find very interesting as it very much depends in the UK between Rural and Urban. Rural areas will tend to have larger houses as there's more land to build. For example my father was given farmland when his Uncle past away so he build a large American style house on this land just in front of the farm. But even at that villages and towns will have smaller homes as well just not as small as you're average house in an urban city. These larger homes will features more rooms like an utility room which is pretty much an American laundry room where we have the Dryer and Washing Machine along with a fridge for extra stuff etc. You can also find a gaming room, gym, and an office all depending on the home size and what you're into. I myself was shocked to find out that most people have their washing machine in the Kitchen even though I live in the UK. I will say that a lot of British and Irish Suburbs of the past 20 years have been getting larger in size in terms of the size of the homes. I remember in the mid 2000s my cousin lived just outside of the city and all the houses there we're pretty large and fancy tbh lol But inside cities it hasn't changed much homes are very compacted lower class to middle class you'd find the smaller homes that most people live in within the UK. Also side note but I don't think I've ever seen a plug with a switch, least in Northern Ireland. Wouldn't really make sense though as I'm pretty sure everyone in the UK regardless would have the same plugs just surprised I haven't seen one with a switch.

It isn't just that "stone vs wood" it also comes down to how the houses are built - if you put in 300mm (~11.8in) of high-performant isolation in the outer walls, 400mm in the ceiling, and 200mm in the lower floor (common "average build" these days for a wooden house at roughly the same latitude as stockholm) where the joints are constructed to inhibit heat transfers you will get a house that will move very little heat in either direction. (Also, we tend to put insulation in our internal walls - less sound as well as less tedency for heat to move (so if insulation fails in one room/zone you can just close the doors to reduce the loss for the rest of the house)) Oh, and do not underestimate just how much heat that travels through a window that isn't designed to deal with heat properly. A house that is well insulated against cold also tends to do very well against heat. It basically is a thing of "do you want a house that is cheap to build or a house that has low running costs". (Before anyone starts to put extra insulation on their houses do talk with an expert - it does come with some issues you will need how to mitigate (moisture and airflow being two of the major ones, but not the only ones, so if you do it wrong you will end up with a house that will be harmful))

Here in the UK your average home won’t have it, but new build homes and 100% new build/luxury apartments will have them. Also, shopping malls/gyms/universities stuff like that have some kind of AC system ☺️

She doesn't mention it in the video but we don't have utility rooms in the UK. We keep our washing machines and tumble dryers in the kitchen

I have a dryer (almost all dryers are 2in1, same machine as washer). But I prefer to put my clothes on a drying rack and dry it on balcony. Prefer the smell and feel of clothes dried outside and I think a lot of British people do.

Dryers cost a lot of money to run Plus clothes dried outside are fresher

Generalizing here. For the most part, US homes are built to keep residents cool, UK homes are built to keep residents warm. It's simply down to the most common temperatures each country experiences throughout the year.

A conservatory is not an indoor porch. It has the look of a greenhouse and is usually treated as an extra room/extension. They have double glazed windows and usually a double door egress to outside. No bug screens, not a hint here. AirCon: open a window on opposite sides of the house and let the breeze blow through. Bugs not that much of an issue. AC would be needed for 2 or 3 day a year in general.

My home is very cool because its stone built, I really don't need AC and in winter the walls are so thick it keeps the heat in. I like my dryer for winter, but in summer, I like my washing hung outside. Ours plugs have three pins,for safety when you put the plug in the top pin opens the lower holes its so children can't push fingers ect in,when you unplug it the holes on the wall socket closes again.

4:35 fascinating nuances. We don’t have indoor porches in Zim (it’s very warm here). …but we have generally large yards for the most parts…so people have lawns and gardens.

The clothes lines outside are used only mainly in spring/summer in the back garden. (As you call it backyard)

In the UK, we can have all four seasons in one day! The heatwave mainly lasts for a week and most people just cool off outdoors.

The average temperature across the year in the UK is around 10 degrees centigrade (50 fahrenheit) and while I have a/c at home in the UK it is very rare. I only put it on for the annual 2 week heat-wave tbh.

I do have a garage and a conservatory but do not have air-conditioning or a tumble dryer they are bad for the environment, but that does not seem to bother Americans.

The part of America you live in may need AC because of the heat. However the UK is in Northern Europe and many parts of the UK are further north than Northern Canada. Its also a question of money why spend money on AC which you may use once or twice a year if that. When you will need it for heating when the winter comes .

I have no room in my flat (US apartment) for a tumble drier. I have a washer-drier because it takes up half the space. I have space outside for a washing line but am not allowed to use it to dry clothes as the lease specifically forbids it as it would lower the tone of the neighbourhood. Many homes in the UK do not have a utility room: appliances are located in the kitchen.

The AC is more common on south European contries such as Greece Portugal and Spain to name a few.

In Spain ACs became too popular, my flat does not have one, we have 40 celsius or 104 farenheit in summer and we survive just fine, moreover we have a public pool near so if you really need it you can go there. The temperature in cities have increased cause ACs expel hot air outside, there has been studies that prove it so yeah I think, for environmental reasons it would be better if nobody used it. We need to do some sacrifices if we want to be able to live the future xd.

in the uk, some areas hit upto 45c or 113f. Butt dont forget the humidity in the UK is around 90 to 95% , and our homes are designed to hold heat in also xD! and it didnt drop below 24c for a couple of months. So even 24c in our homes would feel like 35c in your homes :)

There is no need for ac in uk it’s not warm enough southern Europe has it everywhere Spain Greece Portugal etc (warm countries ) where we go on holiday , conservatories are dated now I’m a builder constantly knocking them down and rebuilding with brick and loads of insulation as there too cold 25 degrees is a roasting hot day here in Scotland

A lot of UK homes built over a hundred years ago forbid things like air con to be fitted. London had the hottest 2 weeks last summer with temperatures hitting 105f! There were wild fires round London for the first time I can remember. Many homes don't have a utility room so your washer goes in the kitchen. Electric is 240 volts in the UK so double the US voltage.

In Russia no AC, no ceiling fans, but you can get a standing fan. And a heater is standard. Though banks do put on AC during hot summers. The 3 plug outlet with a switch was all I knew growing up, but was shocked to know that it's different in most countries. I think the switch thing is a thing we in Nigeria inherited from the British.

We use radiators to dry our clothes in winter but prefer a garden dry

We cope without AC because we have a temperate climate. I would take the UK climate over hurricanes, tornadoes etc any day of the week. We also have better built houses and roofing materials than the US. Our plugs are also far safer.

A few houses here in the UK, have Conservatories. We don't have one, unfortunately. We have an extended garden, but a pergola which is a transition point to the bottom garden, fences, trees, shrubs. Where I'm from in Essex (in South East England) is the driest part of the country. If it rains heavily, by the time it comes to us; the severity of the rain is minor

On conservatories: the girl in this video is speaking from a narrowly middle class perspective. Believe me, the vast majority of people in Britain don't have conservatories, don't live in properties where it would even be possible to have a conservatory, and don't know anyone with a conservatory! They are, as the American girl says, 'fancy'.

So A/C is an interesting one. You're correct about most of our houses being build from brick, but that makes them warmer, not colder. The houses are designed specifically to trap as much heat as possible due to our climate usually being pretty cold, so when we do get the rare heatwave it usually ends up being warmer inside the house than outside (which is awful). Historically we haven't needed A/C, but over the last decade we've been getting hotter and longer heatwaves and it's reaching the point now where it's actually getting quite dangerous for some people (especially the elderly) being inside their homes during these periods. My house peaked at 43 degrees Celsius (110 Fahrenheit) inside during the summer heatwave last year which was unbearable, so I think A/C will start becoming a lot more common in the coming years. The tumble dryer situation is more an issue of available space. Most houses (especially in cities) are very pressed for space, so it's not very common for average homes to have a dedicated utility room. This results in washing machines being placed predominantly in the kitchen areas, and it's uncommon to have a separate dryer. Most homes I've visited have a dual-function dryer/washer that does the job when you need it, but I think most people have stand-up laundry racks that they'll bring out whenever they need to dry their clothes (or outdoor washing lines in the summer) instead of using the dual-function for environmental/electricity reasons. UK plugs are actually very interesting. They're a really impressive bit of engineering that's packed with safety features, and I think they'd probably be classed as one (if not THE) safest electrical plugs around the world. The three prongs are the live, neutral, and ground pins. The ground is intentionally longer so that it connects to the socket before the live and neutral. There is a mechanism inside the socket itself that opens a flap when the ground pin is inserted, uncovering the live/neutral pins so that children are unable to stick bits of metal into the socket and electrocute themselves. The plug's wire points downwards (instead of outwards like on the American ones) so that the plug can't be pulled out of the wall by the wire, and the internals are designed so that if the wire was damaged and yanked out of the socket, the ground is the last wire to detach from the pin. Maybe worth a reaction if you need ideas? There's plenty of great videos online covering them. Also could be worth looking into bathroom differences as we have a host of pretty strict building regulations that prevent conventional sockets being in most of our bathrooms.

AC is actually everywhere in the UK just not in homes. Offices, hospitals, gyms, retail, cars etc all have AC just not in homes lol

Most people in the Uk have washers and driers

Just as an idea of space in the UK....The UK is roughly the same size as the state of Oregon.....Now imagine 67 million people in Oregon

We have had dryer for years but my wife is old school and she is always putting the washing outside on the line weather permitting, a electric drier can cost a fortune to run with the price of electric being so expensive .

In UK we have USB plugins with the plug sockets too nowadays

ac is way more common in commercial buildings than that British woman made it seem, its rare but becoming more popular for people to buy them for there homes though

Dryers cost energy and when the laundry dries in the wind, it smells so good that you don't need any extra fragrances...

Summers in the south can be warm for prolonged periods. Like it's not odd for the temperature to be around 78F for a month at a time in London, then on top of that you have heatwaves where it can reach 100c or more. But it only gets that hot June-august and even then it's not consistent. June could be hot and dry then August could be just warm and also wet. So we do usually just try and ride it out, but last summer was a CHALLENGE

I live in Canada and solarium are quite common. I myself have one and in the winter I love getting the most sunlight and light possible. It makes a lovely sitting area with a comfy sofa and plants. It's part of the main house really. But as I said in the New buils or much older build they are quite common. But unlike the UK air conditioned homes and cars are needed. Southern Ontario gets really hot and humid so an ac is really needed especially for a good night's sleep.

Where I live we do have AC but it's been off for three years or so. It came included with the house but it's just so unnecessary. Hot? Open a window. Cold? Close the window. You can also dress up according to the weather for extra energy savings! Oh we do have AC in public transit though, they're above each seat and have little flaps you can close if you don't want it and most people leave it closed.

80 degrees for 4-5 days would be classed as a heatwave in the north of England.

7:21 AC is in offices and hotels…in homes not so much. It’s an affluent feature. And you’re right…we use brick in Africa. But l still wish AC was affordable.

We use washing lines to dry clothes in summer to save money

Yep, I only use my AC for about 2-3 weeks a year during those very hot weeks here in London, but I still had it installed like 5 years ago because I am just not willing to put up with it, even for a few weeks

I live in northern Europe, used to live in the UK and have travelled all over Europe. Never been to a house with AC in Europe. Maybe some newer houses have one but no one I know lives in a house with AC. Not even all the hotels have AC (and they really should have some in southern Europe, lol). Shopping centres, movie theatres etc have some, but it's never cranked up as high as in the States. I was in Vegas a few years ago and those casinos and hotels were almost too cold! In july! The conservatories are made of glass! Not screens. So it feels warmer in winter.

AC's in homes are more common in Southern European countries such as Spain, Italy and Greece.

I'm in the UK and have several built in AC units. I use them for heating, not for cooling

A lot of people have a tumble drier, we've used it once this winter, they are expensive to run. If there is a breeze, the washing will dry outside because it doesn't rain every day! Fresh dried clothes and sheets are just better Our plug sockets are so much better than the ones in the US, which look generally unsafe!

Just a point about the tumble dryer - we do have dryers in the UK, but these are sold separately, and they don’t come connected with the washing machine like they have in the US. The dryer that I have, for example, is a smart dryer - I can control it from my iPhone and switch the dryer on and off, control it to start drying if I’m away from home. And my washing machine plays a little tune when it’s finished washing- most of the washing machines are really technologically advanced.

A lot of people in UK dont have room for a tumble dryer plus they are very costly to run so even people who do have them tend to only use them in an emergency rather than for drying everything routinely

Conservatories are glazed usually double glazed sometimes heated.

our plugs sockets have 3 prongs, one for the neutral, one for the live and one for the earth

There are air cons installed in some houses but not many.

Scottish Power have started to offer Air Conditioning in the last year or so! Also buses do have AC just depends if the driver remembers to switch it on in the summer lol As do modern trains

uk homes get soo hot during heat waves because they are built or older ones fitted with a lot of insulation to keep the cold out, my house is pretty old and built with bricks, so over the years the cavity walls were insulated the attic has extra thick insulation, the windows are double glazed, so now when its gets hot the house is pretty much engulfed by a blanket that's trapping the heat in.

Aircon is not really accounted for in construction in the UK. We tend to use central heating, though more and more there's a push for more energy efficient methods like heat pumps - so even a combi aircon unit that can do heating would be avoided cos they're still like 2.5k, 3kWh which is just far too much for typical UK energy consumption. We'd need billions invested in our energy infrastructure if aircon became commonplace.

When she says European people just deal with the heat, that depends where you live. I lived in Greece and most people have AC there

17:24 what’s beautiful is, hopefully you’ll pick up ideas for your house on your travels.

Also I've never seen a dryer in my life outside laundromats and appliance stores. All of our clothing is hanged like the UK girl said, all apartments have lines on their windows and houses have different types of hangers people can buy. I think pretty much everyone owns a clothes horse in here in case it rains. I've heard UK sockets are absolutely great and marvels of safety but in here we don't see many. Some places do have outlet covers that are like child-proof, but switches I don't think there's much use for them, you kinda just plug something and it works, if you don't want it to waste power just unplug it. For extreme cases just go to your electrical box and turn the power off for whatever room you want to keep in the dark.

We don't really get mosquito or hot weather lol

@TheDemouchetsREACT , in florida we call that room a florida room! the bugs in florida are millions of them!

The climate has changed across all if time but it's not because of human activity of the last 200 years ....the earth has been through things we couldn't imagine before we were even around for the last 4 billion years

Alot of flats here to and high buildings

We don't measure our houses in square feet or metres. We measure each room individually.

11:34 yup…definitely a Brit former colony down here. This is exactly Zim🙈

AC is a pointless extravagance in most of the UK the cost of buying and maintenance for a device you'll only use for maybe two weeks every three to five years is ridiculous. And not hating just observing but the climate is hardly improved by millions of people running AC for most of the year.

No she is wrong many houses have washer/driers including myself

Ok so I need to know, to you have a 4 plugin socket in your kitchen??????

We do have dryers in the UK 😂

I never understood the British not having a laundry room and having the washing machine in the kitchen British complain about the heat wave, to be honest they dont know what a heat wave is, England heat wave averaged a 23C degrees , mean while a heat wave in Australia an average temperature of 40C degrees

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British homes aren't built to be cool, they're built in a way that traps heat most effectively. During the heat wave of 2022 (The hottest summer on record in the UK) I was literally dying, due to multiple factors like there being no A/C and the way our homes are built. Basically is like being in a car with the windows up in 37-40 °C (98-40 °F). Loved the video by the way, keep up the amazing content!

We have a lot of older buildings to dating as far back as 15oos we are not hot enough to have AC

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alot of uk homes have garages lmao! just the smaller homes wont. Who hired her haha

South African homes do not have A/Cs.

pls react to uk MLE accent it really complicated but u will love it

our homes aint cooler. Their designed to hold heat.