18 Feb 2021, 5:04 am
KT67 wrote:
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Not an American but here the standard is to keep your washing machine in the bathroom.
I'm starting to wonder if the bathroom thing is a continental Europe thing? With Poland & Spain doing it?
And I keep forgetting just how many Americans have basements!
I can't remember the last time I was in a house with a basement.
Attics on the other hand are fairly common here. I want to develop my attic & turn it into an art studio.
The most Polish house arrangement is the main trash bin in a cupboard under the kitchen sink
Everywhere around here and unheard of elsewhere The logic behind washing mashines in the bathroom is, I think:
1. small apartaments as the standard of living even for well-off people
2. you do hand-washing or pre-washing in the bathroom, too - bathroom is generally the "wet" area. Outside of bathrooms and kitchens, the floor is usually wooden and you don't want to walk around with wet things there.
Where are washing machines typically located in the UK?
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18 Feb 2021, 11:59 am
magz wrote:
KT67 wrote:
magz wrote:
Not an American but here the standard is to keep your washing machine in the bathroom.
I'm starting to wonder if the bathroom thing is a continental Europe thing? With Poland & Spain doing it?
And I keep forgetting just how many Americans have basements!
I can't remember the last time I was in a house with a basement.
Attics on the other hand are fairly common here. I want to develop my attic & turn it into an art studio.
The most Polish house arrangement is the main trash bin in a cupboard under the kitchen sink
Everywhere around here and unheard of elsewhere The logic behind washing mashines in the bathroom is, I think:
1. small apartaments as the standard of living even for well-off people
2. you do hand-washing or pre-washing in the bathroom, too - bathroom is generally the "wet" area. Outside of bathrooms and kitchens, the floor is usually wooden and you don't want to walk around with wet things there.
Where are washing machines typically located in the UK?
British washing machines are in the kitchen. Or utility room if the house is new & big.
Do you mean by main bin something akin to an American (or my haha, I'm rare) dust bin or a British wheelie bin?
I think it might be rare for people to have 1/2 hour baths in other countries. It really annoys me that my mum does that. Even now I've moved into mine, cos she's staying over, she'll take half an hour to an hour in the only bathroom in the entire house... Gets in the way if anyone else needs the loo or to get ready for bed.
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18 Feb 2021, 12:28 pm
magz wrote:
KT67 wrote:
magz wrote:
Not an American but here the standard is to keep your washing machine in the bathroom.
I'm starting to wonder if the bathroom thing is a continental Europe thing? With Poland & Spain doing it?
And I keep forgetting just how many Americans have basements!
I can't remember the last time I was in a house with a basement.
Attics on the other hand are fairly common here. I want to develop my attic & turn it into an art studio.
The most Polish house arrangement is the main trash bin in a cupboard under the kitchen sink
Everywhere around here and unheard of elsewhere The logic behind washing mashines in the bathroom is, I think:
1. small apartments as the standard of living even for well-off people
2. you do hand-washing or pre-washing in the bathroom, too - bathroom is generally the "wet" area. Outside of bathrooms and kitchens, the floor is usually wooden and you don't want to walk around with wet things there.
Where are washing machines typically located in the UK?
Attics here, even in one of the warmest places in Canada, are almost always full of insulation & never developed as an additional space.
Maybe this is a Polish influence on Canada? Plenty of Ukrainians & some Poles that settled on the Prairies 100 years ago. This is the way it is here in our house & what I automatically assume in ALL houses and businesses. It's rare that I open the kitchen sink cupboard and don't find the main garbage can.
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19 Feb 2021, 11:18 am
nick007 wrote:
KT67 wrote:
And I keep forgetting just how many Americans have basements!
I can't remember the last time I was in a house with a basement.
Attics on the other hand are fairly common here. I want to develop my attic & turn it into an art studio.
Basements don't really exist in some parts of America. I'm from Louisiana & basements are extremely uncommon there. A lot of the state is not very high above sea level(some parts are below) & you combine that with being a coastal state & the Mississippi River running through it & the water level is too high to have basements. My dad only ever worked on one house that had a basement & I think that was before I was born. I never really been in a basement until I moved in with my girlfriend 8 years ago. The townhouse apartment we lived in till moving a year ago had a basement. Attics are common in Louisiana, especially in houses that only have one main floor thou some houses have an upstairs & an attic as well instead of just an upstairs.I can't remember the last time I was in a house with a basement.
Attics on the other hand are fairly common here. I want to develop my attic & turn it into an art studio.
Basements - micro-geographical regional, too.. basements exist in nearly all homes here, but not ranchers, and ~Zero basements in the City of Richmond where the Vancouver International Airport is because it's at or below sea level & would be a geotechnical nightmare of sinking & flooding if someone tried to dig down - and that's about a 25 min drive away from where I live where virtually every single house has a basement - that still have windows; nut not really for light - they have grates over the window wells at ground level & exist to be satisfy building code requirements for fire exits from any bedroom or potential bedroom if a house is sold with an unfinished basement. (which is common for both cost & property tax purposes.)
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