Brit Reacts to German House VS American Houses
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I have never seen a house or an apartment without a freezer. I guess it’s pretty rare.
About the freezers: there are usually small freezers in the top half. But the main freezer in my house is a chest freezer in the cellar. It is not in the kitchen (writing as a German).
You can fit moskito screens to your window, but they are not standard in Germany.
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Depends on the space in the kitchen. My mother had the main freezer in the kitchen.
Most fridges in German kitchens have at least a little freezer section inside. The big freezer is in the cellar/basement.
Yeah we have Bungalows here too, some from the 70ties and mostly inherited by old people^^. For not climbing stairs exactly.
I'd love to live in a bungalow, but I'm not an old person.😅 At the same time, I'd also love to live in a maisonette.
There are some around my house. Not necessarily old people. My neighbours (young family) searched for (and found) a bungalow. But ground is very expensive here and if you need enough rooms you need more floor space for the house and a larger roof which makes everything more expensive. And the heat insulation values are worth or you need even more cost for a good insulation. So it's more a question of money and needed room.
Every house and/or flat is different, of course. His house is extremly (!) different from my house in Germany!
5:00 Of course we have Freezers, but they're usually extra appliances. They can also be worked into the kitchen like the fridge he showed, but is usually situated beneath it, not next to it. That is to not needlessly open it. Other than that many Germans have their Freezers either in their "Hauswirtschaftsraum" or their cellars when they have houses. The "HWR" is a room that has all the pipes and cables come it. It's the product of German building regulations to have that all come in to one room when you have a house, so that maintenance is easy. Such rooms often serve as above-ground cellars if you don't have one, where washing machine, freezer, clothes hanger/drier and some shelves or even a trashcan ends up in.
I don‘t like closets because they restrict you in arranging furniture in a given bedroom since you can‘t push a bed in front of it, for example…
We have freezers!
er meinte dass die meist nicht direkt in den Kühlschrank integriert sind glaub ich
Many people now have refrigerators with freezers that are not integrated into a cabinet. We also have a large refrigerator with freezer.
1. The radiators:
Americans tend to heat theyr homes with the built in AC.
The AC in america is not only for cooling the home in the summer time, but also to heat it in the winter.
Thats why they are not used to radiators.
2. German fridges also (like you said in your video) normaly have a freezer on the top half of the fridge.
In some cases we have a separated freezer at home because the top half of an ordinary fridge is too small.
Like for a families with 2 or 3 children (household with 4 or more people) for example.
So we do have freezers here 😅
But i would say the UK is closer historicly and cultural to germany than the US is.
That is why the most things mentioned in this video are pretty common for you 🙂
I really love English houses!!! Most of the people in Britain have one and you don't have to be "rich" to own it. And they all look the same!😂😂😂 When you come in and go straight forward you enter the kitchen and then the small backyard, where the laundry hangs in order to get dry and sometimes a dog is tied down. On the right there is the living room with a TV in the middle. Upstairs you can find a bathroom with either hot or cold water, you cannot mix it!!!! And there are several bedrooms with sometimes double bunk beds for the children. Every single house in the UK looked like this!!!! And for some reason I love it. Edit: my experiences are from the 80s only. Please take this with a grain of salt.
7:30 The odd thing about these windows is that there are ancient versions of these, extra levers on the side that move a mechanism that changes the bar on which it rotates on the outside (instead of the modern system which is some Rube Goldberg magic hidden inside). The house I'm in was built somewhere in the 1900s or early 1910s as you can tell by which building regulations were already being used in its construction and which weren't. For example the industry norm for how to properly build and proportion stairs was not observed here, which I believe came into effect in 1918. So there are these types of windows in here that are over a hundred years old - certainly the one at the top that is a special shape, has probably never been changed since it was built. It's just so strange the Americans never adopted this.
As others have said, freezers are commonly separate in houses (but not so much in apartments). One major reason is that historically, only chest freezers and small fridges with an integrated mini-freezer compartment were available. The modern cupboard freezers and split freezer/fridge combos only became available after people were already used to storing frozen goods in the cellar.
It's the same in our house; our cupboard freezer stands in exactly the spot in the cellar where there was a chest freezer when I was young. And while it may seem inconvenient, we were used to it already and didn't want to give up space in the kitchen even when it became possible to have a freezer there.
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And American houses usually have central air, where the furnace heats up air that is ducted into all rooms. The one advantage of that system is that it is very easy to integrate an AC.
3:35 min--You need your key if you leave your house. No knobs = Safty reason.
5:29 min we have freezers. I have a big fridge with a freezer down below.
But the most diffrent to america is, that we not have in every home a built-in-kitchen. Often you have to buy your kitchen by yourself even if you are rent a home.
6:56 min Yes you need them, they safe a lot of heat going out of the window in winter. In Summer it protects you from sunheat. In the night you can sleep really in darkness.
9:00 min I hate hidden water tanks, cause when they get broken, you need to open the whole wall. I call it "a part of engineering shit" 😉
I just renewed all the windows in my parents‘ house and made sure to get screens right away. They are available, but maybe a cost factor. Many people use screens that they velcro into the windows and have to be replaced once in a while. They work just as well, and cost only about $3 per window.
If TH-camrs make videos about topics they don’t know about.
Of course we have Bungalow Houses and Houses in the middle of nowhere, but most Farmer.
German toilets have wireless water. It comes straight from the internet 🇩🇪❤🇬🇧
I live in a Bungalow,. I could build an another room in the loft. I chose a bungalow because I have a disability and stairs are very exhausting for me. Of course, it's also an advantage if you're older.
I've never seen a fridge in germany without a freezing section. Guess it's the same like yours in the UK
It's also weird for me as Czech, but I heard it from more people that Germans don't always have freezers, it's still hard to believe that for me. We have big freezers here and we buy a lot of frozen food. But it's known that Germany has much better food quality in their shops and maybe typical "freezing nations" are those with worse and not that fresh food, which is Czechia the same as USA because your German supermarkets who conquered everything here sell trash here which Germans would not eat and we have no laws against them and EU doesn't care.
@@Pidalin probably the creator of the video means fridges with ice cube mashines or something. Or he only saw fridges but never opened them to actually see the freezing section. I mean, germany made big inventions in the freezing sector. Of course everyone here ows one hehe.
As i said. In over 30 years i've never seen a german household without at least one fridge/freezer combi.
These are the same rumors that say that all Germans wear lederhosen, drink beer all day, eat white sausage and have no sense of humor.
That can only come from people who have been in Bavaria for half a day and only know that, but never seen the rest of germany.
But even in Bavaria there are freezers xD
And don't forget. Half of the world uses freezers/fridges from german companies like Bauknecht, Miele, AEG, Bosch, Siemens, Liebherr, Grundig, Bomann etc.
@@bloodprophecy887 Germans definitely have sense of humor, but you mostly get that joke like 2 weeks later. 😀
@@Pidalin Aha, you're really funny
The water tank for the toilet is integrated into the wall
The main difference between the houses is their construction. German houses are bricked, American houses are stapled together with nails. That's why you can easily build a wardrobe in the wall. All you need is a cutter knife 😁
I have never seen a house here in Germany without an freezer. I bet this guy just never opened the door below or above the fridge
8:30 That there is mainly an issue because the attics were not originally "living rooms", but later on renovated, expanding the living space into the now not as much needed storage space. Considering these are originally just attics, they are quite high ceilings compared to american houses.
you are right, sure there are freesers in a lot of fridges, you hardly can buye one without a freezer.
In America, modern houses usually have central heating and vents that either cool the entire house in summers or heat it in winters…
3:30 - it's like that probably everywhere in Europe, except UK 😀
9:25 - we have these toilets in Czechia too, it's mostly result of some terrible 90s or early 2000s reconstructions and it's the most stupid thing ever, when there is some problem with your water tank, water is leaking or something, it's really hard to fix it and when you need to completely replace it, you have to destroy your whole toilet room or bathroom or where you have it, it's the most idiotic thing ever these "german-like" toilets.
I heard about Germans not having freezers from many other people, it's a mystery for me why they don't have them. Here in Czechia, you mostly have a big freezer and if you live our of big cities, you have no other option than to freez everything, because you will not find anything good and fresh in your local village shops, you have to freeze everything immediately or you can throw it to dust bin in next 2 days.
We definitely have freezers in Germany, I don't understand how the guy in the video came to think we have none - or why people seem to say we have none. Oftentimes they are not included in the fridge, but seperate and they can be as big as a regular fridge. At home we have a kind of fridge-freezer-combination, with the upper part being a fridge and the lower part a freezer (it has 4 drawers, I think). My grandparents always had a chest freezer in the basement, which I think was/is relatively common for people of their generation. Even if they have a freezer compartment in the fridge, it will never have enough room for all the things that gonna end up deep-frozen.😅
That guy lives in a house based on or influenced by the 70s standards of German houses, where quite a few things still seem outdated and, to be honest, not exactly what you'd typically find in today's Germany. It's more of a generational thing or a matter of the building's age, rather than a cultural issue.
well u have a freezer either its a small thing in ur fridge or more common u just have freezer on its own and most often u put it in the basement/Cellar.
i would say having the freezer in teh basement is 90%
Some American houses do have radiators. But your stereotypical American house would have air ducts. There are ups and downs for both and the vast majority of US installations are fairly primitive compared to what you could do with a modern HVAC and of course your stereotypical American house isn't exactly tip top insulated either, which makes this kind of heating not the best of ideas. But energy costs used to be low and this system has one massive advantage. The distribution system just pumps air through the house. If it went to the furnace it's hot air. If it went to the AC it's cold air.
Since the german Carl von Linde invented the freezer, of course we use freezers here. Maybe he don't recognized it, because they don't come so gigantic like in the US, but in the same way like, you sad, in the UK.
9:45 The hole in the back is actually the new thing, and I'm mixed about it.
The standard in Germany until very recently was one type of toilet, and that is the one with the hole at the front, and your crap going onto a resting area that had a little water on it. Those stank a bit more since the crap wasn't instantly submerged, but they cleaned much more by themselves. The back-holes tend to have crap back onto the rear end and that can bake on if you take too long and need to brush - depending a lot on the model. The toilet where the crap "rests" while you take your time is what is used in hospitals, so that the poo can be inspected for medical reasons. Toilets with the hole in the back are actually a new thing here, and... some people really don't like them because of the possibility of water splashing up back against you. After all, you know what's going into that water.
Quatsch, die Flachspüler gibts seit den 70ern nicht mehr, Tiefspüler sind der Standard
I was born in the 80s and only ever saw these toilets with the "shelves" in houses/apartments that were built before the 70s or 80s, I think. Growing up, we never had one of these ourselves, but my grandparents had them, I think in all the apartments they lived in over the years.. To me personally, the toilet shown in the video feels like the "standard". Maybe some time ago the "shelf"-toilets really were standard, but I don't really agree it changed very recently, at least not where I live, as we definitely had the seemingly newer type in the 90s.😉
9:00 That's just a modern design. What's he talking about? These are available in America too.
The North is still full of single houses. As is the East...
It's mainly farmers of course.
I love british ouses mutch more, cos yours have fireplaces, they have a so lovly smell of (woodfire & the heat is different in a better way too as that from the heaters.🥰
we have just heater in our houses & flats😒
We had a fireplace in my German childhood home. It wasn't an old house either, but built in the 80s or early 90s, which was pretty new back then. A friend of my family, who was a firefighter, was worried, though, that the fireplace might poison us if we used it (I'm not sure I remember it actually being used. Maybe once or twice?). I guess a ("new") house with an actual fireplace might have been kind of an exception, though, unless it came in fashion for some time back then.🤔 Or maybe some people just decided to install them in their new houses because they liked the idea.
Anyhow, freestanding fireplaces seem to have been relatively popular for some time now.
The fridges with the little chest-freezer at the top have just gone out of style I believe. They are still around, but mostly old.
That ist a old House from 60-70. Looks Like renovated in the '90. That ist old look. New Houses are not like this. Normal, you have new and old house in GB, and they dont look same. WE have the heating system for each room in the wall, so you cant see it. The wallet decided, lol. Same the Kitchen old. Of course we have freezers, like in GB in the top ore ander the refrigrator and thats most by Apartments. In Houses the most one have a big one in the cellar ore in extra rooms
A lot of things depends on personal preferences and or how oldnor new ur house is.
Ibalways would choose a free standing frige freezer combination or even an extra freezer chest (Tiefkühltruhe) if i had the space for that simply becouse my dad and rent out a garden and we always have so much stuff left over
We csnt eat all we harvest a freezer would come in handy 😅 we also prefer to buy stuff for sale % so we would buy like 8 or 10 frozen pizzas or a big chunk of meet becouse its cheeper in the long run 😅
So long storry short we have a fridge freezer but we wish it was bigger 😅
Also sounds like his house was sold with a pre installed kitchen this is verry untypical
Usualy a kitchen weather its buying or renting is seam as a scsm to raise the price up
In renting even more so
Also steals ur individualisim as u only can change so much sbout a pre installed kitchen in renti g even less so
Usualy people will buy a kitchen that suits their needs asthetic and budget
Or they bring their old kitchen with them 😅
As he seames so suprised about the lack of an freezer and the hidden frifge i simply assume the house csme with it 😅
Guy probaply got scamed geting a kitchen with the most minimalistic equipment for 10.000€ to 20.000€ plus on the house prize😅😂
2:05 Yes, Bungalow is the same word we use here for that. Those are mainly used for some small garden parcel you have rented or own outside of the city. Not something to live in.
In my hometown there's one street at the end of town where someone built a one-story house and it just looks weird and wrong, and everybody thinks the same about that.
If you build a house, built it proper. Two stories and a cellar. Why else bother with that investment?
Taking the stairs everyday is good for old people. It's when they don't have this natural workout anymore that they decline much faster. It's one of the reasons the Sicilians get so old, they build all of their rooms atop another, so it's constant stair use.
He shows a very old house... with old technology
How can you like a cold bathroom???
It's funny how self-image he uses to describe German houses and actually has no idea. The vast majority of front doors can be opened without a key if you have previously pressed a small lever on the door lock. And of course there are bungalows and detached houses. You can buy all types of refrigerators with freezers or individual freezers...etc. 🙄
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10:50 I suppose he's never seen a bathtub with a shower-curtain attachment? Because some people only have a bathtub and not an extra shower.
As far as i know, american houses have heating vents leading the head from whatever is used for heating to each room. That's why people are crawling through the vents in so many shows and movies made in USA and nobody questions it. There are vents in every building.
Always funny to see a american around our windows
My house is three floors (no garden), my parents‘ house (into which I am getting ready to move in) is a bungalow/one floor (with large garden) for the reason that I don‘t know whether, at eighty, I still want to or can climb up to the second floor where my bedroom is…
i never seen a house that u can open from outside without a key in my life in germany.