10 Differences between Irish vs USA HOUSES
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10 CRAZY Differences between Irish and USA Houses
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Anyone else want to see Diane's childhood home? Sounds wonderful!!
Oh thanks! It’s sold now and all changed but I’m going to try and get some home videos
@@DianeJennings If it was in Dublin it's a €1 million + house now, a big old Georgian/Victorian town house. Probably fit my 3 bed (all decent sized, 2 dbl, 1 single) terraced house on one floor of it.
Side passage, my ex wife used to call it the back passage as it led to the back garden.
Are Chimneys and Fireplaces are commonplace in the countryside of Ireland?
@@DianeJennings did it have a thatched roof? ROTFL ROTFL we know you love that stereotype LOL
Yes, quite
Big difference between American and European houses is we call our lawn thing a front or back yard and in Europe I think they're called gardens. To me a garden is a pretty place with a bunch of flowers, our lawns typically only have grass so that's why I think we call them yards and not gardens
oh that’s a really good observation
Or small plots for growing food
@@DianeJennings the term “yard” as it is associated with homes comes from the “turning yard” for unhitching horses from buggies, wagons, sleds in the winter time, and sledges, plows and other farming equipment out in the country.
The “front yard” and “back yard” would have come from residences (estates really) large enough that farming equipment and draft animals, and transportation equipment and sometimes animals would have separate areas for loading, storage of equipment and stables for animals. With tractors and cars the area needed for storage, loading and turning became smaller and with paved roads and driveways much of the area closest to the house (both in the front back and side) was manicured thanks to the newfangled lawn mower
Meanwhile “gardens” traditional were for the growing of plants, be they kitchen gardens, herbal gardens, or flower gardens
For SOME REASON when both traditional yards and gardens became less common in the us green space near a house was marketed as a yard, while in English speaking Europe garden became the popular term
Yes, in the US a garden is always a plot of land where a gardener has planted flowers or vegetables. These Gardens can exist as a portion of a person’s yard. But a yard is basically any land owned around the house. Front yard, side yard, or back yard.
Same in New Zealand, the garden is a specific plot for flowers or veg.
One difference I noticed is Irish houses usually don't have window screens, whereas pretty much every American home does. Don't know if they are catching on or not in Ireland, but they really do help keep the bugs out!
In general, the bugs we have in Ireland aren't nearly as deadly as the ones you have in the States.
I remember walking a path in LA and coming across a sign reading "Danger. Snakes. Give distance and Respect." What really convinced me though was noticing how the garden fences bordering that path had REALLY fine meshing.,..
The net curtains do the trick in Ireland. Also, I think they have less unsects, esp less than we do in Louisiana!
A common rule is that a bedroom has to have a closet, and a window usable as a fire exit. Most building codes require a GFI for any outlet in a wet area, like a bath or kitchen. As far as layout, it varies. Some houses have foyers, others do not.
Masonry buildings are a hazard in earthquake areas.
Exactly! I'm in Southern California, so things are different elsewhere. Bedrooms usually start around 10'x10', must have window or another door for exit safety, and a closet. This doesn’t mean that people don't try to turn large walk-in closets into bedrooms. Many people rent out their garages as living areas since housing is so tight. Brick or stone, especially "unreinforced masonry" is not possible here in earthquake country. It would be nice to have as added protection from wildfires instead of wood structure, but oh well. Many of us have clay tiles roofs in the Spanish style. Wood shingles are going out and being replaced by asphalt shingles, which are more fire resistant.
@@meredithlyon3142 In Texas and California, having a closet is what defined a bedroom for real estate usage, and understand most other states as well. An “office” or whatever could be without a closet, but could not be called a “bedroom”.
A closet isn't required everywhere for bedrooms. Many basement bedrooms don't have windows that can be fire exits, but that is often required only if the rooms are rented out.
Having grown up near Philadelphia, I can confirm that some of the older houses on the east coast have features that you described in Irish houses.
I was born and raised in South Philly and yes there are some features in the row homes that are similar. Many of the homes have been updated but I do have an Uncle who still has his vestibule (small hallway/entryway) when you enter the front door. The kitchen is very tiny because just beyond the kitchen is a "shed" where there is a utility sink and just enough room for a washing machine/dryer. The front doors are also smaller in width. You have to very careful about buying appliances and making sure they will fit through the door.
In Southern California there are a few older Victorian houses that will have some of the features described on this video.
I'm in Pittsburgh, And yeah my house is pretty "British", down to separate taps (in the bathroom at least, Some jagoff put one of those single handle things in the kitchen though)
In my house, we have a hallway that goes from our living room to the bedrooms and bathrooms. What you were describing sounded more like a foyer to me. I've lived in a couple of older houses that had dumb waitors and laundry chutes. Granted, like you said, we don't have houses that are as old as your houses. We do tend to get some houses registered as historic landmarks, and so you can't update things in the home, only refurbish them.
A foyer is a wider area, a hallway is more a route and narrow. Interesting!
@@DianeJennings that's what I thought, was just making sure it wasn't a different name kind of thing. 🙂
I'm thinking that if it is a narrow path that leads into the living room, it is considered an entryway.
My family lived in a house in the suburbs of Los Angeles that was built in the 1950s. It had a front hallway that had a second hallway leading to the bedrooms on one side and ended at the dining room just past the hallway to the bedrooms, a doorway into a small bathroom right at the front door on the opposite side from the hallway with another doorway (without a door) that was where the kitchen was located. We also had a pantry/utility room for the washer and dryer located between that front bathroom and the kitchen. The dining room was just opposite the kitchen and the hallway basically ended leading into the living room. Oh, and we also had a mail slot in the door. In fact, I think a lot of older homes in southern California had door mail slots. Some people would hang a mailbox on the wall outside next to the front door. Either way, the postman had to walk up the driveway at each house to deliver the mail.
The mail flap used to be more common, but we changed the way we locked doors so you don't need a key to open from the inside, this allowed people to reach in the mail flap and sometimes be able to open the door. You'll see the front hall more often in older cities, where houses were designed to be converted to multi family houses.
I was a child in a house with a mail slot. Lots of hard work for the mailman to walk the neighborhood to each house and put the mail in the slot, but us kids used to play with it all the time.. talking thru it to each other in our games. That house also has a milk box, and a closed up hole in kitchen where stove pipe used to be, a laundry shoot that took laundry from upstairs to basement laundry room. It was a brick house in the inner city of Milwaukee.. vines covered it. I miss it sometimes.
Size is the first thing that jumps to mind when I think about it. The postbox thing really depends on where you live, I used to have a little door for the mail, then a box on the house, now one on the street, all in the same town, roughly 2 miles, but three different neighborhoods.
And each basically depends on the age and density of the neighborhood.
Recognizing the disclaimer, some of the features of American houses depend on age and location. Older urban locations often have row houses in which the yards are small and the back yard is not accessible except by going through the house. Also, we usually call them yards, and only the part that is plants other than grass is a garden. Stone construction is highly vulnerable to earthquake damage, and while the US west coast is famous for earthquakes, they are becoming much more common elsewhere because of fracking for oil.
When my family moved from the UK and Ireland, to Chicago, USA our first house didn't have a dumbwaiter, but it did have this peculiar thing called a "laundry chute". The laundry room was in the basement, and the laundry chute was a tiny little door in the ground floor hallway, barely big enough for you to stick your head in. Looking at it from down below in the basement, it came through the ceiling and had drapery around it to keep clothes from going all over. The idea was to put a laundry basket underneath it to catch the laundry, and it can them be placed right into the washer.
Just... gotta say it. Frame houses aren't substandard in any way. Roofing... Its felt and shingle not --felt shingle. Felt is actually tarred paper called underlayment. The shingles are asphalt with an acrylic coating. The first sunny day they all stick together because they melt slightly. It's a feature. They don't leak.
Lots of differences for sure. Most houses do have hallways. It depends on the layout of the home. Mine does. Most roofs are asphalt shingles with felt paper or tar paper underneath the shingles. Metal roofing that looks like shingles is becoming popular and has longer warranties and greater wind protection. Thanks for the video. Your hair looks darker again. Take care! ❤️U☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
A big factor in roofing choice in the US is the freeze/thaw cycles. Asphalt shingles will expand and contract easily in fall and spring, so they don't break. Ceramic/terra cotta tiles will absorb a little bit of water, so as they face daily freezing and thawing they break into bits. Our roads break into bits the same way.
I do feel that climate is a big factor for why homes in the southwest states often have terra cotta roof tiles and stucco exterior walls. Certainly the dessert states were generally a part of Mexico, so that Spanish influence is reflected in both architecture and culture there too.
I don't know if it's because we live in "the 'burbs," but most houses out here have a foyer that leads to a family or dinning room and/or stairway and a hall to the kitchen. The laundry room is off of the kitchen and (for us and many people I know) it doubles as The Dog's personal room. When houses are so close to each other that you only have a small pathway from the front yard to the back yard we call it "living on top of each other" where I'm from. That's why a lot of people moved out to the more suburban areas so they could have more space. Mowing all that lawn is a bit of a pickle when all you have is a push mower though...
The dogs personal room?! This brings me so much joy.
In the north, it's pretty common for a house built around a finished basement to have the main entrance take you to the staircase landing.
In older neighborhoods have mail slots in the door. This was the norm when I was a child. In more rural areas, a post box was at the end of the driveway, so the postman would not have to leave the street and make much longer trips.
Gardens.. Ahh.. I love how my foreign friends like to call the area around a home a "garden.". To an American, a garden is a place where you plant vegetables and fruits, or possibly flower beds. The area where the grass and trees are is simply called a yard or lawn. I would never mow a garden, but unfortunately must mow the yard far too frequently.
1:02 OMG, It’s called a mail slot. 😂 They are ubiquitous in America as well. It’s more of a city/country thing. In my town the postman where tired of walking the streets doing door to door delivering mail. Post boxes on curb make it easer for them to drive up and down delivering mail without leaving the post-truck.
actually I should have said we say LETTER BOX - my bad!
I would say mail slots are not unknown, but they aren’t common, certainly less than 1/4.
Generally speaking (with some exceptions) older style homes in the states are more likely to have hallways and entryways than newer styles, which often feature an “open floor plan.” And depending on the area of the country, a lot of homes will have a mud room to hang coats, take off boots, etc. This is often next to the back or side door, but I’ve seen a couple homes with mud rooms inside the front door.
Something about seeing Chew napping away in the background just puts a smile on my face.
yes me too! he’s such a good boy!
A recently built American house with radiator heat will have the radiators under the floor. I had a house like this and it was the most comfortable heat I've ever experienced. A brilliant idea!
Roofs: the "standard" American roof has been asphalt shingles over "roofing felt", which isn't really felt, more like some sort of waterproof membrane. Fancy houses might have had a slate or ceramic roof. These days metal sheet roofing has become very popular. Shingle roofs usually laster 25 years, metal roofs are supposed to last 50 years, resist corrosion and come in a rainbow of colors.
Finally, refrigerators and freezers. We have two refrigerators, one in the kitchen ans an old one in the garage for overflow (holidays, mostly, when all the kids come over and we've been madly cooking for two days.) Most of the time it's just my wife and I and I gave no idea how an Irish family could get by with a small European sized fridge. You must shop every day or every other day. And freezers! We have the freezers in the refrigerators of course, but there's also a large freezer in the garage. In addition to holding foods (mostly frozen vegetables at the moment, although I'd like to put a 1/4 cow in for the winter,) for many years it also stored my stash of photographic film and paper. 🙂
oh I’m my folks have that but it’s a nightmare when it needs repairs
Also setting stuff on the old wall mounted radiators is one of many ways Americans accidentally burn their (wood frame and Sheetrock) houses down to the slab.
@@DianeJennings Repairs aren't a big deal if you learn to solder or braise copper fittings. 😉
@@amyqotd5358 how does a radiator put out enough heat to start a fire?
@@iapetusmccool It shouldn’t. But when I was a kid they were in the news for being the cause of most house fires in the area, usually in combination with flammable materials stored nearby.
Hi Diane, some older European style house have some of the things you are talking about. Two faucets in the sink, one for hot and one for cold. Most homes only have two doors, but I remember old homes with a side door. My house does have an entry room but it's really small area. Roofs in the US will last 15 to 30 years depending on where you live and how good of a roof you had installed. You can get the slate roof but they cost a lot! You can plan on replacing your roof about every 15 to 20 years in the US. Have a great week!
Thanks you too!
If the storm should drift westward then you could be in the crosshairs, but not likely. I think we will get some of it in the Carolinas.
1:35 The current trend, is to have a open layout or floor plan. Most entryways/foyer are in older houses. One of the new concepts is to have a mudroom.
That exists in Ireland but it gets very coooold in winter so not too practical
@@DianeJennings hahaha, I don't think you've ever heard of Wisconsin... 😉
@@LiqdPT Or the Rocky Mountains LOL. Where I live it gets a lot colder in winter and a lot hotter in summer than Ireland's moderate climate. It's all about how well your house is insulated, having a mudroom has absolutely no correlation to outside temperatures.
@@themourningstar338 yup, I just kinda picked what I assume might be the most extreme winners of the lower 48. Montana also came to mind.
I have always loved the concept of a dumb waiter, not because I've ever had one and not because I thought it would be useful to deliver food, but because as a child, I was enchanted by the notion of a cubby-hole elevator that would fit me perfectly.
Diane tries not to smirk when she says “mail flap”
And she initially misspoke about the water tap
I really liked the video and I give it a big clap
But Chewie just used the time to take a long nap
There are many types of roofing material used in the states. The most popular is probably asphalt shingles which have a 25 to 30 year life expectancy. Steel roofing is popular in my area that’s what I have , but you’ll also see copper roofing in upscale areas and clay or concrete tile roofing. And the sturdiness of the house depends on age and the building codes at the time. Here in the southeast building codes can be pretty strict because of our hurricanes, most can withstand a pretty good storm.
A rain covered side path in America is often called a "Breezeway" that connects separate car garage from the house proper.
Happy Monday Diane! My house has a hallway, but it's past the living room, and not at the front. And to quote the late great Mitch Hedberg, "I have a king sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, at least he'd be comfortable."
I dream of a king!
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Millions of houses, especially in the eastern US, have aspects that might feel more familiar to someone from Ireland. Both of my childhood homes had a formal central entrance hallway. The one that was 2 stories had a staircase up the right hand side with the living room to one side of the hallway and the dining room on the other side.
Happy Monday. I really love and enjoy this video. Have a very awesome week.
Same to you
A lot of old homes had "Summer Kitchens" in the basement (pre A/C days). They would have Dumbwaiters to facilitate moving the food from there to the dining area. Many homes, at least through the 1950s, used "dead air" as insulation . It was just a space between the outer and inner walls. Fuel was cheap back then. If you have an older home now, most people have insulation blown into the dead air space. Most roofing shingles are made of asphalt, although there are many different kinds of roofing materials.
I liked the creative way you covered Chewie's shanker! ☘️🤣👍
Diane, the house I grew up in had a hallway. It was a ranch-style house (similar to what the British refer to as a (single floor) bungalow house). The front and back yards (gardens) were connected; we had fences enclosing the back yard with gate access. The laundry room was a corner in the garage, next to a secondary refrigerator/freezer.
Apartments that I have lived in have only had tiny hallways. My college dormitory was built in 1916, so the rooms had radiator heating. Elsewhere I've lived, it's been electric or natural gas heating.
I grew up in a house with a mail slot. Our Scottish Terriers would often attack the mail when it was delivered.
My house has a mud porch, it's a simple room between the front door and the living room door. A lot of the older houses in this area do because it's rural and so guests will show up with muddy boots and need to take them off before coming all the way in. Although a lot of people come in via the back door, yes my driveway runs the full length of my house, and it's a utility porch, with the washer and dryer.
Felt shingles go under whatever the final roofing material will be. Usually it's tin or some kind of synthetic.
In older American houses built on a basement many had laundry chutes.there was a large cloth container in the basement to catch all dirty clothes, sheets, etc. because the washer dryer was in the basement. Usually in the bathroom there was a door behind which the chute was and you just dropped the used and dirty thing in there. If you were a mischievous little kid you first check the container to see it was half full then climb in the bathroom chute for a quick exciting free fall into the container. At least until your grandpa or grandma caught you.
I am from the USA & just arrived in your country on Monday. I am absolutely loving it here! The people, the culture, the food, architecture & scenery! My 1st step out of the airport, I noticed the fresh air, smells so good! I will be here until October 28th, I am honored to spend time in Ireland! I did find it strange to walk into my friends apartment, directly into a hallway, no screens on the windows & a clothes washing machine in the kitchen! 😂
Hi Diane, we have a garden in our backyard that is 2 meters by 1.5. It has various veggies, herbs and fruits growing in it when its not cold. Took me a second to realize that you must refer to what we call a yard as a garden. Say hello to the lovely ” Editor” for me please as I’m sure she’ll be thrilled to hear from me again….NOT!!!😍😜.
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I love learning about the differences of various cultures, thanks for this! Our house was built in 1933. Our *laundry* room is actually a tiny back porch. I've rented apartments where the laundry was a large closet type thing in the kitchen and I actually liked it. Growing up, we always hung laundry out to dry, but pollution and HOA's have forced most of that out. More modern homes have an open concept, but I'm not a big fan. It's easier to heat and cool rooms that are separate, imo. We had an acre of land, half of which was a giant garden. My mom, grandmother, and us kids would can and freeze everything and we had a big box freezer in a separate building. I miss it 🙂.
The stove/ cooker in my aunt's 'modern' house in Co. Galway also heats the water for the whole house. I found this out when I got up at 4am before anyone else & had to take an ice cold shower!! In US, we have hot water heaters or a tankless water heater that heats the water as you need it.
Happy Monday to you Diane! You look fabulous as always! I thoroughly enjoyed this video as I do with all of your others. You have a wonderful way of explaining things.Have a great rest of your week my dear. Say hi to Chewie for me! 😎✌️😁
Thank you! You too!
Generally, the mailbox is at the house if it's in a downtown area, however, in the country, or suburbs, the mailbox is near the street, and the driveway. Also, the bathroom outlets have a GFI (Ground Fault Interrupt), which will trip, and therefore prevent electrocutions.
I live in a mid sized east coast American city, and my house is of the bungalo style. It's basically 4 big rooms(living room, kitchen, and 2 bedrooms) connected in the middle by a vestibule room. There is a small bathroom between the kitchen, and one of the bedrooms. Also, there is a utility room( aka mud room) off of the kitchen that has the laundry, hot water heater, and some storage shelves. The garage is a separate building in the back yard, and there is a driveway running from there to the street, although I use the garage as a hobby shop, and the only time a car would be parked in there is if I'm working on it. In America, we call the property around our house the yard and differentiate (front yard, back yard, side yard). I have a vegetable garden in my back yard, behind the garage; and I have a flower garden on each side of my front porch. Many American houses(particularly in the south) have a large covered front porch, with enough space for one, or more chairs.
The house I grew up in had double taps. It was built right after WWII. I lived outside of Boston, Massachusetts. We did not have an entry hall. We did have a mail slot, but my dad removed it, and we had a mailbox on the side of the house. Bedrooms had to have a closet. The bedroom I shared with my sister was 9 feet by 11 feet. We had bunkbeds. Certainly, houses are much bigger now, but I have never lived in a new house. My current house was built in 1954. The rooms are small by US standards.
Another typical set-up for houses in the States is having the front door entry, as aopposed to thegarage door entry, open into a foyer that splits the steps going upwards on one side from the living room on the other with a hallway leading into the kitchen.
There are still a lot of 1890s-1930s row homes in American cities that still have the original coal chutes, where the coal man would deliver the coal you used to cook with and heat the house.
My dad (when he was a young lad) used to get in BIG trouble for peeing in the coal bin.
Mail slots do exist, although they are becoming a relic of the walking postman. Most letter carriers now have a right hand drive vehicle, and it is far more efficient for them to drive to each mailbox, or to the bulk box units, to deliver the mail. Few routes are walking routes anymore, except perhaps in large city environments.
Hi Diane. Happy to get in early and talk to you. We have hallways. We have 2 taps. Just a design choice. The outlet around water has to be a special one. If it gets wet it will trip the breaker in the outlet so you don't have a fire or get electrocuted. We have post box slots. Depends where you live.. ...and your curse got me. I had a flat tire. Why Diane. I'm subscribed and clicked the thumbs up.
Hmmm…. Did you share the video?
About the hallways, we have houses here, mostly in the south, where you walk in the front door, straight down a hallway, and out the back door. The rooms are off on one or both sides. We call those shotgun houses or shotgun shacks, because you could open both doors and fire a shotgun right through the house without hitting anything.
By code a lot of areas in USA, need to have GFI outlets in the kitchen & bathroom. GFI outlets have circuit breakers, the breaker will trip if water touches it. If you notice that little button on the outlet, that resets the little breaker.
Diane, something different in older homes in the southwest US have the washer and dryer in the Garage. It was a big thing in 70s and 80s and vanished in the 90s
Some American homes have a breezeway similar to side passage but they mostly separate the house from the garage but you can still also use it to access front and back yards through it.
In my parents' house growing up, we had a mailbox right by the front door; the mailman opened the box from the outside, and then there was a door on the inside of the house to open and get the mail. In addition to a laundry chute which let you drop clothes from the bathroom to the basement, we also had a milk chute in the kitchen. It was used when fresh milk was delivered straight to your home everyday. Like the mailbox, there was a small door on the outside for the milkman to put milk in a small box, and a door on the inside of the house to get the milk.
Bedrooms here in Ohio must have a closet, and a window in case of fire, but basements in Ohio must also have one window that allows a person to get out, whether there is a bedroom down there or not. The basement in my childhood home had a half door at the top of the steps, which could keep us kids from falling down the stairs.
good show missy really enjoyed our visit. I see chewie was having sleep , as always I wish you only good things and best wishes from Canada
Very snoozy today!
Pre 1960 homes in America did have hallway, for drying cloths we had a steam radiator.you had to be careful because they got very hot, so you could burn your clothing or set them on fire. We also had clothing line from a window to a pole in the yard. We also had dumb watiers to move stuff from floor to floor, they later became laundry shoots or garbage shoots. But thing have changed a lot since the 60’s Some good some bad.
Diane, I use to deliver furniture so I have been in thousands of homes from castles(3 of them) to summer cabins and everything in between and I've seen everything in this video except for the double taps. Basically it just depends on what area you're in.
Awwe, My grandparents house had a dumb waiter. It was so fun to put our toys in there 😀 Thanks for reminding me of a fun memory.
Lighting (makeup?) is on point today. Maybe it's slight reflectiveness in your shirt? Hallways - If you live in a place with lots of snow, most homes have an entryway for wet boots and coats.
thanks! ED felt like it looked sharp today too
AKA mudroom
Mailboxes outside is different depending on where you live, growing up in Southern California had the mail slot in the door, when I moved to New England, I saw the mailbox outside.
Part of the hallway thing could be related to the semi detached style of home common in Ireland. And also having an open floor plan is a trend in newer American homes. I thought Ireland rarely got serious storms. Thanks Diane. 😊
laundry in the kitchen always made me think that's weird. but i guess when talking about plumbing it makes sense?
In America a garden is a spot where we grow vegetables! A lawn is where we grow our grass and maybe a few shrubs or flowers.
That's one cool stuffed animal laying on the bed. Chewie looked so comfortable laying there. I was utterly confused when I saw your washer in your kitchen in one of your past videos. I have a completely separate room for my washer and dryer. We have a garbage disposal in our sink. I laugh when foreigners say we can throw everything down the drain such as chicken bones and use the garbage disposal. That's not how it works. We only put small scraps down the sink.
Love your style, Diane. Did you recently get your hair did? You have such pretty hairstyles throughout the past videos to your recent ones.
We have a lot of these things in the States if your house is old enough. It's just that not very many homes here are even remotely old. LOL They are built as temporary structures, pretty much. For instance, I've lived in houses built in the 1920s or 40s with a washer in the kitchen; so if there is a laundry room, it's probably newer than that, as houses started getting bigger in like the 70s and 80s I think? A friend's house had a mail slot in the door and also even had a milk delivery cupboard that opened on both the outside and inside. Insulation is new, too: another friend lived in a converted late 19th century house that had been made into apartments, and literally it was just slats of wood for the exterior wall. In DENVER. When it was below freezing outside, even with her heat on, it was near freezing inside. There was a plant growing up her INSIDE wall because it had come from outside through a small gap in between slats of wood.
I'm American and live in a rural area. My mailbox is mounted on a post beside the road. Mail carrier drives by and open the lid and put Mail in box.
I've always heard that to qualify as a bedroom the room has to have a closet. Maybe the regulations have changed.
Also, "mum, we need some toast" made me chuckle.
A closet?! So fancy 😂
Yes, in the U.S. to be considered a bedroom the room has to have a closet and a window.
If it doesn’t have a closet you can get an exception IF the room is large enough to fit a wardrobe (single or double door depending on bed size ) in addition to the rest of potential furniture. And if it doesn’t have a window it must have a skylight of minimum size …. Either way the exemptions must be reported in the listings
@@MrSheckstr I'm almost positive it has to have a standard sized window in case of a fire.
@@dongleason9878 A closet isn't needed everywhere. Both of my grandmothers' houses have no built in closets. I checked and only in certain states or even only in certain counties or cities, is a sort of closet needed to call a room a bedroom. It can be a corner with a hanging rod across it. Double taps are in older houses, commercial restrooms, hotels, motels, camp grounds, warehouses and especially common on military bases in America.
here in canada, its a mix for mailboxes... some have the flaps, others have the boxes.. for security reasons tho, most places have the boxes.
I lived in an old mansion when i was a teen that had a dumbwaiter in it.. it took food from the kitchen to the wet bar / dance floor upstairs
Mail flaps used to be common in the U.S. but they are a security risk and also an energy consumer when it comes to heating or cooling your home.
We have a hallway as you come into the door that goes into the living room with the Kitchen on one side and the dining room on the other. There is a hallway before you get to the living room that goes to two other bedroom with the laundry room at the end.
In our house, we have a defined foyer/entryway immediately inside the front door. The kitchen is through the door on the left, the living room is directly forward, down a step, and, to the right is a large hallway that all the bedrooms are off of.
With attached houses building codes require firestops between dwellings. So walls between are usually cement or masonry with fireproof/soundproof insulation in addition.
The thing that struck me about American homes was the family room. This was in addition to living room. Growing up in an Irish home we spent most time in what we called the kitchen but actually we had a back kitchen with a sink, cooker and fridge. There was also shelves for food storage. The kitchen had a table and chairs, shelves for ornaments, cupboards for dishes, condiments and some foods like cereal. There was a range with a kettle always on it and the stovetop used for cooking although I have a vague memory of making a baked Alaska in the oven when the range was new. Randomly, there was a wardrobe in the kitchen and also the water heater and airing cupboard. The tv and radio were there and the ladder to the attic. There was four doors out of the kitchen. One to the hall, one to the back kitchen and two to bedrooms. Just realized I am speaking in past tense, certainly this is the way it was in the 70s but my brother still lives there and many things are the same half a century later
I took a R&R & later a 1 wk. leave in Sydney Australia while serving in Viet. I met a young lady who I later married. I stayed at her parents house in the suburbs. This was 1969. The big difference between an Australian home & an American home at that time was in Australia all of the bedrooms were on the 1st floor & the living room & kitchen were on the 2nd. to keep the bedrooms cooler. Also, there was no toilet in the bathroom. The toilet was down in the basement. They also had very old style plumbing fixtures.
Early 1900s Houses would often have a little "Mail box" sort of thing, built beside the front door...
So the Milk man could open it up and leave your Milk delivery, which you could access from inside the house.
It's very cool hearing about the 10 crazy differences between Irish and USA House.
Our yards where I live in the US are separate. You have to go through most homes here to get to the back yard. My house as well as my parents has an entry way with a coat closet and we have hallways as well.
Diane, our shingles are made of asphalt and copper, the "felt" is the underlay, but that is synthetic nowadays.
Mail slots in doors stopped being common years ago in the USA. Definitely a rarity now. I have a hall way. About 50/50 here. My lawn goes all the way around out houses, except for condos or townhomes, which generally are like you describe in Irish homes. Several plugs in bathrooms to accommodate electric blow dryers, hair curlers and irons, toothbrushes and water picks. Most houses have either a laundry room or a laundry closet, some have relegated it to the garage or basement. Almost everyone has a dryer as clothes lines are often barred by community rules. Older homes may still have radiators, but with the near universal inclusion of AC units most newer homes have forced air heat using the same ductwork. Never had servant bells or dumb waiters in any house. We did have laundry chutes. Bedrooms are generally at least 8 by 11. There are smaller ones but they are exceptional. A standard house for a family of 4 used to be 1400-1500 sq. ft. 3 bedroom, 1 full bath. Today they are much larger 2200 to 3200+ sq. ft. 4 or more bedrooms, at least 2 1/2 bathrooms and a 2 car garage. They are also much more well insulated and air tight. Most stone on current houses now are just a facade, the structure is almost always wood. I have stucco and decorative stone on an entirely wooded structure in a poured concrete slab. My roof is Mexican tile (shaped like a piece of pipe cut in half sideways) on top of plywood covered in tar paper. Single taps used to be common, not anymore. Yes we have larger refrigerators and freezers, sometimes a second one or separate freezer in the garage!
Hallways as you call them are still a common feature in American homes in colder climates, but they are now essentially square-shaped and wider with more room. Some older houses in colder climates have two front doors that act something like an air-lock to keep the cold air outside.
I've seen a dumbwaiter before, I just didn't know the name! Learning things!
It's not uncommon here for a 2nd fridge in the garage, and if there is a basement you can often find a large deep freezer there as well.
Learning togetherrrr 🎶
@@DianeJennings My 1st office at my last job had was in a building that had a dumbwaiter. Since the door that closed it off from the rest of the room was the same paneling as the rest of the room, I think I was in that building for about 8 to 10 years before I realized it was there. You went to the back of the room and there was a little button with a keyhole. If you pushed that button in, then the door would open. It was so very Scooby Doo! I don't remember seeing on the 2nd floor where it went to. Perhaps it went to the basement, because those mansions often had kitchen in the basement and at that time it was just laundry service for the nursing department.
Is Chewie starting an Only Fans there? 😄
I have a mini refrigerator upstairs for beverages and a regular size refrigerator in the kitchen downstairs.
In the northern US, most homes either have a foyer/hallway, or a "Mud room," that you enter into, for the same reason that you do in Ireland - coats and to change out of your mucky shoes. It's very practical.
The normal build type in the US is called, "Balloon framing." Although for reasonably bad weather like Ireland gets, a masonry building is superior in performance; in some of the extreme weather such as hurricanes and tornados, the wooden framing actually performs better because they can be all nailed down, and it keeps the house from lifting off of the foundation and the roof from lifting off the house, and in EF4+ tornados makes fewer projectiles. Oh, and the wooden frames are easier to insulate for extreme cold and hot weather. The more you know! :)
I have a hallway in my house but it's older; built in 1887. It's a "Victorian Era New Englander". Many of this type of house were divided into apartments.
It sounds like Ireland hasn't update it home construction since before World War 1 ... We had all these things in the 1800s and early 1900s, we progressed...
I had a lot of these things in my childhood home in St. Louis City, mail slot, hallways, etc. Granted my house was over 100 years old. In the back yard, we actually had a carriage house. Yes, as in horse and carriage. Depending on the city and neighborhood in the city, you will find these things.
As for electrical outlets in bathrooms, they are required by code to be GFCI. That is Ground Fault Circuit Interrupt. If you were to throw a running hair dryer into a full tub, the GFCI would trip immediately to prevent electrocution. Many hair dryers themselves have their own GFCI breaker nowadays as well.. Just in case.
We have an entryway, my parents do not. We have a back (yard) garden fenced and gated, and an open front. We have to have GGCI outlets in the bathroom and kitchen. Most houses utilize forced air to heat and/or cool. There is a television news studio here that still has a dumb waiter.
I am in the USA and i have an entry way hallway. It varies here in the USA and homes built in certain years tend to have entry hall ways. Almost all american homes have central air conditioning and central heating. Very few homes have radiator heat.
I have a full fridge in the kitchen, a full in the detached garage, and a chest freezer in the basement. My mom's fridge went kaput a month ago, and the extra one I have kept her from throwing out a Ton of food. And we like frozen pizza, so the extra freezer space is always used. But this might be a regional thing in Minnesota and upper Midwest.
American houses usually have hallways, especially the ranch style houses built from the '50s through the '80s, they just don't start at the front door. Bedrooms and shared bathrooms generally open off of a hallway.
American house construction is regional base. Out west stucco and tile is used a lot, brick and mortar mid west, wood is used all around (south does have a termite issue though which Ireland does not need to deal with).
It's was fun hearing about the differences between Irish and America House.
I think most of these differences can be explained with the age of the homes in the two countries. The Irish houses you described sound very similar to the houses my grandparents lived in that were built around 1900. I don't know this for sure, but my guess would be after World War II when the USA had a huge population explosion and the need for housing skyrocketed, we started building these wooden houses because they could be built quickly and cheaply and the designs have evolved since then. I don't know the exact average age of houses in the US vs Ireland, but I bet Irish homes are about 100 years plus older than US homes, on average. That would explain a lot of what you talked about.
In Chicago, they outlawed wood vs brick after the fire (1871), but that meant a lot of immigrants and others went to what was then out of the city -- lots of Germans did, for example -- to build with wood. Later Chicago annexed a lot of those areas and newer places are built more frequently in brick (1930s or so), although.a lot are wood again -- its just common in parts of the US with lots of wood. Wood vs brick really varies based on location in the US and time period. Same with detached vs non detached, although townhouses and such are more common in cities, of course.
The house I live in -in Indiana used to be heated by coal! No air conditioning. I cool this house with 2 window AC units and 2 space heaters.
We don’t have side passages in America because the front and back yard are connected with more yard.
When I was in on of the museums in Dublin, I was surprised to see that the buildings that the Vikings built were very much like the "longhouses" that the Hurons and other Iroquoian First Nations had built in the area I grew up in.
When my great grandfather's grandfather came to Canada, he was given 160 acres of land. Forty acres of woodlot to use to build a house, forty acres of woodlot to build a barn, forty acres of woodlot to use for fire wood, and forty acres of woodlot to use as a "sugarbush" where maple sap would be collected to make maple syrup.
Canadian homes are much like American homes and when winter weather can even stretch its icy hand to Texas, insulation is a MUST.
Greetings Diane
Yes, I understand that you are speaking in generalities. However, I want to help explain some things also in 'general' terms. Hope this helps you and your foreign viewers understand some things in the US.
Mail slots on the doors tend to exist more in big cities (and suburbs) and closer to the West coast while hallways and entry ways tend to exist more in the Midwest and East Coast homes and properties.
Wrap-around gardens tend to exist in large plot properties. Since about the 80s with smaller plot homes, places do have front and back yards with a side gate or entryway or 'side-passages', but not wrap-around. We also tend to have stone (brick) or wood fences seperating one property from the next.
Yes people in USA either have a separate laundry room or they will use their garage as the laundry room. We also have seperate washer and dryer units or a combination ot the 2 where the dryer is on top of the washing machine part. We also have laundrymats (a business) where people go to wash and dry their clothes while paying with money (coins) or a reloadable card. Are such places common or rare in Ireland?
Yes new houses usually built in the mid 90s and after have central heating and air (the AC). However most houses and apartment complexes east of the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Coas built in the 80s and older STILL have radiadors like in Ireland and other parts of Europe. This can be seen in many films that take place in citie like NYC, Boston, Jersey City, Hoboken, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and other East Coast larger cities, .This also goes for 'ding-dong' doorbells
Dumbwaiters can also be found in old large houses, mansions, and hotels across USA, but mostly in the East Coast and the South of America. It can be seen in films (for example) like "The Money Pit" or "The Shining".
About bedrooms and 'dodgy' rentals, New York City and its 5 boroughs is known for having apartments that are no bigger than about 8 feet wide by 12 feet deep by 11 feet high. Basically a walking closet size.
Actually, Irish and American are not that different when talking about houses built in the 70's and older. They will more likely be built more sturdy with cement foundations and walls, have double taps in every sink in the house and even garage, and being built close together such as Townhomes in NYC, This can be seen in films like "Do the Right Thing" or tv shows like "Sex in the City", "Law and Order", just to name a few.
Depending on the style of house, the roof can be adobe (clay), metal roofing, ceramic tiles, or slate, asphalt, or wood shingles.
Hope that my explanation help clarify some things easier for non-Americans. Have an AMAZING week Diane!!))
I can't speak for all states, and I can't recite the specifics, but my area has requirements regarding having a window of a minimum size in the room in order to call it a bedroom. Without the minimum square footage or the minimum windows size, you can't advertise the room as a bedroom in real estate listings. In the description, you can say something like ""3, possibly 4 bedrooms," but the listing would need to specify 3 bedrooms in this situation.
The US has a wide variety of mail delivery options. Some older houses do have mail slots in the door. My aunt used to live in a house where there was a small door on the outside wall. The mail carrier opens the door, inserts the mail, and it drops down to where the resident opens a door on the inside to grab it. Most older houses have the mailbox attached to the outside of the house, as you described. Most newer houses have mailboxes out at the street. My extended neighborhood has a combination of those two and mailboxes out at the sidewalk. Some newer neighborhoods may have a structure where all the mailboxes for that community are located.
While our home is humungous (Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two laundry rooms, three living rooms, two kitchens, three car garage, full basement, one acre) it's because we have a "mother in law suite", essentially a smaller house attached to a larger house so it's shaped like the letter "L", and that is all on one floor, no second floor. Both are attached by doors into a common ("third") living room, and each has its own independent water heater and heat pump. You need both heating and air conditioning here, as it gets both VERY hot and VERY cold. Many of us also grow some of our food, that takes place in what you would call the back garden, we call that a back yard, where we GROW a garden: Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage and so on. We don't all have those giant refrigerators, in our case we have two smaller refrigerators with the freezer space located above the refrigerator space, as these are much more efficient, and also we have a large chest type "deep Freeze" as we call it, i suppose that it is over five feet wide, four feet deep, and three feet in width, so about sixty square feet. These are notoriously efficient and bring a great savings to a large family. Back yards are often fenced in, but in our case we have an electric fence to protect the garden from the numerous deer and rabbits. Curiously? You almost NEVER find a garden in the front yard that faces the road, nor in either "side" yard. Many homes (though not ours) have a back up generator that powers the entire house when the main power goes out. I hope to add that someday and a small greenhouse to get an earlier start on planting and to extend the fall season a bit at least as far as tomatoes go. Most gardens are just casual, though you will find some that significantly offset food costs, again especially so for large families. There is now quite a pushback on large homes, with a "tiny home" movement. Many times cities will keep these "tiny homes" from being built by enacting oppressive "minimum square foot" rules. And while we have a large family by American/Canadian standards, it's kind of strange that a lot of people who are single or only a couple will have a large home, not for utility of space, but just for show. And it's silly. Young couples will often buy a "starter" home, and after they have kids, they will sell that and move to a larger home. It's also rare that grandparents live with the family. I would say that this was more so say three generations ago, and today still holds with immigrants who are used to these type of extended family living arrangements from whatever particular culture that they hail from. As economic times become tough, the price of purchasing a home has become (almost overnight) absolutely outrageous, with homes in New York and California being out of the question unless you are fabulously well off, and the problem is getting much worse very quickly. We have a LOT of homeless people in the US, which lacks national health care let alone a reasonable social net. This is less so in Canada, but certainly exists, especially in the Vancouver, BC area, Toronto and the other provincial cities to a degree as well. There's SERIOUS Economic Trouble here, and this predated the Pandemic for those with a short memory. All the Best! 73 DE W8LV BILL