"Manchester" is the department in the shop where the products are bought or a term for the class of products, once you've brought them home they are usually put into the linen cupboard and referred to by more descriptive names like 'hand towels', 'bath towels', and the various specific types of bedclothes.
I moved from QLD to Tasmania and was so surprised in the difference with houses and terminology. My first impression was it's how I imagined UK to be like and have heard others compare too. With how cold Tasmania is there are far more similarities to UK than mainland Australia I think.
That's why I settled here. It's the most un-Australian of Australian states, and the landscape reminded me so much of the UK, which is where I lived as a child. I too moved here from Brisbane, just for a year initially, but that was in 1986!!
I’m an Aussie! I live in QLD. Have lived in the UK, so I’m very familiar with everything UK. But I’ve never been to Tassie 😮! Does Tassie have double glazing on windows and oil heaters on walls?
I'm an Aussie - An old friend and I, were discussing changes in our way of living, over the years. He said..." I remember when the dunny (toilet) was in the backyard and we ate in the kitchen. Now we have sewerage connected and the dunny is in the house. We also now have barbeques in the backyard. So, we now poop inside and eat out in the yard!"
Early Australian settlers had 'UK' thinking and this was reflected in how we built etc but this time this changed to the actual environment people were leaving in rather than where their original 'roots' were from.
No one wants to urinate at 3am outside in the bitter cold, or walk outside when you've got the runs in the middle of summer when it's full of mozzies 😂 Happy to poop inside in a nice modern bathroom thanks
In Australia, historically, blocks of land were bigger (unless you were in the city where you would find terraced houses), so it's much further for the postman to travel to deliver letters/mail. This is changing because of more dense building practices. House blocks are becoming much smaller. Our postie travels on a motor scooter, putting the letters in the letter box that is near the front property line. In the UK, the postie usually walks dropping mail into people's mailboxes in the door of the house.
actually that's not true because in the UK the postie pushes the mail through a slot in the front door instead of a post box at the top of your property. Factor that in and I think you'll find they travel no further than a British postie does having to go down everyone's front path. Not all Brits live in terraced houses. I grew up in one and we still had a front yard and a path the postie had to go down.
@@warpedweft9004 What is all this competition !Which postman travels the furthest ,the UK or OZ , it doesn’t really matter , so long as the service is good !
@@louisaklimentos7583 its not competition. It's just when someone says something outlandishly ridiculous, the teacher in me needs to set the record straight. It's okay for people to have different opinions and different experiences but don't say ALL or MOST, when clearly it isn't all or most.
@@warpedweft9004 I see what you mean . It is like when the British backpackers come to visit Australia and claim that we don’t use heating in our houses , which isn’t true . Then someone will correct them too ! .
The main reason for the separate letterbox is simple: most mail is delivered by van (parcels) or motorbike (letters) and neither can get close enough to the front door to make the mail slit unworkable. Double glazing is becoming a voluntary extra for new houses in some areas, but it can be an expense that the homeowner cannot afford
Yes we've just elected to go for double glazing on our new build, definitely an added cost but we're moving to a cold part of Victoria and are keen on the double glazing to help reduce our heating costs. Wish it were more a standard though! I know a lot of rentals I've lived in have been freezing in winter so looking forward to some warmer mornings.
Very few Aussie suburban homes are built right on the footpath - we have about 30' / 10m of lawn, driveway and garden between our front fence and the front of the house; which is pretty typical, and that's impractical for the postie to do a front door drop-off.
Posties have the same right to enter your property /for a legal reason/ (delivering a 'signature required' letter or a parcel?) as any other person has. But you have the right to refuse them that entry and require them to leave. And they must ask before driving a vehicle onto your property (including the driveway). That latter point may be what the postie was explaining.@@Tamaresque
Roofs are generally much “flatter” in Australia (whereas in the UK you have a larger gradient so the snow slides off). Many homes also have a fresh rainwater tank (especially in rural areas). Backyard clothes lines are pretty much standard. There are also many more roof solar panels (for obvious reasons). Also 2 door garages are common (some with a small workshop area included). They form part of the house itself whereby you drive in, close the roller door and you generally have an internal access door straight into the house (usually the kitchen whereby you can unload groceries straight from the car boot). I can’t recall the last time I actually used the front door.
Depends on where you live. Where I am there are many homes with tall roofs and some have attics. We get snow three hours away. Not many homes have clotheslines in the backyard anymore as more people are choosing to use dryers instead. I’ve never used my back clothes line and just use the clothesline in the sunroom. Also in my area it’s more common to have a very large workshop garage at the back of the house for cars now. Just depends on where you live. I’ve lived in many states here.
@@Beeannks I don't know anyone with a workshop in their yard and certainly not in new housing developments. You can't swing a cat in those yards, let alone have a garage/workshop in them. The council will not let you build over more than a certain percentage of your land anyway.
I always enter & exit my house via the garage because I usually drive. But when I broke my foot & couldn’t drive, I also went out via the garage because it was an easier & flatter exit.
Aussie living in Melbourne. I have central heating and cooling and we’ve had that for over 15 years. I think it comes down to the owners of the home and affordability. A lot of homes have split systems these days. Some warm days (under 30’C) I just use an oscillating fan in the room I’m spending my time in. On cooler days I might just chuck a jumper or hoodie on and on cold days/nights central heating will go on.. Letternbox at front of property. Dunny has its own room. Washing machine and dryer in the laundry which many are around the size of bathroom as it will have large cupboard/closets for linen etc and a troughs cupboard underneath like the bathroom sinks do
actually no, the laundry is only spacious with cupboards if you have a high end house. The laundries I've had were too small to put a cupboard in until this last house. My daughter can't fit a cupboard in her laundry. The drier is above the washing machine and she has a slim laundry tub. Everything has to be stored on shelves above the tub. There's no cupboards at all.
Yes. We do have central heating in some places. I went to university in Armidale, which is an area of NSW called the New England. It has a very similar climate to southern England. The residential colleges were all centrally heated with oil radiators attached to the wall. Also sunrooms, which are similar to conservatories, are common in the New England area.
I’m an Australian, we live in Northern Victoria. We get fairly cold winters and bloody hot summers. We built our home 25 years ago. It is a large home of 40 sq. We have ducted evaporative cooling, under floor heating and a wood fire which goes non stop in winter, we normally can keep the house a very comfortable 21 deg in winter. Double glazed windows are becoming more of a thing as they keep the house cooler in summer and warmer in winter and those that live in the city it cut’s noise out.
Double glazing is now becoming quite popular in Australia, with some councils requiring it for newly built housing. This is being pushed mainly as a result of climate change initiatives. Many people prefer double glazing because it reduces the intrusion of external noise within the home. The term Manchester, for bed linen and towels used to be very common last century, but its use has substantially declined in recent years (at least in Victoria, the state I live in). It is now more commonly referred to as bedding or towels or sometimes simply linen.
Bedding, towels etc is Manchester but you would never ever hear an Aussie say 'I'll finish my beer and then put the manchester on the bed.....like What!' We have department stores that sells manchester items, but it's not an individual term we'd use.
Im from Victoria, a lot of houses here do have central gas heating, especially the newer ones built in the last 20 to 30 years. It gets cold in the winter. A lot of the older houses have a single gas heater like the one pictured - they often converted brick fireplaces from open timber fireplaces to gas or electric heaters. We also often use reverse cycle / heat pump systems for heating and cooling.
As for “Manchester” I’ve never called it that. I would call the collective of towels and sheets etc as linens. And they’d be stored in a linen cupboard.
Yes, we call bedding, Manchester. The fan in the bathroom is an extraction fan to remove the steam. If you don’t do that in the north - mould grows fast. The veranda out front and back become bigger the further north you go (helps keep the house cool as well). I have never seen a radiator in Australia, but think they were around in old houses. Most places around me (in Queensland) do have a fire place for use in winter but city houses tend not to have them. They do take up space and are only used for 2 months at most.
@@herctwenty11 It certainly was common to see Manchester Departments in the larger stores in Sydney. And I remember seeing advertising for Manchester Sales. I'll have to be more observant next time I'm in a department store and check to see if they still do it.
@@herctwenty11 it have a linen cupboard, shops tend to have “Manchester”. I know what both are because I don’t live in Melbourne and can have a civilised disagreement without being accusatory. I tent to call them sheets and towels. Nothing is made of linen anymore or made in Manchester so I guess we are all wrong.
Double glazing isn't common in Australia because of the cost, but hopefully this is changing as ppl try reduce heat & save on power costs. Apartments rarely have separate laundry rooms (maybe a nook at best), but houses do.
Yeah, I think the main difference between aus and the uk in regards to laundry is if we don’t have the space we put the machines in the bathroom and they put them in the kitchen.
Most modern apartments have a separate room for laundry and is the case where I live in Sydney. Only one place I lived in where the laundry was downstairs (not communal) which was an older style flat/apartments
Melbourne homes will always have a heating unit of some form in the house by default, Melbourne in winter can get really cold. I was over in the UK during December a few years back and all the buildings and hotels were so hot inside, while in Melbourne if its 7c outside its probably about the same or colder inside. Small space heaters are sold everywhere here in winter for your bedrooms etc if you don't have ducted heating.
I'm Aussie and have lived in Australia all my life. That's the first time I have ever heard anyone call bedding a Manchester. So I believe you're right to say it must be only a Sydney thing.
Brit living in Melbourne, the houses are effing freezing in winter and boiling in summer!! They are not insulated and are only made of timber with brick veneer walls. There is no central heating with radiators. We renovated our house and uPVC double glazing installed which made some improvement but was still cold. No letter boxes in the door haha. If we were ever to return to the uk, I’d love to have a verandah in the back as it creates a lovely cosy space.
Hello from Australia. Double Glazed windows were introduced to Australia only in the 80’s that’s why most to a lot of older homes don’t have them. Every new build I have seen has them or if people replace a window they often now opt to put them in. Also central heating was only becoming somewhat common in 70’s and 80’s and we can often be behind other countries, especially back in the day, also I assume it would have cost more to install at the time.
Manchester is the name of a department in a store where they sell manchester: sheets, blankets etc. We usually call that stuff 'linen' collectively. It was even called 'drapery' in the old days because it included curtains.
I'm from Australia. Laundry's are almost never in the kitchen, however it is pretty common to have a combined bathroom/laundry or a European laundry in a hallway in new builds. Two story houses aren't common as for the last two decades or so most councils have required the bottom 3/4 of windows on the top story to be frosted for privacy reasons, which makes them feel a lot more claustrophobic & let much less light in. Therefore most people decide to just build a single story place instead. They were very popular in the 1980's and 1990's though, so most of the older suburbs still have a lot of two story houses. 'Manchester' isn't really a common term anymore. We'd call it 'linen'. And a 'lounge' would usually be called a 'living room' unless there were two of them (in which case the formal one would be a 'lounge room' and the other one would be a 'living room'. I have seen the heaters like the ones in the UK, but they are incredibly rare. Nearly all houses have split systems these days, but some older ones have gas ducted heating (with vents in the floor) and evaporative cooling.
The terminology part is a bit weird. I don't know anybody who says "lounge" - we'd all call it a couch or sometimes a sofa where I live - but we do say "lounge room". I've never heard someone refer to bedding as "Manchester". I have seen the term used in branding and company names, but we just say "bedding, sheets, linens, etc". "Babe give me a hand changing the sheets/bedding". Never hear "Babe give me a hand changing the Manchester." I'd find that really unusual and it'd catch me off guard. We do say doona, that one is legit.
We have very extreme weather here in Oz, so nearly everyone one has air-conditioned houses or flats or ducted air-con which usually incorporates heating, we can also have ceiling fans, nearly all houses have a laundry and we dont call Bedding Manchester, also the blocks of land are usually large and we have back verandahs more so than front, screens are on windows and doors as we get heaps of flys coming in, you can have double glazed windows if your house doesnt have them, but their expensive, and at the moment a 3 bedroom house on the outskirts of Sydney can cost you 500,000 pounds and upwards, if its in Sydney itself much more.
My mother, 6th generation Aussie never used the the term lounge room or lounge.. It was always the 'dining room' and the 'sitting room'. It's a wonder there wasn't a 'drawing room' hidden away somewhere 😂. Also we don't usually have a bidet, and showers are not usually over the bath. Also, Tasmania is freezing in winter, but double glazing is $$$$. We have a free standing woodheater.
In Australia, Flats are still called flats. Those older style flats, which are usually only two storey high. Units are single storey smaller houses and there are usually 3 to 6 or more on the one block of land.
Its always freaked me out that the UK has their washing machine in their kitchen. Seems a little gross to me. Food and dirty undies should not share the same space. But I love UK people
I would say she is 50% wrong. We do have double glazed windows but it’s just expensive to get. My last house had it and I’ll be getting it on this house soon. I’ve never ever heard of Manchester, it’s always been linen. We do call quilts duvet. All my homes have always had a conservatory, we call them either sunrooms or a Queenslander and we can open it up to let the outside in if we choose to at the back of the house and my current home has a large one. A lot of homes have log burners and reverse cycle air conditioning. All homes here have laundry rooms. We have large front yards so our letterboxes are at the front near the road. Every place is different as you either live in a flood zone, cyclone area or somewhere that snows. Also the bungalows is not the most common house here, there are a lot of two story homes as well that are just as common, again depends on where you live.
Hi yes Double glazing windows are available in Australia but are not common. My house was retro fitted with Double glazing 5 years ago and to be honest it was a great investment not cheap to instal but helps in winter to maintain the warmth and summer to reflect heat. My heating/cooling bill has probebly been reduced by 40% over a year. I got it to reduce outside street noise .i wish more houses here were offed this option at build time
While there are sockets in Australian bathrooms there are strict regulations on their placement relative to baths and showers that puts them out of reach of splashing. Also Australian sockets must have an on-off switch. The word manchester for bedding and towels is used by some retail outlets but rarely used by people in normal conversation.
Originally from Manchester here. I lived 12 years in Sydney, 2 years Mebourne. Units (flats) in Sydney and Melbourne more pricey suburbs can be older, federation srtyle - definitely colder than UK apartments during winter. Sydney you can go outside and get a nice, crisp sunny day though - Melbourne is a shocker during Winter. Cold/windy outside, and still cold inside! Thankfully reverse cycle aircon units can heat and cool ;)
Wall radiators are becoming more common in Melbourne where it gets colder than other capitals. They are very expensive though and only found in wealthier suburbs.
In Australia “Manchester” might be a term in a department store, but rarely in a home. It is more likely to be called “linen”, even though it is almost always cotton, or today it might be bamboo. Re double glazes windows, the length of season might dictate what is needed. We need to be able to open windows for a cool breeze as well as fresh air almost everywhere in Australia. In southern Queensland winter is very brief and we can put up with the cold, and might have a heater in one room or living area. We need to cool the house for a much longer period than we need to heat it. Increasingly, people can afford split system air conditioning which I have in 6 areas of the home.
Laundries are most often NOT in kitchens due to sanitary building regulations. There has to be space /a corridor and two doors between toilets and perhaps the laundry.
I heard that traditional houses in Australia typically allow for about ten complete changes of air in the house per hour which seems a lot to me. In other colder climates, the buildings are traditionally more tightly sealed and have a much lower change of airflow per hour which seems needed to keep the heat in and the cold out.
We do say flat , and the shops say Manchester we just say sheets, towels etc ,. It's couch in the lounge or loungeroom. Houses in Queensland look different than the ones down South..lot's more she didn't get right exactly but almost
Most Australian houses have a front yard and often a wall or fence. Totally impractical for mail deliveries, hence letter boxes are normally stand alone on the boundary. Makes it much easier for the postman.
Many council areas do not allow you to have a fence in the front yard. It's not most houses, its only some that have fences or walls, and mostly much older areas/homes. It is partly due to access in case of emergencies and partly to do with local development plans. You are NOT allowed to fence or wall off the first 7 metres of your property anyway because of utilities and pedestrian access.
@@warpedweft9004 Don't know where you live, but I've personally never heard of a rule about not allowing fences/walls on street facing boundaries. Obviously the majority of councils have rules around the size, placement and type of structure you can construct. That said, I did say on the boundary...meaning the property boundary, which in the majority of cases is not the roadside. The front verge is a public area everywhere in Australia as far as I know. Yes, fences and walls are more common in older areas, but where I live they're in new suburbs as well, particularly on main roads where they help deaden noise and provide extra security and privacy. The placement of letterboxes on property boundaries has been around for many, many years. Hence even new suburbs have letter boxes on boundaries and not holes or slits in front doors.
Manchester is a collective term in a shop for the towel, sheet and quilt section of the shop. We don't call it Manchester at home. We just call it a doona, or a quilt or a towel etc. Double glazing on windows is common esp in the hills that surround the cities, as it gets colder (Adelaide Hills, suburbs in Melbourne hills etc). We also have fire heaters in our lounge rooms and is common. Mostly in newer homes its a stand-alone wood fire heater with a flue going up into the ceiling. Older homes will have a built in fire place. Maybe not so much in Sydney or further up but definitely in Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania. Perth I am not so sure of. We don't have letterbox in the front door. 99% of people would have a letterbox or if you live in the country and you dont have a Postie (a person who delivers your mail) in the area (too remote) you have a letterbox at the local Post Office in town.
A Flat can be called a Flat or Unit in Australia. We call Bedding, Manchester only for where it is located in the shop, so 'manchester department'. Otherwise its called blankets and sheets.
Units or apartments in Australia used to be called flats all the time when I was growing up, but from about the mid 70’s - early 80’s the term fell out of fashion, and flats came to be seen as ‘poor person’ accomodation. We contort ourselves with various names like villa, townhouse, apartment etc to avoid using the word ‘flat’. It’s an interesting example from my lifetime of how snobbery and marketing can change a language.
We definitely do have double glazing..and larger rooms and built-in wardrobe.and our houses are normally set back from the road so yes we do have a letter box out the front
One peculiarity of Australian expression is that "building a home" here does *not* mean getting out the trowel or the saw; instead it means paying a builder to build a home for you, even if it's not designed by an architect.
Re a cold home you will find they don’t have adequate insulation in the walls or roofs As for heating in newer homes you will get a fire but most homes have reverse cycle aircon for all year round. This video doesn’t really show the “true” Australian home as it differs all around the country
It is very cold in Winter inside our home. Our house in Brisbane is definitely set up for hot weather. Mind you though, our Summer lasts for 9 months. And last year Winter was on a Tuesday. So I dont mind freezing for Winter, much prefer having air con for Summer.
We call our bedding, sheets, towels donnas. We buy them from the 'manchester' department, like in Kmart. I've never said or even heard "oh, I'm gonna change the manchester on my bed". 🇦🇺
Yes...Manchester is very common in Australia. In every department store the section where curtains, bedding and towels are located are signed as the Manchester section.
G'day to you,I am Ex Pat Mancunian ,I grew up in a typical street Row upon Row of exactly the Same House, I now live in Armadale Western Australia its what you call a Bungalow , close to 1/4 acre block, Yes we have a Laundry Room all by its self!
Given that in Australia that we have building regulations which require you to get a minimum level of 'green points' when building a new home i.e. you can choose grey water system, double glazing, solar/heat pump hot water system, so double glazing is becoming more common and some retrofit old homes.
Living in Canberra, most newer up market houses and apartments have double or even triple glazing as well as high rated wall, ceiling and floor insulation, making them very energy efficient all year round. High energy-efficient houses also tend to have narrower eaves. Canberra, being up in the hills, has the four clearly definite seasons. The coldest month of July ranges in temperature from minimum -7 degrees C to maximum around 10 deg C. But after a cold clear freezing night the day can be clear and sunny up to 15degC. Canberra autumn and spring are fabulous and will often rain with high winds. October and November in recent years have been quite wet and cool. Late November into December it starts to warm up, with hot days minimum in low 20s to maximums in high 30s. January, February and even into March can be very hot, with the odd hailstorm, causing widespread damage. House lot sizes are growing smaller as land becomes more expensive. It’s not unusual for new suburban houses to have lot areas of around 250-275 square metres for a two-level house with double garage. Townhouses (terraces) and apartments (units or flats) are becoming more common.
I live in Western Australia. We live in comparatively small three bedroom, two bathroom plus office home. Wh have a small below ground pool outside as well as a covered patio. We have solar panels on the roof, a 2 car garage and reverse cycle air condirioning. I think we used heating maybe a dozen times over the winter, it was very mild and just didn't get very cold. Our windows face north and east so in winter we get a lot of sun which provides passive heating. The bonus is very small power bills!
Agree with most, but here in Melbourne which is colder than Sydney, almost everybody I know has gas powered ducted heating. We have hydronic like the UK and Europe as we live in the hills in a big house and it's cold. We close off the rooms we don't use and don't heat them. I have NEVER heard anyone call a sofa a lounge. It's either couch or sofa. Doona is a brand name, but used a lot. Also, almost all Aussie kitchens have dishwashers.
Aus living seems similar to South Africa weather. Washing machines under the sink unless it's a massive house, postboxes are attached to the fence/wall to prevent access inside the property. No double glazing here either, really cold months are maybe 3 in total and temporary heating is used if any. We don't any any sockets in the bathrooms 😅 Oh a lot of the house styles are similar to South Africa... hope this is interesting.
Im from Canberra which is one of the colder cities in Winter, we do have double glazing it is not that uncommon anymore in newer homes. I have loads of friends that have retro fitted it as well. Canberra homes also tend to have ducted gas or elec heating we also have ducted evap cooloing as well as its great for Canberra's really hot summers. We get minus's in winter and over 40 in summer. We call it Linen not manchester
Not going through all the comments to see if this is already there. With regards to manchester, more commonly found as a department or area in a store. Specifically with regards to Doona aka Quilt . . . we were always told that a Quilt has a separate cover where as a Doona doesn't. From Brisbane, Qld, and in winter we can reverse our ceiling fan so it pushes the warm air back down which helps with the cold, but yeah, anything below 18oC can be considered cold.
A washing machine in the kitchen is unheard of...never seen it. As stated in the video...we have a laundry room where a washing machine, dryer and washing sink are the norm...we also have a full fridge, not those mini fridges that you see under UK kitchen counters. Dont think I have ever seen those radiators like in the UK...it would not get cold enough for those radiators for most places. I rarely heat my house in winter (cooling on the other hand in the dead of summer is necessary)...Machester is what they refer to as bedding in stores...but I dont normally use that word in everyday talk
I don't know where you live but it gets very cold in the southern states in the winter. Our house is flipping freezing. Even with coats on you'd freeze in the winter, and we live in Sydney.
It's a bit of a generalisation. I live in a terraced house (attached to others on both sides) in Australia. Most suburbs within 6-7km of the city centre are dominated by them, not big houses like in that video.
We have double glazing in our house (in Tasmania) but I don't think it is very common. Probably becoming more common as power prices increase. Screen doors and windows are becoming more heavy duty now due to crime. "Manchester" is more used in retail than in the home, I think.
I live in Tasmania, recently moved back after 32 years in Queensland. In Tassie we had a front door letterbox just like the UK, now the postmen don't like to get off their bikes, so roadside delivery means a letterbox on your boundary fence. Never heard of anyone referring their bedding or towels as Manchester, I have heard of linen departments in stores refered to as Manchester department, but no... We call it linen. She's was very interesting but not very well informed.
I agree with that . She's also incorrect about the use of the word lounge. Yes, we call the living room (UK) the lounge room but most Australians today call it a couch like the Americans do. We don't use the word lounge on its own, some baby boomers do, but we say a lounge suite to describe the couch and one-seaters.
@@thinkingallowed7042 I'm a baby boomer, I have always referred to the living room as 'the lounge room' and I always say sofa. Tasmania is the most 'English' state in Australia and I think most of us in my age group grew up with a very strong connection to our English ancestry, possibly because most of the immigrants settled on the mainland we were a little untouched by it all for a while.
I live in a house built in the 1940s in regional South Australia. There are no plug sockets in the wall of the bathroom. There is a pull cord for the light. All the light switches in the bedrooms are pull cords and in the hallway at the back. Pull cord switches are very common here in older houses. My sink stand has no vanity cabinet, it is a stand alone one. Fireplaces are actually very common in older houses
Outside of Sydney, the styling le of houses changes depending on where you hail from. The Colonial house is normally on bigger suburban or rural blocks. It is (usually) a low set home with a wide veranda around it. The Queenslander is, oddly enough, built mostly 8n Queensland. They are built on stilts that can be anywhere from half a metre to more than three metres high. They’re designed to capture the breezes and as flood mitigation. Sadly, the Queenslander is being replaced by low set homes on concrete blocks that are reminiscent of the song about little houses being made of "ticky-tacky".
The heater info seems outdated. Most of us use split systems, they can provide cold or warm air, are attached to the wall, up high and you have to use a remote control.
She is generalizing quite a bit because now in Australia (well Sth Aus) if building or renovating we have to make the property 6star Eco Efficiency and I think that is changing to 7 star next year. It is true most houses pre the 2000's are single Storey but she failed to mention our blocks of land used to be around 700 sq metres. They are much smaller now (350-450 sq mtrs) so 2 Storey houses are becoming more the norm. Bathrooms are different such as the Bath and Vanity unit but also we always have a separate shower cubicle not one over the bath. We don't refer to bedding/towels as Manchester although in old Department Stores that department was referred to as Manchester (no idea why).
We call it bedding or bed sheets. We couldn’t live without having cupboards and a bench top with a variety bowl built into the bathroom. All new houses are now built with a main bathroom and an ensuite bathroom to the master bedroom and also more places are getting built with a pantry room with a bench top and a sink for the kitchen. Laundry rooms are in just about every house in Australia and most newer homes have a guest or public toilet with a vanity to wash your hands near or next to the laundry room because the bathroom is away from the living area and more central to the 2 or 3 bedrooms upstairs with the toilet next to the bathroom and the master ensuite bathroom and toilet is a private room built for the master bedroom access only and a walk in robe or walk through the wardrobe to get to your ensuite.
Often have a combined bathroom, laundry in Australia, can't imagine having my washing machine in the kitchen lol ... however I'm quite old and I hated a combined laundry when I rented I always looked for a separate laundry and bathroom. I don't know many people that call sheets, towels, etc manchester .... I've always called it Linen. Doona, quilt, blanket are also terms we use here.
When you said Australians build their own homes, i just want to clarify, we don't build our homes with our own hands! We purchase an empty block of land in a new estate or have an older house knocked down and engage a builder to build a house. You can choose a predesigned house or engage an architect to design one for you
It blew me away when I realised washing machines and dryers were kept in UK kitchen's. That'll take some getting used to when I move next year 😅 The same house style and colour, over and over, is another thing that will feel odd. And no screens??? Whaaaat? Haha. I guess we have more insects and critters we need to keep out 8n Aus. And yes, it can be boiling in summer and freezing in winter. Many homes, especially social housing, don't have insulation in the roof nowadays. I live downstairs in summer because upstairs, where the bedrooms and bathroom are, feels like a sauna. Plus, I have never used the word Manchester in my life, lol. Linen maybe.
Aussie here. There was one thing in this vid that the uk has over us, its the double glazing widow's. We'd love it here, but its $1000aud/window so too expensive! It would cost u over $50k aud to do your entire house.
Double Glazing - I'd argue it's only a relatively new thing and most homes in Aus were built before it was really a thing, and/or cost. Making homes more energy efficient was just never a concern until, well, basically now really. And even then you don't need to run aircon/whatever a lot of the time anyway. Door/window screens - kindof like the above, houses just don't have HVAC systems like they might in the states or elsewhere. Reverse cycle aircon, yes, but not "ventilation". If you want fresh air, you just "open" the house up. Yes it can get decently cold but never to the extreme of some other places, and that's only night/early mornings. A well designed house allow air to flow thru with windows and doors open. This probably also offsets any urgency for double glazing as above if you have windows open often anyway. Laundry - Kitchen is for food. It's a completely ridiculous concept to be washing your underwear or whatever where you cook meals. Of course you have it in a separate room. Also, anyone with a yard will hang clothes outside to dry, driers are really just for long periods of rain or the worst of winter, whereas it seems other countries uses them exclusively. Pools being not as common as she thought - again, cost. Pools are super expensive to install and maintain, and a lot of people wouldn't use them often enough to justify them. They are a luxury. You'd much sooner invest a fraction of the money to retrofit air conditioning (with reverse cycle for heating). Bathroom wall outlets - usually you'll only have one (as that's all you need) and they'll be mounted higher up, not down near the floor like you'd usually get. Used for hairdryers etc. Something else about Australian homes are the designs, such as Federation homes and Queenslanders.
In Brisbane, and a lot of other parts of Australia, other than Tasmania, I think we used to build for the warmer months, which is the majority of the year, and in the cooler months, we just "suffer" through those two weeks 😁 Now, stupidly, houses are being designed to rely on air conditioning, so built close to the ground, so no ventilation underneath the house, no big eaves to shade the house from sun, no cross-ventilation of louvre windows, etc. Re. the laundry, if you don't have space for a separate laundry, which is the case for a lot of people, we would more likely include it in the bathroom, rather than the kitchen. Manchester? Department stores used to use that term back a few decades ago, but I don't think people ever used the term. I just say linens. Really - no plug sockets in the bathroom in the UK? How do people charge their electric toothbrushes?
My 4 yr old house which is about 50km west of Melbourne Australia has double glazing as do many newer houses, much less common in older houses, we also have much better wall and ceiling insulation than my old house.
Hey Mate, There is ONE aspect of Australian houses missing in that group. Older Queensland houses are built on stumps to get airflow under them (pre air conditioning). If a house has to be resumed, say a new road coming through, the whole house is cut into 2 or 3 pieces and transported by truck....to be resold as an entire house later on. Up the road from me there is a 'holding yard' where there are prebuilt historic houses for sale. You can buy a block of land....buy a house....and plonk it on new stumps. Viola'....move in. One of you compatriots, Billy Connolly, did a stand up skit on this concept. As it's close to me I'm happy to take my camera up there and video, if you like. Keep up the good work!! Trev
Australian here. Australian homes are horrifically badly insulated. It used to be much worse, but even modern homes have aluminium-framed, single-glazed windows. It's incredible, considering the extremes in our climate and our insane energy prices.
Only time i saw a wall mounted radiator heater was a mate who lived in those public housing flats back in HS. Otherwise most homes i visited had ducted gas heating, a wall furnace in older homes or a reverse cycle split system. From time to time, might come across a fireplace although not common in homes building post 1980 i guess
I don't know anyone with ducted gas heating. We don't even have gas available in my suburb in Sydney. We haven't had it available in any house we've lived in.
@warpedweft9004 weird, every home i was around (metro melb suburbs) growing up including the one i recently bought would've had ducted gas heating. Mind you these are 80s/90s built homes on concrete stumps instead of slabs so it possibly easier to install rather than in the roof area with insulation. Gas was also much cheaper back then compared to the prices today. I know newer homes typically have reverse cycle split systems in individual rooms now or even ducted electric heating (only learned this after looking up replacement hot water gas tank when mine died a few months ago)
People build in Aus cause we have room to do it when new suburbs/developments arise. Somewhere like the UK you might be restricted because of lack of room. Sure there is lots of land but it's all for farming so you can all still enjoy fresh produce. Only way to grow there is by taller buildings. We are lucky to be able to expand with 1/4 acre blocks :) So much room here. A new home there would mean buying a property, knocking it down then building. I can't see the price justification in that unless you are rich
Yes linens (what I grew up calling these things in the US) are referred to as Manchester. However a lot of these other observations are inaccurate. We do have central heating, and double glazing- but maybe that's because I'm in Melbourne, Sydney might be different.
The biggest difference is probably the price, but houses in Australia seem bigger with more land, from what lve learnt house prices are going up in Australia but going down in Britain
I live in the CBD of Melbourne, and live in an apartment block. 10 storeys high, and each is a Studio apartment. Laundry on each level to share for 13 apartments on each storey. The whole building has aqua heaters, similar to the oil ones mention in the UK, but water instead to heat the building as a whole. The building is approx 80 years old. Years ago I lived in a block of old attached colonial houses that are similar to the housing strips in the UK. Aside from noisey neighbours, I would still prefer these honestly especially since most buildings in the middle of Melbourne are skyscrapers now-a-days. The old charm of old Melbourne town are awesome but expensive
I have double glazing in my home.... dont call my sheets or bedding 'Manchester'... i think that's more used in shops, and i think for internal heating, its too hot here to really care for permanent heating solutions if you re in the eastern/ northern states, particularly QLD... we only use our heater 3-4 weeks out of the year.
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"Manchester" is the department in the shop where the products are bought or a term for the class of products, once you've brought them home they are usually put into the linen cupboard and referred to by more descriptive names like 'hand towels', 'bath towels', and the various specific types of bedclothes.
I moved from QLD to Tasmania and was so surprised in the difference with houses and terminology. My first impression was it's how I imagined UK to be like and have heard others compare too. With how cold Tasmania is there are far more similarities to UK than mainland Australia I think.
That's why I settled here. It's the most un-Australian of Australian states, and the landscape reminded me so much of the UK, which is where I lived as a child.
I too moved here from Brisbane, just for a year initially, but that was in 1986!!
I would have preferred to live in Tasmania because I don't like the Queensland summers.
I’m an Aussie! I live in QLD.
Have lived in the UK, so I’m very familiar with everything UK. But I’ve never been to Tassie 😮!
Does Tassie have double glazing on windows and oil heaters on walls?
I'm an Aussie - An old friend and I, were discussing changes in our way of living, over the years. He said..." I remember when the dunny (toilet) was in the backyard and we ate in the kitchen. Now we have sewerage connected and the dunny is in the house. We also now have barbeques in the backyard. So, we now poop inside and eat out in the yard!"
So true 😂
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Early Australian settlers had 'UK' thinking and this was reflected in how we built etc but this time this changed to the actual environment people were leaving in rather than where their original 'roots' were from.
Not to mention a house full plants and an outside pergola/patio full of furniture
No one wants to urinate at 3am outside in the bitter cold, or walk outside when you've got the runs in the middle of summer when it's full of mozzies 😂 Happy to poop inside in a nice modern bathroom thanks
In Australia, historically, blocks of land were bigger (unless you were in the city where you would find terraced houses), so it's much further for the postman to travel to deliver letters/mail. This is changing because of more dense building practices. House blocks are becoming much smaller. Our postie travels on a motor scooter, putting the letters in the letter box that is near the front property line. In the UK, the postie usually walks dropping mail into people's mailboxes in the door of the house.
actually that's not true because in the UK the postie pushes the mail through a slot in the front door instead of a post box at the top of your property. Factor that in and I think you'll find they travel no further than a British postie does having to go down everyone's front path. Not all Brits live in terraced houses. I grew up in one and we still had a front yard and a path the postie had to go down.
@@warpedweft9004 What is all this competition !Which postman travels the furthest ,the UK or OZ , it doesn’t really matter , so long as the service is good !
@@louisaklimentos7583 its not competition. It's just when someone says something outlandishly ridiculous, the teacher in me needs to set the record straight. It's okay for people to have different opinions and different experiences but don't say ALL or MOST, when clearly it isn't all or most.
@@warpedweft9004 I see what you mean . It is like when the British backpackers come to visit Australia and claim that we don’t use heating in our houses , which isn’t true . Then someone will correct them too ! .
@@warpedweft9004: That is exactly what @dizzylizzy 7582 said.
The main reason for the separate letterbox is simple: most mail is delivered by van (parcels) or motorbike (letters) and neither can get close enough to the front door to make the mail slit unworkable.
Double glazing is becoming a voluntary extra for new houses in some areas, but it can be an expense that the homeowner cannot afford
Yes we've just elected to go for double glazing on our new build, definitely an added cost but we're moving to a cold part of Victoria and are keen on the double glazing to help reduce our heating costs. Wish it were more a standard though! I know a lot of rentals I've lived in have been freezing in winter so looking forward to some warmer mornings.
Very few Aussie suburban homes are built right on the footpath - we have about 30' / 10m of lawn, driveway and garden between our front fence and the front of the house; which is pretty typical, and that's impractical for the postie to do a front door drop-off.
And, legally, so I was told by a postie, they are not allowed on private property - and that includes the driveway inside the property line.
Posties have the same right to enter your property /for a legal reason/ (delivering a 'signature required' letter or a parcel?) as any other person has. But you have the right to refuse them that entry and require them to leave.
And they must ask before driving a vehicle onto your property (including the driveway). That latter point may be what the postie was explaining.@@Tamaresque
Roofs are generally much “flatter” in Australia (whereas in the UK you have a larger gradient so the snow slides off). Many homes also have a fresh rainwater tank (especially in rural areas). Backyard clothes lines are pretty much standard. There are also many more roof solar panels (for obvious reasons). Also 2 door garages are common (some with a small workshop area included). They form part of the house itself whereby you drive in, close the roller door and you generally have an internal access door straight into the house (usually the kitchen whereby you can unload groceries straight from the car boot). I can’t recall the last time I actually used the front door.
Depends on where you live. Where I am there are many homes with tall roofs and some have attics. We get snow three hours away. Not many homes have clotheslines in the backyard anymore as more people are choosing to use dryers instead. I’ve never used my back clothes line and just use the clothesline in the sunroom. Also in my area it’s more common to have a very large workshop garage at the back of the house for cars now. Just depends on where you live. I’ve lived in many states here.
@@Beeannks States of mind I suspect😂
@@Beeannks I don't know anyone with a workshop in their yard and certainly not in new housing developments. You can't swing a cat in those yards, let alone have a garage/workshop in them. The council will not let you build over more than a certain percentage of your land anyway.
I always enter & exit my house via the garage because I usually drive. But when I broke my foot & couldn’t drive, I also went out via the garage because it was an easier & flatter exit.
I don’t know anyone who calls bedding Manchester
Same, I have always known the category Manchester but never heard anyone use it like that😂
@@lilanisiyes,it’s only advertized by the shops as Manchester.
@@janmortimer1758 yeah as a category of Homewares
It's all labeled as Manchester in nz.
I'm 62 and ive always called it Manchester, maybe it's a older term of a older generation?🙂🇦🇺
Aussie living in Melbourne. I have central heating and cooling and we’ve had that for over 15 years. I think it comes down to the owners of the home and affordability. A lot of homes have split systems these days. Some warm days (under 30’C) I just use an oscillating fan in the room I’m spending my time in. On cooler days I might just chuck a jumper or hoodie on and on cold days/nights central heating will go on..
Letternbox at front of property. Dunny has its own room. Washing machine and dryer in the laundry which many are around the size of bathroom as it will have large cupboard/closets for linen etc and a troughs cupboard underneath like the bathroom sinks do
actually no, the laundry is only spacious with cupboards if you have a high end house. The laundries I've had were too small to put a cupboard in until this last house. My daughter can't fit a cupboard in her laundry. The drier is above the washing machine and she has a slim laundry tub. Everything has to be stored on shelves above the tub. There's no cupboards at all.
Yes. We do have central heating in some places. I went to university in Armidale, which is an area of NSW called the New England. It has a very similar climate to southern England. The residential colleges were all centrally heated with oil radiators attached to the wall.
Also sunrooms, which are similar to conservatories, are common in the New England area.
It is rarely called manchester outside of shops. Always shown as manchester on signs and in adverts but rarely referred to it in conversation.
I’m an Australian, we live in Northern Victoria. We get fairly cold winters and bloody hot summers. We built our home 25 years ago. It is a large home of 40 sq. We have ducted evaporative cooling, under floor heating and a wood fire which goes non stop in winter, we normally can keep the house a very comfortable 21 deg in winter. Double glazed windows are becoming more of a thing as they keep the house cooler in summer and warmer in winter and those that live in the city it cut’s noise out.
Double glazing is now becoming quite popular in Australia, with some councils requiring it for newly built housing. This is being pushed mainly as a result of climate change initiatives. Many people prefer double glazing because it reduces the intrusion of external noise within the home. The term Manchester, for bed linen and towels used to be very common last century, but its use has substantially declined in recent years (at least in Victoria, the state I live in). It is now more commonly referred to as bedding or towels or sometimes simply linen.
Having front yards make the stand alone mailboxes necessary for efficient mail delivery
Except it gets wet, stolen, falls out
Bedding, towels etc is Manchester but you would never ever hear an Aussie say 'I'll finish my beer and then put the manchester on the bed.....like What!' We have department stores that sells manchester items, but it's not an individual term we'd use.
Im from Victoria, a lot of houses here do have central gas heating, especially the newer ones built in the last 20 to 30 years. It gets cold in the winter. A lot of the older houses have a single gas heater like the one pictured - they often converted brick fireplaces from open timber fireplaces to gas or electric heaters. We also often use reverse cycle / heat pump systems for heating and cooling.
As for “Manchester” I’ve never called it that. I would call the collective of towels and sheets etc as linens. And they’d be stored in a linen cupboard.
Yes, we call bedding, Manchester.
The fan in the bathroom is an extraction fan to remove the steam. If you don’t do that in the north - mould grows fast.
The veranda out front and back become bigger the further north you go (helps keep the house cool as well).
I have never seen a radiator in Australia, but think they were around in old houses. Most places around me (in Queensland) do have a fire place for use in winter but city houses tend not to have them. They do take up space and are only used for 2 months at most.
@@herctwenty11 It certainly was common to see Manchester Departments in the larger stores in Sydney. And I remember seeing advertising for Manchester Sales. I'll have to be more observant next time I'm in a department store and check to see if they still do it.
@@herctwenty11 it have a linen cupboard, shops tend to have “Manchester”. I know what both are because I don’t live in Melbourne and can have a civilised disagreement without being accusatory.
I tent to call them sheets and towels. Nothing is made of linen anymore or made in Manchester so I guess we are all wrong.
Double glazing isn't common in Australia because of the cost, but hopefully this is changing as ppl try reduce heat & save on power costs. Apartments rarely have separate laundry rooms (maybe a nook at best), but houses do.
Yeah, I think the main difference between aus and the uk in regards to laundry is if we don’t have the space we put the machines in the bathroom and they put them in the kitchen.
Most modern apartments have a separate room for laundry and is the case where I live in Sydney. Only one place I lived in where the laundry was downstairs (not communal) which was an older style flat/apartments
@@fabiacooney9378 Not where I am in Melbourne.
@@FionaEmit is where I am. Double glazing is great as blocks a lot of noise out
@@Beeannks I was answering the comment about laundries 🙂
Melbourne homes will always have a heating unit of some form in the house by default, Melbourne in winter can get really cold. I was over in the UK during December a few years back and all the buildings and hotels were so hot inside, while in Melbourne if its 7c outside its probably about the same or colder inside. Small space heaters are sold everywhere here in winter for your bedrooms etc if you don't have ducted heating.
I'm Aussie and have lived in Australia all my life. That's the first time I have ever heard anyone call bedding a Manchester. So I believe you're right to say it must be only a Sydney thing.
Brit living in Melbourne, the houses are effing freezing in winter and boiling in summer!! They are not insulated and are only made of timber with brick veneer walls. There is no central heating with radiators. We renovated our house and uPVC double glazing installed which made some improvement but was still cold. No letter boxes in the door haha. If we were ever to return to the uk, I’d love to have a verandah in the back as it creates a lovely cosy space.
Hello from Australia. Double Glazed windows were introduced to Australia only in the 80’s that’s why most to a lot of older homes don’t have them. Every new build I have seen has them or if people replace a window they often now opt to put them in. Also central heating was only becoming somewhat common in 70’s and 80’s and we can often be behind other countries, especially back in the day, also I assume it would have cost more to install at the time.
Manchester is the name of a department in a store where they sell manchester: sheets, blankets etc. We usually call that stuff 'linen' collectively. It was even called 'drapery' in the old days because it included curtains.
I'm from Australia. Laundry's are almost never in the kitchen, however it is pretty common to have a combined bathroom/laundry or a European laundry in a hallway in new builds. Two story houses aren't common as for the last two decades or so most councils have required the bottom 3/4 of windows on the top story to be frosted for privacy reasons, which makes them feel a lot more claustrophobic & let much less light in. Therefore most people decide to just build a single story place instead. They were very popular in the 1980's and 1990's though, so most of the older suburbs still have a lot of two story houses.
'Manchester' isn't really a common term anymore. We'd call it 'linen'. And a 'lounge' would usually be called a 'living room' unless there were two of them (in which case the formal one would be a 'lounge room' and the other one would be a 'living room'.
I have seen the heaters like the ones in the UK, but they are incredibly rare. Nearly all houses have split systems these days, but some older ones have gas ducted heating (with vents in the floor) and evaporative cooling.
The terminology part is a bit weird. I don't know anybody who says "lounge" - we'd all call it a couch or sometimes a sofa where I live - but we do say "lounge room".
I've never heard someone refer to bedding as "Manchester". I have seen the term used in branding and company names, but we just say "bedding, sheets, linens, etc". "Babe give me a hand changing the sheets/bedding". Never hear "Babe give me a hand changing the Manchester." I'd find that really unusual and it'd catch me off guard.
We do say doona, that one is legit.
We have very extreme weather here in Oz, so nearly everyone one has air-conditioned houses or flats or ducted air-con which usually incorporates heating, we can also have ceiling fans, nearly all houses have a laundry and we dont call Bedding Manchester, also the blocks of land are usually large and we have back verandahs more so than front, screens are on windows and doors as we get heaps of flys coming in, you can have double glazed windows if your house doesnt have them, but their expensive, and at the moment a 3 bedroom house on the outskirts of Sydney can cost you 500,000 pounds and upwards, if its in Sydney itself much more.
My mother, 6th generation Aussie never used the the term lounge room or lounge..
It was always the 'dining room' and the 'sitting room'.
It's a wonder there wasn't a 'drawing room' hidden away somewhere 😂.
Also we don't usually have a bidet, and showers are not usually over the bath.
Also, Tasmania is freezing in winter, but double glazing is $$$$.
We have a free standing woodheater.
In Australia, Flats are still called flats. Those older style flats, which are usually only two storey high. Units are single storey smaller houses and there are usually 3 to 6 or more on the one block of land.
Its always freaked me out that the UK has their washing machine in their kitchen. Seems a little gross to me. Food and dirty undies should not share the same space. But I love UK people
I would say she is 50% wrong. We do have double glazed windows but it’s just expensive to get. My last house had it and I’ll be getting it on this house soon. I’ve never ever heard of Manchester, it’s always been linen. We do call quilts duvet. All my homes have always had a conservatory, we call them either sunrooms or a Queenslander and we can open it up to let the outside in if we choose to at the back of the house and my current home has a large one. A lot of homes have log burners and reverse cycle air conditioning. All homes here have laundry rooms. We have large front yards so our letterboxes are at the front near the road. Every place is different as you either live in a flood zone, cyclone area or somewhere that snows. Also the bungalows is not the most common house here, there are a lot of two story homes as well that are just as common, again depends on where you live.
Hi yes Double glazing windows are available in Australia but are not common. My house was retro fitted with Double glazing 5 years ago and to be honest it was a great investment not cheap to instal but helps in winter to maintain the warmth and summer to reflect heat. My heating/cooling bill has probebly been reduced by 40% over a year. I got it to reduce outside street noise .i wish more houses here were offed this option at build time
While there are sockets in Australian bathrooms there are strict regulations on their placement relative to baths and showers that puts them out of reach of splashing. Also Australian sockets must have an on-off switch. The word manchester for bedding and towels is used by some retail outlets but rarely used by people in normal conversation.
In my area, a lot of homes have solar panels and water tanks as well.
Originally from Manchester here. I lived 12 years in Sydney, 2 years Mebourne. Units (flats) in Sydney and Melbourne more pricey suburbs can be older, federation srtyle - definitely colder than UK apartments during winter. Sydney you can go outside and get a nice, crisp sunny day though - Melbourne is a shocker during Winter. Cold/windy outside, and still cold inside! Thankfully reverse cycle aircon units can heat and cool ;)
Double glazing is becoming more common in Australia for energy efficiency, and in apartments to reduce traffic noise.
Live in Melbourne, never called bedding Manchester they are bed sheets, and don't use lounge they're called a couch
Wall radiators are becoming more common in Melbourne where it gets colder than other capitals. They are very expensive though and only found in wealthier suburbs.
In Australia “Manchester” might be a term in a department store, but rarely in a home. It is more likely to be called “linen”, even though it is almost always cotton, or today it might be bamboo.
Re double glazes windows, the length of season might dictate what is needed. We need to be able to open windows for a cool breeze as well as fresh air almost everywhere in Australia. In southern Queensland winter is very brief and we can put up with the cold, and might have a heater in one room or living area. We need to cool the house for a much longer period than we need to heat it. Increasingly, people can afford split system air conditioning which I have in 6 areas of the home.
Laundries are most often NOT in kitchens due to sanitary building regulations. There has to be space /a corridor and two doors between toilets and perhaps the laundry.
not any more. I know people who have toilets with only one door between it and the kitchen. Some are older houses some are new builds.
I heard that traditional houses in Australia typically allow for about ten complete changes of air in the house per hour which seems a lot to me. In other colder climates, the buildings are traditionally more tightly sealed and have a much lower change of airflow per hour which seems needed to keep the heat in and the cold out.
We do say flat , and the shops say Manchester we just say sheets, towels etc ,.
It's couch in the lounge or loungeroom.
Houses in Queensland look different than the ones down South..lot's more she didn't get right exactly but almost
Most Australian houses have a front yard and often a wall or fence. Totally impractical for mail deliveries, hence letter boxes are normally stand alone on the boundary. Makes it much easier for the postman.
Many council areas do not allow you to have a fence in the front yard. It's not most houses, its only some that have fences or walls, and mostly much older areas/homes. It is partly due to access in case of emergencies and partly to do with local development plans. You are NOT allowed to fence or wall off the first 7 metres of your property anyway because of utilities and pedestrian access.
@@warpedweft9004 Don't know where you live, but I've personally never heard of a rule about not allowing fences/walls on street facing boundaries. Obviously the majority of councils have rules around the size, placement and type of structure you can construct. That said, I did say on the boundary...meaning the property boundary, which in the majority of cases is not the roadside. The front verge is a public area everywhere in Australia as far as I know. Yes, fences and walls are more common in older areas, but where I live they're in new suburbs as well, particularly on main roads where they help deaden noise and provide extra security and privacy. The placement of letterboxes on property boundaries has been around for many, many years. Hence even new suburbs have letter boxes on boundaries and not holes or slits in front doors.
Manchester is a collective term in a shop for the towel, sheet and quilt section of the shop. We don't call it Manchester at home. We just call it a doona, or a quilt or a towel etc.
Double glazing on windows is common esp in the hills that surround the cities, as it gets colder (Adelaide Hills, suburbs in Melbourne hills etc).
We also have fire heaters in our lounge rooms and is common. Mostly in newer homes its a stand-alone wood fire heater with a flue going up into the ceiling. Older homes will have a built in fire place. Maybe not so much in Sydney or further up but definitely in Melbourne, Adelaide and Tasmania. Perth I am not so sure of.
We don't have letterbox in the front door. 99% of people would have a letterbox or if you live in the country and you dont have a Postie (a person who delivers your mail) in the area (too remote) you have a letterbox at the local Post Office in town.
A Flat can be called a Flat or Unit in Australia.
We call Bedding, Manchester only for where it is located in the shop, so 'manchester department'. Otherwise its called blankets and sheets.
Units or apartments in Australia used to be called flats all the time when I was growing up, but from about the mid 70’s - early 80’s the term fell out of fashion, and flats came to be seen as ‘poor person’ accomodation. We contort ourselves with various names like villa, townhouse, apartment etc to avoid using the word ‘flat’.
It’s an interesting example from my lifetime of how snobbery and marketing can change a language.
We definitely do have double glazing..and larger rooms and built-in wardrobe.and our houses are normally set back from the road so yes we do have a letter box out the front
One peculiarity of Australian expression is that "building a home" here does *not* mean getting out the trowel or the saw; instead it means paying a builder to build a home for you, even if it's not designed by an architect.
Re a cold home you will find they don’t have adequate insulation in the walls or roofs
As for heating in newer homes you will get a fire but most homes have reverse cycle aircon for all year round.
This video doesn’t really show the “true” Australian home as it differs all around the country
There are more Heritage listed properties in the UK where you can't do any external renovations or demolitions as well.
It is very cold in Winter inside our home. Our house in Brisbane is definitely set up for hot weather. Mind you though, our Summer lasts for 9 months. And last year Winter was on a Tuesday. So I dont mind freezing for Winter, much prefer having air con for Summer.
We call our bedding, sheets, towels donnas. We buy them from the 'manchester' department, like in Kmart. I've never said or even heard "oh, I'm gonna change the manchester on my bed". 🇦🇺
Yes...Manchester is very common in Australia.
In every department store the section where curtains, bedding and towels are located are signed as the Manchester section.
G'day to you,I am Ex Pat Mancunian ,I grew up in a typical street Row upon Row of exactly the Same House, I now live in Armadale Western Australia its what you call a Bungalow , close to 1/4 acre block, Yes we have a Laundry Room all by its self!
Given that in Australia that we have building regulations which require you to get a minimum level of 'green points' when building a new home i.e. you can choose grey water system, double glazing, solar/heat pump hot water system, so double glazing is becoming more common and some retrofit old homes.
Alot of these differences are simply climate related, as you go further north into Queensland you'll start seeing houses built on stilts
Living in Canberra, most newer up market houses and apartments have double or even triple glazing as well as high rated wall, ceiling and floor insulation, making them very energy efficient all year round. High energy-efficient houses also tend to have narrower eaves.
Canberra, being up in the hills, has the four clearly definite seasons. The coldest month of July ranges in temperature from minimum -7 degrees C to maximum around 10 deg C. But after a cold clear freezing night the day can be clear and sunny up to 15degC. Canberra autumn and spring are fabulous and will often rain with high winds. October and November in recent years have been quite wet and cool. Late November into December it starts to warm up, with hot days minimum in low 20s to maximums in high 30s. January, February and even into March can be very hot, with the odd hailstorm, causing widespread damage.
House lot sizes are growing smaller as land becomes more expensive. It’s not unusual for new suburban houses to have lot areas of around 250-275 square metres for a two-level house with double garage. Townhouses (terraces) and apartments (units or flats) are becoming more common.
I have never called beding Manchester, we just call them sheets or bed sheets.
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I live in Western Australia. We live in comparatively small three bedroom, two bathroom plus office home. Wh have a small below ground pool outside as well as a covered patio. We have solar panels on the roof, a 2 car garage and reverse cycle air condirioning. I think we used heating maybe a dozen times over the winter, it was very mild and just didn't get very cold. Our windows face north and east so in winter we get a lot of sun which provides passive heating. The bonus is very small power bills!
Agree with most, but here in Melbourne which is colder than Sydney, almost everybody I know has gas powered ducted heating. We have hydronic like the UK and Europe as we live in the hills in a big house and it's cold. We close off the rooms we don't use and don't heat them. I have NEVER heard anyone call a sofa a lounge. It's either couch or sofa. Doona is a brand name, but used a lot. Also, almost all Aussie kitchens have dishwashers.
Manchester is on the signage in shops and in catalogues for bedding and towels
Aus living seems similar to South Africa weather. Washing machines under the sink unless it's a massive house, postboxes are attached to the fence/wall to prevent access inside the property. No double glazing here either, really cold months are maybe 3 in total and temporary heating is used if any. We don't any any sockets in the bathrooms 😅
Oh a lot of the house styles are similar to South Africa... hope this is interesting.
But there is double glazing in most newly built homes in Australia because they now have to meet a higher efficiency rating etc etc
Im from Canberra which is one of the colder cities in Winter, we do have double glazing it is not that uncommon anymore in newer homes. I have loads of friends that have retro fitted it as well. Canberra homes also tend to have ducted gas or elec heating we also have ducted evap cooloing as well as its great for Canberra's really hot summers. We get minus's in winter and over 40 in summer. We call it Linen not manchester
*I couldn't imagine washing drying my clothes in the kitchen. it would be like cooking in the bathroom*
Not going through all the comments to see if this is already there.
With regards to manchester, more commonly found as a department or area in a store. Specifically with regards to Doona aka Quilt . . . we were always told that a Quilt has a separate cover where as a Doona doesn't. From Brisbane, Qld, and in winter we can reverse our ceiling fan so it pushes the warm air back down which helps with the cold, but yeah, anything below 18oC can be considered cold.
A washing machine in the kitchen is unheard of...never seen it. As stated in the video...we have a laundry room where a washing machine, dryer and washing sink are the norm...we also have a full fridge, not those mini fridges that you see under UK kitchen counters. Dont think I have ever seen those radiators like in the UK...it would not get cold enough for those radiators for most places. I rarely heat my house in winter (cooling on the other hand in the dead of summer is necessary)...Machester is what they refer to as bedding in stores...but I dont normally use that word in everyday talk
I don't know where you live but it gets very cold in the southern states in the winter. Our house is flipping freezing. Even with coats on you'd freeze in the winter, and we live in Sydney.
@@warpedweft9004 Live in Adelaide….colder than Sydney in winter I dare say….guess everyone is different though when it comes to feeling the cold…
Doona is a trade name from the company who introduced them to Australia
It's a bit of a generalisation. I live in a terraced house (attached to others on both sides) in Australia. Most suburbs within 6-7km of the city centre are dominated by them, not big houses like in that video.
We have double glazing in our house (in Tasmania) but I don't think it is very common. Probably becoming more common as power prices increase.
Screen doors and windows are becoming more heavy duty now due to crime.
"Manchester" is more used in retail than in the home, I think.
I live in Tasmania, recently moved back after 32 years in Queensland. In Tassie we had a front door letterbox just like the UK, now the postmen don't like to get off their bikes, so roadside delivery means a letterbox on your boundary fence. Never heard of anyone referring their bedding or towels as Manchester, I have heard of linen departments in stores refered to as Manchester department, but no... We call it linen. She's was very interesting but not very well informed.
I agree with that . She's also incorrect about the use of the word lounge. Yes, we call the living room (UK) the lounge room but most Australians today call it a couch like the Americans do. We don't use the word lounge on its own, some baby boomers do, but we say a lounge suite to describe the couch and one-seaters.
@@thinkingallowed7042 I'm a baby boomer, I have always referred to the living room as 'the lounge room' and I always say sofa. Tasmania is the most 'English' state in Australia and I think most of us in my age group grew up with a very strong connection to our English ancestry, possibly because most of the immigrants settled on the mainland we were a little untouched by it all for a while.
I live in a house built in the 1940s in regional South Australia. There are no plug sockets in the wall of the bathroom. There is a pull cord for the light. All the light switches in the bedrooms are pull cords and in the hallway at the back. Pull cord switches are very common here in older houses. My sink stand has no vanity cabinet, it is a stand alone one.
Fireplaces are actually very common in older houses
Our windows are imported from the UK and double and triple glazing is available
Yes it gets cold here in souther parts
Outside of Sydney, the styling le of houses changes depending on where you hail from. The Colonial house is normally on bigger suburban or rural blocks. It is (usually) a low set home with a wide veranda around it. The Queenslander is, oddly enough, built mostly 8n Queensland. They are built on stilts that can be anywhere from half a metre to more than three metres high. They’re designed to capture the breezes and as flood mitigation. Sadly, the Queenslander is being replaced by low set homes on concrete blocks that are reminiscent of the song about little houses being made of "ticky-tacky".
The heater info seems outdated. Most of us use split systems, they can provide cold or warm air, are attached to the wall, up high and you have to use a remote control.
Never seen a house here without a laundry. Letterbox out the front, not in the door. Yeah Manchester is a thing.
She is generalizing quite a bit because now in Australia (well Sth Aus) if building or renovating we have to make the property 6star Eco Efficiency and I think that is changing to 7 star next year. It is true most houses pre the 2000's are single Storey but she failed to mention our blocks of land used to be around 700 sq metres. They are much smaller now (350-450 sq mtrs) so 2 Storey houses are becoming more the norm. Bathrooms are different such as the Bath and Vanity unit but also we always have a separate shower cubicle not one over the bath. We don't refer to bedding/towels as Manchester although in old Department Stores that department was referred to as Manchester (no idea why).
A lot of houses in Australia, particularly more modern houses, don't have verandahs but have patios/pergolas on the back of the house.
Department stores generally call your bedding, Manchester. People usually don't.
We call it bedding or bed sheets. We couldn’t live without having cupboards and a bench top with a variety bowl built into the bathroom. All new houses are now built with a main bathroom and an ensuite bathroom to the master bedroom and also more places are getting built with a pantry room with a bench top and a sink for the kitchen. Laundry rooms are in just about every house in Australia and most newer homes have a guest or public toilet with a vanity to wash your hands near or next to the laundry room because the bathroom is away from the living area and more central to the 2 or 3 bedrooms upstairs with the toilet next to the bathroom and the master ensuite bathroom and toilet is a private room built for the master bedroom access only and a walk in robe or walk through the wardrobe to get to your ensuite.
Often have a combined bathroom, laundry in Australia, can't imagine having my washing machine in the kitchen lol ... however I'm quite old and I hated a combined laundry when I rented I always looked for a separate laundry and bathroom. I don't know many people that call sheets, towels, etc manchester .... I've always called it Linen. Doona, quilt, blanket are also terms we use here.
When you said Australians build their own homes, i just want to clarify, we don't build our homes with our own hands! We purchase an empty block of land in a new estate or have an older house knocked down and engage a builder to build a house. You can choose a predesigned house or engage an architect to design one for you
It blew me away when I realised washing machines and dryers were kept in UK kitchen's. That'll take some getting used to when I move next year 😅 The same house style and colour, over and over, is another thing that will feel odd. And no screens??? Whaaaat? Haha. I guess we have more insects and critters we need to keep out 8n Aus. And yes, it can be boiling in summer and freezing in winter. Many homes, especially social housing, don't have insulation in the roof nowadays. I live downstairs in summer because upstairs, where the bedrooms and bathroom are, feels like a sauna. Plus, I have never used the word Manchester in my life, lol. Linen maybe.
Double glazing is becoming more common in Victoria, we have it in the house we built last year
We do have sockets in the bathrooms. There would be rules about how they are placed.
Aussie here. There was one thing in this vid that the uk has over us, its the double glazing widow's. We'd love it here, but its $1000aud/window so too expensive! It would cost u over $50k aud to do your entire house.
Double Glazing - I'd argue it's only a relatively new thing and most homes in Aus were built before it was really a thing, and/or cost. Making homes more energy efficient was just never a concern until, well, basically now really. And even then you don't need to run aircon/whatever a lot of the time anyway.
Door/window screens - kindof like the above, houses just don't have HVAC systems like they might in the states or elsewhere. Reverse cycle aircon, yes, but not "ventilation". If you want fresh air, you just "open" the house up. Yes it can get decently cold but never to the extreme of some other places, and that's only night/early mornings. A well designed house allow air to flow thru with windows and doors open. This probably also offsets any urgency for double glazing as above if you have windows open often anyway.
Laundry - Kitchen is for food. It's a completely ridiculous concept to be washing your underwear or whatever where you cook meals. Of course you have it in a separate room. Also, anyone with a yard will hang clothes outside to dry, driers are really just for long periods of rain or the worst of winter, whereas it seems other countries uses them exclusively.
Pools being not as common as she thought - again, cost. Pools are super expensive to install and maintain, and a lot of people wouldn't use them often enough to justify them. They are a luxury. You'd much sooner invest a fraction of the money to retrofit air conditioning (with reverse cycle for heating).
Bathroom wall outlets - usually you'll only have one (as that's all you need) and they'll be mounted higher up, not down near the floor like you'd usually get. Used for hairdryers etc.
Something else about Australian homes are the designs, such as Federation homes and Queenslanders.
Yes Australian homes aren't well insulated so they get a lot colder than elsewhere, it also doesn't help in summer unless using evaporative A/C
In Brisbane, and a lot of other parts of Australia, other than Tasmania, I think we used to build for the warmer months, which is the majority of the year, and in the cooler months, we just "suffer" through those two weeks 😁
Now, stupidly, houses are being designed to rely on air conditioning, so built close to the ground, so no ventilation underneath the house, no big eaves to shade the house from sun, no cross-ventilation of louvre windows, etc.
Re. the laundry, if you don't have space for a separate laundry, which is the case for a lot of people, we would more likely include it in the bathroom, rather than the kitchen.
Manchester? Department stores used to use that term back a few decades ago, but I don't think people ever used the term. I just say linens.
Really - no plug sockets in the bathroom in the UK? How do people charge their electric toothbrushes?
My 4 yr old house which is about 50km west of Melbourne Australia has double glazing as do many newer houses, much less common in older houses, we also have much better wall and ceiling insulation than my old house.
All linen, towels and sheets etc used to be imported from Manchester UK which was the cotton milling capital of the world.
Hey Mate, There is ONE aspect of Australian houses missing in that group. Older Queensland houses are built on stumps to get airflow under them (pre air conditioning). If a house has to be resumed, say a new road coming through, the whole house is cut into 2 or 3 pieces and transported by truck....to be resold as an entire house later on. Up the road from me there is a 'holding yard' where there are prebuilt historic houses for sale. You can buy a block of land....buy a house....and plonk it on new stumps. Viola'....move in. One of you compatriots, Billy Connolly, did a stand up skit on this concept. As it's close to me I'm happy to take my camera up there and video, if you like. Keep up the good work!! Trev
Australian here. Australian homes are horrifically badly insulated. It used to be much worse, but even modern homes have aluminium-framed, single-glazed windows. It's incredible, considering the extremes in our climate and our insane energy prices.
Only time i saw a wall mounted radiator heater was a mate who lived in those public housing flats back in HS. Otherwise most homes i visited had ducted gas heating, a wall furnace in older homes or a reverse cycle split system. From time to time, might come across a fireplace although not common in homes building post 1980 i guess
I don't know anyone with ducted gas heating. We don't even have gas available in my suburb in Sydney. We haven't had it available in any house we've lived in.
@warpedweft9004 weird, every home i was around (metro melb suburbs) growing up including the one i recently bought would've had ducted gas heating. Mind you these are 80s/90s built homes on concrete stumps instead of slabs so it possibly easier to install rather than in the roof area with insulation. Gas was also much cheaper back then compared to the prices today.
I know newer homes typically have reverse cycle split systems in individual rooms now or even ducted electric heating (only learned this after looking up replacement hot water gas tank when mine died a few months ago)
People build in Aus cause we have room to do it when new suburbs/developments arise. Somewhere like the UK you might be restricted because of lack of room. Sure there is lots of land but it's all for farming so you can all still enjoy fresh produce. Only way to grow there is by taller buildings.
We are lucky to be able to expand with 1/4 acre blocks :) So much room here.
A new home there would mean buying a property, knocking it down then building. I can't see the price justification in that unless you are rich
Yes linens (what I grew up calling these things in the US) are referred to as Manchester. However a lot of these other observations are inaccurate. We do have central heating, and double glazing- but maybe that's because I'm in Melbourne, Sydney might be different.
The biggest difference is probably the price, but houses in Australia seem bigger with more land, from what lve learnt house prices are going up in Australia but going down in Britain
I have reverse cycle aircon in Oz, as do many people. That's cool cycle for summer and warm for winter.
I live in the CBD of Melbourne, and live in an apartment block. 10 storeys high, and each is a Studio apartment. Laundry on each level to share for 13 apartments on each storey.
The whole building has aqua heaters, similar to the oil ones mention in the UK, but water instead to heat the building as a whole.
The building is approx 80 years old.
Years ago I lived in a block of old attached colonial houses that are similar to the housing strips in the UK. Aside from noisey neighbours, I would still prefer these honestly especially since most buildings in the middle of Melbourne are skyscrapers now-a-days. The old charm of old Melbourne town are awesome but expensive
I live in Tasmania Australia, and I’ve never called my bedding and towels Manchester, I call it bedding
I have double glazing in my home.... dont call my sheets or bedding 'Manchester'... i think that's more used in shops, and i think for internal heating, its too hot here to really care for permanent heating solutions if you re in the eastern/ northern states, particularly QLD... we only use our heater 3-4 weeks out of the year.