I think you are forgetting that a lot of UK houses are limited to space issues, we don't really do laundry rooms etc.
I dunno, it just makes sense to me to have them there. Easier access on the ground floor and near the back door when installing them.
Maybe I'm just PG tips addled like you say though!!
That's making a lot of assumptions about a standardized house layout though. And yeah, if you don't have room for a laundry it has to go somewhere, but this set of islands is the only place where that 'somewhere' is almost always the kitchen.
Sometimes it might make sense to have the washer in the kitchen. Totally. But it really is the default here regardless of how logical the layout is. One flat I looked at had the kitchen in the basement, down a narrow flight of stairs, and it was freaking tiny. Meanwhile, bathroom is on the ground floor, and huge. Guess where the washer was crammed into? You couldn't even walk past it if the door was open.
Well I must admit I've never seen a house in any other layout (flats, yeah) but I didn't want to be rude. I've probably just not seen a variety of houses!
Yeah I've mostly only seen flats here and they come in all sorts of scrambled shapes cause they're so often divvied up out of once bigger houses. Which explains why this one has a tiny wooden bathroom with no power points.
A few of my apartments had the washer/dryer in a press but everywhere else I've been has them in the kitchen because it has easier access to the water.
It's never been strange to me?
Do you have to fill your laundry with water by hand? Because otherwise this isn't making any more sense to me.
I've a washing machine and dishwasher in my kitchen. They go under the counter because there's nowhere else to put them and they both have easy access to be hooked up to the water mains underneath the sink.
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But when you say 'live in the next four months' do you mean stay for a while, or live-live?
Cause unless you wanna teach English for a bit, getting a job overseas might not be too breezy.
Either I suppose, I can write from anywhere
I have dreams of fleeing the states but I like my friends and speak English so I'll honestly prob wind up in San Francisco or NYC
get that washing machine out of the kitchen. I don't want underwear where my food prep is done.
Get bigger places you ignorant europeans.
I have to deal with my washer and dryer in the kitchen off to the side in a separate closet now and it's weird and stupid and I don't like it. I'd have an aneurysm if it was just under the counter next to the sink.
Where everything is comfortable and refined and residents are absolutely forbidden from interacting with each other or speaking or acknowledging they even exist. You enter your unit, you remain quiet, you leave, you come back and repeat.
This is not too much to ask.
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Yes yes this is what I want
(Not really I will accept anything at all)
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which reminds me, in my local big hardware/everything store, there was a small sign on all the cash registers asking for donations to help the appeals process for 'our political prisoners.' Thought it seemed oddly activist for a county hardware chain. Then I read the fine print, which was an extended rant against being 'governed by brussels' followed by a trenchant plea on behalf of five small business owners styling themselves the "Metric Martyrs."
I wish my washer dryer was in the kitchen. My place is small, so the washer/dryer closet is right outside the bathroom door, a short distance from the couch, so when it's running, it is loud as hell and I gotta turn up the tv grumble grumble
Or a tumblr dryer.
edit: actually i just got an alarming electricity bill and discovered after some investigation that there was a heated towel rail in the bathroom which had been switched on at some point and never switched off, which may be the culprit. It took some time to figure this out because a) the towel rail wasn't very hot, and b) the on switch for it is located in the top right corner of an obscure closet in the kitchen.
anyway point is, right now I don't need any more powered devices.
We just replaced our dying washer / dryer with just a nice washing machine. I think we used the drier about 4 times in the 4 years we had it, and just hung clothes up to dry on radiators / clothes horses. There's never really been an occasion where we need something dry right this second.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
Sometimes, on cold mornings, I like to stick my boxers and socks in the dryer and let it tumble on high heat for like 4 minutes before putting them on. So wasteful but so delightful
Or a tumblr dryer.
edit: actually i just got an alarming electricity bill and discovered after some investigation that there was a heated towel rail in the bathroom which had been switched on at some point and never switched off, which may be the culprit. It took some time to figure this out because a) the towel rail wasn't very hot, and b) the on switch for it is located in the top right corner of an obscure closet in the kitchen.
anyway point is, right now I don't need any more powered devices.
are you sure it was on? because every heated towel rack I've ever come across has been hotter than satan's balls
when we first got them I was toweling off next and I stumbled in a sleepy haze and put my hand right on the bar, thereby discovering the fastest way to wake up
Well like an idiot I worked out when my 6-month contract runs out, it runs out at the end of March, not February. I am dumb.
Having had a look at some sites to get an idea of whats out there for the flat/house sharing the answer is... not enough. Not at least in the area I want and not for my price. So I'm glad I was vague with my new-friend about things being up in the air for me at the moment because it looks like it may not be such a bad idea. Next time I see her I'll perhaps ask if she's a tentative idea what she's looking for.
Hmm. Ages to go though, but having seen the tiny but nice flat another friend rents I've got an urge for something I could more put my stamp on.
Or a tumblr dryer.
edit: actually i just got an alarming electricity bill and discovered after some investigation that there was a heated towel rail in the bathroom which had been switched on at some point and never switched off, which may be the culprit. It took some time to figure this out because a) the towel rail wasn't very hot, and b) the on switch for it is located in the top right corner of an obscure closet in the kitchen.
anyway point is, right now I don't need any more powered devices.
are you sure it was on? because every heated towel rack I've ever come across has been hotter than satan's balls
when we first got them I was toweling off next and I stumbled in a sleepy haze and put my hand right on the bar, thereby discovering the fastest way to wake up
Yeah it was definitely on. Thing is, it's tucked behind the door a long way from the hower, while there's another, more convenient, but unpowered towel rack closer to hand. I only realised cause one morning I chucked my pjs on there and when I picked them up they were hot. The rack was pretty warm but not even close to scalding.
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That's making a lot of assumptions about a standardized house layout though. And yeah, if you don't have room for a laundry it has to go somewhere, but this set of islands is the only place where that 'somewhere' is almost always the kitchen.
Sometimes it might make sense to have the washer in the kitchen. Totally. But it really is the default here regardless of how logical the layout is. One flat I looked at had the kitchen in the basement, down a narrow flight of stairs, and it was freaking tiny. Meanwhile, bathroom is on the ground floor, and huge. Guess where the washer was crammed into? You couldn't even walk past it if the door was open.
but I don't live in England or anywhere near England
my apartment is pretty small though
edit: also I do have a dishwasher, and the washing machine/dryer also has kind of has a little enclosure with a door so I can hide it
Dammit iPad stop correcting liiya's name to Libya.
I've a washing machine and dishwasher in my kitchen. They go under the counter because there's nowhere else to put them and they both have easy access to be hooked up to the water mains underneath the sink.
this question heavily depends on how closely you want to live out Trailer Park Boys
You can flee the states in NYC if you try.
Get bigger places you ignorant europeans.
I have to deal with my washer and dryer in the kitchen off to the side in a separate closet now and it's weird and stupid and I don't like it. I'd have an aneurysm if it was just under the counter next to the sink.
That's just wrong. Stupid and wrong.
Everything is so damn cramped and stacked on top of each other and it's full of cheap garbage appliances and worse neighbors and terrible children.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Where everything is comfortable and refined and residents are absolutely forbidden from interacting with each other or speaking or acknowledging they even exist. You enter your unit, you remain quiet, you leave, you come back and repeat.
This is not too much to ask.
(Not really I will accept anything at all)
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
there are bars for this purpose in most cities
My people thank you
and to think we want to adopt their ass backward measurement system
in spite of Stale's confused rants against it, metric is one thing they've done right
with the metric system i have no way to figure out how many hands my horse is
or how many gollywobbles my snoozeflanger is
I laughed so hard.
Next to the dishwasher.
Anything else is blasphemy
I miss having a tumble dryer.
Or a tumblr dryer.
edit: actually i just got an alarming electricity bill and discovered after some investigation that there was a heated towel rail in the bathroom which had been switched on at some point and never switched off, which may be the culprit. It took some time to figure this out because a) the towel rail wasn't very hot, and b) the on switch for it is located in the top right corner of an obscure closet in the kitchen.
anyway point is, right now I don't need any more powered devices.
Reblogging this.
We just replaced our dying washer / dryer with just a nice washing machine. I think we used the drier about 4 times in the 4 years we had it, and just hung clothes up to dry on radiators / clothes horses. There's never really been an occasion where we need something dry right this second.
Edit: I have never owned a dryer.
are you sure it was on? because every heated towel rack I've ever come across has been hotter than satan's balls
when we first got them I was toweling off next and I stumbled in a sleepy haze and put my hand right on the bar, thereby discovering the fastest way to wake up
Having had a look at some sites to get an idea of whats out there for the flat/house sharing the answer is... not enough. Not at least in the area I want and not for my price. So I'm glad I was vague with my new-friend about things being up in the air for me at the moment because it looks like it may not be such a bad idea. Next time I see her I'll perhaps ask if she's a tentative idea what she's looking for.
Hmm. Ages to go though, but having seen the tiny but nice flat another friend rents I've got an urge for something I could more put my stamp on.
Yeah it was definitely on. Thing is, it's tucked behind the door a long way from the hower, while there's another, more convenient, but unpowered towel rack closer to hand. I only realised cause one morning I chucked my pjs on there and when I picked them up they were hot. The rack was pretty warm but not even close to scalding.
eleventeen, duh
Man, I went down to two over lunch today, and it's just... man. I think I'll just find a townhouse somewhere. Or stay in this shitty house I'm in now.
One hand is 10cm or 4inches, so even easier than imperial cause you just a 0 to how many hands. your welcome from a former(?) horse nerd