5 Home Appliances I Only Used After Moving to America 

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Dedication.

I wonder if he gets to declare it as a business expense on his taxes.

Laurence is SO thoughtful, nothing but the best for his followers! 😁

I’m sure he bought it to live in.

@@caulkins69 Haha

Congratulations on your dual citizenship! Joe Biden has you pre-registered (and pre-voted) in the 2024 election.

American from Southern California, living in texas, and whom participated in study abroad in Bourges, France 2 years: I was shocked to discover I am in fact French, and have been, all along.😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💋💋🫶🏻🇺🇸🌸

No way. No good Mexican restaurants here, and no Walmart. 😉

@@ToniInSussex If ya cant go to walmart AND worry about gettin shot before you buy your gun it just aint america

My fridge has a hot water choice of temp and all. The single best upgrade ever,.

Surprised your laundry machines aren't Speed Queens.

I wish I could do that, but when I do, my cats climb in there and pee 😅

@@ShortForMitchel prop the lid open a couple of inches.

@@ShortForMitchel was literally going to comment that I can't leave the lid open bc of the cats haha

Mine is always open , by the time I remember to close it it's time to do another load of laundry

I am watching a video about appliances!?!? Laurence, THIS is how much I enjoy your videos.

Oh, the irony...

@@aaronpatterson2369 Exactly 👍

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You mean the history Channel actually plays historical stuff? Pretty sure it's all reality TV now.

I air dry primarily but if clothes aren’t 100% dried I’ll toss them in the dryer. The cycle only goes very shortly and therefore costs waaaay less

We hang our clothes outside on the line during the warm months, but after they are dry we will still toss them in the dryer on low setting for 5 to 10 minutes. Not only does it fluff everything up nicely, but it also gets any bugs out of your clothes that might have landed on them while hanging out.

Yeah, I will put them out on the line for a bit and then dry when I can, I just try not to dry things inside like I’ve seen a lot of people do.

Yeah, I will put them out on the line for a bit and then dry when I can, I just try not to dry things inside like I’ve seen a lot of people do.

Why don't you hang them outside?

Today they are made intentionally to break down. It's called planned obsolescence.

Wow! I had a Kenmore (Sears) tumble dryer that went from 1985 to 2019 and thought that was good!!

My mon kept her old Kenmore running because it had a suds-saver. I wished I kept it instead of selling it with the house. (a suds-saver kept the soapy water for the next load).

I have a Whirlpool set from the early 60’s (same one from the one in Who’s Minding The Store with Jerry Lewis) and that thing is built like a absolute tank. Did a oil change on the transmission back in 2021 (yes, older top loading washers have a transmission though much simpler that a car transmission) and it has gears made out of cast iron. It amazes me how they used to make stuff back then but sadly people don’t want to spend that money since “it’s too expensive” or is “old technology”.

@@johnhelwig8745 Eww...

I thought the same thing while watching the slow fill.

Thanks Hank Hill.

Yes, and read the filter directions to see how much water to run through the new one before drinking. The water may be a bit cloudy at first.

Why does it need a filter?

You can actually remove the filter and the water will still run just fine.

OMG YES

new ones lock the lid when you start the cycle

@@ronblack7870 right, but you can pause the cycle at least on the ones I have seen with the lock and then add something and continue the cycle

"new ones lock the lid when you start the cycle" Another "safety feature" to disable to get the machine to work properly. Sigh.

Don't overload it or you may loose said sock

Thank you!

Leave the door cracked open as well

I think his wife knows.

Aha so that is why I should leave the top open. I used to have a front load. They don't wash as well as a top load and have some annoying issues. So I got a top load. Much easier.

I do that with my front loader. This machine comes with my apartment and unfortunately it has some molding issues where the detergent tray goes in. You have to pull out the tray and then look in to where it goes. That’s where all the mold and mildew will start. So when you come to my apartment, the machine doors open and the tray is out and sitting in the machine.

to be fair it's wisconsin so goodness knows it's needed lmao

And it wasn’t needed in Australia

As a former Wisconsinite whose father was a custom home builder. My mother _refused_ to have a wood burning stove/fireplace in the house catering messiness. My father built the last one we lived in with a fireplace over my mother's objection in spite of the storms that would take the power out for over a week in the winter. In the other house I froze my ass off, in the last house at least the living room/kitchen was warm. I've lived in houses with only a wood burning stove for heat, and I hated it. But I would like it as a backup if the power goes out.

Is central cooling common in Australian homes?

@@charlesbrown4483yes central ducted air conditioning is common but so is central heating despite what is said above. The thing is it depends where you live. In a country about the size of the mainland US there a range of different climates. Go north up the coast and you don’t need any heating. You do need air con. Inland you do need heating as it gets cold at night in Winter. In the south you need both as you go from freezing temps to extreme heat.

Do people still use that sort of coffee maker over there. Very rarely even see those where I am these days

@@benmac940 You mean as opposed to Keurig (or similar)? Honestly, I'm not sure! I don't drink coffee myself, and don't have my finger on the pulse of the coffee market! :) But I do still see them in hotel rooms, and in offices (where they want to make big communal pots of coffee).

@Steven Hurdle I mean like nespresso machines which use a pod, or mini espresso machines that automatically grind the beans

I always use mine to make tea or hot chocolate.

@@benmac940 omg.....not everyone can afford an espresso machine and whole bean coffee to grind in it lksdjf

Or it's blue from your load of jeans....but for sure clean your duct occasionally

Yes!! My neighbour neglected her dryer and it burst into flames one night. On the up side, her laundry DID dry very quickly at that point.

Recently our dryer in our apartment started to have a burning smell. Called out maintenance and apparently there was a bird nest in the exterior of the vent and causing backup of lint. Birds relocated and vent cleaned we are back to functioning. Always good to keep any eye on these things!

You can get some of the lint out of the hose or pipe in between cleanings by setting the dryer to the air dry setting and turn it on empty. Then gently using a stick, tap on the hose and/or pipe while it is running. This often dislodges a lot of the accumulated lint and then blows it outside. Just make sure to go outside or to wherever the vent is and remove any of the lint that got caught on the louvers or the flap if you have the air vent that blows down.

That’s good advice anyway (especially for an older house), but I’ve never heard blue staining having anything to do with plugged up lint pipes.

They aren't that special. I'm actually flabberghasted he's never seen these things.... (I live in the UK)

@@melanierhianna Me too. My gran had a top loader in her 150 year old house (quite a new build for the UK) 50-60 years ago.

@@melanierhianna He didn't say he'd "never seen them" or that no one person ever used them in the UK, he said they're aren't as common in the UK as they are in the US and that he personally did not use them until he moved to the US. Can you read the title of the video? He made that point several times in the video. It's as if he knew certain people would be "flabbergasted" by their own imaginations 🙃

Speaking as someone from the South, that's a bit like opening the hatch to your submerged submarine to let the water out lmao. Pretty much anything south of the 40th parallel and not in the American dust bowl that is the quad of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and new Mexico, is going to have the swamp ass inducing combination of high heat and high humidity and the further south and east you go the worse it gets. Eventually you're going to hit the swampland that is the majority of the gulf coast and you might as well call that swimming on land, because 100% humidity is common from late spring to late summer and temperatures over 100 F (38C) are also common from July to early September. There's a reason we use air conditioners and have pool/slip-n-slide parties, the continental US is where some of the hottest temperatures on earth were recorded and our humidity can be as bad as a rainforest in south America.

In the US, they are a basement thing to prevent mold and mildew.

Its humid outside too? It gets to be like 99% humidity where it feels like the air outside is liquid. We empty our dehumidifier several times a day on the most humid days and it collects literally gallons of water.

And if you try that trick on the west coast of Scotland you'll soon realize it was a (very) bad idea. Scotland's national export after Single Malts are Midges, Midge Repellant, Midge bite cream and Midges.

@@DanielCoffey67 In the South it's Mosquitoes and Ticks, bug repellent and keeping the verge trimmed is paramount in the South.

They also save a ton of money on your electric bill.

Why wouldn’t it work in the Midwest?

@johnqpublic5350 thanks for asking. Swamp coolers work through evaporation. Picture yourself next to a waterfall. In a dry climate, that cold mist from that waterfall would cool you off because the water droplets evaporate quickly off the skin. But the Midwest is humid. It's much more difficult for the water droplets from a waterfall to evaporate because the Midwestern air is already saturated with moisture.

@@jeremynv89523 thanks. That makes sense to this Wisconsin resident.

Badly named device. It will not cool a swamp.

Yea to the radon testing! It is the second largest cause of lung cancer in the US next to smoking. My husband is a contractor and he just did some continuing education on the matter. He was pretty astounded at how many regulations there are in new construction to prevent radon gas permeating the basement/slab of new homes. Also, the upper Midwest is a hot spot for radon gas, though it is found all over the world.

Mould*

@@fionagregory9147 I'm American, I spell it mold.... ....however moulding is the word for fancy wood trim around doors and windows.

radon only exists in granitic ground as it's created from uranium which exists only in granitic undegrounds.

​@@Arkansya your comment almost comes across as downplaying the risk of radon. Look up a heat map of areas at statistically significant risk of radon exposure and it covers almost half of the contiguous US. Every house I've lived in and the two houses my parents have lived in after I moved out all had radon detectors.

That's what mine does in England.

@@gillianrimmer7733 And mine does the same in Scotland. Where the tumble dryer is located does not change it's function, to dry clothes.

@@Thurgosh_OG I know, anyone would think it's normal for clothes to come out damp - which is not the case. I would suggest getting a plumber in if your dryer doesn't leave your washing bone dry.

@@gillianrimmer7733 I think some of the ventless / efficiency type dryers default to a less dry setting to save energy. There is typically a way to save a preference so it goes to the dry or more dry by default instead of having to select that each load.

@@gillianrimmer7733 Plumbers dont...fix dryers that I'm aware of. Its not a water and pipe thing. Unless I'm completely wrong, them fixing a dryer makes little sense.

I hope you save all that dehumidifier water for that humidifier, playa!

dehumidfier are good for basments too

Minnesotan here too ... I use both as well. The humidifier in winter is especially important in Minnesota., IMO.

@@ultraderek best comment, reminds me of the Dad from Friday.

Same here in Michigan. Couldn't live without er either one.

I still live in the PNW and owned a brick house that was built in 41 with a half basement. I had to put a dehumidifier in the basement because at times I could smell the musty basement when i would get home. Otherwise the rest of the house was fine. It took care of the odor. Otherwise I had never needed one before.

While I was in the Navy, my ship (USS Forrestal CV-59) went into the yards at Philly in 83. Expecting my family, I got assigned family housing, and surprisingly got one of the best places I ever lived. Four bedroom townhouse, central air, my own driveway and carport, etc. And, something I'd never seen before and haven't seen since. A whole house dehumidifier, just as built in as the central AC. However, I never did get to see how it works. Unfortunately, this was also when my marriage broke up. So I had the place for a few weeks, then had to give it up because my family didn't join me. Still, it remains the only place I've ever seen such a thing as a whole house dehumidifier. Around 8-10 years, I went the opposite direction at work. I was operating a calibration lab, which had to maintain temp and humidity within certain specs. We were located in, basically, office space, and it had never been designed for such controls. We managed the temperature for the most part, by closing off the windows and adding more AC supplies. But, low humidity was an issue in the winter. Got through one period with a fan blowing across a tray of water, just trying to get the humidity up a couple of points. Eventually persuaded management to buy an actual humidifier, which did the job. Ironically, you said the unit you displayed for the dehumidifier segment was actually an air purifier, and we just got one today that my girlfriend ordered and I just initially setup this evening. Ours is smaller than your unit, though, and it's got a black case instead of white. It also has something it calls a "mood light" and a place to put scented oils or something like that. Never used one before.

@@brolinofvandar Another Forrestal crewman (72-73) here. dehumidifiers are used when you don't want to cool at the same time. Basically the are an A/C, but the heat is just dumped back in the same room. My first WESPAC cruise, the yards put in a bigger A/C in the radar room. The watch bailed a pail of water every hour because the drain was wrong.

I live in east Tennessee. A dehumidifier lowers my electric bill and makes the house more comfortable in the summers.

They are also easier to NOT have if you don't have carpeting in the home. Carpets are moisture sinks, and if you don't run the AC or heat all the time, moisture builds up.

Gasp, what a fire hazard!

​@deborahbarry8458 seriously! I can't remember which fire it was (the Great Chicago fire, maybe) but I believe in the US, there were laws about this passed when people burned alive because they couldn't get out of factories fast enough or were locked in.

Shirtwaist factory fire they locked the workers in.

Lack of basements isn't just a UK thing - down here in Florida it's extremely rare to see homes with basements because the water table is so high. If you had a basement here, you'd constantly have the pump running because you'd be in ankle-deep water all the time.

+1 for the Alabama Gulf Coast for lack of basements. We’re well above sea level where I’m at, but between hurricanes and how much rain we get in a normal year, the flooding would be unreal. We just have dedicated laundry rooms. In every house I’ve lived in, they’ve been right off the kitchen and usually close to a back door.

My refrigerator tells me when it needs changed. And it's more that every couple of years. More like twice a year.

I'm an old woman and change my water and air filters in the fridge twice a year. Mine don't require tools -- they're inside the fridge and just need a shove in.

the fridge will tell you ever six months to change it. We have the same fridge but in slate color. We just changed the filter in it today, however with alot of models the water and ice will stop working if you do not change it every six months, GE keeps working.

2xs a year more likely. But, I can taste it when it needs changing.

NEVER use an in-door water or ice dispenser, period! Time and again, people mistakenly think what comes out of the fridge must be better or safer, when the opposite is true. The entire piping system gets fouled with bacteria in a matter of weeks and contaminates everything downstream in the fridge hoses. It’s worse than a fish tank! You just don’t see it, because it’s behind all the ‘user serviceable’ parts. Instead, always opt for the municipally tested and treated water that comes from your tap. If you’re concerned, at most put a filter on the faucet.

We had one in my childhood home. Amazing the things we sent down that chute, just to see if it would fit! Aw, good times😂

Yes. Stiff, rigid towels are the worst! I don't mind air drying most of my clothes but the towels was hard to adjust to when I was abroad. That said, it was made up for by the heated towel racks which I think are amazing inventions!

As someone who hates shrunken clothes and hang-drys plenty by choice, I STILL agree with you - especially for sheets, towels, socks, and, especially, pet hair removal. No dryer is especially rough with kids!

I've spent a fair amount of time in Europe (and married a Swiss woman three years ago so will spend more) and a dryer is always near the top of my list of things I miss. And even when people have a dryer (as my mother-in-law does) they still usually hang their clothes or have a condenser dryer which will get your clothes dry sometime next week! If we ever move to Europe we'll spend the extra cash.

Why don't you just buy one instead of moving somewhere else ? When you rent an apartment in France, you have to bring your own unless it is furnished.

@@privatelyprivate3285 Also when I had a cat, she became obsessed with the dryer-fresh laundry. To the point where the dryer cycle chime had her meowing at me to empty the warm clothes on the couch so she could jump into the pile. By the time I was folding the last few socks, the cat was guarding it like a dragon's hoard.

Don’t forget the staple of American homes, a food disposer under the kitchen sink where you can scrape food into the sink flip a switch and away it goes. It’s really hard on pipes because you can clog pipes that way but it works good

Most houses in the U.K have the food waste collected by the council weekly - gets turned in to fertiliser or used to create electricity via bio methane.

@@bordersw1239 I supplied a work colleague with excess pears in autumn for their pigs, before slaughter, as it gives a taste to the meat. They pointed out it was OK as they were not from the human food chain, but they could not have food waste, like in WW2, as animals for meat and human food must be separated here in UK. In Spain, at a town festival, where my girlfriend's parents lived, they used the almond roots to make a flavourful smoky charcoal taste go into the hog barbecue, which seemed a very good way of recycling. As for food waste, whatever happened to the good old fashioned compost heap? On second thoughts, my friends in Texas would not keep any left over anything, as the heat made it a health hazard.

Slime mold. Yuck

Or the faucet to fridge could not be turned on all the way.

Changing the filter makes a big difference.

Just make sure, once you change the filter, to stand back a bit with the first cup. The water will shoot out a lot faster than you expect and you should toss that first cup after a filter change.

It might be a low pressure line, and the filters get plugged.

That sounds like a great way to flood your house.

@@LeCharles007 depends on where it's set. Considering how slow it is, it may barely be turned on. The maximum pressure allowed is important, and you don't need to have it that high, but it shouldn't take that long to fill a glass.

@@eronnorris6683 I would love to know how a homeowner can raise their water pressure? The ice maker supply line is intended for full line pressure, there is no regulator just a valve that is intended to be fully open or fully closed. The line is only 5/32 inch ID so that limits flow significantly vs the 3/8 inch ID lines connecting most faucets. Filter clogging or just new super compact, super purifying cartridges will reduce flow. On super cheap installations the use a valve that pierces a copper supply pipe, the pierced hole is never as big around as the ID of the supply tubing going to the ice maker. The smallest orifice is what determines flow. Often the installer won't tighten the piercing screw far enough and only pokes a tiny hole.

@@truracer20 the valve might not be fully open.

Other way of looking at it: "It requires an entire bus to contain the appliances that are considered normal for a reasonable quality of life." That's wild to think about.

@@Thrillhou The wife and I were actually looking into pricing on some of those as part of our possible retirement plans. Upon further review, it appears that for what one of those rolling palaces would cost, I could purchase a new 1-ton truck, a nice 5th-wheel trailer, and have about $150k left over to spend at the laundromat... On a positive note, the wife is currently employed as a transit bus driver, and I'm an ex-truck driver. Either way, at least we wouldn't be "one of those people" who drives 40 MPH on the freeway and panics at the thought of having to back up the rig.

Yes, I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (it's part of the city of Los Angeles) and we had a suburban house, built in '54 that had a separate laundry room with a deep sink, room for a big washer (top loading) and dryer, and a big broom closet. As an adult, I've usually bought older houses - Craftsman, and even older, and have never had a set up as convenient as the one my mother did. (I now have a house built in '51 that started out with a washer/dryer in the garage, but before we moved in a den was added on which has both a bathroom and a small laundry room attached - the only appliances that fit in the laundry room are not only top loading, but stacked....) :(

Ours were originally there too and were subsequently moved to the garage. NOT recommended and really wish they’d chosen the now too-trouble$some-to-upgrade finished basement instead 🙁

I can imagine a cat would love a front loader to sit in.

Yes, I almost dried a cat in a front loader. When I was adding clothing he climbed in. Fortunately I decided to wash a second load and then planned to add the wet stuff from that load to the dryer before running it. He walked out. ACKKKK!

Yes! I grew up in a late '40s house and indeed the washer/dryer and laundry sink are still to this day in a room directly attached to the kitchen. The laundry next to kitchen thing is more of an apartment/small condo thing these days.

@@diannt9583 omg!

No we mainly use the dryers with the rear hose that either goes onto a hole in the wall or out a nearby window. Condensers are more common in flats, I'm told.

@@Thurgosh_OG I think "mainly" is probably the wrong word, but yes condenser units do not really exist in the US. I've never seen one in 40 years. They are available though, mainly through Amazon and I expect they might get more common as globalization increases and more people opt to live in smaller homes.

There's also the question of how the dryer deals with the lint. With a vented dryer, some of the lint accumulates outside. I think ventless dryers are getting more common in the U.S.

@@EXROBOWIDOW Only for those who want a really slow drying cycle.

I’ve had a ventless in a US apartment and indeed it was slow AF. I think they are attractive to older apartment buildings that want to add an in-unit but don’t have vents, or just in giving flexibility that the dryer doesn’t have to be near an exterior wall.

So true!!! I spent more time at Lowe's during my first week of home ownership than I had in the previous 5 years prior.

@@Jessica_P_Fields Oh yes! When my husband and I moved into our second home, we discovered that we still needed things from a hardware store that we didn't already have, so we still spent more time in a hardware store. Things have slowed down with home #3, but we live a little more than a mile from a Home Depot just in case.

@@mariashaffer-gordon3561 I'm lucky that Lowe's is less than 2 miles away, and Home Depot is less than 5 miles away. It makes my life so much easier! Between the two, I can just about get anything done in the house quickly and easily. People underestimate the value of having a hardware store really close by.

Older houses are built better than modern ones

Ok boomer

Not necessarily. I've a 50s tract house. It was built fast, with quality secondary. Nothing has actually broken yet, but the _really should fix_ list is making me nervous.

Current design, including homes, is so boring...it's all purely functional. I hate it.

@@kaneo1 it's kinda funny what qualifies as an old house for Americans

Hana J. There is one on the landing, near me now, for that reason, but the UK does not have electric sockets in bathrooms, which I assume puts people off.

@@alansmithee8831 how do people dry and style their hair with no electric outlets in the bathroom?

Is that right? So not even a basic fan? Between the shower and toilet, fans should be standard, man!

@@dawnmichelle4403 You move to the bedroom, where it is not all steamy and probably more comfortable and warmer.

@@privatelyprivate3285 You can have hard wired fans, with separate fused switch, but more common to open the window.

Love a good line dry line of clothes! Brings back childhood memories.

This ^, plus the USA contains MANY different (and extreme) climates, some that get so disgustingly humid that it damages crucial home components. I live in one that gets the lovely combo of VERY hot/humid summers + unpredictable extreme cold snapped winters; we have both appliances

Basements are not common in my part of the country. Heck, I can't remember ever visiting a home that had one. They might be more common in Tornado Alley though, where they can serve as shelters.

@@nicholasharvey1232 They're not common on high water tables or close to fault lines. Here in the Midwest, they're not only a tornado shelter but a cool space in the summer, a laundry room, and a place for storage.

@@lorimiller623 where I'm from the water table is at 6 inches. You wouldn't have a basement, you'd have an indoor pool

@@lorimiller623 Yeah I didn't think about this, I do live near a coastline so the water table is probably too close to ground level for a basement to be viable. You probably won't find a single home with a basement in, say, New Orleans (which is not far from where I live, I must add)

i would rather stay in the uk in the 21st century lol.

I never heard it called a garden tub. 🤔. Maybe I haven’t been around enough or something. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This American wants to know - Whats a garden tub ?

Garden tub? Is that a Rubbermaid container to store your gardening tools? American, BTW.

Uhh what’s a garden tub? I’m American and I don’t know what’s a garden tub.

Midwesterner here, I fell out of my chair when I saw the misting pipes at outdoor seating areas in Arizona. But as dry as it is there I guess it makes sense.

I had a friend, in my youth in the Chicago suburbs, whose kitchen held both a dishwasher and washing machine which were each on wheels and had to be hooked up to the kitchen sink.

I love that last sentence! I can really relate to it.

My new fridge has a pitcher inside of it that refills automatically. So I don't have to wait for the slow pouring water. There's also a little infuser basket thingy for lemon or for making iced tea.

@@catgirl6803 The stuff they have nowadays! Crazy, isn't it?

@@terpman well I am not happy with the lack of advancements with laundry.

My parents had a fridge like that, and it cost thousands of dollars when they had to replace it. About the same time we bought a basic fridge (with a freezer on top) for about $600. I have no problem with water from the tap, and ice trays.

@@catgirl6803I agree. This is 2023 America! We should have one machine that you fill with unsorted laundry and within an hour they are cleaned, dried, sorted and folded. Even the socks should be paired up. There should already be high end devices capable of buttoning, ironing and placing hangers. We not only put man on the moon but broadcast it live to the world 50 years ago! How can we not automate such tasks???

I agree that Laurence should know about the switch on ceiling fans but the switch should be set to blow down in the summer to give a direct cooling draft, and up in the winter to move heated air off the ceiling, down the walls, without a direct draft on the room's occupants. This is especially useful in a room with high or cathedral ceilings. Also, running a ceiling fan (or any fan for that matter) in the summer when there are no occupants in the room does nothing but add a small amount of heat to the room due to the motor running.

ha ha ha ha ha. That is NONSENSE. fans simply move the air around.

@@luisvelasco316 you are correct. I don't think most people flip their switch though. It's such a bother to get up there. If I had a remote I might.

Many electric utilities will not offer an average payment plan to customers until they have been at that property for at least one year. They need an idea of the customer’s usage during all months to determine how much the bill should be. Once a balanced billing plan is started, they do make corrections periodically based on actual meter readings but many utilities want at least one year of usage to base their first bill upon.

He already had a lesson on this in one of his videos.

I hate dry hanged laundry, everything becomes like cardboard even with softener. My skin goes red instantly with towels like that ! I guess it's a question of habits.

We love it when we finally get some sun to hang our clothes out in the uk. It’s not old fashioned, why waste electricity when you have a free dryer outside? Don’t get me wrong, if I’m too busy I will just lash them into the dryer.. but it’s definitely a better option to hang them out. And the smell is so much better!

@@mdx7460 >It’s not old fashioned, If other things are considered "old fashioned" then so can hang drying.

@Nicky L I was talking about towels that were hanged outside. I never do this. Oh yes I had spiky balls but I don't use them anymore. It makes noises and smells odd.

@@enlilw-l2 I've had the same problem, but the biggest reason I can't hang out my laundry is my pollen allergies. Anything that's been outside would have to go right back into the washer for me.

What do you mean they malfunction more than regular fridges? It’s a plastic tube that goes from the water line, through the back of the fridge, to the water dispenser/ice making unit. It’s a very easy circuit to follow and the only malfunction I’ve ever seen with one is the plastic tube busts and it’s 10-20 bucks to replace. A whole ice making unit is like 50 bucks for my fridge and most problems you have out of them can be fixed mechanically without spending a dime. Like just stick your hand inside it and jiggle the parts around and that fixes it 9 times out of 10.

@@Augrills we have just heard of issues that's all. The bigger problem, IMO, is the amount of space the ice maker takes up.

@@desertrose0027 I guess mileage varies for everyone, but I’ve never had an issue with them personally and only had to replace a line for my papaw. Which I just need a new line and two tiny worm gear clamps that came with it. You do lose a shelf or two, but I’d rather have ice. Different strokes

@@Augrills all the ones we looked at had a huge ice maker taking up a lot of one of the doors. Meanwhile we rarely add ice, so it was an easy choice. But, yup, everyone's needs are different.

I wouldn't get a fridge with a water dispenser because I loathe tap water. Actually, it was wonderful where I grew up because we had a well. But I have never lived anywhere that had drinkable tap water.

@Sue Wiseley. See video on RU-vid about why Tesco failed in US. Habits are different. It is not unusual to shop for what you need that day to save costs these days in UK. No storage, no waste. Eat the ready prepared meal as is or if a hot meal, put it in the microwave. There is a trial near me for delivery robots for "just in time" internet shopping. No need to spend on fuel to get to the shop. I heard radio broadcasts where they were talking seriously about domestic fridges knowing what they stocked and ordering automatically, but also via the smart meter, being turned off and on at peak times to save the requirement for energy consumption. I hear they are wanting to stop gas cookers in US. Sounds like the same ideas over there?

I kid my twenty something son that he shops like a European. Drives me crazy having to go to the store more than twice a week.

For me it's his accent and dry humor combined.

One of the first things I did after buying my house was having all the air ducts cleaned and then the dryer vent. They pulled more lint out of the dryer vent tubing than they did dust out of all the air ducts. Very scary.

I've.had both top and front load machines... I find that the front loading ones tend to be significantly better for less than huge loads. They also tend to be a lot more efficient, but that could be down to not having experience with a fancy new top loader.

Front loaders are not just a compromise, I still use one even though I now live in Australia, they are way more practicable with the water restrictions we are often experience. And I find as an older person, it is easier to get the laundry out of a front loader. And they do not tie the clothes into knots as some top loaders do.

Many early automatic washers in the late 1930’s were front loading and a few companies came up with top loading machines but had to stop the development since the US got involved in WWII. A few companies such as Bendix continued the production of the front loading machines such as the ones built before WWII but updated a little, but in a way became quote on quote “obsolete” once GM Frigidaire and Whirlpool came out with their top loading machines since they spun faster (GM Frigidaire made a machine that spun at 1140 rpm in 1947) and rinsed better since many early front loaders struggled with rinsing. Another reason why top loaders gained popularity is they had better ergonomics in terms of how everything was laid out, you didn’t need to stoop down to load and unload the machine along with having to bolt the machine down to a concrete floor since many of those early front loaders didn’t have a suspension system on them hence why they needed to be bolted down to the floor, also spun at a meager 200 to 300 rpm leaving clothes quite wet when they were done.

My first machine in 1981 was a twintub and I would be happy to go back to one now as they were so much quicker. My modern Samsung takes well over 2 hours to do a wash so half the morning has gone before I can hang stuff out.

@@Phiyedough Two hours? That's crazy. My top loader takes about half an hour.

You can get those dispenser fridges over here too.

@@Thurgosh_OG I know (I have a friend who has one) but you don’t see them as much. Plus, I rent my place so I can’t change out appliances like refrigerators.

What did you do with your guns? Did you make some money on them?

Go on line, there are several vendors for generic filters, water and HVA/C, usually a 2 or 3 pack for the price of a retail brand name single filter, with easy instructions on how to find the right model filter for whatever fridge you have. for instance, I have an LG fridge, french type doors on the top 2/3, lower 1/3 is the freezer as a drawer, not doors, and the filter is in the fridge top left corner, all in all pretty simple, punch this in to their form and it gives you the right model filters and it's mailed to your front door.

@@billbutler2452 I have an LG fridge too and it's amazing how much they charge for air and water filters. So much cheaper elsewhere for filters just as good.