With ceiling fans the cord has 3 speeds and 1 is off. If you are starting from OFF the first pull is high speed, it does high speed cause its gotta get going first so high is always the first pull. 2nd pull is medium speed, 3rd pull is low speed. Then the 4th being off again.

@lisasisson1258

8 күн бұрын

Most fans also have a light also so your room will be aluminated. Separate chain for the light. You can also get fans/lights with remote controls. Blades run counterclockwise to push air down and cool air up thus cooling the room. In winter blades can be switched to clockwise thus pulling cooler air up and mixing with warm air and warming the room. Both save on the energy used to cool and heat a room. And they are silent so they are not annoying to have on all the time. 3. American front porches are just another way to sit back and get to chat with neighbors and passers by and share a glass of something cold aka Iced Tea, Lemonade. You won't believe what you learn about your neighborhood when you just sit and watch what's going on in the time between dinner and bedtime. Break out the strawberry Shortcake or ice cream maker and invite a neighbor over. That's what we do on those warm summer nights that are too hot to sleep. Love all your videos. By the way I think I know why we all think you are Russian. Our old movies ( during the cold war) had European actors playing the part of the bad Russian spy. So you just sound like an old Spy😂 take care, stay cool! Best regards from Exeter, New Hampshire U.S.A

@Watjalukinat

8 күн бұрын

Also has a switch on the side for winter/summer. When you flip it, it reverses direction. Summer is counterclockwise and pushes air down. Winter is clockwise and makes an updraft to move warm air towards the ceiling to spread it around

@patwalker5133

8 күн бұрын

That is why I am thankful that my fan runs on the light switch. In my house, you change the setting on the fan and all hell breaks loose.

@digger96

8 күн бұрын

I have 2 ceiling fans; one in my living room and one in my bedroom. One goes hi-med-lo-off, the other goes lo-med-hi-off. Drives me nuts.

@patwalker5133

8 күн бұрын

@@digger96 I have two also, one in the living-room and one in the dining-room. I think the one in the dining room only has high, low and off. The other has three setting and off. That is why you don't touch them. It takes forever to get it on the lower setting.

Trust me when its extremely hot and humid....you wouldn't care what the air conditioner looks like. Those window units save many lives every summer. 😉

@debbiel.1655

6 күн бұрын

I miss window units. The sound of a window unit puts me right to sleep and the room gets so cold and cozy. I love my central a/c but every now and then I get nostalgic for my old window unit

@greeneyedlady5580

6 күн бұрын

My first summer in my apartment, I got heat exhaustion when it got up to 100° outside. By the next summer I had a window AC in my bedroom. That is the only thing that let me survive when we were caught in a heart dome, with 115 - 117° temps.

@protorhinocerator142

5 күн бұрын

I have draped myself over a window unit on hot days. Just inhale the cold air right out of the machine. Maybe get a blanket and try to capture more of the cold for yourself. It completely ruins the air flow for the rest of the room but I really didn't care. Expert tip: At Sam's Club (and probably Costco) they have a walk-in refrigerated room where they sell milk. It's SOOOOOO cold in there. It's great. You can see your own breath. Sometimes the overhead chiller has condensation that drips and you can stand under it and have those cold drops land on your back. So very nice!

@wendyl7906

4 күн бұрын

@@protorhinocerator142 It's 110 here today and we were at Costco and did go into that room It actually got too cold.

@jefferyhurley151

Күн бұрын

My brother had a fan that sounds like a rod knocking,a racket, couldn't sleep without it.😎💯​@@debbiel.1655

Bagged ice is used when great quantities are needed (parties), camping (to keep food from spoiling) and boating (got to keep those beers cold). Actually, comes in handy for any outdoor activity (sporting events, outdoor concerts, etc.).

@cameronnewman9362

8 күн бұрын

just put your bottled or can drinks in a cooler, put a bag of ice in and everybody can get a cold beverage when they want one lol a lot of people here buy a case of beer and a bag of ice for there cooler before they go fishing lol

@AnneBiebrich

8 күн бұрын

Also saves us( florida) when we lose power for days from a hurricane! Have to take everything from refrigerator and freezer and put it in several coolers with bags of ice ! Have to buy 5 bags every 2 or 3 days till power is back on

@m2hmghb

8 күн бұрын

@@AnneBiebrich Same up here in NJ. During the winter if it's snowing out we just use that.

@sammymullins2014

7 күн бұрын

yeah then you aren't taking up your whole freezer with ice

@TheCJTok

7 күн бұрын

We’ve used bagged ice when our ice maker went out. We put it in the bucket and can still have dispensed ice.

Fun fact (for Americans that may not know): Almost ALL ceiling fans have a REVERSE SWITCH somewhere at the top, to change the direction it spins. Why? - For "efficient" air flow. In summer, you want the fan to spin in the direction the blades would blow UPWARD, so that it pulls the colder air up, and it settles on the rest of the room. In winter you want it to spin so it blows DOWNWARD so that heat trapped at the ceiling can warm your floors.

Today in Dallas TX area its 101 degrees F. We can expect these temperatures to rise to around 110 degrees 43.3 C in mid-July and August. Stay cool my friends.

@sammymullins2014

7 күн бұрын

thank god I live in the northern part of the south with 92 being our high yesterday, granted it has been higher than that and will be higher than that again plus humidity for both of us is crazy

@dustintunget4177

7 күн бұрын

Can confirm....it's so hot in Dallas that I just saw 2 hobbits run through my yard and throw a ring.

@SuzA8110

7 күн бұрын

It's supposed to get up to 100 here in Oregon this week and maybe 109 by next week. Luckily, we don't have many hot days here and we usually get a little rain to even things out. Humidity is usually not a problem. I can withstand the heat, being from California, but what I hate is the snow in winter. I still can't drive in the snow!

@Mtheory9

5 күн бұрын

In Dallas as well. Can confirm. I remember a summer (early 90s) where we had 100+ degrees F for 100+ days in a row.

Bagged ice is used when you need quantity. Many businesses use a lot of ice to keep water and Gatorade cold for employees who work outside

@alicesullivan4089

5 күн бұрын

Or when the power goes out in your neighborhood - drive a little ways ( hopefully!) and buy ice to keep your food and yourself cool.

@deannadropping9719

2 күн бұрын

Or if you live in Florida and it’s too gross to drink the tap water, so why make ice with it!! I have to pay for bottled water to fill up the ice trays to make 16 cubes at a time.. I buy bags.. silly or not. lol..

The window A/C is iconic in NYC. They are everywhere. older buildings were not built with central A/C and window A/C is the only solution. Yes, they are ugly and weigh about 25Kg, but when it is 101F and 98% humidity, you dont care.

If you go picnicking, fishing have a big party you will be buying ice in bags. Unlike Europe the US heat will spoil food and freshly caught fish very fast. So people put ice in ice chests/coolers to keep food cold. Fishermen will do the same to keep their drinks cold and to keep the fish fresh on the trip home.

3 With the extreme heat that most areas of the United States can be subjected to every summer, Laurence was speaking literally when he said that the absence of air conditioning units could be a public health emergency. At the same time, those temperatures help explain why Americans have a high fondness for iced water, since it helps deal with those temperature extremes, as well as keep food and drinks cold in situations where refrigeration isn't available, such as going fishing, camping, enjoying outdoor sports, or working outside. When doing farm work, few things are as welcome as taking a short break from the heat and drinking some ice-cold water. It replaces the water you've sweated out as you work, and brings your body temperature down. The colder that drink is, the better it feels.

also, no one has mentioned that ceiling fans are bi-directional.... this is so that it pushes cool air in the summer AND when you change the direction of the spin, it pushes warm air (stuck near the ceiling) in the winter.. also, the light switch only sends electricity to the fan (and lights if they are attached), but the pull string changes the speed.

@sammymullins2014

7 күн бұрын

I'm spoiled and one of my fans has a remote! however the other 2 are just run completely by flipping a switch no change of speed just crack head fast🤣

@alisonflaxman1566

6 күн бұрын

Or that most you buy now have a remote.

@jpbaley2016

6 күн бұрын

No one mentioned it because the majority of ceiling fans are not big-directional.

@alisonflaxman1566

6 күн бұрын

@@jpbaley2016 bi-directional and yes they are.

@protorhinocerator142

5 күн бұрын

@@jpbaley2016 They are. There's a little switch on the center column. You have to look for it. Also, it depends on how they're wired when you turn them on, My fans are all one switch. You turn on the light and fan with one switch on the wall. At the unit you decide if it's light, fan, or both.

Think about it - you have 10 people coming over to watch some sporting event. How many ice cube trays, plus freezer space, and time, do you have to make enough for everyone? It's way more economical to run to the store and get a bag or two of ice. In fact, during one of the weddings I officiated, my husband did the couple a "solid" and took off to get more ice as someone had forgotten to bring any.

Window units are used in older homes without central air. Sometimes they are used in certain areas to bolster the coolness while raising the temperature in unused rooms to save money on the bill. Ceiling fan: 1 pull on low 2nd pull faster 3rd pull off

Bags of ice are normally used in ice chests to keep drinks cold when eating outside in hot weather . Where I live summer temperatures are regularly in the 40C range (110-115 F) making it necessary to keep drinks, meat for the BBQ, eggs, salads, fruits and vegetables all properly refrigerated in an outdoor environment.

Trust me a cracked window isn’t enough as the air is just too hot. There’s not enough to cool anything down. The American contention is bringing air conditioning units to Paris despite what the French government wants as it’s so crazy hot. The Olympic village might be built to maximize air circulation but we know it won’t be enough. French want carbon neutral but technically it’s not using carbon energy at all.

As someone who spent over half their life living without air conditioning in an area that can reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit/37.78 Celsius, with a heat index of 104, you want everything mentioned for summer. Yes, it's cheaper and easier to use several ice trays, however because everyone is hot and want iced drinks how far do you really think these trays of ice go? We all open our windows when the temps are moderate or when we don't have an ac. If you don't have an ac then you use every type of fan, ceiling, box, pedestal etc., you can safely run in your home. Btw, if having an ac is an option we either use central air or window units or if the house is really large, both. And as someone who had to sleep on the floor because of summer heat and went camping the old-fashioned way in sleeping bags, air mattresses would have been a blessing. As for porch swings, the swinging motion is soothing and if it's hot out the swinging motion can be cooling as well.

New homes have central AC, therefore no need for window units. These you may find in older homes yet, some older homes can be fitted with central AC.

A window AC is $150 from walmart whereas a central air or built in AC can cost $10k+ to have installed. If youre adding it to a house that wasnt built with it it get crazy complicated and expensive. So window units are more economical and work quite well, you do need a few throughout the house though.

@mbourque

8 күн бұрын

also, the difference is that window units can be more expensive on your electric bill... central AC is 220v and window units are 110v so they end up costing more in electricity when used for a long time (several or most months in the South). this just about electricity usage, not over all long-term cost...

@cakesaregood5176

6 күн бұрын

I just replaced mine 9000 US dollars.

@alisonflaxman1566

6 күн бұрын

Going to have to replace my center air soon and was quoted $5000.

@cakesaregood5176

6 күн бұрын

@@alisonflaxman1566 it probably depends on where you live and it might depend on if you need the outside unit and the inside unit or just one.

@JAbate-ub8ht

2 күн бұрын

@@cakesaregood5176 That's exactly right, the price difference plus how often you even need to run it are major factors. And your personal comfort ..my individual units can get the two rooms I spend the most time in comfortable for me (78 when outside is 100) but I'd need more units or to pay thousands to install central air to get it cooler than that. Others in my family have central air and prefer 67 inside despite a heat wave outside. How can the human body's mechanisms for temperature variation work if you stay in cold air, then try to function in the outdoor summer heat and humidity? 😃

Years ago, I went to an exhibit on air condition at the National Building Museum in DC. Aside from just helping you feel better, air conditioning is central to manufacturing and the work environment, especially in southern states. I grew up w/o air conditioning. When I was a young teen, we finally got window air conditioners for our bedrooms and one for downstairs. DC is very hot and very humid; having A/C makes life so much easier. Since I've been an adult, I've lived with central A/C, thank goodness. Aside from being comfortable, having central air means you don't have to talk over a loud window unit.

My apartment complex in Texas considers it a maintenance emergency if the AC goes out in the summer. All apartments around here do.

@sammymullins2014

7 күн бұрын

same here and I live in KY where we don't get as bad of heat

@suziebell1965

6 күн бұрын

Obviously same here in Las Vegas. I had to replace both a/c's in the past 2yrs. Cost over $30k! Did get good 'Carrier' brand. 114 degrees forecast for July 4th.

@susiedupuy9532

6 күн бұрын

It is!

@bmbandit

5 күн бұрын

Same here in AZ!

4 күн бұрын

The combination of heat over 107 and high humidity spells danger for humans trying to avoid heat exhaustion and stroke. Perspiration will not evaporate in high humidity and our natural heat exchange system fails.

The window AC units can work quite well as long as you get one powered to cool the right size room. However, central AC (whole house) is better.

Yes, pull one is slow, second is faster, third is high speed. Fourth is off. And there's a switch on the base that when you flip it up or down, the fan will spin in the other direction (so air moves down, or up, depending).

@cyirvine6300

8 күн бұрын

One is a winter setting to blow the warm air from the ceiling. 😊

I grew up in a house build in the 1920s to 30s in southern Ohio, which gets hot & muggy in summer. I made do with open windows letting in the marginally cooler hot, muggy air at night. It's been decades since my childhood, but I know we had a free standing floor fan elsewhere in the all wooden house, so I can't imagine being a toddler without one in my room. But when we invested in window units for my bedroom & the master bedroom, it was a godsend! Our house was *old* predating finished basements & drywall. Our neighborhood was equally old. It concerned an electrician that we still had old fashioned knob & tube wiring in the house. We had it rewired. It perplexed the phone company technician all set to plug in our very first non rotary phone, only to realize that it was an original phone, hardwired into the house! He had to go get different tools from the truck. For years, we had a barrel shaped fan in the living room, which tended to accumulate read newspapers stacked atop it. Everything changed when that fan died, & my aging parents (who'd bought the house around 1950) were looking to sell it. They got central air put in. It was more years, after I'd graduated university, that they were looking forward to selling, & I had to move out. I've recently checked the old house on Google Map Street View, & subsequent owners have changed the location of the AC unit, added a clothes dryer (which I'd uselessly begged my mom for after living in the dorm at uni); & remodeled the upstairs back corner to enlarge the bathroom, improved illumination on the front steps; & put in a railing up the long front steps. And installed a fence in the back yard. It isn't white picket, but it is a style of picket fence! Has anyone else used street view to revisit their childhood home?

One feature even American's don't know about on ceiling fan is the switch. Some people have no idea that the fan is supposed to be switched in the different seasons. The fan can spin in both directions. In Summer is should be blowing down onto you and in winter it should be pulling air upwards.

@BWheble

8 күн бұрын

Dude, everyone knows about the switch. They're just to lazy to flip it. Plus fans mounted on high ceilings are not worth the effort.

@sammymullins2014

7 күн бұрын

yes making it useful even in the winter!

@francesostrowski2374

7 күн бұрын

Especially as my registers are in the ceiling not the floors.

@JLMLawliet

6 күн бұрын

@@francesostrowski2374 Yep, my room addition is like that so in the winter I run it to to bring the warm air at ceiling level to the floor.

@EliF-ge5bu

3 күн бұрын

So Americans don’t know it and you just happen to know? Jeez.

7:08 in most Southern States, it's a requirement BY LAW that vehicles have a/c working in them... also more people die each year by heat related deaths than cold related deaths in the U.S. (just comparing the heat and cold deaths, not other causes)

@anonygent

6 күн бұрын

Is that true for used cars, too? Because I'm in Florida and I could make a lot of complaints about used car dealers and nonfunctional a/c's.

@kathymcmc

4 күн бұрын

Poppycock, it isnt law for working a/c in a car. That's just silly.

Today in Central California it’s currently 101 degrees outside, but inside we are enjoying our air conditioning, and iced tea with all the ceiling fans on. We are expecting higher temps next week at around 115 degrees. Some fast food chains will sell bags of ice as well; Sonic Drive-In sells bags for $1.50 and if we call first the local McDonalds lets us fill our ice-chests/coolers for free if we purchase food.

Bagged ice is put into coolers more than to add ice to drinks. In the summer, Americans take coolers everywhere. They put their bottles or cans in the cooler and dump the 5 lbs of ice on top of it. Whether on the beach, in the woods, in the park or just in the backyard, if family and friends gather; there’s going to be a cooler with ice. It saves wear and tear on the refrigerator.

Regarding ice... I think you forget how much ice we use. Sometimes hard for a fridge to keep up. There's also sometimes the issue of tap water quality. My water is very hard and so if I make ice with it, any drink I use it with gets a mineral flavor. So, I buy a lot of ice that doesn't impart a flavor.

@Tmhjr_Baskar

8 күн бұрын

Never had or used a fridge that makes ice. Too extravagant

@Trifler500

8 күн бұрын

@@Tmhjr_Baskar Everything changes when ice makers stop being an extra charge, and instead the stores only sell refrigerators with them, whether you want one or not.

@Tmhjr_Baskar

8 күн бұрын

@@Trifler500 eh, I'll take the ones without. It's cheaper. Nothing an ice cube tray can't fix.

@Trifler500

8 күн бұрын

@@Tmhjr_Baskar Like I said, that's fine when you have the option. We don't, with rare exceptions, in the US.

When it`s 95 degrees out with 90% humidity, you really don`t care how ugly an air conditioner is. 🙂

@houseofproctor

7 күн бұрын

Amen

@alisonflaxman1566

6 күн бұрын

Haven't had a window AC in decades. Always have central air.

@protorhinocerator142

5 күн бұрын

I have central air. My AC kept going out the last few weeks and I kept calling up my AC company to check it. It would go out again a few days later. The last time they found the problem. There was a condenser leak in the outside unit. They said a new condenser costs almost as much as the whole unit and only has a one year warranty. A new outside unit has a 10 year warranty. I make good use of those warranties so I shelled out the bucks for a brand new outside unit. It was more than I wanted to spend, but right this second I'm in a nice cold house. It's been in the 90's for a few weeks now. But I walk in the front door and there's a wall of cold air to greet me.

@ninalehman9054

5 күн бұрын

THIS!!!

@hdw237

4 күн бұрын

​@alisonflaxman1566 born and raised Floridian. Central is great but nothing can turn a single room into an icebox like a window unit. ❤😂

Air Conditioner - The one show in the video is what we call a window unit. You usually use these if you don't have central AC or if you want to only cool one room. A lot of people will use a Window Unit if they only want to cool their bedroom for sleeping at night. Most modern homes in the US will have "Central Air Conditioning" which work in conjunction with your heat. So you go to the Thermostat, you select either AC or Heat and then set your temperature and bingo the entire floor of your house is either heated for Winter or Cooled for Summer. I say the entire floor because most houses with multiple floors will have a separate unit and thermostat that controls the temp for that specific floor. Thermostats have gotten a lot smarter over the year to the point that you can set multiple temps for different times of the day and these settings can be set individually for 7 days a week. For example, let's say you work Monday through Friday and you sleep 11pm till 7am. For heating you can set the thermostat to drop temp @ 10pm {most people like it cooler when they sleep} then around 6am you have the temp go back up, so it's nice and warm when you have to get out of bed, then around 9am you have the temp drop again, you'll be at work so there's no reason to heat the house and waste energy, then around 4pm you have the temp come back up so the house is nice and warm when you get home from work at 5pm. However, you don't work Sat or Sun so you set different setting on those two days because your schedule is diff. Maybe you only have the temp drop for sleeping and then stay the same temp all day for Sat and Sun.

During the summer we have outdoor barbecues and parties. It reduces the traffic in the house if the drinks are kept outside in a cooler. Remember, the A.C. is running so every time the door is opened it lets in a big rush of hot air. Many coolers will need at least a couple dozen ice trays to fill. In addition, as the ice in the cooler slowly melts, the ice needs to be topped off. Its a waste of freezer space to start making ice a week before a barbecue just to make sure there is enough.

Here's a #3 just to be sure. On the subject of ice: if you are going to an outdoor party and you need to bring a couple large coolers of soda and beer, you will need bulk ice to keep drinks cool. You can easily and cheaply buy ten bags of ice to do this. You cannot use your own freezer and a single ice tray to make ice; the ice would melt before the next batch was ready. When it's 92 degrees and you're outside, it's really good to have cold drinks available!

This video was made before Laurence moved into his house that has central air. I have never lived in a house with a ceiling fan and I'm 75. Have seen them though, they change speeds or go on and off. There are many places that have been a100 degrees F this year. Our Air Conditioner is located outside and cools the whole house. My sister's house is extremely well insulated and one window air conditioner can cool the whole house. When camping we would buy a 8-10 pound bag of ice cubes and put it in a large insulated cooler.and it would keep food really well.

Central heat/air cond is more common than window units, especially in the south. Up north summers aren’t as hot, but here it’s been over 100 degrees F with a heat index of around 115 degrees F, so the power bill for running the central AC constantly is a necessary trade off! Before electricity and AC, a lot of southern houses were designed differently (think of those beautiful Greek revival homes). They had large central halls running front to back through the center of the home with doors and larger windows on both ends to ventilate and allow breeze to blow straight through.

Bagged ice -- We use a lot of ice, especially for summer outdoor parties. Then there are ice chests for camping and picnics. When you have cookouts in Texas in the summer, you put your sodas and beers in big ice chests full of ice. So, that people don't have the trek in and out of your house, letting out the air conditioning and in the mosquitoes, lol.

One tends to think of ceiling fans as mostly being useful during hot weather, which they are, but what people don't tend to talk about as much is how great they are in the winter. If you put them on a very low speed, they push the warm air back down into your living space when it gathers up at the ceiling. Installing a ceiling fan made a HUGE difference for me when I lived in a drafty apartment in Wisconsin. I went from cranking the heat to max and still shivering, while heating the upstairs neighbor's apartment, to being comfortable with the heat turned down to 50%. I never could understand why the person who moved into the apartment after me could never be convinced to turn the ceiling fan on in the winter. Trust me, just try it!

Bags of ice are great when you have an ice chest full of drinks or fresh seafood to keep it cold. Also, during a hurricane, you can fill ice chest with food from fridge and put ice in it when electricity goes out.

The window unit is sometimes called a “window shaker.” It’s kinda loud, and looks terrible, but it works. When it’s over 32c sometimes 37c and humid, it’s a life saver. It’s horrible. They work great in a bedroom trying to sleep when the temps are almost as warm. They’re for older buildings that didn’t have a central AC system installed that has ductwork. They can usually go in almost any house and use a standard outlet so they’re pretty easy to install.

That is why most fans are wired into and electrical wall switch so you don't have to pull the string at all.

@european-reacts

8 күн бұрын

That makes sense. Ty 🙏

@carolburnett190

8 күн бұрын

My bedroom fan has its own wall switch, but I still have to use the chain to change speeds. I used to have a ceiling fan with a remote, but I left it in the house when I sold it.

Ceiling fans take a minute to change speed. If you pull it once it takes a bit to get up to speed, and it's easy to forget which setting is high or low (or medium if it has that). So you stand there and keep pulling. This type of fan are wired so that they can run when the light is off, if they have a light. Usually they have a separate wall switch from the light, or they are wired directly into the wall without a switch. Otherwise you couldn't run the fan at night, while you're gone, watching a movie, etc. or any other time you want the light off.

I don't know why the ice thing cracked me up! You can get 20 pounds of ice for about $2. It would take forever to make that much at home. It's used for coolers, parties, or if you just didn't refill your ice trays. Sonic drive- ins have the best ice for drinks & they sell it by the bag. It was 95F today where I live in Texas, heat index 108F. I live in an old house, so I have window unit AC. It's ugly, but better than roasting alive! I have a ceiling fan, too. It helps distribute the cool air. Im enjoying your videos! ❤

@OkiePeg411

8 күн бұрын

Yep... here in NE Oklahoma, the heat index was 101°. I have both central and a back up window unit (it's installed into the exterior wall.) It can be deadly without ac!!!

If you're hosting a party at your house it's pretty normal to put all of your bottled and canned drinks in a large cooler, then pour a couple of bags on ice on top. That way the drinks will stay ice cold, and your guests won't feel the need to use more ice with their drinks.

We have a ceiling fan in all three bedrooms, the living room, and in the garage. Yes, garage. I do a lot of tinkering on the work bench, and the fan’s air movement helps with the Oklahoma heat :-)

The bags of ice aren't used to put in your drinks. They use them to fill buckets or even a wheelbarrow to put in sodas and beers, to keep them very cold. Remember, the heat, outside.

My in-laws have the window AC units. But newer homes will have outside units that are vented through the heating system. But you can still buy the window ones.

Front porch slings, one rarely sees front porches on houses built after 1945 which is when air conduiting became common in the U.S. People would use front or back porches to sleep in during heat waves or just to sit in to avoid heat. As Lawrence pointed out temperatures would often get between 30 to 40 Celsius and higher in American summers.

@augiegirl1

8 күн бұрын

I'm pretty sure my parents’ house used to have a porch swing, & it was built in the late 1960s. EDIT: I asked my mom today, & she said it was built in 1974, & it had a glider on the porch, since the porch doesn't have enough depth front to back for a swing.

@agedp8386

6 күн бұрын

Porch roofs would also shield first-floor windows from direct midday sunlight.

@jillhamilton1228

6 күн бұрын

My house was built in 1991 and my neighborhood has lots of porch swings. I have a glider instead.

@reindeer7752

6 күн бұрын

Porches and porch swings have made a come back where I live.

3. There are other uses for bags of ice. Homemade ice cream needs crushed ice (and a lot of it) to cool the mixture while the machine turns. You can look up how it works. If your air conditioning goes out, you can put the bag of ice in a cooler and let a fan blow over it to cool the room. If your electricity goes out, you can put a bag of ice in the fridge to keep your food cool so that it doesn’t spoil . When you go on a picnic or go camping, you put the ice in your cooler to keep your food at a safe temperature. And, when you have a party, you have ice for your guests to put in their drinks.

Ceiling fans have 2 cords hanging down; 1 for controlling the speed & the other for controlling the light /on or off. There is a switch on the side of the motor housing that controls which direction the fan turns. Okay, you start with pulling the cord 1 click, this will turn it on at top speed. 2 clicks will be a medium speed & 3 clicks is for low/slow speed. To turn it off - you have to go past slow speed to get the motor to turn off. So, if you’re running it on high speed, you’d have to click it 3 times to turn it off. Med speed? 2 times. Slow? Just once. The switch that controls whether the fan is turning clockwise or counter clockwise is only used seasonally. Depending on how the blades are tilted, one direction pushes air down, for cooling. (Summertime)The other direction pulls air up toward the ceiling - which is for winter, as warm air rises, so if you have the fan blowing upward, it pushes the warm air out towards the walls & it circulates downward, mixing the warm air more evenly throughout the room. The wall switch turns on the light that is under the fan. Actually, you can set the fan at your preferred speed and just use the wall switch to turn the fan and light on at the same time. *** Window air conditioner units are getting rarer, as central AC is built in most houses, so almost no noise and the whole house is easily cooled down. Older houses & some older apartments still need window units, but even they have been improved to keep the noise level down ( having the bulk of the AC unit outside the window. ) *** You need big bags because we dump 2 or 3 bags of ice into a cooler and load our sodas &/or beer into it. We go thru a prodigious amount of ice cubes at parties, bbqs, any where there are drinks! We also freeze juice to add to drinks to keep from diluting the drink, but we don’t let the drinks sit there long enough for the ice to melt that much. We drink iced tea, coffee, sodas, juice & chill our beer cans/bottles ( if we aren’t using a keg, which we also ice down ). So it’s an American thing.

A lot of times, even if you have central air, you may need to use a window a/c upstairs because of the warm air rising. There are nicer looking window units, but most people don't bother. Nowadays, when people build a home with multiple floors, they'll put in a dual zone heating and cooling system. That way, each floor operates independently.

If you have an outdoor party over here, like if you are having a barbecue or pool party, usually the canned/bottled drinks like sodas and beers are kept outside in coolers (you don’t want everybody coming in to your house to get stuff from your fridge), which need to be filled with ice to keep the drinks cold. It takes way too much ice to be able to fit it in all the freezer part of your refrigerator, and it would take many days to make that much ice yourself (and also you would still not have enough room to keep it in the freezer). So you stop at the grocery store or gas station and buy as many bags as you think you might need, fill the coolers with ice and drinks, and you are all set for cold drinks for your party!

A ceiling fan/ light is crucial in Texas. It's at least 100° F every day now. It's about 10 pm and still 88° outside, with a heat index of 98°. Ceiling fans allow us to set the thermostat for the central air conditioner a few degrees higher as the breeze helps it feel cooler. When we bought this house, and the last one, only the living room had a ceiling fan. Now all 3 bedrooms have one, as well as the dining room and living room. I'm so grateful that there are inexpensive remote controls that can be bought and added to the fans. I have one for the living room. What a great feature when you have a tall ceiling or when in the middle of watching a movie and you want to adjust the fan or light. There's also a phone app for the fan/light remote. Such convenience!

I live on North Carolina, just on the border of South Carolina. Today it was 95 degrees Fahrenheit and humid (as always). Currently at this moment, I have 3 bags of ice in the freezer in my garage. I used a bag today when we went to the pool in our neighborhood to pack a cooler full of drinks and sandwiches. But we also use them if we have a party because the ice maker in our fridge can’t keep up with the amount of drinks we are service. I also put ice in every drink I make… water, sweet tea, etc… not sure I’ve ever poured a drink without ice lol. As for ceiling fans, we have 5 in our house… the living room, the screened porch, the master bedroom, my son’s bed room and his playroom… the guest room doesn’t have one and that’s intentional… if you make your guests too comfortable, they stay too long 😂… Even though we have air conditioning and keep it set at about 70 degrees, we still run fans, especially at night when we go to sleep. I love a cold room to sleep… Those window units form the video will be seen on older homes that don’t have central air. They are pretty rare these days honestly. Most homes in the US have central heat and air. I think Lawrence lives in Chicago… large metropolitan cities like Chicago and New York have very old buildings that weren’t equipped with central heat and air… which is why you see the window units.

We buy big bags of ice for tailgating, or camping, or road trips, or big outdoor parties. We use more ice than ice trays could ever make. Go back and look at videos of Buc-ee’s and see how many bagged ice coolers they have outside.

There are two types of A/C. The 'poor; method, or in hotels, is the room A/C. In a home, these are units stuffed into a window because you need to vent the hot air outside in order to get the cold air inside. In hotels, they have the room unit built into the wall, and not a window. You get to set the temp in both cases to please your individual taste. The other form of A/C is central air, where the A.C unit is outside, and large duct work is used to vent the cold air into the house. This means that thee is a vent that each room has, and you can adjust the amount of air in each room to make the temp even everywhere. This technique is what is used in all business offices, and just about all homes where it gets hot. Some homes in high elevations (above 7,000 feet) may not need A/C.

We do use the light switch to power on and off the fan but each fan also has two chains one for the light and one for the blades speed, each click rotates you through the speeds from off to fastest. The fan also has a switch to change the direction that the blades move. Since the blades are angled in summer the ceiling fans are set to turn counter clockwise to create a down draft/cooling breeze. In winter it’s set to clockwise to create an updraft and circulates the warm air around the room. We usually keep it set to how we want and then turn the whole thing off and on using the light switch.

Many homes have central air conditioning that works the same way as central heating: you get cool air pumped throughout the house. Homes that don't have central a/c may use window units that are not very attractive. That is, until you turn them on and get relief from the 100 degree heat! Then, you don't care what they look like.

Generally, ceiling fans have separate controls for the lights and the fan. The wall switch turns the lights on and off or has a dimmer. And the fan itself has a chain, generally one pull for high, two for medium, and three for low speed, and four for off. Many units today also have a remote and possibly an app as well. And then the body of the fan will usually also have a reverse switch, so the fan can mix the hot and cold air in the winter without blowing down on anyone.

The overhead fans actually are on remote systems now so you can control it much better. You can even speed it up or slow it down. Right now it’s so hot so I just leave it on its highest setting.

Have not seen a window air unit in years. He either lives in a very old house or lower income home or apartment. There will always be acceptions.

We have 1 overhead fan in the open kitchen - family room area. It does have 3 speeds. We also have fans in each of the 4 upstairs bedrooms. The simple fans just turn on with a wall switch and might have 2 speeds + off to adjust with a pull-chain. Our more pricey fan on the main floor has the speed adjustments done with a small remote that also rests in a holder at the wall switch area. This one has a high-medium-low setting.

Yes, one is going over my head. I have ceiling fans in all my rooms and I love it when the weather lets me turn off the AC and open the windows. You didn't see the speed changing because it was done so fast. The first pull the fan is on High, pull 2 times and the fan is on medium, pull 3 times and it's on low. And they DON'T mess up my hair !

We have several very large ice dispenser machines in my town. There are large plasic bags, or you can actually put your cooler or water cooler up to the machine and fill it up directly. I see mostly construction workers, fishermen, people who are going to float the river, or camping use those big machines. Construction crews (10-12 or more men) can not make that much ice every day to keep hydrated. Working outside in summer high temps over 40°C without ice waternor or iced Gatorade would literally boil your brain!!! They are working on roofs, concrete, and blacktop roads.

There are some ceiling fans that are exactly like you say and are operated by the light switch because it also has a light as part of the function of the ceiling fan. We only have one in the kitchen and since it's hardwired into the house, we don't ever turn it off except to clean it. When the electricity goes out, it turns off like everything else. It's not connected to a switch. Yes, those a/c units are normal sellers. They are compact and despite their size, they can cool a few rooms at a time. (3). They can also be inexpensive in comparison to those of us who have central air units. Yes we do have ice cube trays. There are plenty of people who use them because they don't have an ice maker in their fridge and trust me. There's not enough ice cubes made in those trays to REMOTELY work for a large number of people. We buy bags of ice for a multitude of reasons but probably the biggest is to fill up a portable cooler to drinks in for a cookout, camping, tailgating, etc.

As someone who rents an apartment in a 100 year old building, my only option for air conditioning is window units, of which I have two. Yes, they are pretty ugly, but I only keep them installed in the windows from about June to September, then take them out for the rest of the year. Window air conditioners aren't as efficient as built in systems, but they can be quite effective. In my apartment when it is 95F (35C) and very humid outside, it can be 70F (21C) and dry inside using one 11,000 BTU window AC. In his demonstration it seems like he had the fan on high and it sounded much louder than they do in real life.

I live in Tennessee and our high temperature today is 33c/92f. Air conditioning is a necessity. We have what they call “Central Air Conditioning” in The South. It means none of those ugly things in the window. We have vents in each room that blows the cold air from ducts behind the walls (that you can’t see) and into each room. Same with our heat in the Winter. We open our windows in the Spring and Fall when outside temperatures are comfortable. Come visit! We’ll show you. ❤ your reactions. I hope to visit Portugal someday. Beautiful country, from what I have seen on tv.

Most of the SE US has air con as standard. However, older buildings, especially apartment buildings, have the window units because it would be cost prohibitive to install central a/c. 3

Window air conditioning units are usually in older buildings - cheaper to have a window unit than trying to install central air (usually a system that handles heat as well as air conditioning).

Yes, you can have the air conditioning units that you can put in windows. You would use in selected rooms as per needed. And there's Central air conditioning that goes through the whole house that's built within the home.😊

He is living in the North. In the part of Texas where I live, we have temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for much of the summer and sometimes into September. Almost all the houses have central air conditioning, which is comprised of a large box-shaped compressor that sits outside (either on the side or in the back of the house, usually hidden by shrubs) and an air handler that is located either in a hall closet type space or in the garage. There is an intake vent near the air handler that sucks in warm air from the home and then cool air is blown through ducts in the attic that lead to small vents in the ceiling of each room. There is no need for an ugly loud thing to sit in the window obstructing the view when you have central A/C. (Most heaters are also part of the same system, so heat blows into each room during the winter).

Here in Arizona, it isn’t uncommon to keep oven mitts in your car. When the temperature outside is over 40°, the inside of the car can reach 60°! The hot mitts are so you don’t burn your hands on surfaces until the air conditioner brings the temperature down. I chuckled over your confusion over bags of ice. We LOVE ice! We fill picnic coolers halfway with ice and add cans of beer or soft drinks, to cool them down. Personally, I only use ice in the summer. Arizonans will fill a plastic water bottle about 1/3rd full and freeze it. The next day, you take it out and fill it the rest of the way with water. You then have refreshing cold water for hours as the ice melts and cools down the water. Arizona stores public water in huge above ground tanks, which sit in the Sun all day and soak up heat. So the “cold” water comes out of my faucet at 40-42° in the summer. I take showers using only the cold water spigot. Which is why you REALLY want a little bit of ice in your water. I like room temperature, but I am not fond of “tepid.”

Bagged ice is absolutely necessary when you live outside a city and have well water that doesn’t taste or smell pleasant. You rely on bottled water and it’s cheaper to buy bagged ice rather than use bottled water to make it. It’s also smarter to buy bagged ice when you live in a place with a lot of high temps and your ice melts so fast you would need a whole freezer to make ice cubes for a family constantly. Bagged ice is faster and makes more sense.

Bagged ice has saved our butts several times. Just stuff it in the fridge and the freezer during a power outage and it keeps things cooler.

Central AC is common in 50's and newer homes. Older homes and apartments use window units. Ductless units, which are common in your part of the world, are starting to become popular here.

Remember Americans use ice a lot all the way to the top of the glasses.One of those ice trays would only fill 2 glasses our way.Even the freezers can have automatic ice making machines in them.

@patwalker5133

8 күн бұрын

I buy a 20 lbs. bag and break it up. So, I have gallon Ziploc bags. I use it to cool down my coffee. I don't like it super-hot, so every morning I throw a handful of ice in to get it to a drinkable temp.

The heat in the summer is one thing, but it's the humidity that makes it terrible. AC puls the humidity out of the air and makes life livable.

Most ceiling fans have a switch to change the direction of the blades. One way pulls the cool air up off the floor for summer and the other blows the heat down for winter. That is if you remember to change the switch.

Regarding bagged ice: What American buys bagged ice for every day use? We have automatic ice makers built into almost every refrigerator/freezer combination sold in this country that make enough ice to create a new Antartica. Bagged ice is usually the last purchase, before a party to retard melting and kept in coolers as some Americans don’t have a refrigerator with a freezer large enough to store a bag of ice or many Americans don’t own a separate stand alone freezer from their kitchen refrigerator/freezer combination in which to store bags of ice. Also, if you make your own party ice a day or days before a party - where will you store the ice without it melting, until party time? As exceptions prove the rule, I am an American, who for a few years bought bagged ice for daily use. Moved to a new city and the city’s tap water tasted horrible due to certain minerals in the water supply. The ice maker in my refrigerator, of course, produced ice from the city’s nasty tasting water, which produced nasty tasting ice. Since I had two stand alone freezers in the garage, it wasn’t a problem storing bags of ice. The next time I moved, the new city’s tap water tasted great, so I went back to my normal routine of using the refrigerator’s ice maker. There was no need to buy bagged ice any longer for daily use. BTW, those are not ice ‘vending’ machines as stated in that guy’s video. Those are ice boxes/storage compartments for ice that do not ‘vend’ bags of ice (vending implies, if you don’t pay, you don’t get the product). These ice boxes operate on the honor system - you tell the cashier inside the gas station, grocery store, etc. that you want to buy a bag of ice, you pay the cashier and are trusted to take only what you paid for and no one checks your receipt, when you take the bagged ice to make sure you are being honest. The honor system is not perfect, but it works. If it didn’t work, there would be no bags of ice within minutes of the daily ice delivery available to honest customers, and you just don’t hear stories like that. Of course, when the gas station, grocery store closes for the night, they lock the ice box doors - IF the grocery stores, gas stations ever close. A lot of American gas stations and grocery stores never close.

We’re just coming out of a heat wave here in New Jersey, and I have four of them going to circulate the air and cool the house a bit. The window air conditioner is the cheapest to get, and yes they do a great job to cool a room. I know, because I live in an old farm house and AC guys say they can’t duct central air through my walls. Had window units for a few years, now I have split units in my kitchen and living room. But you’re still toasty in all my other rooms. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Most homes have central air conditioning, the window air conditioners are for old homes or apartments

@Tii12319

8 күн бұрын

People buy them when their central air breaks down and they are waiting for repairs.

Ceiling fans... Pull the chain one time to turn it on, high speed, 2 times medium, and the 3rd time, low speed. Pull it again to turn it off. Most are connected to a ceiling light which has another chain and can also turn on with a light switch.

@JustMe-dc6ks

7 күн бұрын

They usually start on high speed and go down.

When ordering a drink of any kind, you can always ask for no ice, or "light ice", meaning they don't as much in. Everyone either uses ice cube trays or the newer fridges have water and ice in the door. But for a party or big gathering bagged ice is a great convenience. The window style air conditioners are less common now, but people who live in older homes which don't have full house a/c (coming out of the vents in every room), still use them. Most homes of 25 years or less usually have full house a/c. We get very hot temps in some parts of the country. This year it seems to be every where. Ceiling fans come in many styles. There are the chain pull styles, the ones that come on with the flip of the light switch, or remote control. Most have at least three speeds, and remote control models have more. Porch swings and front porches are very popular in certain style of houses. Many don't have them, but everyone says they like them and they're wonderful to sit on with friends in the evening. Large air mattresses are a great way to have a spare bed for company if you don't have a dedicated guest room in your house. It's true that "glamping" is a thing, and they would probably use them, but a true outdoor lover and camper would probably not use such a large mattress. A hiker would never use one. They are heavy when folded up and hard to carry around if you're hiking. it's a luxury. Just recently found your channel and I enjoy it very much.

Most ceiling fans have two cords. One cord works the light and the other cord works the fan {you can also hook a ceiling fan up to the switch will will take over the duty of the cords. Depending on the fan, you can pull the light cord and each time you pull it the lights will get brighter and brighter then off, usually a cycle of 4 pulls. Similarly, the fan cord works the same way, pull once and low spine, pull again and medium spin, pull a third time and high spin, pull forth time and the fan goes into off mode.

My grandfather built a ceiling fan over 40 years ago. 1 pull to turn it on to a slow speed. 2nd pull for a fast speed and 3rd pull to turn off. Helps with air circulation. Yeah, heat waves. 90's, 100's, fun fun fun. And then you add on the humidity. Air feels sticky, wet, oppressive. Know what's even more fun? Try living in a mobile home/trailer with no ac during a heat wave. Outside, 90 degrees. Inside, thermostat buried at 130. Learned my lesson that year, lemme tell ya! Not everyone goes glamping. I personally find it absurd. Then again, I was born, raised, and still live out in the country. Just sleep on the ground and use your arm as your pillow. Or if you have to, set up a hammock. Or could be I'm just used to spending 5 months out of the year outside all the time. No porch swing here. I have a rocking chair. It's nostalgic for me. I love to sit in it and think back on my grandparents (they lived next door as I grew up). Discussions, fond events, lessons, or just chilling with my grandfather. He loved his rocking chair too. For all I know he did the same thing. That's just one of the things I carry on. :) As for a porch? Depends. Do you consider hardened ground a porch? Lol. Bagged ice comes in handy when you run out of power (like during a heat wave) and need to store food from the fridge and freezer in coolers. Me, I get ice from the neighbors. They're Amish and they store their own ice. As in directly from their ponds. Bagged ice is light, ice is generally heavy. Need a sledge hammer to break it apart, even if it's been cut (by a saw) into chunks of 2 feet. Best to wrap it in a towel first though. That way you don't have pieces flying every which way as you slam the hammer into the ice. It also stays colder longer in coolers. Doesn't melt as fast because it's so darn dense. Two weeks and you still have good sized ice chunks in the coolers. You get bags of ice cubes and their light, airy. Gotta replace em every few days (unless the heat wave is in the 100's for consecutive days). It's a ripoff. I actually don't like ice in any of my drinks. I don't like bitterly cold drinks. I want refreshing - no more, no less. If I want a cold pop (soda some call it), I'll just put a can of pop in the creek for an hour. Then it's cold enough to my liking. Another lil thing my grandfather did I carry on.

I live in AZ and it reached 104F / 40C today. We will float between 90F to low 100'sF throughout the summer. We absolutely have to have a cooling system. We are fortunate to have high humidity for only about a few weeks through the summer, much less than other other states. Also, not all AC units are so loud or even propped in a window. Many are large box units placed on the ground outside, and piped through the same vents you receive heat through in the winter time. Ceiling fans move the air around and keep it from being so oppressive. Also, many American homes have icemakers included in our refrigerators so you just press a cup against a switch and ice falls into the cup. We knew we had become true home owners when we got this refrigerator! 😀

@dustintunget4177

7 күн бұрын

There's a lot of areas that wouldn't have the populations they have if it weren't for air conditioning....among other technological advancements (water treatment & delivery, for example)

6:14 it has to be understood that the States in the U.S. are about 10* (or more) latitude lower than European countries. this makes them closer to the equator then European countries, thus hotter on average... I live in South Louisiana... this puts me on the same latitude as southern Algeria, Libya, and Egypt.... the southern most tip of Spain is in line with Tennessee... HALF of the U.S. is BELOW Europe in latitude.... Add to that the fact that Europe is surrounded on 3 sides with major bodies of water (not even including the Scandinavian countries) and nearly every country is close to one of these bodies of water and you get ocean breezes constantly... that's why Europe is much milder in weather and temperature than the U.S. ....

We have whole-house AC, but my bedroom is on the end of the house that gets the worst of the afternoon/evening heat and the AC doesn't help much. So I have a window unit in my bedroom as well. It may be ugly... but since I tend to sleep with my eyes shut, at least I can sleep, rather than melt into a puddle.

1. Slow 2. Medium 3. Fast 4. Off... Slow to off is 3 times, but fast to off is 1. Easy concept to understand.

Bagged Ice - Remember, Americans love their drinks cold. We also have automatic ice makers in the freeze section of our refrigerators. but.. ice does form all that quickly and four or five people can easily outpace any ice maker. If you're having a big BBQ with 30 0r 40 people and you want to keep bottles of beer or other drinks cold. You're going to need a lot of ice to do that all day long. So you head down to your local convenience market, grocery store or gas station and pick up several bags of ice for about $5-$6 for 20lbs {I actually believe some places sell 50lb bags) and boom, you don't have to start making ice 10 days ahead of time and fill up every container and your freezer. We probably wouldn't have enough space in our freezers for all that ice anyway. You foreigners and your excuses or complaints about ice. You all need to take a class in understanding science. If you put a lot of ice in a drink, it does not water down the drink, unless you let it sit for an extended period of time. Yes, if you put one or two ice cubes in a drink, those will melt completely. Nature is about balance, right. So you put an ice cube in a liquid and the ice tries to bring the liquid down to it's temp and the liquid tries to bring the ice up to it's temp. With a few ice cubes the liquid wins and the ice cubes melt. But if you fill your cube with ice, now the ice wins and the liquid become cold faster and what happens then? The ice doesn't melt as fast because now the temp of the liquid is much closer to the temp of the ice. Therefore you get less melt from ALL the ice cubes and again, as long as you're not milking the drink, the drink does not get watered down. In fact, most Americans will drink their drink, their beer, fast enough that they never notice a change in taste. And our water over here is clean, even the water used to make ice. So we don't worry too much about the ice being contaminated. It's usually been filtered to take any particles or bad taste out of the ice.

American life can be fast and furious. After a week of both working 40-50 hours AND running the kids to school, play dates and sports, a couple of inexpensive bags of ice are a convenience that can be grabbed on the way home from work along with premade deli foods and desserts. Instant party.

3:35, when the fan is off, first pull is hi, 2 is med, 3 is low, 4 is off. The switch will turn it off and on while on the settings it is left on.

With ceiling fans, you turn them on and off with a switch on the wall and then whatever you want to adjust it, you adjust with one of the chains. We usually keep the light on and the fan off unless we’re really hot. The use of air conditioning depends upon the location. Around here, even poor people have air while my friend in Maine said few of the people in her town have it. When my son lived in California, he knew some people who were buying houses to rent. The first place that had air conditioning cost more than a million bucks.

3--- it’s 96 degrees where I’m at and the humidity is so heavy you can feel it-I’m indoors and still hot!

Here in Western Kentucky it was 98 % F without AC you would have a heat stroke.

@OkiePeg411

8 күн бұрын

Yep, and then add humidity 🔥. I don't know how people survived back before AC!!! I know kids went swimming at a shady swimming hole. But sleeping at night!!! When I went to summer camp in the 70s, there was no AC. We brought box fans to put in the windows.

Ceiling fans are also useful in the winter. Warm air rises, so reversing the direction of the fan can, slightly, help in moving that warmer air down. Once for on, once or twice to increase speed once more for off. Blade direction is changed by a switch. MOST homes built after about 1970 have central air aka HVAC. Heating and cooling are controlled by the same thermostats

They are great because in the summer the fan cools, then you can switch the way the blades turn and since heat rises toward the ceiling the ceiling fan can bring the warmer air down. I have a 2 hour drive home from when I go shopping. When it’s 80+ degrees and buy ice cream and dairy products, etc. I buy bags of ice to put in my coolers to make sure my food stays cold, or at least cool.

Most Americans have refrigerators/freezers with built-in ice-makers.

1) If the first time he saw ceiling fans was when he moved to the US he obviously left in the 70s, ceiling fans were relatively common - and easy to buy - in the early 1980s and several houses I rented in the UK had them. Currently my one is turned off as it's only about 22deg in my living room but we often run it both winter and summer, and this one - like the ones I had in England - go slow, med, high, and you set it then turn it on and off at the wall like any other light. 2) never had air conditioning though you can buy small units. But when it hits 38deg inside (round about 100degF I think) I just close the curtains and open the windows to get a good through draft. Don't need it and don't want it - waste too much electricity - when you can hang muslin over the open window and ensure it is kept damp, home made effective and free air conditioning. 3) blow up mattresses or camping have been around for at least 50 years in the UK, my parents used one (which developed a slow leak) when they spent their honeymoon touring mainland Europe and camping back in 1957. So if he didn't know about these he really was sheltered 4) ready made ice-cubes (from the local Tesco/Aldi/Lidl/SuperValu down the road) are convenient if you are having a BBQ or going to the beach/local lake for the day to shove in the bottom of your coolie bin to keep the meat etc cool until you cook it. For drinks we usually use an ice-cube tray in the freezer like any normal person. Most of the items he's mentioned are common in the UK and have been for at least 60 years - in the case of blow up mattresses - so the fact HE didn't know about them reflects more on him and his family in the UK than anything else. Interesting, really the front porch was the only thing not seen in the Uk ON THE SAME SCALE, because most houses here (UK and Ireland) have a porch. And you will often see people sitting out the front on a chair or bench (I did it regularly with my Bosnian neighbour, still do with my Romanian neighbour) watching the world go by while we have a cup of tea or coffee and chat), we just have houses on ground level so no need to walk up steps to a wooden covered in patio area at the front. I enjoyed the video and you have a new subscriber from Ireland.

Most of the older homes have an a/c unit in the window, but most newer builds have central heat & air (air conditioning) that come in/out through the vents that are high up on the wall or ceiling OR up from your floor ~ just make sure not to block them with your furniture, etc. The swamp coolers (at least that’s what I’ve heard the window units called) are usually WAY LESS expensive to buy & install than it is to get central air put in throughout your home or even replaced, much less invasive too. In Oklahoma it’s already in the 100+ degrees F… it’s been 105 & 106 degrees F. It’s normal weather in the summer & it’s gonna be miserable in August & it’s only just July.

Yesterday in central Oklahoma the high temperature was 104°F/40°C. Factor in the air humidity you get a heat index, or 'feels like' temperature of 115°F/48°C. These are normal temperatures for summer in Oklahoma. In the southern states, to deal with the high heat and humidity, you are more likely to see central (whole house) heating and air conditioning rather than the window units.

I live in a Southern US state and today it was 94 Fahrenheit with a heat index of 112 Fahrenheit (34.4 and 44.4 Celsius respectively). Without central (whole house through the vents) air conditioning and ceiling fans we’d all die of heat exhaustion. It’s like a circle of hell here every summer, but it’s also beautiful and friendly. Also, we do make ice every day, but we can’t always make the quantities we need for parties, barbecues, camping, filling ice chests, and generally icing every drink we consume in the summer.

As a child, we had several of those big box air conditioners as our house was older and didn’t have central air. They were a bit loud, but it was better than suffering from the hot and humid air outside. The temperature in parts of the US can rise into the 100s.