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but even so where space is at a premium people will sacrifice it.
Which is the wrong thing to do, if, say, you enjoy washing your hands in warm water rather than cold, as it's such a fucking ballache waiting for the combi in the kitchen to clear the pints of cold water sat in the pipes in the huge run up to the bathroom upstairs.
@davidual this country has a weird fetish for combination boilers that supply heat and hot on demand. They are fine for small places with good water pressure but inadequate for a home with more than one bathroom, or even a small home with poor water pressure. The fitters LOVE fitting them though*, and we are conned in to thinking they are the most efficient, and home owners naively expect fitters to do the right thing, so they proliferate.
* especially in a place where you are guaranteed to get a massive pipe run, i.e. outside wall of downstairs kitchen or utility room because no fitter will now contemplate doing a vertical flue when the easy money is in fobbing off another naive home owner in to having some monstrosity in their garage.
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It's all about space and age of housing stock. Most of our places pre-date mass availability of washing machines.
Bigger houses, or ones with enough dead space somewhere will often have hot water tanks, but even so where space is at a premium people will sacrifice it.
For eg my folks have two medium size ones - one in an airing cupboard under the stairs in the basement next to the kitchen, the other next to it in an adjacent coal cellar. But in their road most people typically have knocked out that airing cupboard to make the room bigger and probably extend a bit combining the coal cellar. When they had their house renovated the builders and PM thought my mum was a bit odd for prioritising an airing cupboard and outside storage over having a bigger kitchen. Would have also cost more, so they weren't the most objective, but still shows the trend.
What do you do in apartments? Is it like the States where nicer blocks have a communal set in the basement and less nice ones you go to a laundrette? Fucking hated having to spend $5 to wash anything regardless of size.