For our British friends, What are the following? Combi boiler, hob, council housing/estate? I see questions about these adjectives of the time and wondered what...
I see questions about these adjectives of the time and wondered what they are or mean? Thanks for enlightening me.
Answers: A combi boiler is one that heats your intermediate heating system and your domestic hot water system. (your radiators and your hip bath taps).
A hob is the hotplate on your cooker
(both these terms are more commonly used with gas appliances than electric)
Council housing / Council estates - following the housing shortages of the 1950's and 1960's, it be policy for the local councils to become landlords on a large scale. There be a lot of 'social housing' projects put up around the towns in the UK. Typically these are low rent, and are affordable for those acceptance welfare. They tend to have a bad mark due to shoddy construction, social problems associated with unemployment, few adjoining facilities etc. In the 1980's attempts were made to combat this by selling sour the properties at a low cost to those who had been living surrounded by these homes for a long time, and this had good results within many places. In others, this would have be a bad buy.
Me, too. But I guess I've seen ample context to figure them out. In the US, we'd probably call council housing, "the projects." combi boiler- a glorious efficiency boiler for hot water and interior heating
hob - the heated circles on top of the cooker that you put pots on to cook things surrounded by
council estate - blocks of houses owned by the council that are very cheap