Electric kettle
Toaster
Lawn mower
TV
Vacuum cleaner
Computer
Electric shower
Fridge freezer
The new fridge freezer was delivered last Monday, and
yesterday I had an engineer out because the freezer compartment wasn’t getting
cold enough. It’s faulty, apparently, and will need to be replaced. So now
things malfunction even before I get
them.
You know, sometimes life works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
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We had to replace our hot water heater yesterday and the water is now boiling hot and we've had the repairman out already.
So what is an electric shower? Sounds frightening.
n.
Nancy, you must have electric showers in America! You probably invented them (actually, it might have been the Swedes. Seems to fit, somehow.)
It's a shower that doesn't use your hot water system. Cold water from the main goes through a thermostatically-controlled heating unit so you only heat the water you use. It doesn't need a good fall because it's under mains pressure, and it's very economical.
Sheesh! (I learned that word from an American.)
I've never heard of anyone using electric showers, at least in this neck of the woods. I have heard of a tankless water heater for the entire house, but they're more expensive to install.
I haven't heard the term 'fridge freezer' either, although I assume you mean refrigerator, or what my grandmother would have called an ice box.
Geez! :)
Oh dear, does this mean that if ever I have a guest from America come to stay, I'll need to teach her (or him, which is even less likely) to use the electric shower? Gadzooks!
A fridge freezer is simply a cabinet, usually between 5 and 6ft tall, which has two compartments arranged one above the other. One is a refrigerator and the other a freezer. We also have 'American-style' fridge freezers which are wider, with the fridge and freezer compartments arranged side by side. The term distinguishes it from a small refrigerator, which just keeps things cool, and a separate freezer, which is usually the chest type.
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