Describing your house in English: The utility room
Hi there and welcome to my channel. Today, we're continuing with this video series about the house and rooms in a house.
Now, in some flats or houses, usually next to the kitchen (what when I was growing up in london this room was actually located between the kitchen and the garage ) there is a small outside facing room with a water connection and drainage. Now, this is the utility room, where cleaning products and utensils, such as a mop, bucket, broom and even scoop, are usually kept. The gas meter is often there, too.
If you want somebody to keep something there, you say "Put this away in the utility room, please". The utility room is where people usually do the laundry -this is where the washing machine and dryer are usually found. If you don't have a tumble dryer, the utility room often has a window behind which you can install strong wires and hang the damp clothes. Having said that, a lot of people hang the washing out in the garden, on the clothesline.
So, what do you hang clothes up with? Pegs, of course. And when the clothes are dry, we take them down or off. If you have clothes to hang up, you say "I'm going to hang up the clothes" or, the other way around: "I'm going to take the clothes down". Or, in the case of a garden, we say "I'm going to bring the clothes in" or "I'm going to take them off the clothes line".
You can also say something like "I've got a lot of clothes to wash" or "This t-shirt is for the wash". The most common clothes washing products are laundry or washing soap, liquid or powder, fabric softener, bleach and stain remover. So keep them in mind.
Now, if you've got enough space, you might keep an ironing board in the utility room and do the ironing there. Of course, we iron creased clothes.
Thanks for listening and watching today and keep tuned for more useful videos. See you next time. Bye!
PAINTINGS
Girl in a white bonnet, by. Robert Gemmell Hutchison
Super Clean, by Antti Rautiola
Woman's work, by John Sloan
Chasing tail feathers, by Andrew Wyeth
Laundry drying, by gustave Caillebotte
The laundry basket, by Darren Baker
hangiing the laundry out to dry, by Berthe Morisot
Washing drying over the stove, by Brittany
Laundress and child, by Robert Hubert
This Is the Way We Wash Our Clothes, by George Dunlop Leslie
A Laundry Maid Ironing, by Henry Robert Morland