More of Israeli home nuances

essie14 ↓

Yesterday at 10:24 am

amother OP wrote:

Why the impossible to maneuver trissim?

And why do doors need keys to lock them from inside? What a challenge when we lose one key and one of us can't leave because we can't lock...

The top floor less cabinet with dish drainer kills a storage cabinet for me as I use disposables.

Many apartments I stayed in needs Sun for hot water. On a cloudy day if you forget to manually turn on the hot water boiler you have to wait to have hot water.

These are pretty specific.
You can change all of these things if you live here.

My trissim are either electric or very easy to open.

I don't have any doors with keys for locking.
I have shelves above my dish drainer. It doesn't kill any storage space. And I use my dish drainer every single day.
We installed a gas hot water heater so we have instant hot water 24/7.

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Yesterday at 11:01 am

essie14 wrote:

The gas hot water are supposed to be great! Is the cost of use reasonable?

amother

Moccasin

Yesterday at 11:03 am

Kitchen cabinets are hung too high.

Many half bathrooms aren't hooked up to the hot water .

General sloppy workmanship. Almost everyone I know has at least one socket that you have to push against while unplugging something or the socket will get loose/come out of the wall.

On the other hand, the toilets are great. Very strong flush.

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Yesterday at 11:11 am

amother Moccasin wrote:

Don't get me started on workmanship!! Exploding anger

Elfrida

Yesterday at 11:16 am

essie14 wrote:

Is there any way to set electric trissim to adjust themselves on Shabbos, or are they locked in position? If you forget to open/close them, are they just stuck, or then they be put on a manual setting?

amother

Salmon ↓

Yesterday at 11:17 am

Just want to say that every time I go to Israel I am blown away by their practical inventions. The dish drainer above the sink is brilliant! The way they take advantage of every inch (or cm!!) The Leichter glass cabinet thingy is brilliant too!
The way they build porches, with ledges for sitting. There are many more, but I'm blanking out.
Or should I start my own thread LOL

It's funny (mean?!) how the Americans make fun of the Israelis and the Israelis make fun of the Americans...

↑ joonabug

Yesterday at 1:24 pm

shabbatiscoming wrote:

Never saw that in regular middle class homes.

have you been to america? I have literally never seen a closet there that isnt its own room. when I say room I dont mean its necessarily a walk in closet I mean that there is a door and its a new room, even if its tiny and you cant fit in, its not like a closet that you need to install in our actual bedroom. do you understand what I mean?

amother

Brass ↓

Yesterday at 1:28 pm

I wish I can have trissim here in ny. Maybe my kids would sleep a little later if I can keep the room totally dark!!!
And I know someone that actually put in those drain boards into a cabinet not in Israel cuz they loved it so much.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 1:29 pm

joonabug wrote:

It's called a built in closet, 24 inches deep, with doors and shelves with rod inside. Versus clumsy furniture wardrobes that need to be fit in every house you move to.

amother

Molasses

Yesterday at 1:34 pm

amother OP wrote:

Why the impossible to maneuver trissim?

Replace them. Mine are easier to use.

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And why do doors need keys to lock them from inside? What a challenge when we lose one key and one of us can't leave because we can't lock...

Love the flexibility that it gives me about which way we want to lock it

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Many apartments I stayed in needs Sun for hot water. On a cloudy day if you forget to manually turn on the hot water boiler you have to wait to have hot water.

Get your dud switch replaced with a timer. Put it on a timer to turn on 3 hours every morning. Problem solved.

GLUE ↓

Yesterday at 1:51 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

It's funny (mean?!) how the Americans make fun of the Israelis and the Israelis make fun of the Americans...

Can someone please post a picture of the bolded?

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Yesterday at 2:01 pm

amother OP wrote:

It's called a built in closet, 24 inches deep, with doors and shelves with rod inside. Versus clumsy furniture wardrobes that need to be fit in every house you move to.

On this one I agree with you.
You can have it made.

↑ GLUE

Yesterday at 2:07 pm

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

https://ohglass.co.il/

Interesting idea to put glass all around, the ones on the wall that I see in the US are just a glass plate and mirror on the wall not glass all around.

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Yesterday at 2:22 pm

GLUE wrote:

Interesting idea to put glass all around, the ones on the wall that I see in the US are just a glass plate and mirror on the wall not glass all around.

The box is practical as AC doesn't disturb the candles.
The glass shelf with or without mirror you should definitely be able to get in the US. It's such a simple thing.

amother

↑ Brass ↓

Yesterday at 2:34 pm

GLUE wrote:

Can someone please post a picture of the bolded?

I don’t have a picture but basically they build up with cement the outer edges of the porch until chair height about a foot thick . Put a slab of tile or something similar on it. Then on the outer part of that put gate going up the rest of the height. So you can sit in that slab and don’t need as many chairs. Also great for little kids to sit and see the street below without going out

Googled and found a picture. But newer ones have a wider seat and much higher gate for safety.

https://I.imgur.com/yjQXB5K.jpeg

↑ Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Yesterday at 2:45 pm

amother Salmon wrote:

It's funny (mean?!) how the Americans make fun of the Israelis and the Israelis make fun of the Americans...

There are at least one or two US things that we don't here: swing down shelves in a cabinet for example.