Ideally, architects of houses design rooms to meet the needs of the people who will live in the house. A house may have a backyard or a front yard or both, which serve as additional areas where inhabitants can relax or eat.Įxample of an early Victorian "Gingerbread House" in Connecticut, United States, built in 1855 A house may be accompanied by outbuildings, such as a garage for vehicles or a shed for gardening equipment and tools. Some houses only have a dwelling space for one family or similar-sized group larger houses called townhouses or row houses may contain numerous family dwellings in the same structure. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, although households may also be other social groups, such as roommates or, in a rooming house, unconnected individuals. The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household.
In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic animals such as chickens or larger livestock (like cattle) may share part of the house with humans. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into another room. Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room. Houses may have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers.
Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. A house is a single-unit residential building. To get the latest email updates from Yorkshire Live, click here. “We work in partnership with the police and local communities to make safe any damage to our network as quickly as possible and support the prosecution of those involved.” “We would urge anyone who has any information or concerns about individuals or criminal groups illegally extracting electricity or interfering with the power network to contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or use the Stay Energy Safe number 080 and website .uk/report-energy-crime to report it. It is incredibly irresponsible criminal behaviour, which can start fires that endanger the perpetrators and other people in the building and the general public. Interfering with our power network – or the internal wiring of a property – risks electric shocks and burns, which could be life-changing or, at worst fatal. “Tampering with electricity is extremely dangerous and can cause electrocution or fire. We are responding to any power cuts as quickly as possible. “We’re monitoring our network and working hard to reduce the number of customers affected by the interruptions and to protect our equipment from damage. “We’re working closely with South Yorkshire Police after power cuts in the local area were caused by suspicious overload activities,” said the spokesperson. Karen has complained a number of times to Northern Powergrid. “I spend most of my day boiling the kettle, filling up flasks of coffee, boiling the kettle again, keeping my mobile phone fully charged, buying battery operated tealights, candles, and torches, all at my expense. This is extremely difficult when I wake up during the night, needing the loo and house is in complete darkness. Karen, who is on crutches, says the power cuts leave the house cold, as she struggles to turn the boiler back on. “Since the second of November, we’ve had 13 power cuts, with the fourth and seventh of November having two power cuts on the same day.” “The first power cut we had this year was on October 24 at 9am, the next on November 2 at 5.55am. “The problem has started again, except this time it is much worse,” said Karen. Go to our dedicated homepage for more news from Rotherham
Karen says the situation is a “nightmare”, adding that she has to keep her mobile phone charged at all times, and “nothing has been done” by Northern Powergrid – despite the same issue happening last winter. Single mum, Karen Gunn, of Hatherley Road in Eastwood, who has asthma and COPD- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, says she has to have her kettle on a near-constant boil, because she doesn’t know when the next power cut will be. Persistent power cuts in the Eastwood area of Rotherham are being blamed on cannabis farms, as residents and businesses have suffered 11 power cuts in the last three weeks.