I see questions about these all of the time and wondered what they are or mean? Thanks for enlightening me.
combi boiler- a high efficiency boiler for hot water and central heating hob - the heated circles on top of the cooker that you put pots on to cook things in council estate - blocks of houses owned by the council that are very cheap
A combi boiler is one that heats your central heating system and your domestic hot water system. (your radiators and your 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 was policy for the local councils to become landlords on a large scale. There were a lot of 'social housing' projects put up around the towns in the UK. Typically these are low rent, and are affordable for those receiving welfare. They tend to have a bad name due to shoddy construction, social problems associated with unemployment, few nearby facilities etc. In the 1980's attempts were made to combat this by selling off the properties at a low cost to those who had been living in these homes for a long time, and this had good results in many places. In others, this would have been a bad buy.
Me, too. But I guess I've seen enough context to figure them out. In the US, we'd probably call council housing, the projects.
