Typical Canadian House

• The typical Canadian house may look much different than what you are used to.
• Because land is much more available, most people live in single dwellings. The use of apartment buildings is limited to cities.
• Most houses have a basement, which is a level of the house that is under the ground.
• When you look at a house that is advertised, the floor surface that they give you is only for above ground areas and don’t include the basement, or the garage.
• The house will have a central heating system which could be a furnace or warm water pipes in the floor.
• A furnace is a big heating device that carries heat through the house with a network of ducts.
• Most houses have a heated garage.
• It don't matter what is the temperature outside, because you can set the heat inside your house to the level you like.
• Inside the house will you use clothing that you will normally use outside in the summer.
• In the summer will you have a garden as you would have done somewhere else in the world.