I live in Jamaica where it's warm all year around. I have no idea what it is like to live in those very cold conditions. My greatest respect for all those living in those countries.
Nat I'm also Jamaican but live in Colorado. It's cold here and love it! Could not imagine living somewhere that's -43 degrees tho! Might take some getting used to.
@@teerich2011 it is a joke. jungle music is like reggae but you shake to much and chicken leg freeze to be a tomahawk. i did not wanted to be offensive or anything. i love summer palm trees and stuff like that. also for cold weather is good Wim Hoff method.
My father was a construction worker. He always told me to look at the roofs, covered in snow means well insulated, melted off means they're losing heat!
In Holland the rule of thumb is: Snow on the roof - Nothing to worry about. No snow on the roof - probably an illigal marihuana plantation on the attic.
I live in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It gets around -25 to -35 in Winter. We use concrete to build our houses here, and use foam all around the house (even the base) for insulation. We have two systems for heating 1) traditional firewood 2) electricity heating.
Eh. More like we build apartments heated by district heating system that connected to coal power plant. But the majority can't afford that and lives in not well installed house, and use ton of coal to heat it. Electric heating is just too expensive for the most even though it's free at night.
I am pleased to see Siberians living very much as we do in Alaska. In fact, most of our homes do not even have triple-glaze windows. Many of us heat with wood alone, but an oil stove is also common. You seem very comfortable and happy. That warms my heart.
Definite culture shock for me when I spent my first winter at UAF! I graduated in 2019 and am now back in Los Angeles I saw all types of heating styles visiting friends and was so fascinated
@@chrisdaykin3899 Two words--Solar Maximum. If you hadn't noticed, there actually haven't been too many hurricanes in the recent years, and that is because we were in a Solar Minimum cycle for the last 5 or so years up until recently. It is primarily the Solar cycles which drive things like hurricanes.
I live in the north of Sweden, we heat our house geothermically. We have pipes that are driven deep into the ground where the temperature is stable all year round (approximately 180 meters). We then use a pump system to move water around the pipes and a heat exchange system to move that heat into the house, it also heatrs our water. Our house is similar to yours in that it's made of wood and insulated with plant fibers (saw dust). In the winter we can see temperatures as low as -40c but that is quite rare, normal winter temperature is -10 to -30.
I install geothermal systems in the US. They're truly wonderful and extremely efficient. Most people around me for a house like yours would spend $300 a month for heat in the winter. Geothermal customers pay closer to $20 a month.
@@theshawnarm you pay for the electricity it takes to move that heat. roughly a ratio of 1:4. so 1kWh of electricity in will get you 4kW of heat into the house. a cubic meter of gas holds roughly 8kW so you would need 2kWh to do the same thing with a heat pump as a gas furnace would do with 1m3 of gas. if you use underfloor heating that ratio can go up to 1:6.
I became interested in Yakutia and the Siberian cold by watching UA-cam videos about Agafia Lykova, the Russian hermit who lives alone in the Taiga. I live in Mesa County, western Colorado, USA at the junction of two rivers on the edge of the desert. We are lucky to have water via an irrigation system. We live in my deceased parents' house (built by my father) on 1 Hectare of land with 2 LG dogs, 4 cats, 40 chickens, 52 assorted fruit and nut trees. We heat our house with natural gas, just like your parents. We also have a wood burning fireplace insert in the basement as back up heat in the event the electricity goes out. I VERY much enjoy your channel! Supper is ready, so I have to go. Until next time! 🙏🙏
I live across the Bering in Alaska. It frequently gets to -40F, occasionally as cold as -55F, in the winter. Our house is built a few feet off the ground to prevent heat transfer from the house to the ground, which would cause melting of any permafrost and make the house unstable. Our windows are also triple paned and our walls are insulated with fiberglass and foamboard insulation. The floor and roof are about a foot thick. We heat with an oil stove that both blows and radiates heat throughout the house. We keep the stove set to 62F. Because we have an open floor plan and ceiling fans, the heat disperses from the one stove throughout the house.
I am from Sri Lanka. I recently found your channel and it is more interesting. In Sri Lanka we are not struggling to heating the houses but also cooling. Because now the time is 9:30 a.m. in the morning and the temperature of the outside is 30C. From this videos I really experiencing the weather condition of your country and I love that. 😊
I live in Sweden and the coldest I've been in is -47 C. We still played outside :-D The winters have been milder since that, and this winter we have only had -20. We heat our hose with a water heat pump, like a geaothermic one but the pipes are in water. Nice and warm all year around :-) Love from me and my wife to you all!
I'm also from Sweden. Most of the houses I lived in there were heated with hot water that was led to the house from an outside source. The water was heated with wood. Now I live in continental Croatia and although the winters often do have a period of -20 to -15 here, we don't have central heating. We heat with two woodstoves, one in the kitchen which we cook on and one in the livingroom. Upstairs we have one electric radiator.
@@simplyyellow6240 the air isn't humid. The hot water circulates in pipes and radiators and heats the air. Well at least that's how my apartment in the city is heated here in Finland.
I am from Afghanistan the tempreature varies from -15 to +40 degrees. We mostly use wood to heat up our houses, other options like gas and water-heating systems are much more expensive.
How is wood less expensive than gas? That sounds crazy, or is it a political thing (too unstable to invest in gas infrastructure)? I know men who put gas lines in all over Kabul, for free. But I do not know if the Taliban destroyed it for being foreign. I know the current government is against technology.modernity.
@@GarrySkipPerkins i just watched a video of a street market in downtown kabul from like last week and it was super busy with men and women all over and cars and overflowing carts of food and shops etc etc ..i didnt see any armed soldiers. also read a study that the citizens actually feel safer under taliban rule. so i am kinda curious how you know about the situation out there? also, the comment said that gas is more expensive than wood. also, wood is more expensive than gas in most places. some people think that deserts dont get cold but lots of them get extremely cold and not many trees grow in a desert and the ones that did are long gone so you have to import all your wood and then youre using trucks that burn so much fuel so you have to pay for that. i've lived in many places in the states that wood was a luxury to burn for heat. also, you dont need gas infrastructure in lots of places. most all of rural america gets propane delivered to 500 gallon tanks on their property that they use for cooking and heat. not trying to be a dick but you sound kinda inexperienced in these topics
@@GarrySkipPerkins Re-read Aziz's comment, and read it slowly until fully comprehended. But let me help you here by repeating what Aziz said so you can understand...hopefully : _"We mostly use wood to heat up our houses, other options like _*_gas and water-heating systems are much more expensive._*_ "_ Where did you get that stupid idea that Taliban may have destroyed gas lines. That the current government is against technology modernity. Now get this in your small head, Garry. 1- The only thing that the current government destroyed is NATO led like mules by the USA, that after 20 years had no choice but leave in a very humiliating and disgraceful way. 2- The only thing the current government is against, is foreign boots.
@@cBodhi Great comment, however it is too complicated for Garry's tiny head, since he is incapable of comprehending even the simple sentence by Aziz. As for the detailed explanation you provided him, just be aware that you will be responsible for any damage to his minuscule brain caused by your elaborate explanation.
I live in the Midwest. United States. Temperatures here can vary. Natural gas is this normal. Thank you so much for sharing it was so kind of you. It was an extreme pleasure to see all the remarks from around the world. Reminding us we are very much the same. Perhaps one day we will all know peace.
I live in Rankin Inlet Nunavut, Canada, for the past 2 weeks it has been between -30 c and -40 c, without the wind included. With the wind it's been between -50 and - 60 c. We heat our house with a forced air oil furnace. It is not very efficient but it works to keep us warm 9 month of the year. Thanks for sharing your video. :)
Living in Toronto, I can not even imagine the weather conditions Canadians so far up North must persevere through. People in Toronto like to complain about winter and the snow, but it is nothing compared to what you and Canadians in those regions have to deal with.
A beautiful area I was up there in February 2014, blizzard shut down our flight out for a few days. COLD. No going out in a blizzard. I believe it hit -62C
Out of interest how much does it cost each quarter to heat your residence? In Australia it costs me about $45 during winter as it doesn't get anywhere near as cold as Canada
I live in Finland and our traditional houses are made almost just like yours there! I live a house made 1947 after the WW2. I have two heat pumps and a fireplace which is pretty insane. It's giving warmth about 24 to 48 hours after I have heated it. Heat pumps (heat exchangers) just stabilize this temperature, so my house has little bit modern comfort. I really like fireplace more, because heat pumps blows warm air and it still can feel a bit chilly.
I live in the Northern New England, USA. We use a wood stove to heat our house, but people use different methods like oil or wood pellet stoves as well. Thanks for sharing!
It is fascinating that humans have evolved to survive in such an environment. I live in Hawaii and have no idea what this is like. It is truly fascinating, and I thank you for sharing your world with us.
Yeah, evolved to survive... or at least more bearable. Light skin, light hair, light eye color, and other features evolved as the migration out of Africa took a fork at Kathmandu. I’m from Hawaii and I loved my corduroy sheep lined jacket. Who cares if all I did was sweat in it, it was cool. I live in the mountains of Japan now. Today’s it’s -11c. And after ten years I can say on a 0c day, “Hey it’s pretty warm today.” Took over 15,000 years for dark skinned humans to evolve into tall fair skinned snow dwellers.
I remember hearing about Yakutsk years ago and locating it on a map, it's been so interesting watching all your videos and learning about your part of the world, thank you and best wishes.
I live in the Netherlands, in a house from the 60s that I recently renovated. Now, we have underfloor heating in all floors, driven by an air-water heatpump and a gas driven central heating system that takes over when outside temperatures are below freezing. We insulated everything in the house and installed triple glas as well. I was shocked when I heard that you use 1200m3 gas per month! That's way more than our annual gas consumption. With our current gas prices, we would pay 3600 euro (roughly 237000 rubles) per month for that amount of gas!!!
Wow.. I just stumbled across your channel. My wife is Russian (SPB, but I have been a few more places), but we live in Norway. We don't have nearly these sorts of minus degrees where we live. We heat with a mix of electricity and wood burning oven.. I wish the current world situation normalises so we can visit more of Russia together 😊
I live in a desert. When it is 50F (10C) we heat our home. That lasts a couple of months in winter. Other than that, we cool it. We get up to 125F (51.66C) for the summer and can stay around 100F (37.77C) all night. great for late night lake trips or fishing. :D Stay warm over there! Thanks for sharing a little about life in an ice cube.
Hi Maria.. This is Nibedita from India.. Watching your channel is like a fairly tale for me..you are amazing..We hardly get 1-2 months of winter that too temperature ranging from +12 to +20 degree celsius.. We don't heat our house rather we need Air conditioner machine to cool down our house in summer as it stays for 7 months in my country and the temperature goes upto +55 degrees..
It reminds me an old friend of mine who's from Chennai (at that time named Madras). Comparing the two countries (Italy and India) we said that in Italy we have four seasons, and he replied: "In Madras we have only three seasons: the hot, the hotter and the hottest". And we all laughed.
I would love to experience this cold for a day! I live in Western Australia and our winters are very short. Our house doesn’t have any heating built in, we only have a little heater for my kid’s room that runs on electricity. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live somewhere so cold, but your wooden houses look very cosy in Yakutia :) Thank you for making these videos and showing us your life! 💖
I live in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) and I do heat my apartment with AC and an electric heater. The heating season in the capital of Bulgaria (Sofia) usually starts in Nov (or mid-Nov) and ends in late Apr. Previously, I was heating my apartment using natural gas (just like you) but it became very expensive after Russia started the war in Ukraine. The outside temperature during the night is -7C these days. Greetings.
its wasnt started by Russia but ok. How is that electric heater cheaper than gas? Im from Estonia, didnt notice much gas prices, but my electicity bill went up 5-6x times.
@@Orlington17😂😂 What do we have here? A russian putinist living in estonia? Who started the war then? Nato? ukraine? usa? Biden? zelensky? France? finland? Macedonia?
I live in Alberta, Canada and the coldest temperature that we have had here is -40 C, but that is very rare. Today it is -2 C and for most of the winter (January, February and March) it is typically around -10 C or -15 C. The typical house here is made of wood with 6 inches of insulation and is heated by natural gas (forced air with a furnace in the basement). The heating cost here is around $100 per month. Thank you for the video.
I live in an old Australian house made of timber we call them weatherboard, and that is on the outside then the 2X4 wall frame then the Plaster sheet for the wall no insulation in the walls at all. if it gets to -3c overnight it is around 4.c in the house without heat. I normally open the windows in the day time as its warmer outside. Old Aussie houses are glorified tents, for this woman's usage of gas 1200 Cubic Metres it would cost here around $1300.
My father was stationed in Grand Forks ND for a year. They have not only very cold winters, but also very windy conditions. I looked up the history for the winter we were there. It had a cold of -17F with 41mph winds, which gave a wind chill of -55F. That actually so cold it is deadly. You'd let the dogs pee in the house.
My wife and I live in Northern California. Winter is not very cold here (down to about 0 degrees Celsius), but the houses are not well insulated so it is still chilly inside. We had a gas furnace with forced air heating, which had vents in every room - that is until the heater failed and we got a carbon monoxide alarm. We replaced the heater with a heat pump, which doubles as an air conditioner in summer. The air from the gas heater was always very hot, which led to it accumulating under the ceiling, where it is not much use to anyone. The heat pump pumps in air that is only a few degrees warmer than the air in the room. so the house is heated much more evenly. Thanks for posting these videos, they are really interesting!
Hello, Maria. How interesting your videos are! I live in Brazil, not the tropical zone, and when the temperatures go down to - 4º Celsius, we do feel like freezing cold since our homes do not have a heating system ... Luckily, the winter doesn't last that long down here, so it's ok. Best of luck. Take care.
In Philippines, we dreamed of having a snow but we all know that Philippines is a tropical country,impossible to have snow 🥺😔. Watching this vlog made me realize that its not easy living a cold country like yours I respect all the hardship and efforts to make you warm. Be safe and healthy everyday! 💛💐
My primary heating source is wood pellets connected to a radiator system. I also have ACs that can also heat the air inside (air heat pumps), and also a simple furnace (mainly as backup but also for mood). I like that these all compliment each other very well and produce a "different" type of heat (feels different).
I live in the state of Florida in the USA and really appreciate this perspective on opposite climates. We have to run our Air conditioning from May to November. We have an electric furnace that we might use 5 or 6 times a year. In the year of 2020 I don't think we ever turned it on.
I run my ac 12 months out of the year and I live in Florida too 😂 besides the couple Cold snaps we get a year, my unit just has some heat strips in it that’s all maybe run it once a year when it gets in the 30s
I lived in the Canadian Arctic and the coldest we got was about -55 C. It was also dark as the sun did not come over the horizon for the entire month of December. In summer, we would have 24 hours of daylight. The hottest I have experienced was +57 C in Alice Springs, Australia in their summer. Honestly, I prefer the cold! ❤️🇨🇦
People be like "I prefer the cold!" then put on 5 layers. Heat their house to the same temperature as an australian summer and sit through 80% of "gloomy days" that they supposedly love.
@@GoldenTV3 Not so. I also live in Canada (not in the Arctic, though.) and I prefer a living temperature of 15-20 C, and a working temperature of 10-15 C. At work, in the warehouse when it's 15 C or so, I just wear my regular t-shirt and jeans. The only time I would ever wear "5 layers" is if I'm sick, or when I'm outside and it's below -10 C. I believe that I'm typical of most Canadians.
@@GoldenTV3 heat their house to an Australian summer temp? Tell me you're clueless without telling me you're clueless. And I mean, yeah, we're going to wear multiple layers when it's cold. Losing feeling in your body parts isn't much fun, but luckily humans invented clothing to stay warm. Have fun trying to cool down when it's blitzing hot out!
I live in Auckland, New Zealand. Midday temperatures usually range from about 10C in Winter to 25C Summer. Most houses only need basic insulation and single pane glass. We don’t really need heating or cooling. I prefer the cold and love the snow, so I love watching videos like yours - however I’m sure if I lived there they’d find me one day frozen solid outside in bare feet and shorts next to a half built snowman !!
I live in the Idaho Rocky Mountains & came from Chch a few years ago. It's 8pm & -2c outside. I'm a 24hr breakdown road service mechanic for long haul truckers & work in temps down to -20, lower than that & I'm not going.
I live in Quebec, Canada. We have a few cold waves per winter where temperatures can go down to -30 celcius and in some rare occasions it can drop even lower than that. But I would say the average in January and February is generally between -10 and -20. In July and August we have a comfortable average of 25 during the day. But this is an average. The weather can fluctuate a lot here. In the summer we can have a cool 15 degrees on one day and a few days later we can have a heat wave and it can go up to 35. In the winter most houses are heated with electricity.
I live in rural Wales Here there is no mains gas, most people use wood burners for heating or oil or bottled gas central heating. The temp here has dropped as low as -8c these past few days but that is very unusual. In Summer here it was 90 degrees F. I could NOT cope with being in such cold temps as this lady, I think it's amazing they keep their house lovely and warm inside, I struggle to keep mine warm in much higher temps!
We live in the UK. It doesn't get that cold here but we use gas central heating. This year, a lot of us will be switching it off due to the rising costs of running it. We used to pay around £70 a month, but it's just risen to £200 for us, and winter hasn't begun yet.
@@kignacio The is quite a few rules in the UK on fireplaces/stoves and what fuel you can and can't burn plus depending on where you live you might be in a smokeless zone. Plus the large majority people here are clueless when it comes to making a fire.
Hi Maria!! I live in Indonesia which has tropical climate. We only have 2 seasons: wet (rainy) and dry so no snow at all! The temperature at the city is stretch between 20-30 degree celcius which basically doesn't require us to wear any jackets/coats. Love your videos!!
No need for jacket? hmmm...try go to mountenous area at rainy season. The temperature can drop under 10°C which can k*ll us emidietaly cause we're not develop phisycal strength to deal with a cold weather.
I lived in Minneapolis Minnesota for a while and it did get cold but as cold as where you are. All of the older houses had oil radiators. They just need to be bled once a year and each house usually had a natural gas-fed furnace of some sort in the basement. The key to surviving in cold temperatures is to get out as much as you can inn the colder months. It gets too dark and depressing inside too much. cool vlog.
This video is one of the reasons that I love UA-cam. It's amazing to see how our fellow humankind live, it's fascinating. I thank you for this. I wish you, lovely girl and your family long and happy lives.😊
I'm from Wisconsin, and remember struggling days as a single mom when we had no heat. We'd take trips to the library to warm up! Otherwise we've had gas furnaces for the most part. Your house is so lovely, it looks cozy and comfortable, and just perfect!
How do you pay everything ? We have Health insurance and other aids in germany. I want to move to amerika somedays. But i cant imagine how people can pay everything by themself.
@@christopherglaus3811 Well there's federal disability if you are crippled or mentally ill, but it is woefully inadequate. I worked for 30 years in this country before becoming disabled, and can't even clear a thousand a month - rent for a one bedroom is 6 to 8 hundred. It can't be done. Come to think of it, every one of my friends who are on disability, me included, have to live with family members. We can't pay for everything, the math won't cooperate lol
@@christopherglaus3811 Ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber ich glaube UA-cam ist in Russland zur Zeit abgeschaltet. Von daher glaube ich leider nicht an eine Antwort.
@@alexl53 Dude i have a really good job. I am not a leech. I´m just asking, how they deal with it, because in Germany we have serveral supports and i dont get it, how they can handle it in the USA
my hometown is located in the middle region of Algeria (in north africa), we experience a bit of a large temperature differential here going from 45-47°c in summers to -5°c in winters so we use both heating and cooling systems along the year, our house and even us are more accustomed to managing the hotter weather though since it lasts longer so when the winter comes it's never warm enough for us 😂, we use gas stoves for heating by the way. And for cooling we use air conditioner and a lot of other alternative methods to save the electricity bill.
Did you see that awesome video on home made air conditioning? It gets hot here in Ohio in the summer, and i'm going to try it this year - you can find it on youtube, it's basically just a piece of cardboard fitted to the window, with a grid of holes - cut a two liter plastic bottles in half and face the little mouth-end inside the house, wide end out to catch the air. Voila. Same principle as when you blow on your hand open mouthed the air is hot, but purse your lips and it's cool! I can't wait to try it!
Interestingly enough we have a similar range of temperatures in Lithuania(northeast europe). We get -25c in january and 35c in some days of july. common households aren't cooled in the summer so we just cool off in lakes
I really enjoyed learning what you have taught me about living in Siberia. Thank you for welcoming me into your home. That was very kind. I live in Northern Ontario Canada. It only rarely drops to -30*C in winter, early in the morning a few hours before sunrise! My home was built in 1938 and it is heated with natural gas heating water pumped through cast iron radiators. I like this type of heating better than other modern ways.
I live in Texas, USA, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. We use our air conditioning at least 7 -8 months a year with only about 3 months when heat is needed in our short winters.. Our house uses electric heat. It is rare for the coldest nights to drop below 0 degrees celcius. (32 Fahrenheit). I cannot imagine living in Siberia where it's that cold most of the time ! Thank you for your video ! It was Very interesting. 🙂 Love your dog ! ❤
@@zokonjazokonja Air to air, by far. In fact, the winter conditions are so mild, that a large number of heat pumps are non-inverter, single stage heat pumps, not mini splits. But more efficient inverter mini-splits are gaining ground. Another thing to mention is that in the south, due to the mild Winters, those single stage heat pumps have been fairly popular since the 1960s, predating the modern heat pump craze. Cheaper than electric resistance and you don't have to have a connection to the gas grid. Ground to air "geothermal" is used in some places, but the setup cost is high. Air to water and ground to water seem to be a uniquely European phenomenon. They also lock you out of being able to use it for air conditioning.
It’s incredible to see how you guys survive in such challenging weather. Most of my life I have lived in a tropical country (Brazil), and two years ago I moved to NYC. Even -10°C is cold as hell for me already because I’m not used to it, and I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it lol… imagine -44°C! That’s crazy. Kudos for everyone in that live in such harsh weather!
buy thermal wear, it is a game changer - your sweat makes you freeze. combine with several thin layers of clothes instead of one thick. Also New York is by the ocean, humidity feels colder than dry Siberia
Thanks for the interesting video. I live in Wisconsin and it costs a lot more to heat our house per month than your parents. We also have a gas furnace and a radiator system. Our house doesn’t stay as warm as yours even though our weather is not nearly as cold. Our house is about 68 degrees during the day and drops to about 54 degrees at night. It has been about 5 degrees Fahrenheit at night for the past few days. My house is 3 layers of cream city brick on the exterior and wood frame and plaster on the interior and was built in 1883.
I also live in Wisconsin but rent an apartment. It's very common that the landlord pays for heating instead of the tenant where I live. We live in a brick building with baseboard radiators (I think gas) and so far it's been about -20°C but will get colder in the next month or two. We pay for electricity separately.
When I lived in Vermont, the temperature often got down to about -25 C during the winter, but about half of winter days were brightly sunny. It was a two-story house about 150 sq m, too, on the top of a mountain. We had a south-facing wall that had about 5 m (16') of double-paned glass, from floor to ceiling, with insulated shades we could close at night, and from that the sun alone would heat the house plenty on a bright winter day. We often had to lower the shades partway because the house would get too hot by mid-afternoon. Otherwise, the house had a multi-fuel furnace that would run on oil, coal, or wood. We usually used home heating oil, which is basically diesel fuel.
I live in Czech Republic. Our house uses electrical heater and also has a fireplace in the living room. We usually heat our house from end of september to april. But winters here (in Southern Moravia) are quite mild. Only a few weeks of temperatures below zero.
Thank you for the subtitles, I appreciate them! Here in Scotland, my flat has no gas but we have an electric boiler that heats the water in the taps and sends hot water to radiators in each room. We have fibreglass insulation on the outside of the concrete building, and triple-glazed windows, too. I got so excited yesterday because it snowed! But today the snow is gone and it's raining again. I hope I see more snow this winter.
Thank you for sharing this :) We have gas boiler at home in Czech Republic, but many people in my neighborhood is coming back to burning the wood because of the high prices now. Have a nice day too ;)
Очень красивый английский, так приятно было слушать и наслаждаться произношением. У нас температуры не такие низкие, но очень высокая влажность. Ваши -50 примерно как наши -30. Вы молодец, все очень красиво рассказали
Great video Maria! We don’t have as cold of winter here in Oregon in the US, but we pay double what your parents pay for heat. We too have natural gas for heating. This was very interesting! ❄️💙
Very high consumption of natural gas per month, in Serbia we are heating 7 months per year, and I pay 700$ per season for heating 200 square meters of house, it's about 1700 cubic meters of natural gas per season and also in that is included hot water for second floor and for cooking in two kitchens
Wow I’m getting ripped off. In America I heat with propane. 100 gallon tank costs over $500 to fill and during the coldest months I fill up twice a month!
In Singapore it is tropical, hot and humid all year round between 23C to 34C. No need for heating system but there is definitely a need for cooling system. We use a lot of air conditioning in homes and also at malls, public transportation systems etc. to keep our houses cool. But at home an electric fan is more than enough most of the time :)
I am construction engineer. Many years ago I was in USA for couple of months. Almost all family houses in USA have big big heat losses. Mainly because they are built from wood frames filled with thin layer of wool and so. That's nothing. Also the typical style/construction of their windows are very bad for keeping the heat inside. Roof had the biggest losses as usual. For example, when I was in Texas, I was scared how bad is their insulations. They always told me "dude you are in Texas, we never have so cold outside". I think last year's experience changed their mind.. If you want a wooden house that will keep the heat inside well, the only way is cabin house system, similar to Maria's house here in the video. My own house in 🇱🇮 is built from bricks, the walls are 50cm thick plus 15cm additional outer insulation. Roof is insulated with 40 cm thick special mineral wool with impermeable foil under the inner cladding. Properly built three layers glass windows are the basic thing. If you build a new house, good floor/base insulation is s must. I did many renovations of old houses and still do, and the costs of heating before/after is really very different 😊
I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada. A few years ago, I lost my home in a flood so I lived in a canvas tent for six months. This was from June to December. The temperature went down to -21C, but I had a wood stove in which I would burn oak and maple. This worked well. I had a buffalo robe on my bed and I turned the fur toward me. This also worked well and I can honestly say I was never cold at night. It was a good experience.
Hello Maria, I am living in Austria. In the house we have a wood burning furnace in the basement. It is connected to a central heating system for heating both floors of the house. We use the furnace also for heating the warm water we use in the house for kitchen and bathroom. Normally we heat from September till April, more or less. Right now it is normally around -5 degrees at night and around freezing at the daytime. For heating a whole day we use the amount of wood that fits in a regular wheel barrel. The coldest it gets here is around -20 degrees, but we have not seen such temperatures for several years now. The coldest it got here during this winter so far was -10 degrees. Thanks for this interesting video about winter time in Yakutia.
We have underfloor heating in Seoul S.Korea. I remember in the early 90s winter was often -20c(-4f) and we had unmelted snow piles during March. Now winter is much warmer and -10c(14f) is the expected coldest. This 21/22 winter was colder than usual and it went down to -17c.
@@macjonte They heat the floors with charcoal called, "Ondol." The concrete floor has "tunneling" in the concrete which allows the heated charcoal to have heat flow via natural convection. The concrete is covered with vinyl flooring to "seal" the carbon monoxide from filling the room. Sometimes the vinyl fails and people sleeping on the floor die. Most places leave the window open a little to help, but as you may know, carbon monoxide is heavier than air so it settles to the bottom of the floor. A lot of Koreans sleep on a YO which is a foam rubber mat. So, they sleep on the floor where the heat and danger is. I served 3 Tours in Korea as a US Soldier in Korea.
@@macjonte I was there in the 70s and 80s so it was when Korea was building its future as a world power economically. The Ondol heating with charcoal was in most areas, but only single story houses. Modern cities had a mixture depending on the construction timing.... As you may know, concrete cracks, thus carbon monoxide rises through the cracks (heated CO2), thus the vinyl floor on the concrete. Today, a lot of places have probably replaced that type of heating with oil heating or electric heating, but the poor will always have Ondol heating. I was in the field when it was 30 below Zero (F) so Korea does get cold.
We don't use heaters in our house because our average Room temperature in Southern part of India 🇮🇳 is +28 degrees. Thanks for uploading videos on Yakutia.
@@mbogucki1 28C is not umbearable. that is a normal room temperature in tropical climate. we get used to it, and we sweat all the time with high humidity. we open windows everywhere.
@@mbogucki1 Maybe you should try to stand near a furnace, it's quite common to hit 40 C, and even high upto 45 at some places and temp rising every year you never know what's in store.
I really enjoy your videos. The coldest I have ever experienced was -22F (-30C), about 20 years ago. But it only lasted for a day or two. We are really not prepared for temperatures that cold. Hmm. We live in Pennsylvania; last month we used 159 Ccf (450 cubic meters) of gas for heating, hot water, and cooking. The average daily temperature was 47F (8.5C). The gas bill was about $250.00. So, we use 1/3 of the gas that your parents do but pay 4 times more for it.
Bill im in NW PA and we were like -7*F a week or so ago for like a week or two straight. Now we have an ice storm rolling through. Also F paying these jabronis these ridiculous gas prices.
I was also curious about the difference in gas usage and price. Living in Switzerland, where the temperature can go a few degrees below 0°C in the winter months. (Usually not more than -10 or so and it's often above zero during the day. -20 would be considered pretty extreme.) In summer, it can be up to 30°C with no need for heating. In the past year, we've used 2760m3 of gas (for hot water and heating our 155m2 house to a comfy 23-24°C) for a total cost of ~2500$. So the gas is more than 10x as expensive here.
I live in Krasnoyarsk, and when we built our wooden summer cottage (dacha), we brushed the oakum layer between the wood with oil-based paint to prevent from being taken out by squirrels. :) Удачи Вам и хорошей погоды!
I live in Mobile Alabama and I only heat my house maybe 2-3 weeks in winter. I keep my house around 64-68F year round. It’s intriguing and interesting to know how people in other countries live. I’m glad that you have this channel
I am from the arctic north of Finland and my parents' house is heated by burning peat. There is a large facility in the city that burns the peat and it brings hot water in the houses. The water is circulated in similar radiators under windows in almost every room. This warm water also heats up the water we use for shower.
In our city in the Netherlands we use industrial heat waste and specialized heating to deliver city wide heat, with dirty hot water (70..80 degrees celsius) as heat transfer medium. On our premises, we can use that straight in radiators, but we need a heat exchanger to heat shower and drinking water.
@@solinus83 well I didn't mean the Soviet system wasn't, I just said its similar... Btw, for some reason when I wrote that comment I didn't bother researching what peat was. It is indeed a very very interesting heat source.... I should look more into it
I used to live in Maine (very far north-eastern US on the Atlantic Ocean, just below Canada) where it is also cold and dark in the winter, but only November-April. The coldest ever I remember was about -22 for a week in February back in 2015 or so. Not nearly as oppressively cold as Yakutsk. People mostly use oil burning furnaces to heat their homes, though many people also have wood stoves to supplement. In the cities, it is more common to use natural gas, but oil is still the primary fuel. I live in Florida now so there's no need to heat anything ever. We have the opposite problem where you need to cool your home all year!
I live in Indonesia (South Sulawesi), the average temp. (in my town) is around 25-26 C, the coldest is around 18 C and hottest is 35 C. The coldest I've ever felt was 12 C when I visit my grandparents town and it was so cold I have 2 layers of thick blanket with jacket, trousers and socks on when I was about to sleep. To be honest, I can't even withstand 22 C, below it I'm freezing XD. When it's rain season, we usually shuts the AC to warm our house, also our house have few vents for the breeze to come in so we didn't have to turn the AC for too long or even not turning it at all. More money saved.
My ex fiance was from Baubau and she allways told me that when it gets 25 degrees its cooooold and most ppl are cold and in blankets at home 😆 what a lie from her 😆
Yakutia looks so beautiful! It’s bond with nature is amazing, it’s so rare to find such pure nature✨ I really want to visit Yakutia and spend my days there once in my life! love and respect from Istanbul 🙏
I live in the middle parts of Finland, the winter lasts about 5-6 months spring and fall around 2 months and summer around 3. Temperatures range from +35 C to -35 C ( but usually around -10 winter and +20 in the summer). If you live in a city there is usually a central energy plant that will provide warmth and electricity to houses. if you live in a rural area you will either use wood or electricity but that option is very expensive and getting more expensive. If you can afford it there are modern ways to store and retrieve geothermal energy. Currently in Finland you could buy a house in the rural areas for what you will need to spend on rent for a 2-3 years when living in a city, but the cost of living because of gasoline and electricity prizes are so high it would be expensive to live there. Not to mention there are less jobs available in rural areas.
I think so allmost everything what burns is ok😆.. today is common to get solarpanels... 4-5month you don't need buy electric.. you can sell it back too if you have more than u need.
I grew up in northern Alberta, Canada. Similar climate to Siberia. My father's house had a ducted central heating system using natural gas and forced air which blew hot air from heating ducts coming from the floor on all three levels. The house had fiberglass insulation inside the wall and styrofoam sheets on the outside walls. A basement dug below the frost line also helped. Instead of double glazed windows most homes in the area had two complete window frames to trap air in between. The ceiling had blown woolen insulation. He even had a couple of fireplaces on the lower floors as back up. Now I live in northern Australia where it never freezes but we have flood and drought instead.
I also grew up in Northern Alberta! Fort Mac. Our house was built in the late 60's at the time and is very similar to what yours was. Our basement on one side was finished, but on the laundry side was just the concrete and was never cold - unless the pilot light went out on the furnace in -40C I'm in Calgary now and it's weird how warm it is here compared to Northern Alberta in the same province.
@@comment6864 Larger buildings such as apartments and schools had central boilers with water pipes and radiators in every room. This method had it's own issues such as leakage. Overall, I think cost was the main factor. Alberta had considerable natural gas reserves which teamed well with the forced air system. One problem was the lack of humidity compounded with shag carpeting and heated air: the dry climate used to give me chapped lips and static electric shocks.
This is amazing to me! I live in Australia and it is summer right now. We have had more than two weeks of weather over 35 degrees Celsius. In summer it is usually about 32 degrees most days. In winter in my city, the coldest day will be about 7 degrees, and the coldest night about 1 degree. But most days in winter are around 16 degrees, and our winter is only 3 months long. We use reverse cycle air conditioning mostly to heat and cool our houses. I've only seen snow twice in my life and I'm 30 years old - both times I was in another country. I would love to come to your part of the world one day!
Don’t so it. Really cold and dangerous. Her house built like crap. They’re warming up outside area. If you calculate properly, wood size for such temperature should be around 20-30 inches in order to separate cold on the outside from heat inside. Plus dew point happens somewhere in the middle of the wood where it’s impossible to see but it’s there. They need proper steam insolation inside and wind&water insulation outside, so the wood will stay dry and not distribute heat. This house is crap.
I feel like you have to be Perth, Melbourne, or Sydney, the summers are too cold to be further north and the winters are too warn to be Adelaide or Hobart :p
В Центральной Якутии летом температура доходит почти до +40С а зимой до -60С или даже ниже, но это редко. А в районах вроде Оймякона и Верхояна доходило почти до -70С, но это было давно
@@greganikin7003 такие дома веками строили в Сибири, плюс это сибирская лиственница очень долговечная. Есть дома которые построены в 19 веке и до сих пор неплохо сохранились. Да насчет теплопотерь согласен они есть, поэтому многие сейчас такие дома утепляют снаружи.
Sounds like Melbourne! That is where I live now but originally from UK so I have experienced pretty cold stuff there and some REALLY cold minus 18-20 C type temps when I lived in Germany
I grew up around Сургут, Ханты-Мансийск region, a more western part of Siberia, and our 5 story apartment block had central heating. In the winter it was so hot, as a kid I would run around in my underwear. Also got to -50C sometimes, but we still played outside 😂 (wearing 100 layers of clothes)
Hi Maria! I live in Dallas, Texas, USA. The coldest weather we get is 25F, and that is usually for only a week, when a cold front blows down south from Canada. My house has blown-in fiberglass insulation between layers of brick and drywall, also between the delinking and the roof. And natural gas powers a central heating unit which blows warm air into each room through a vent on the ceiling. Last year, a particularly nasty cold front pushed our state’s power grid past its capacity and caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose power for days during this unseasonably cold snap. This was a problem because our houses are only insulated for mild weather, so it got very cold in the houses, leading to some deaths. Something you might find interesting is that the house insulation is really more to keep the heat out in the summer than to keep the cold out in the winter. Thanks for your video! I found it really interesting.
I live in McKinney, lowest actual temperature was -4°F and we had power for about 95% of that event. Literally the 1st floor was at 35° but the upstairs was like 65° because literally any heat made just rose to the 2nd floor. It does the same thing to a lesser extent any cold snap
I live in Austin, Texas. Same exact thing here. Man that freeze last year really traumatized me. This video makes me so happy I live in the warmth, even though I HATE how hot it gets here!
@@rebeccac.1758 Austin here too. I find it hard to even imagine forty degree weather - as in forty BELOW the 40 that we think of as " cold ". That's a full 80 degrees colder than what we call "bitter cold" ! And just imagine - she said she has birds living there. How do they survive ??
Greetings from the Republic of Ireland. Houses in Ireland are heated by various different means, most modern houses use gas or kerosene. In the past some people used coal or anthracite and some traditional houses are still heated by woodfires or by turf (peat cut from bogs then dried) Our Winter is usually between +4 to +8 degrees average in daytime but can go below zero sometimes. Our Summer is usually between +12 to +16 but can rise to the high 20's Centigrade, traditionally we eat blood sausage made from pig blood (black pudding) or sheep blood (drisheen) A lot of modern houses have solar panels both for heating water and generating electricity. ````
A lot like UK though our houses are not insulated properly we need triple glazing for winter, the north of UK gets to below 2/5 degrees at times mostly 1- 2 degrees, with summers getting too hot we have been having g lots of heatwaves this last 5 years then the houses are too hot to sleep comfortably we have to use fans cost far to much money in winter and summer now, we used to be able to save money in the summer because it was hot outside now we can’t because we have to have fans on all day during heatwaves if your house is facing South the upstairs becomes unbearable, this year I slept outside for nearly two weeks to save on power as the energy crisis is crippling most of us, my gas and electricity during this summer as tripled, it now expected to quadruple or quintuple by next month many people will go hungry just to pay for energy. I would my mother was Irish from county Mayo my husband from Tipperary, we plan to move to Tip or somewhere in that county, when we retire only three years left to go, we are wanting it to happen sooner rather than later but pension won’t allow us. We need to buy a nice old house with a little land to grow outer own and keep chickens we have our animals but they are getting old don’t know if they will live to I’ll we go home. 🇨🇮
@@Harpoforver2024 I would love to have natural gas! We have propane and it costs between $700 and $800 a month to heat the house to 18c when it's -10 to -20c outside in the coldest part of the year.
@@edwardmol5341 That's insane. That's almost as bad as heating oil or resistance electric heating. At this point, I think a heat pump would be cheaper.
I live in Texas in the United States. Our heating system is electric and we use it a few months of the year. We also have a cooling system (air conditioner) as the warm months can be hot. It runs on electricity. My husband and I have a fireplace we use occasionally when the temperature is very cold to help keep our electric bill from being expensive. Both the warm and cold air is pushed through vents to all rooms of the house at one time. We are able to shut the vents to each room if that room is not being used. Thank you for sharing about your life. It is fascinating to learn how people live in other places.
Greetings. I lived in Montana and remember a winter where we had -20 F. Not as cold as some places but it stayed that cold for 9 days/nights. They didn’t call it polar vortex back then, it was just winter 🥶
My grandfather and father were visiting Montana when it hit the record -70° f/-56°c day. Gramps retired to Hawaii and dad retired Vegas for that reason.
I live in New Jersey , USA, about 10 miles (16km) from New York City. The coldest temperature I've ever experienced in this area was -23 Celsius (-10 Fahrenheit) , but that was only for 1 night. I live in a house that is 100 years old. The house was built with steam radiators and the house still has its original steam heating system.
I grew up in Meadow Lake Sask Canada. We had lots of -30C, a few days a year of -40C and I remember temps falling below -50C a few times. We did not have gas and power was too expensive so we had an outdoor wood boiler. It was very efficient. We has some cattle so we had to clean our fence lines of fallen wood every year. This wood provided us with at least 75% of our heat. Lots of people used wood stoves, propane, fuel oil and natural gas in town. Lots of people use wood to supplement other heats. Wood is the most comfortable heat.
In Winter here in Minnesota, we just keep extra frozen food in our garage, since like you mentioned, it's colder outside than it is in the freezer. It's also great for making wine indoors. Since you can leave the wine out after it's done, on the porch, and freeze out some of the water leaving more alcohol left over in the wine.
I live in Iowa in the US and we have radiant heat in our concrete floors (hot water flowing through tubes to heat the concrete) which keeps us very warm. You can walk on the floors with your bare feet when it's in the negatives.
I live in Hawaii and have only seen snow a few times in my life. It snows in Hawaii, but not where I live. I can’t imagine living in such a cold climate, but it’s amazing to learn how you stay warm. Thank you for the videos. I get to experience life in another location.
@@dew62169Couple years ago Maui got snow in the lower elevations ua-cam.com/video/dwQOJh1wQx8/v-deo.html so you have to make sure you bring your jacket.
Hello! I live in Canada and so far this winter we only got around -20c in my area. Its usually drop down to -40c around the end of january. Most common heater are electric baseboard heater but some people still burn wood. We have only double pane window and its enough for most canadian home. Its cost around 50-60$ extra per month for the electricity bill in the winter for a 3 bedroom appartement. Bye 🖐🙂
Interesting! Here in Yakutia some people with no gas communication also use electric heaters. But because our winters are so cold, they consume a lot of electricity which means very expensive bills for it. For example, friends of mine pay around 300$ for electricty per month for 1 floor wooden house because of electric heater (my parents pay 10 times less).
I am also in Canada - in Ottawa. Normally here in January the temperatures go from.-10 during the day to -30 at night. We also heat our house with gas, but with forced air. This means the furnace heats the air which then goes to vents in each room.via ducts. I am wondering if your furnace heats water which then goes through the radiators?
@@gioiastover9681 Good day We have natural gas forced air. Yea I wish ours was boiler but is pretty expensive. I' m from Kitchener Waterloo area. Boy today was a pretty sharp day, cold, stormy, we had freezing rain yesterday . Thanks for now Keep warm& healthy.
В средней полосе дома-срубы еще обшивают снаружи деревянными досками. Тогда птицам до пакли не добраться. Спасибо за экскурсию по якутскому дому! Очень подробно и обстоятельно.
My heating bill was $270 this month. I live in New Hampshire in the USA and my condo uses electric heat. I can't wait to own a house that runs on oil. It's so expensive just to keep my condo at 68-72 degrees! Right now it's snowy and 22 degrees F out right now...and that is cold to me!
I'm an Upstate, New Yorker I consider myself pretty cold-hardy but watching you have your cheeks and hair out in -40 is hardcore. Amazing to see how people survive and how people love their homes.
As a Filipino living in a tropical country, I wish to see & experience snow. But I don't know if I can bear that extreme cold. Through your video, I learn from your style of living & made me respect the much efforts you do to survive & to feel you warm. From your question on how we warm our home, no need but it is the other way around. We use native fan (pamaypay ), electric fan & aircondition unit to cool our place. And the best is we plunge to beaches & pool resorts to beat the heat.🌊🏊♂️ If I can just blow the hot weather & summer experience here in the Philippines, I would love to share it with you. 😊🌞⛱🏖 Sending my warm greetings from the Philippines.🇵🇭😊
Snow is a lot of fun for the first 5 minutes or maybe an hour. After that you're ready for it to go away. You have to shovel it out of the way or it becomes a walking/driving hazard. It's all beautiful white when it falls, but soon turns into gray slush that gets everything filthy. I would suggest someday visiting somewhere with snow, but where you're not committed to it. For instance in Albuquerque New Mexico (as in Breaking Bad) the Sandia Mountains overlook the city. When I was there it was jacket weather. There is a road on the backside of the mountains that takes you the whole way to the top. There was snow all over because of the elevation, even in the Fall. Overlook: www.google.com/maps/@35.210122,-106.4497175,3a,75y,183.68h,81.63t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPDA0-lc_zlFdEsJmE1RmOpICHwSjvd_YeSePU9!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPDA0-lc_zlFdEsJmE1RmOpICHwSjvd_YeSePU9%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9625971-ya43.850784-ro-7.837934-fo100!7i5376!8i2688 How it looked when I was there: www.google.com/maps/@35.2108915,-106.4496182,3a,75y,164.45h,93.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1silFpm0x1jRPZS-4YmrIyOQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 There has to be somewhere much closer to the Philippines, like Mount Fuji, where you can experience snow and not be married to it like you would be in Siberia.
I am surprised how 'normal'/regular/common your heating method is compared to how it's like for most central and North Europeans. I am even more surprised to see how well your house keeps the heat in compared to the brick buildings we live in in Germany. But I used to live in Canada for a short while and their wooden houses are similarly good at insulating from the cold. Love your videos. X
Lovely video! I’m from Alberta, Canada, and most of our heating is natural gas. The coldest it gets here is -40ish C, but some parts of my province go below -50C on occasion.
I live in the US state of Connecticut. We use oil heat, but we also have a wood stove. The oil furnace does not work when the electricity is out from storms, so the wood stove has saved us many times. I was surprised you don't burn wood to help heat your home. Your channel is great! You should get on Patreon.
In Colorado USA my house is often colder than the refrigerator during the winter! I've lived in a shack in the mountains with no heat and no insulation in -35C. It's cold, but not so hard to acclimate as long as you begin in the Autumn. Thanks so much for these videos!
Gas is not as cheap in Wyoming as it is in Siberia, but it is cheap enough that houses are warm enough in the winter to lounge in underwear. You are a true stoic, if you're not heating your house in central or northern Colorado; keep in mind that indoor temperatures below about 19°C are associated with more frequent illness.
@@microcolonel I live in Argentina and indoor temperatures in my house during winter are never higher than 16°C. Plus during night, room temps are around 7°C. I never (nor my family) got ill during winter. I think that keeping a very warm rooms (24°C) in cold places is bad for your health. When you go outside, you are exposed to extreme changes in temperature in short times.
@@rc4a0frios 18°C is not 24, but there is no evidence that 24 is dangerous. If nobody in your family ever got a seasonal illness, you likely wouldn't regardless, but where it matters, rooms should be kept around 19°C at a minimum, with ideally 30% humidity or so, to minimize these negative outcomes,
I live in a pretty new house in Germany and we also have triple glazing as well as 36cm thick walls. We use a mix of gas and geothermal energy and the heat is distributed via underfloor heating, with an additional radiator in the bathroom to heat up towels.
@@LifeinYakutia Water is circulating in underground pipes, and a heat pump (reverse refrigerator) extracts the excess heat from the water and uses that heat to make hot water for the radiators in the house. So for every 1 kWh of electricity you use you get about 5 kWh of heat :)
I live in Michigan. It was -16C/3F this morning and is currently -7C/18F right now. Our winters can feel long. Can’t imagine having to heat the house for 9 months out of the year.
Hi Maria! Here in Kuopio, Finland we warm usually from September-October to May. Weather varies between +30-35 to -30-35 celsius degrees. Now, today we are having -15 celcius. We live in house that was built originally by my grandparents in 1955-56. We still have original watercycle radiator system, original douple glazed windows etc. Originally house had "Elveka" woodburning central heating boiler. Oilheater was added in 1963. Whole central heating boiler was changed after oil crises on 1973 to oil and wood burning unit. It is planned that an air to water heat pump will be added to system due Finnish high taxed oil price. 1,26€/ litre for heating oil now. A ground-source heating pump on this location would be very expensive due low ground water level. Neighbours had to drill two over 120 m deep holes to get their system to work. And the system would require new more heat transfer effective radiators or water cycle floorheating due water out from heat pump is 55-60 degrees max. Cheaper is to use smaller on power air to water heat pump up to -20-25 untill when the COP (Coefficient of performance) is good enough and by colder weather go by wood-oil burning boiler. Inside wintertime we keep +18-20 degrees celsius. We have about 330m2 heated area in our house. Anually oil consunption is about +-3000 litres with out woodburning, wich offcourse will deminnish need of oil. But heating by wood needs more work and the time is sometimes limited.
@@interestingthings8598 I know that… I mean when people start to freeze in their houses, they will go to the streets to protest… that’s why I think this green energy is not likely to succeed… and I think it already starts to fail… energy price was very high a few months ago in Europe.. there is shortage of energy.. they want to stop north stream 2 pipeline… but this will increase the energy cost for eu consumers… more and more people will go to the streets to protest… you are ok to accept the rules but once you have no food and your house is cold then you will start to protest
Hi Maria, I live in Northern Wisconsin USA 🇺🇸 and it has been around -30°C lately. We heat with a gas furnace that pumps hot water under our floor. It keeps our feet (and our house) nice and warm 😊
I'm from North India. Till November the temperature here remains around 5 and then at the fall of December and Jan month it goes down to -5. We use electrical heaters to heat our rooms. We don't generally use radiators and stuff to warm up the whole house.
I'm in the northeast corner of the United States and the coldest temperature I have seen here is -42C. A typical January day is about -30C in the morning and warms to -17 during the day. The heating season starts in late October and goes until the end of April although there are a few days in September that are cold enough that I turn the heat on for a couple hours. My house was built with an oil burning furnace and I installed a wood stove when I moved in. Wood provides most of my heat and the oil turns on if I'm not home to put more wood in the stove. I also have a propane heater that doesn't use electricity that will turn on in a power outage to prevent the water pipes from frezing.
Thank you for sharing a bit of your daily life in Siberia. We live in the Colorado mountains at an elevation just under 9,000 feet. We heat with a natural gas fired boiler system. Hot water is circulated though pex tubing in the floors, providing in-floor radiant heat. In the basement, the tubes run through the concrete slab. On the upper floors, the tubes run through poured gypcrete, which spreads the heat evenly. We try to operate the system only from Oct 1st to June 1st. We are fortunate to have a natural gas connection in our mountainous region.
To answer your question, I live in Germany. We'll probably start heating our houses in the course of this month, seeing as the temperatures start to drop. We have a central heating unit burning oil (diesel gasoline) which is quite common here. Other forms of heating are gas, electrical and wood (Germany is 2/3rds forests). Very informative video. Keep up the good work!
Heating oil must be close to the most expensive way to heat a building. I would look into a heat pump, even if just a portable heat pump to get through this winter.
I live in Jamaica where it's warm all year around. I have no idea what it is like to live in those very cold conditions. My greatest respect for all those living in those countries.
it makes reggae sound like jungle and jerk chicken leg to tomahawk :D man : -44 yeah it is nice weather
Nat I'm also Jamaican but live in Colorado. It's cold here and love it! Could not imagine living somewhere that's -43 degrees tho! Might take some getting used to.
@@petervlcko4858 I wish I could understand what you were trying to say.
@@teerich2011 it is a joke. jungle music is like reggae but you shake to much and chicken leg freeze to be a tomahawk. i did not wanted to be offensive or anything. i love summer palm trees and stuff like that. also for cold weather is good Wim Hoff method.
Go inside a giant refrigerator where they store Meat in large food stores. Stay there for an hour. You get the idea
My father was a construction worker. He always told me to look at the roofs, covered in snow means well insulated, melted off means they're losing heat!
a sound advise from your dad.
In Holland the rule of thumb is:
Snow on the roof - Nothing to worry about.
No snow on the roof - probably an illigal marihuana plantation on the attic.
@@mpzn Same in UK lololol.
It it's -50C outside, it will take a lot more heat to melt the snow off your roof.
@@mpzn Of een houtkachel
I live in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It gets around -25 to -35 in Winter. We use concrete to build our houses here, and use foam all around the house (even the base) for insulation. We have two systems for heating 1) traditional firewood 2) electricity heating.
Eh. More like we build apartments heated by district heating system that connected to coal power plant. But the majority can't afford that and lives in not well installed house, and use ton of coal to heat it. Electric heating is just too expensive for the most even though it's free at night.
Senoo!
I am pleased to see Siberians living very much as we do in Alaska. In fact, most of our homes do not even have triple-glaze windows. Many of us heat with wood alone, but an oil stove is also common. You seem very comfortable and happy. That warms my heart.
Definite culture shock for me when I spent my first winter at UAF! I graduated in 2019 and am now back in Los Angeles
I saw all types of heating styles visiting friends and was so fascinated
Oh but what about global warming and man made climate change 😅
David Billboard 3 - two words "Hurricane Ian"
@Chrissy Gaykin Cloud seeding/weather manipulation.
@@chrisdaykin3899 Two words--Solar Maximum. If you hadn't noticed, there actually haven't been too many hurricanes in the recent years, and that is because we were in a Solar Minimum cycle for the last 5 or so years up until recently. It is primarily the Solar cycles which drive things like hurricanes.
I live in the north of Sweden, we heat our house geothermically. We have pipes that are driven deep into the ground where the temperature is stable all year round (approximately 180 meters). We then use a pump system to move water around the pipes and a heat exchange system to move that heat into the house, it also heatrs our water. Our house is similar to yours in that it's made of wood and insulated with plant fibers (saw dust). In the winter we can see temperatures as low as -40c but that is quite rare, normal winter temperature is -10 to -30.
Amazing!
Do you pay for that type of heat?
But what is the temp inside the house during cold times like that
I install geothermal systems in the US. They're truly wonderful and extremely efficient. Most people around me for a house like yours would spend $300 a month for heat in the winter. Geothermal customers pay closer to $20 a month.
@@theshawnarm you pay for the electricity it takes to move that heat. roughly a ratio of 1:4. so 1kWh of electricity in will get you 4kW of heat into the house. a cubic meter of gas holds roughly 8kW so you would need 2kWh to do the same thing with a heat pump as a gas furnace would do with 1m3 of gas. if you use underfloor heating that ratio can go up to 1:6.
I became interested in Yakutia and the Siberian cold by watching UA-cam videos about Agafia Lykova, the Russian hermit who lives alone in the Taiga. I live in Mesa County, western Colorado, USA at the junction of two rivers on the edge of the desert. We are lucky to have water via an irrigation system. We live in my deceased parents' house (built by my father) on 1 Hectare of land with 2 LG dogs, 4 cats, 40 chickens, 52 assorted fruit and nut trees. We heat our house with natural gas, just like your parents. We also have a wood burning fireplace insert in the basement as back up heat in the event the electricity goes out. I VERY much enjoy your channel! Supper is ready, so I have to go. Until next time! 🙏🙏
I live across the Bering in Alaska. It frequently gets to -40F, occasionally as cold as -55F, in the winter. Our house is built a few feet off the ground to prevent heat transfer from the house to the ground, which would cause melting of any permafrost and make the house unstable. Our windows are also triple paned and our walls are insulated with fiberglass and foamboard insulation. The floor and roof are about a foot thick. We heat with an oil stove that both blows and radiates heat throughout the house. We keep the stove set to 62F. Because we have an open floor plan and ceiling fans, the heat disperses from the one stove throughout the house.
62 F converts to 17 C; -55 F converts to -48 C; -40 C = -40 F.
Alaska and Far East are almost same latitude
@@clairfayne Thanks
@@clairfayne thanks, I hate americans who are the only one using fahrenheit instead of celsius so leaving a comment like that only them can understand
@@BrianFurios I've been doing that often
I am from Sri Lanka. I recently found your channel and it is more interesting. In Sri Lanka we are not struggling to heating the houses but also cooling. Because now the time is 9:30 a.m. in the morning and the temperature of the outside is 30C. From this videos I really experiencing the weather condition of your country and I love that. 😊
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I live in Sweden and the coldest I've been in is -47 C. We still played outside :-D
The winters have been milder since that, and this winter we have only had -20.
We heat our hose with a water heat pump, like a geaothermic one but the pipes are in water. Nice and warm all year around :-)
Love from me and my wife to you all!
I'm also from Sweden. Most of the houses I lived in there were heated with hot water that was led to the house from an outside source. The water was heated with wood. Now I live in continental Croatia and although the winters often do have a period of -20 to -15 here, we don't have central heating. We heat with two woodstoves, one in the kitchen which we cook on and one in the livingroom. Upstairs we have one electric radiator.
@E Oz It's a friendly place! For everyone. Where are they moving? It's a big place after all :-D
@@thatsalt1560 Hahahaha I live in Croatia and this winter we haven't yet managed to get to -10° C (at least in Zagreb, Lika is probably way colder).
arent you gonna get bronchitis by inhaling to much "wet" air. I know cause I had it once.
@@simplyyellow6240 the air isn't humid. The hot water circulates in pipes and radiators and heats the air. Well at least that's how my apartment in the city is heated here in Finland.
I am from Afghanistan the tempreature varies from -15 to +40 degrees. We mostly use wood to heat up our houses, other options like gas and water-heating systems are much more expensive.
How is wood less expensive than gas? That sounds crazy, or is it a political thing (too unstable to invest in gas infrastructure)?
I know men who put gas lines in all over Kabul, for free. But I do not know if the Taliban destroyed it for being foreign. I know the current government is against technology.modernity.
@@GarrySkipPerkins He said wood is cheaper….
@@GarrySkipPerkins i just watched a video of a street market in downtown kabul from like last week and it was super busy with men and women all over and cars and overflowing carts of food and shops etc etc ..i didnt see any armed soldiers. also read a study that the citizens actually feel safer under taliban rule. so i am kinda curious how you know about the situation out there? also, the comment said that gas is more expensive than wood. also, wood is more expensive than gas in most places. some people think that deserts dont get cold but lots of them get extremely cold and not many trees grow in a desert and the ones that did are long gone so you have to import all your wood and then youre using trucks that burn so much fuel so you have to pay for that. i've lived in many places in the states that wood was a luxury to burn for heat. also, you dont need gas infrastructure in lots of places. most all of rural america gets propane delivered to 500 gallon tanks on their property that they use for cooking and heat. not trying to be a dick but you sound kinda inexperienced in these topics
@@GarrySkipPerkins Re-read Aziz's comment, and read it slowly until fully comprehended. But let me help you here by repeating what Aziz said so you can understand...hopefully :
_"We mostly use wood to heat up our houses, other options like _*_gas and water-heating systems are much more expensive._*_ "_
Where did you get that stupid idea that Taliban may have destroyed gas lines. That the current government is against technology modernity.
Now get this in your small head, Garry.
1- The only thing that the current government destroyed is NATO led like mules by the USA, that after 20 years had no choice but leave in a very humiliating and disgraceful way.
2- The only thing the current government is against, is foreign boots.
@@cBodhi Great comment, however it is too complicated for Garry's tiny head, since he is incapable of comprehending even the simple sentence by Aziz. As for the detailed explanation you provided him, just be aware that you will be responsible for any damage to his minuscule brain caused by your elaborate explanation.
I live in the Midwest. United States. Temperatures here can vary. Natural gas is this normal. Thank you so much for sharing it was so kind of you. It was an extreme pleasure to see all the remarks from around the world. Reminding us we are very much the same. Perhaps one day we will all know peace.
I have taken my new philosophy of life from this beautiful channel: There is no such thing as bad weather; just weather and your attitude towards it.
I love how she speaks Sakha with the dog. The language suits her voice (or maybe her voice is so relaxing because of her native language)
I live in Rankin Inlet Nunavut, Canada, for the past 2 weeks it has been between -30 c and -40 c, without the wind included. With the wind it's been between -50 and - 60 c. We heat our house with a forced air oil furnace. It is not very efficient but it works to keep us warm 9 month of the year. Thanks for sharing your video. :)
Living in Toronto, I can not even imagine the weather conditions Canadians so far up North must persevere through. People in Toronto like to complain about winter and the snow, but it is nothing compared to what you and Canadians in those regions have to deal with.
A beautiful area I was up there in February 2014, blizzard shut down our flight out for a few days. COLD. No going out in a blizzard. I believe it hit -62C
Out of interest how much does it cost each quarter to heat your residence?
In Australia it costs me about $45 during winter as it doesn't get anywhere near as cold as Canada
@@debbieanne7962 heating costs are a sore subject in Canada, it’s like asking someone how much they make
@@debbieanne7962 our heat bill is equalized, so the number remains the same. In Saskatchewan it costs us $90 a month to heat our 975 sq ft house.
I live in Finland and our traditional houses are made almost just like yours there! I live a house made 1947 after the WW2. I have two heat pumps and a fireplace which is pretty insane. It's giving warmth about 24 to 48 hours after I have heated it. Heat pumps (heat exchangers) just stabilize this temperature, so my house has little bit modern comfort. I really like fireplace more, because heat pumps blows warm air and it still can feel a bit chilly.
By fireplace, I assume you mean some sort of wood stove?
@@calvinhobbes6646pretty sure she means a fireplace :D
I live in the Northern New England, USA. We use a wood stove to heat our house, but people use different methods like oil or wood pellet stoves as well. Thanks for sharing!
It is fascinating that humans have evolved to survive in such an environment. I live in Hawaii and have no idea what this is like. It is truly fascinating, and I thank you for sharing your world with us.
Evolved to survive ? Lol.
Yeah, evolved to survive... or at least more bearable.
Light skin, light hair, light eye color, and other features evolved as the migration out of Africa took a fork at Kathmandu.
I’m from Hawaii and I loved my corduroy sheep lined jacket. Who cares if all I did was sweat in it, it was cool.
I live in the mountains of Japan now. Today’s it’s -11c. And after ten years I can say on a 0c day, “Hey it’s pretty warm today.”
Took over 15,000 years for dark skinned humans to evolve into tall fair skinned snow dwellers.
You have snow in Hawaii.
@@tazkrebbeks3391 not everyone who lives in Hawaii goes to the Big Island and visits Mauna Kea, dude. Lol
Didn't evolve, adapted.
I remember hearing about Yakutsk years ago and locating it on a map, it's been so interesting watching all your videos and learning about your part of the world, thank you and best wishes.
I live in the Netherlands, in a house from the 60s that I recently renovated. Now, we have underfloor heating in all floors, driven by an air-water heatpump and a gas driven central heating system that takes over when outside temperatures are below freezing. We insulated everything in the house and installed triple glas as well. I was shocked when I heard that you use 1200m3 gas per month! That's way more than our annual gas consumption. With our current gas prices, we would pay 3600 euro (roughly 237000 rubles) per month for that amount of gas!!!
Wow.. I just stumbled across your channel. My wife is Russian (SPB, but I have been a few more places), but we live in Norway. We don't have nearly these sorts of minus degrees where we live. We heat with a mix of electricity and wood burning oven.. I wish the current world situation normalises so we can visit more of Russia together 😊
I live in a desert. When it is 50F (10C) we heat our home. That lasts a couple of months in winter. Other than that, we cool it. We get up to 125F (51.66C) for the summer and can stay around 100F (37.77C) all night. great for late night lake trips or fishing. :D
Stay warm over there! Thanks for sharing a little about life in an ice cube.
to hot for me... i sweat in the car, if there are over 22°C Celsius xD
sooo where are you fishing in a desert?? hmmm
@@sommergarten Lake Havasu. The city where the London Bridge is. The Colorado river runs through.
Awesome to see you here too, Urmaker! I know what you mean, I live in Phoenix and it gets to 120F in summer lol
@@H.Liddell is phoenix the new California??
Hi Maria.. This is Nibedita from India.. Watching your channel is like a fairly tale for me..you are amazing..We hardly get 1-2 months of winter that too temperature ranging from +12 to +20 degree celsius.. We don't heat our house rather we need Air conditioner machine to cool down our house in summer as it stays for 7 months in my country and the temperature goes upto +55 degrees..
+55 is a little bit exaggerated. The highest recorded temperature is around 51 and it is recorded during 2016. it rarely goes beyond 50.
It reminds me an old friend of mine who's from Chennai (at that time named Madras). Comparing the two countries (Italy and India) we said that in Italy we have four seasons, and he replied: "In Madras we have only three seasons: the hot, the hotter and the hottest". And we all laughed.
I would love to experience this cold for a day! I live in Western Australia and our winters are very short. Our house doesn’t have any heating built in, we only have a little heater for my kid’s room that runs on electricity. I can’t imagine what it’s like to live somewhere so cold, but your wooden houses look very cosy in Yakutia :) Thank you for making these videos and showing us your life! 💖
I live in Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) and I do heat my apartment with AC and an electric heater. The heating season in the capital of Bulgaria (Sofia) usually starts in Nov (or mid-Nov) and ends in late Apr. Previously, I was heating my apartment using natural gas (just like you) but it became very expensive after Russia started the war in Ukraine. The outside temperature during the night is -7C these days. Greetings.
its wasnt started by Russia but ok. How is that electric heater cheaper than gas? Im from Estonia, didnt notice much gas prices, but my electicity bill went up 5-6x times.
@@Orlington17😂😂 What do we have here? A russian putinist living in estonia? Who started the war then? Nato? ukraine? usa? Biden? zelensky? France? finland? Macedonia?
@@Orlington17🫵🤡
@@rallyycar6750
break your tv, kid, try going out and mby u wont sound so silly
@@untbam
nice to meet you, 🤡!
I live in Alberta, Canada and the coldest temperature that we have had here is -40 C, but that is very rare. Today it is -2 C and for most of the winter (January, February and March) it is typically around -10 C or -15 C. The typical house here is made of wood with 6 inches of insulation and is heated by natural gas (forced air with a furnace in the basement). The heating cost here is around $100 per month. Thank you for the video.
Wow! Do you keep your house an 15 degrees? Our last bill was $200 for nat. gas for 416 m3!
I live in an old Australian house made of timber we call them weatherboard, and that is on the outside then the 2X4 wall frame then the Plaster sheet for the wall no insulation in the walls at all. if it gets to -3c overnight it is around 4.c in the house without heat. I normally open the windows in the day time as its warmer outside. Old Aussie houses are glorified tents, for this woman's usage of gas 1200 Cubic Metres it would cost here around $1300.
@@PointyWombat As for my comment here, 1200 M3 would be over $1300, it is around 2.1 Cents per MJ
Wow, I think I need to convert to natural gas. Heating oil is very high and will rise even more if Putin invades the Ukrainian Country?
@@PointyWombat Gas is cheap in Alberta. I pay about $4 per GJ. So 416 M3 would be about $65 + "administration fees"
I've experienced -55F one day and the pain from the cold was awful. I have respect for you to be able to live in those temperatures.
Its seriously not all its chalked up to be. Its just cold outside, you get used to it.
@@leemon908 exactly , I worked outside year round entire life ,wear the proper gear and it's no big deal...🇨🇦
@@leemon908 I doubt that. I already feel like I'm freezing to death before it's reached -20. Piling on another -20 to that is nuts.
My father was stationed in Grand Forks ND for a year. They have not only very cold winters, but also very windy conditions. I looked up the history for the winter we were there. It had a cold of -17F with 41mph winds, which gave a wind chill of -55F. That actually so cold it is deadly. You'd let the dogs pee in the house.
My wife and I live in Northern California. Winter is not very cold here (down to about 0 degrees Celsius), but the houses are not well insulated so it is still chilly inside. We had a gas furnace with forced air heating, which had vents in every room - that is until the heater failed and we got a carbon monoxide alarm. We replaced the heater with a heat pump, which doubles as an air conditioner in summer. The air from the gas heater was always very hot, which led to it accumulating under the ceiling, where it is not much use to anyone. The heat pump pumps in air that is only a few degrees warmer than the air in the room. so the house is heated much more evenly.
Thanks for posting these videos, they are really interesting!
Hello, Maria.
How interesting your videos are! I live in Brazil, not the tropical zone, and when the temperatures go down to - 4º Celsius, we do feel like freezing cold since our homes do not have a heating system ... Luckily, the winter doesn't last that long down here, so it's ok.
Best of luck.
Take care.
We live in the UK. We also have a gas boiler, Two layers of glass. Temperatures in the winter are usually -5 to 15C.
Loved your video!
In Philippines, we dreamed of having a snow but we all know that Philippines is a tropical country,impossible to have snow 🥺😔. Watching this vlog made me realize that its not easy living a cold country like yours I respect all the hardship and efforts to make you warm. Be safe and healthy everyday! 💛💐
These kind of winters are harsh. It’s nice when it’s -5.. ideal winter. Not cold
@@MM-kz9pd make your self warm as possible. be safe 😊😇
@@MM-kz9pd we have no winter where I live..-5 sounds terrible to me..-44 I'll drop dead 😂
Why do Filipinos dream of snow? You don't want no snow, trust me 😂😂😂
@@MrDwightsimon just for experience only. 🤣
My primary heating source is wood pellets connected to a radiator system. I also have ACs that can also heat the air inside (air heat pumps), and also a simple furnace (mainly as backup but also for mood). I like that these all compliment each other very well and produce a "different" type of heat (feels different).
I live in the state of Florida in the USA and really appreciate this perspective on opposite climates. We have to run our Air conditioning from May to November. We have an electric furnace that we might use 5 or 6 times a year. In the year of 2020 I don't think we ever turned it on.
I run my ac 12 months out of the year and I live in Florida too 😂 besides the couple Cold snaps we get a year, my unit just has some heat strips in it that’s all maybe run it once a year when it gets in the 30s
I lived in the Canadian Arctic and the coldest we got was about -55 C. It was also dark as the sun did not come over the horizon for the entire month of December. In summer, we would have 24 hours of daylight. The hottest I have experienced was +57 C in Alice Springs, Australia in their summer. Honestly, I prefer the cold! ❤️🇨🇦
People be like "I prefer the cold!" then put on 5 layers. Heat their house to the same temperature as an australian summer and sit through 80% of "gloomy days" that they supposedly love.
@@GoldenTV3 Not so. I also live in Canada (not in the Arctic, though.) and I prefer a living temperature of 15-20 C, and a working temperature of 10-15 C. At work, in the warehouse when it's 15 C or so, I just wear my regular t-shirt and jeans. The only time I would ever wear "5 layers" is if I'm sick, or when I'm outside and it's below -10 C. I believe that I'm typical of most Canadians.
I feel bad in hot summer. -30 C winter makes my happy ))
@@GoldenTV3 heat their house to an Australian summer temp? Tell me you're clueless without telling me you're clueless. And I mean, yeah, we're going to wear multiple layers when it's cold. Losing feeling in your body parts isn't much fun, but luckily humans invented clothing to stay warm. Have fun trying to cool down when it's blitzing hot out!
@@commiecrusher Then you don't like the cold lmao. You just said you wear layers to stay warm lmao. Cope harder.
I live in Auckland, New Zealand. Midday temperatures usually range from about 10C in Winter to 25C Summer. Most houses only need basic insulation and single pane glass. We don’t really need heating or cooling.
I prefer the cold and love the snow, so I love watching videos like yours - however I’m sure if I lived there they’d find me one day frozen solid outside in bare feet and shorts next to a half built snowman !!
The rest of New Zealand lower than Auckland absolutely needs Heating!!
I know huh tell me about it... heeheehee wear layers for warmth... no shorts or bare feet... heeheehee
I live in the Idaho Rocky Mountains & came from Chch a few years ago. It's 8pm & -2c outside. I'm a 24hr breakdown road service mechanic for long haul truckers & work in temps down to -20, lower than that & I'm not going.
If you prefer the cold why not move to South Island?
@@priestesslucy3299 Although Chch has moved quite a bit since I left, it's still in the South Island!
I live in Quebec, Canada. We have a few cold waves per winter where temperatures can go down to -30 celcius and in some rare occasions it can drop even lower than that. But I would say the average in January and February is generally between -10 and -20. In July and August we have a comfortable average of 25 during the day. But this is an average. The weather can fluctuate a lot here. In the summer we can have a cool 15 degrees on one day and a few days later we can have a heat wave and it can go up to 35. In the winter most houses are heated with electricity.
I live in rural Wales Here there is no mains gas, most people use wood burners for heating or oil or bottled gas central heating. The temp here has dropped as low as -8c these past few days but that is very unusual. In Summer here it was 90 degrees F. I could NOT cope with being in such cold temps as this lady, I think it's amazing they keep their house lovely and warm inside, I struggle to keep mine warm in much higher temps!
We live in the UK. It doesn't get that cold here but we use gas central heating. This year, a lot of us will be switching it off due to the rising costs of running it. We used to pay around £70 a month, but it's just risen to £200 for us, and winter hasn't begun yet.
That's why I say it's priceless to live in regions where you don't even need to heat or cool your house all year around.
Are you all buying wood stoves now? Is wood plentiful in the north or forested areas?
Man, wish the situation with gas gets better. How will you warm house?
@@kignacio The is quite a few rules in the UK on fireplaces/stoves and what fuel you can and can't burn plus depending on where you live you might be in a smokeless zone. Plus the large majority people here are clueless when it comes to making a fire.
@@kpakaify I'm using electric heaters since electricity is cheaper than gas
Hi Maria!! I live in Indonesia which has tropical climate. We only have 2 seasons: wet (rainy) and dry so no snow at all! The temperature at the city is stretch between 20-30 degree celcius which basically doesn't require us to wear any jackets/coats. Love your videos!!
Salam dari Binjai
Same but I'm from Jamaica
Just like in the phillipines
Bocah jaksel pasti ini
No need for jacket? hmmm...try go to mountenous area at rainy season. The temperature can drop under 10°C which can k*ll us emidietaly cause we're not develop phisycal strength to deal with a cold weather.
I lived in Minneapolis Minnesota for a while and it did get cold but as cold as where you are. All of the older houses had oil radiators. They just need to be bled once a year and each house usually had a natural gas-fed furnace of some sort in the basement. The key to surviving in cold temperatures is to get out as much as you can inn the colder months. It gets too dark and depressing inside too much. cool vlog.
This video is one of the reasons that I love UA-cam. It's amazing to see how our fellow humankind live, it's fascinating. I thank you for this. I wish you, lovely girl and your family long and happy lives.😊
I'm from Wisconsin, and remember struggling days as a single mom when we had no heat. We'd take trips to the library to warm up! Otherwise we've had gas furnaces for the most part. Your house is so lovely, it looks cozy and comfortable, and just perfect!
How do you pay everything ? We have Health insurance and other aids in germany. I want to move to amerika somedays. But i cant imagine how people can pay everything by themself.
@@christopherglaus3811 Well there's federal disability if you are crippled or mentally ill, but it is woefully inadequate. I worked for 30 years in this country before becoming disabled, and can't even clear a thousand a month - rent for a one bedroom is 6 to 8 hundred. It can't be done. Come to think of it, every one of my friends who are on disability, me included, have to live with family members. We can't pay for everything, the math won't cooperate lol
@@christopherglaus3811 Ich bin mir nicht sicher, aber ich glaube UA-cam ist in Russland zur Zeit abgeschaltet. Von daher glaube ich leider nicht an eine Antwort.
@@christopherglaus3811 Please don't, leech.
@@alexl53 Dude i have a really good job. I am not a leech. I´m just asking, how they deal with it, because in Germany we have serveral supports and i dont get it, how they can handle it in the USA
my hometown is located in the middle region of Algeria (in north africa), we experience a bit of a large temperature differential here going from 45-47°c in summers to -5°c in winters so we use both heating and cooling systems along the year, our house and even us are more accustomed to managing the hotter weather though since it lasts longer so when the winter comes it's never warm enough for us 😂, we use gas stoves for heating by the way. And for cooling we use air conditioner and a lot of other alternative methods to save the electricity bill.
Did you see that awesome video on home made air conditioning? It gets hot here in Ohio in the summer, and i'm going to try it this year - you can find it on youtube, it's basically just a piece of cardboard fitted to the window, with a grid of holes - cut a two liter plastic bottles in half and face the little mouth-end inside the house, wide end out to catch the air. Voila. Same principle as when you blow on your hand open mouthed the air is hot, but purse your lips and it's cool! I can't wait to try it!
Interestingly enough we have a similar range of temperatures in Lithuania(northeast europe). We get -25c in january and 35c in some days of july. common households aren't cooled in the summer so we just cool off in lakes
I really enjoyed learning what you have taught me about living in Siberia. Thank you for welcoming me into your home. That was very kind.
I live in Northern Ontario Canada. It only rarely drops to -30*C in winter, early in the morning a few hours before sunrise! My home was built in 1938 and it is heated with natural gas heating water pumped through cast iron radiators. I like this type of heating better than other modern ways.
I live in Texas, USA, about 100 miles northwest of Houston.
We use our air conditioning at least 7 -8 months a year with only about 3 months when heat is needed in our short winters..
Our house uses electric heat. It is rare for the coldest nights to drop below 0 degrees celcius. (32 Fahrenheit).
I cannot imagine living in Siberia where it's that cold most of the time !
Thank you for your video ! It was Very interesting. 🙂
Love your dog ! ❤
Pretty sure Texas didn't learn from the last time the powerplants froze so you might prepare this year.
Do you use AC for heating?
@@zokonjazokonja You mean heat pumps? They are pretty common in the south.
@@gregorymalchuk272 Yes, heat pumps. What is more common in Texas?
Air to Air
Air to watter
Ground to watter
@@zokonjazokonja Air to air, by far. In fact, the winter conditions are so mild, that a large number of heat pumps are non-inverter, single stage heat pumps, not mini splits. But more efficient inverter mini-splits are gaining ground. Another thing to mention is that in the south, due to the mild Winters, those single stage heat pumps have been fairly popular since the 1960s, predating the modern heat pump craze. Cheaper than electric resistance and you don't have to have a connection to the gas grid. Ground to air "geothermal" is used in some places, but the setup cost is high. Air to water and ground to water seem to be a uniquely European phenomenon. They also lock you out of being able to use it for air conditioning.
It’s incredible to see how you guys survive in such challenging weather. Most of my life I have lived in a tropical country (Brazil), and two years ago I moved to NYC. Even -10°C is cold as hell for me already because I’m not used to it, and I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it lol… imagine -44°C! That’s crazy. Kudos for everyone in that live in such harsh weather!
buy thermal wear, it is a game changer - your sweat makes you freeze. combine with several thin layers of clothes instead of one thick.
Also New York is by the ocean, humidity feels colder than dry Siberia
It helps when you have the proper clothes.
@Jesus is coming. Read the Gospel. wrong channel
@ Vivian I don't think hell 🔥is cold 😁
@@321scully not really. . the time is very close...& closer for others. Nobody is guaranteed the next breath ‼️
Thanks for the interesting video. I live in Wisconsin and it costs a lot more to heat our house per month than your parents. We also have a gas furnace and a radiator system. Our house doesn’t stay as warm as yours even though our weather is not nearly as cold. Our house is about 68 degrees during the day and drops to about 54 degrees at night. It has been about 5 degrees Fahrenheit at night for the past few days. My house is 3 layers of cream city brick on the exterior and wood frame and plaster on the interior and was built in 1883.
I also live in Wisconsin but rent an apartment. It's very common that the landlord pays for heating instead of the tenant where I live. We live in a brick building with baseboard radiators (I think gas) and so far it's been about -20°C but will get colder in the next month or two. We pay for electricity separately.
When I lived in Vermont, the temperature often got down to about -25 C during the winter, but about half of winter days were brightly sunny. It was a two-story house about 150 sq m, too, on the top of a mountain. We had a south-facing wall that had about 5 m (16') of double-paned glass, from floor to ceiling, with insulated shades we could close at night, and from that the sun alone would heat the house plenty on a bright winter day. We often had to lower the shades partway because the house would get too hot by mid-afternoon.
Otherwise, the house had a multi-fuel furnace that would run on oil, coal, or wood. We usually used home heating oil, which is basically diesel fuel.
I live in Czech Republic. Our house uses electrical heater and also has a fireplace in the living room.
We usually heat our house from end of september to april. But winters here (in Southern Moravia) are quite mild. Only a few weeks of temperatures below zero.
your eyelashes froze part way through the video. Thanks for the upload and heating information.
Thank you for the subtitles, I appreciate them! Here in Scotland, my flat has no gas but we have an electric boiler that heats the water in the taps and sends hot water to radiators in each room. We have fibreglass insulation on the outside of the concrete building, and triple-glazed windows, too. I got so excited yesterday because it snowed! But today the snow is gone and it's raining again. I hope I see more snow this winter.
Thank you for sharing this :)
We have gas boiler at home in Czech Republic, but many people in my neighborhood is coming back to burning the wood because of the high prices now.
Have a nice day too ;)
Очень красивый английский, так приятно было слушать и наслаждаться произношением. У нас температуры не такие низкие, но очень высокая влажность. Ваши -50 примерно как наши -30. Вы молодец, все очень красиво рассказали
Great video Maria! We don’t have as cold of winter here in Oregon in the US, but we pay double what your parents pay for heat. We too have natural gas for heating. This was very interesting! ❄️💙
Thanks for sharing!💙
Very high consumption of natural gas per month, in Serbia we are heating 7 months per year, and I pay 700$ per season for heating 200 square meters of house, it's about 1700 cubic meters of natural gas per season and also in that is included hot water for second floor and for cooking in two kitchens
Wow I’m getting ripped off. In America I heat with propane. 100 gallon tank costs over $500 to fill and during the coldest months I fill up twice a month!
@@LifeinYakutia - do you have any vehicles powered by propane over there? I'm sure that won't freeze, even in -71 C temperatures!
Is her parents prices subsidized?
In Singapore it is tropical, hot and humid all year round between 23C to 34C. No need for heating system but there is definitely a need for cooling system. We use a lot of air conditioning in homes and also at malls, public transportation systems etc. to keep our houses cool. But at home an electric fan is more than enough most of the time :)
No heaters needed here in FL. Some have fireplaces for looks only usually need open window if you have it on
I am construction engineer. Many years ago I was in USA for couple of months. Almost all family houses in USA have big big heat losses. Mainly because they are built from wood frames filled with thin layer of wool and so. That's nothing. Also the typical style/construction of their windows are very bad for keeping the heat inside. Roof had the biggest losses as usual. For example, when I was in Texas, I was scared how bad is their insulations. They always told me "dude you are in Texas, we never have so cold outside". I think last year's experience changed their mind.. If you want a wooden house that will keep the heat inside well, the only way is cabin house system, similar to Maria's house here in the video.
My own house in 🇱🇮 is built from bricks, the walls are 50cm thick plus 15cm additional outer insulation. Roof is insulated with 40 cm thick special mineral wool with impermeable foil under the inner cladding. Properly built three layers glass windows are the basic thing. If you build a new house, good floor/base insulation is s must.
I did many renovations of old houses and still do, and the costs of heating before/after is really very different 😊
I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada. A few years ago, I lost my home in a flood so I lived in a canvas tent for six months. This was from June to December. The temperature went down to -21C, but I had a wood stove in which I would burn oak and maple. This worked well. I had a buffalo robe on my bed and I turned the fur toward me. This also worked well and I can honestly say I was never cold at night. It was a good experience.
Didn’t you have the insurance who would issue you with a new house?
@@MM-kz9pd I didn't own the house, so no.
@@CanoeToNewOrleans were you renting it or did you squat it?
@@MM-kz9pd Ha ha, wish I could say I was squatting.
Hurrah Saskatchewan
Hello Maria, I am living in Austria. In the house we have a wood burning furnace in the basement. It is connected to a central heating system for heating both floors of the house. We use the furnace also for heating the warm water we use in the house for kitchen and bathroom. Normally we heat from September till April, more or less. Right now it is normally around -5 degrees at night and around freezing at the daytime. For heating a whole day we use the amount of wood that fits in a regular wheel barrel. The coldest it gets here is around -20 degrees, but we have not seen such temperatures for several years now. The coldest it got here during this winter so far was -10 degrees.
Thanks for this interesting video about winter time in Yakutia.
We have underfloor heating in Seoul S.Korea.
I remember in the early 90s winter was often -20c(-4f) and we had unmelted snow piles during March.
Now winter is much warmer and -10c(14f) is the expected coldest. This 21/22 winter was colder than usual and it went down to -17c.
I lived in Korea for many years and greatly enjoyed the under-floor heating compared to our forced air style in America.
Where is that energy coming from in underfloor heating? Electricity or closed water loops from something in the basement?
@@macjonte They heat the floors with charcoal called, "Ondol." The concrete floor has "tunneling" in the concrete which allows the heated charcoal to have heat flow via natural convection. The concrete is covered with vinyl flooring to "seal" the carbon monoxide from filling the room. Sometimes the vinyl fails and people sleeping on the floor die. Most places leave the window open a little to help, but as you may know, carbon monoxide is heavier than air so it settles to the bottom of the floor. A lot of Koreans sleep on a YO which is a foam rubber mat. So, they sleep on the floor where the heat and danger is. I served 3 Tours in Korea as a US Soldier in Korea.
@@ababbit7461 oh wow. Intriguing! Thanks for sharing! Is that seen as good/high tech or something found in cheaper areas?
@@macjonte I was there in the 70s and 80s so it was when Korea was building its future as a world power economically. The Ondol heating with charcoal was in most areas, but only single story houses. Modern cities had a mixture depending on the construction timing.... As you may know, concrete cracks, thus carbon monoxide rises through the cracks (heated CO2), thus the vinyl floor on the concrete. Today, a lot of places have probably replaced that type of heating with oil heating or electric heating, but the poor will always have Ondol heating. I was in the field when it was 30 below Zero (F) so Korea does get cold.
We don't use heaters in our house because our average Room temperature in Southern part of India 🇮🇳 is +28 degrees. Thanks for uploading videos on Yakutia.
Thank you. It's my pleasure 😊.
So I guess the better question for you is, how do you cool your homes? 28C seems rather unbearable, I can't stand anything above 23C personally.
@@mbogucki1 with the help of Airconditioners !
@@mbogucki1 28C is not umbearable. that is a normal room temperature in tropical climate. we get used to it, and we sweat all the time with high humidity. we open windows everywhere.
@@mbogucki1 Maybe you should try to stand near a furnace, it's quite common to hit 40 C, and even high upto 45 at some places and temp rising every year you never know what's in store.
I really enjoy your videos.
The coldest I have ever experienced was -22F (-30C), about 20 years ago. But it only lasted for a day or two. We are really not prepared for temperatures that cold.
Hmm. We live in Pennsylvania; last month we used 159 Ccf (450 cubic meters) of gas for heating, hot water, and cooking. The average daily temperature was 47F (8.5C). The gas bill was about $250.00. So, we use 1/3 of the gas that your parents do but pay 4 times more for it.
Bill im in NW PA and we were like -7*F a week or so ago for like a week or two straight. Now we have an ice storm rolling through. Also F paying these jabronis these ridiculous gas prices.
I was also curious about the difference in gas usage and price.
Living in Switzerland, where the temperature can go a few degrees below 0°C in the winter months. (Usually not more than -10 or so and it's often above zero during the day. -20 would be considered pretty extreme.) In summer, it can be up to 30°C with no need for heating.
In the past year, we've used 2760m3 of gas (for hot water and heating our 155m2 house to a comfy 23-24°C) for a total cost of ~2500$. So the gas is more than 10x as expensive here.
That's because russians have an abundance of gas.they provide like 40% of all European gas.
I live in Krasnoyarsk, and when we built our wooden summer cottage (dacha), we brushed the oakum layer between the wood with oil-based paint to prevent from being taken out by squirrels. :)
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I live in Mobile Alabama and I only heat my house maybe 2-3 weeks in winter. I keep my house around 64-68F year round. It’s intriguing and interesting to know how people in other countries live. I’m glad that you have this channel
I am from the arctic north of Finland and my parents' house is heated by burning peat. There is a large facility in the city that burns the peat and it brings hot water in the houses. The water is circulated in similar radiators under windows in almost every room. This warm water also heats up the water we use for shower.
that seems just like the russian/soviet heating system c:
In our city in the Netherlands we use industrial heat waste and specialized heating to deliver city wide heat, with dirty hot water (70..80 degrees celsius) as heat transfer medium. On our premises, we can use that straight in radiators, but we need a heat exchanger to heat shower and drinking water.
@@Duda286 dude, its the opposite, this is very clever...
@@solinus83 well I didn't mean the Soviet system wasn't, I just said its similar...
Btw, for some reason when I wrote that comment I didn't bother researching what peat was. It is indeed a very very interesting heat source.... I should look more into it
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I used to live in Maine (very far north-eastern US on the Atlantic Ocean, just below Canada) where it is also cold and dark in the winter, but only November-April. The coldest ever I remember was about -22 for a week in February back in 2015 or so. Not nearly as oppressively cold as Yakutsk. People mostly use oil burning furnaces to heat their homes, though many people also have wood stoves to supplement. In the cities, it is more common to use natural gas, but oil is still the primary fuel.
I live in Florida now so there's no need to heat anything ever. We have the opposite problem where you need to cool your home all year!
Winter in ME is miserable. I did it one year and saw those -20F temps.
Nov-April is half the year!
I live in Indonesia (South Sulawesi), the average temp. (in my town) is around 25-26 C, the coldest is around 18 C and hottest is 35 C. The coldest I've ever felt was 12 C when I visit my grandparents town and it was so cold I have 2 layers of thick blanket with jacket, trousers and socks on when I was about to sleep. To be honest, I can't even withstand 22 C, below it I'm freezing XD.
When it's rain season, we usually shuts the AC to warm our house, also our house have few vents for the breeze to come in so we didn't have to turn the AC for too long or even not turning it at all. More money saved.
My ex fiance was from Baubau and she allways told me that when it gets 25 degrees its cooooold and most ppl are cold and in blankets at home 😆 what a lie from her 😆
Yakutia looks so beautiful! It’s bond with nature is amazing, it’s so rare to find such pure nature✨ I really want to visit Yakutia and spend my days there once in my life! love and respect from Istanbul 🙏
I live in the middle parts of Finland, the winter lasts about 5-6 months spring and fall around 2 months and summer around 3. Temperatures range from +35 C to -35 C ( but usually around -10 winter and +20 in the summer). If you live in a city there is usually a central energy plant that will provide warmth and electricity to houses. if you live in a rural area you will either use wood or electricity but that option is very expensive and getting more expensive. If you can afford it there are modern ways to store and retrieve geothermal energy. Currently in Finland you could buy a house in the rural areas for what you will need to spend on rent for a 2-3 years when living in a city, but the cost of living because of gasoline and electricity prizes are so high it would be expensive to live there. Not to mention there are less jobs available in rural areas.
Is heating with woodchips common in Finland?
I think so allmost everything what burns is ok😆.. today is common to get solarpanels... 4-5month you don't need buy electric.. you can sell it back too if you have more than u need.
@@penttiperusinsinoori3037 In Germany u pay 30 cent for buying electric power.....and u get 3 cent for selling it .....
@@mauertal In Finland u get it back when you need to buy. Winter and darkness 6month. Then you buy it little cheaper.. but it is not big bisnes.
I grew up in northern Alberta, Canada. Similar climate to Siberia. My father's house had a ducted central heating system using natural gas and forced air which blew hot air from heating ducts coming from the floor on all three levels. The house had fiberglass insulation inside the wall and styrofoam sheets on the outside walls. A basement dug below the frost line also helped. Instead of double glazed windows most homes in the area had two complete window frames to trap air in between. The ceiling had blown woolen insulation. He even had a couple of fireplaces on the lower floors as back up. Now I live in northern Australia where it never freezes but we have flood and drought instead.
I also grew up in Northern Alberta! Fort Mac. Our house was built in the late 60's at the time and is very similar to what yours was. Our basement on one side was finished, but on the laundry side was just the concrete and was never cold - unless the pilot light went out on the furnace in -40C
I'm in Calgary now and it's weird how warm it is here compared to Northern Alberta in the same province.
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Forced air heat in such a cold climate?? Surprised. Sounds very inefficient and uncomfortable
@@comment6864 Larger buildings such as apartments and schools had central boilers with water pipes and radiators in every room. This method had it's own issues such as leakage. Overall, I think cost was the main factor. Alberta had considerable natural gas reserves which teamed well with the forced air system. One problem was the lack of humidity compounded with shag carpeting and heated air: the dry climate used to give me chapped lips and static electric shocks.
@@arnbo88 static shocks, chapped lips, bleeding hands, and many bloody noses--my life growing up.
This is amazing to me! I live in Australia and it is summer right now. We have had more than two weeks of weather over 35 degrees Celsius. In summer it is usually about 32 degrees most days. In winter in my city, the coldest day will be about 7 degrees, and the coldest night about 1 degree. But most days in winter are around 16 degrees, and our winter is only 3 months long. We use reverse cycle air conditioning mostly to heat and cool our houses. I've only seen snow twice in my life and I'm 30 years old - both times I was in another country. I would love to come to your part of the world one day!
Don’t so it. Really cold and dangerous. Her house built like crap. They’re warming up outside area. If you calculate properly, wood size for such temperature should be around 20-30 inches in order to separate cold on the outside from heat inside. Plus dew point happens somewhere in the middle of the wood where it’s impossible to see but it’s there. They need proper steam insolation inside and wind&water insulation outside, so the wood will stay dry and not distribute heat. This house is crap.
I feel like you have to be Perth, Melbourne, or Sydney, the summers are too cold to be further north and the winters are too warn to be Adelaide or Hobart :p
В Центральной Якутии летом температура доходит почти до +40С а зимой до -60С или даже ниже, но это редко. А в районах вроде Оймякона и Верхояна доходило почти до -70С, но это было давно
@@greganikin7003 такие дома веками строили в Сибири, плюс это сибирская лиственница очень долговечная. Есть дома которые построены в 19 веке и до сих пор неплохо сохранились. Да насчет теплопотерь согласен они есть, поэтому многие сейчас такие дома утепляют снаружи.
Sounds like Melbourne! That is where I live now but originally from UK so I have experienced pretty cold stuff there and some REALLY cold minus 18-20 C type temps when I lived in Germany
I grew up around Сургут, Ханты-Мансийск region, a more western part of Siberia, and our 5 story apartment block had central heating. In the winter it was so hot, as a kid I would run around in my underwear. Also got to -50C sometimes, but we still played outside 😂 (wearing 100 layers of clothes)
Hi Maria! I live in Dallas, Texas, USA. The coldest weather we get is 25F, and that is usually for only a week, when a cold front blows down south from Canada. My house has blown-in fiberglass insulation between layers of brick and drywall, also between the delinking and the roof. And natural gas powers a central heating unit which blows warm air into each room through a vent on the ceiling.
Last year, a particularly nasty cold front pushed our state’s power grid past its capacity and caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose power for days during this unseasonably cold snap. This was a problem because our houses are only insulated for mild weather, so it got very cold in the houses, leading to some deaths.
Something you might find interesting is that the house insulation is really more to keep the heat out in the summer than to keep the cold out in the winter.
Thanks for your video! I found it really interesting.
I live in McKinney, lowest actual temperature was -4°F and we had power for about 95% of that event. Literally the 1st floor was at 35° but the upstairs was like 65° because literally any heat made just rose to the 2nd floor. It does the same thing to a lesser extent any cold snap
I live in Austin, Texas. Same exact thing here. Man that freeze last year really traumatized me. This video makes me so happy I live in the warmth, even though I HATE how hot it gets here!
Yep, that sucked, where in Dallas are you? We’re near white rock:).
@@rebeccac.1758 Austin here too.
I find it hard to even imagine forty degree weather - as in forty BELOW the 40 that we think of as " cold ".
That's a full 80 degrees colder than what we call "bitter cold" !
And just imagine - she said she has birds living there.
How do they survive ??
Greetings from the Republic of Ireland. Houses in Ireland are heated by various different means, most modern houses use gas or kerosene. In the past some people used coal or anthracite and some traditional houses are still heated by woodfires or by turf (peat cut from bogs then dried) Our Winter is usually between +4 to +8 degrees average in daytime but can go below zero sometimes. Our Summer is usually between +12 to +16 but can rise to the high 20's Centigrade, traditionally we eat blood sausage made from pig blood (black pudding) or sheep blood (drisheen) A lot of modern houses have solar panels both for heating water and generating electricity. ````
A lot like UK though our houses are not insulated properly we need triple glazing for winter, the north of UK gets to below 2/5 degrees at times mostly 1- 2 degrees, with summers getting too hot we have been having g lots of heatwaves this last 5 years then the houses are too hot to sleep comfortably we have to use fans cost far to much money in winter and summer now, we used to be able to save money in the summer because it was hot outside now we can’t because we have to have fans on all day during heatwaves if your house is facing South the upstairs becomes unbearable, this year I slept outside for nearly two weeks to save on power as the energy crisis is crippling most of us, my gas and electricity during this summer as tripled, it now expected to quadruple or quintuple by next month many people will go hungry just to pay for energy. I would my mother was Irish from county Mayo my husband from Tipperary, we plan to move to Tip or somewhere in that county, when we retire only three years left to go, we are wanting it to happen sooner rather than later but pension won’t allow us. We need to buy a nice old house with a little land to grow outer own and keep chickens we have our animals but they are getting old don’t know if they will live to I’ll we go home. 🇨🇮
Hi I live in Massachusetts U.S. our house is heated with natural gas an it can cost up to 200.00 dollars
a month to stay warm
@@Harpoforver2024 I would love to have natural gas! We have propane and it costs between $700 and $800 a month to heat the house to 18c when it's -10 to -20c outside in the coldest part of the year.
@@edwardmol5341 That's insane. That's almost as bad as heating oil or resistance electric heating. At this point, I think a heat pump would be cheaper.
Interesting. So far in the north and so 'warm' winters.
I'm from SAN DIEGO, CA and this is so interesting to someone who has never experienced such brutal, intense cold weather.
I live in Texas in the United States. Our heating system is electric and we use it a few months of the year. We also have a cooling system (air conditioner) as the warm months can be hot. It runs on electricity. My husband and I have a fireplace we use occasionally when the temperature is very cold to help keep our electric bill from being expensive. Both the warm and cold air is pushed through vents to all rooms of the house at one time. We are able to shut the vents to each room if that room is not being used. Thank you for sharing about your life. It is fascinating to learn how people live in other places.
Greetings. I lived in Montana and remember a winter where we had -20 F. Not as cold as some places but it stayed that cold for 9 days/nights. They didn’t call it polar vortex back then, it was just winter 🥶
My grandfather and father were visiting Montana when it hit the record -70° f/-56°c day. Gramps retired to Hawaii and dad retired Vegas for that reason.
Here in Phillippines we need air condition to feel cold in our house's. Opposite in your country, you need heating radiator to make you feel warm.🤣🤣
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I live in New Jersey , USA, about 10 miles (16km) from New York City. The coldest temperature I've ever experienced in this area was -23 Celsius (-10 Fahrenheit) , but that was only for 1 night. I live in a house that is 100 years old. The house was built with steam radiators and the house still has its original steam heating system.
I grew up in Meadow Lake Sask Canada. We had lots of -30C, a few days a year of -40C and I remember temps falling below -50C a few times. We did not have gas and power was too expensive so we had an outdoor wood boiler. It was very efficient. We has some cattle so we had to clean our fence lines of fallen wood every year. This wood provided us with at least 75% of our heat. Lots of people used wood stoves, propane, fuel oil and natural gas in town. Lots of people use wood to supplement other heats. Wood is the most comfortable heat.
In Winter here in Minnesota, we just keep extra frozen food in our garage, since like you mentioned, it's colder outside than it is in the freezer.
It's also great for making wine indoors. Since you can leave the wine out after it's done, on the porch, and freeze out some of the water leaving more alcohol left over in the wine.
that kind of freeze distilling can be dangerous because of methanol as long as i know please be cautious
@@HaraldSjellose Too late, he’s already dead.
@@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 sorry for your loss
I live in Iowa in the US and we have radiant heat in our concrete floors (hot water flowing through tubes to heat the concrete) which keeps us very warm. You can walk on the floors with your bare feet when it's in the negatives.
What heats the water in the tubes?
I live in Hawaii and have only seen snow a few times in my life. It snows in Hawaii, but not where I live. I can’t imagine living in such a cold climate, but it’s amazing to learn how you stay warm. Thank you for the videos. I get to experience life in another location.
Wow I didn't know it snows in Hawaii
@@jj-if6it it snows in the big island ONLY on the mountain tops.
@@j.vinton4039 Maui does also see snow on the top of haleakalā on rare occasion
@@dew62169Couple years ago Maui got snow in the lower elevations ua-cam.com/video/dwQOJh1wQx8/v-deo.html so you have to make sure you bring your jacket.
Hello! I live in Canada and so far this winter we only got around -20c in my area. Its usually drop down to -40c around the end of january. Most common heater are electric baseboard heater but some people still burn wood. We have only double pane window and its enough for most canadian home. Its cost around 50-60$ extra per month for the electricity bill in the winter for a 3 bedroom appartement. Bye 🖐🙂
Interesting! Here in Yakutia some people with no gas communication also use electric heaters. But because our winters are so cold, they consume a lot of electricity which means very expensive bills for it. For example, friends of mine pay around 300$ for electricty per month for 1 floor wooden house because of electric heater (my parents pay 10 times less).
Good day Jeff So what part of Canada do u live in? I'm from Ontario Electric heat is pretty costly. Thanks
I am also in Canada - in Ottawa. Normally here in January the temperatures go from.-10 during the day to -30 at night. We also heat our house with gas, but with forced air. This means the furnace heats the air which then goes to vents in each room.via ducts.
I am wondering if your furnace heats water which then goes through the radiators?
@@gioiastover9681 Good day We have natural gas forced air. Yea I wish ours was boiler but is pretty expensive. I' m from Kitchener Waterloo area. Boy today was a pretty sharp day, cold, stormy, we had freezing rain yesterday . Thanks for now Keep warm& healthy.
@@donvoll2580 Hello! I'm from Quebec.
В средней полосе дома-срубы еще обшивают снаружи деревянными досками. Тогда птицам до пакли не добраться. Спасибо за экскурсию по якутскому дому! Очень подробно и обстоятельно.
Illinois US and the coldest it’s ever been was around -20 F for me
We just have a gas heater with central ducts that run throughout the house
My heating bill was $270 this month. I live in New Hampshire in the USA and my condo uses electric heat. I can't wait to own a house that runs on oil. It's so expensive just to keep my condo at 68-72 degrees! Right now it's snowy and 22 degrees F out right now...and that is cold to me!
What oil people use to heat their houses in New Hampshire?
@@LifeinYakutia They use diesel fuel.
I'm an Upstate, New Yorker I consider myself pretty cold-hardy but watching you have your cheeks and hair out in -40 is hardcore. Amazing to see how people survive and how people love their homes.
As a Filipino living in a tropical country, I wish to see & experience snow. But I don't know if I can bear that extreme cold.
Through your video, I learn from your style of living & made me respect the much efforts you do to survive & to feel you warm.
From your question on how we warm our home, no need but it is the other way around. We use native fan (pamaypay ), electric fan & aircondition unit to cool our place. And the best is we plunge to beaches & pool resorts to beat the heat.🌊🏊♂️
If I can just blow the hot weather & summer experience here in the Philippines, I would love to share it with you. 😊🌞⛱🏖
Sending my warm greetings from the Philippines.🇵🇭😊
Snow is a lot of fun for the first 5 minutes or maybe an hour. After that you're ready for it to go away. You have to shovel it out of the way or it becomes a walking/driving hazard. It's all beautiful white when it falls, but soon turns into gray slush that gets everything filthy.
I would suggest someday visiting somewhere with snow, but where you're not committed to it. For instance in Albuquerque New Mexico (as in Breaking Bad) the Sandia Mountains overlook the city. When I was there it was jacket weather. There is a road on the backside of the mountains that takes you the whole way to the top.
There was snow all over because of the elevation, even in the Fall.
Overlook: www.google.com/maps/@35.210122,-106.4497175,3a,75y,183.68h,81.63t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPDA0-lc_zlFdEsJmE1RmOpICHwSjvd_YeSePU9!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPDA0-lc_zlFdEsJmE1RmOpICHwSjvd_YeSePU9%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-2.9625971-ya43.850784-ro-7.837934-fo100!7i5376!8i2688
How it looked when I was there: www.google.com/maps/@35.2108915,-106.4496182,3a,75y,164.45h,93.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1silFpm0x1jRPZS-4YmrIyOQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
There has to be somewhere much closer to the Philippines, like Mount Fuji, where you can experience snow and not be married to it like you would be in Siberia.
I am surprised how 'normal'/regular/common your heating method is compared to how it's like for most central and North Europeans. I am even more surprised to see how well your house keeps the heat in compared to the brick buildings we live in in Germany. But I used to live in Canada for a short while and their wooden houses are similarly good at insulating from the cold. Love your videos. X
Lovely video! I’m from Alberta, Canada, and most of our heating is natural gas. The coldest it gets here is -40ish C, but some parts of my province go below -50C on occasion.
I live in the US state of Connecticut. We use oil heat, but we also have a wood stove. The oil furnace does not work when the electricity is out from storms, so the wood stove has saved us many times. I was surprised you don't burn wood to help heat your home. Your channel is great! You should get on Patreon.
In Colorado USA my house is often colder than the refrigerator during the winter! I've lived in a shack in the mountains with no heat and no insulation in -35C. It's cold, but not so hard to acclimate as long as you begin in the Autumn. Thanks so much for these videos!
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Gas is not as cheap in Wyoming as it is in Siberia, but it is cheap enough that houses are warm enough in the winter to lounge in underwear. You are a true stoic, if you're not heating your house in central or northern Colorado; keep in mind that indoor temperatures below about 19°C are associated with more frequent illness.
@@microcolonel I live in Argentina and indoor temperatures in my house during winter are never higher than 16°C. Plus during night, room temps are around 7°C.
I never (nor my family) got ill during winter.
I think that keeping a very warm rooms (24°C) in cold places is bad for your health. When you go outside, you are exposed to extreme changes in temperature in short times.
@@rc4a0frios 18°C is not 24, but there is no evidence that 24 is dangerous. If nobody in your family ever got a seasonal illness, you likely wouldn't regardless, but where it matters, rooms should be kept around 19°C at a minimum, with ideally 30% humidity or so, to minimize these negative outcomes,
I live in a pretty new house in Germany and we also have triple glazing as well as 36cm thick walls. We use a mix of gas and geothermal energy and the heat is distributed via underfloor heating, with an additional radiator in the bathroom to heat up towels.
I am so ignorant, how geothermal heater is used? Is it warm air coming from underground? Or hot water source?
@@LifeinYakutia Water is circulating in underground pipes, and a heat pump (reverse refrigerator) extracts the excess heat from the water and uses that heat to make hot water for the radiators in the house. So for every 1 kWh of electricity you use you get about 5 kWh of heat :)
@@petergdk thanks!😄
@@petergdk
I live in Michigan. It was -16C/3F this morning and is currently -7C/18F right now. Our winters can feel long. Can’t imagine having to heat the house for 9 months out of the year.
Hi Maria!
Here in Kuopio, Finland we warm usually from September-October to May. Weather varies between +30-35 to -30-35 celsius degrees. Now, today we are having -15 celcius.
We live in house that was built originally by my grandparents in 1955-56. We still have original watercycle radiator system, original douple glazed windows etc.
Originally house had "Elveka" woodburning central heating boiler. Oilheater was added in 1963.
Whole central heating boiler was changed after oil crises on 1973 to oil and wood burning unit.
It is planned that an air to water heat pump will be added to system due Finnish high taxed oil price. 1,26€/ litre for heating oil now. A ground-source heating pump on this location would be very expensive due low ground water level. Neighbours had to drill two over 120 m deep holes to get their system to work. And the system would require new more heat transfer effective radiators or water cycle floorheating due water out from heat pump is 55-60 degrees max. Cheaper is to use smaller on power air to water heat pump up to -20-25 untill when the COP (Coefficient of performance) is good enough and by colder weather go by wood-oil burning boiler.
Inside wintertime we keep +18-20 degrees celsius. We have about 330m2 heated area in our house. Anually oil consunption is about +-3000 litres with out woodburning, wich offcourse will deminnish need of oil. But heating by wood needs more work and the time is sometimes limited.
@@interestingthings8598 they are trying very hard to do so but it doesn’t mean they will succeed
@@interestingthings8598 I know that… I mean when people start to freeze in their houses, they will go to the streets to protest… that’s why I think this green energy is not likely to succeed… and I think it already starts to fail… energy price was very high a few months ago in Europe.. there is shortage of energy.. they want to stop north stream 2 pipeline… but this will increase the energy cost for eu consumers… more and more people will go to the streets to protest… you are ok to accept the rules but once you have no food and your house is cold then you will start to protest
Hi Maria, I live in Northern Wisconsin USA 🇺🇸 and it has been around -30°C lately. We heat with a gas furnace that pumps hot water under our floor. It keeps our feet (and our house) nice and warm 😊
Well bud, you don’t have furnace, furnace is forced hot air system, you have boiler with radiant heat😀
@@renobeck1976 well, yeah. I was keeping the language similar for the creator 😀 Thanks for clarifying for those of us in the USA
@@todd211 didn’t mean to offend you, guess is 23 year of being HVAC tech, talking😀
I'm from North India. Till November the temperature here remains around 5 and then at the fall of December and Jan month it goes down to -5. We use electrical heaters to heat our rooms. We don't generally use radiators and stuff to warm up the whole house.
I'm in the northeast corner of the United States and the coldest temperature I have seen here is -42C. A typical January day is about -30C in the morning and warms to -17 during the day. The heating season starts in late October and goes until the end of April although there are a few days in September that are cold enough that I turn the heat on for a couple hours. My house was built with an oil burning furnace and I installed a wood stove when I moved in. Wood provides most of my heat and the oil turns on if I'm not home to put more wood in the stove. I also have a propane heater that doesn't use electricity that will turn on in a power outage to prevent the water pipes from frezing.
Thank you for sharing a bit of your daily life in Siberia. We live in the Colorado mountains at an elevation just under 9,000 feet. We heat with a natural gas fired boiler system. Hot water is circulated though pex tubing in the floors, providing in-floor radiant heat. In the basement, the tubes run through the concrete slab. On the upper floors, the tubes run through poured gypcrete, which spreads the heat evenly. We try to operate the system only from Oct 1st to June 1st. We are fortunate to have a natural gas connection in our mountainous region.
To answer your question, I live in Germany. We'll probably start heating our houses in the course of this month, seeing as the temperatures start to drop. We have a central heating unit burning oil (diesel gasoline) which is quite common here. Other forms of heating are gas, electrical and wood (Germany is 2/3rds forests).
Very informative video. Keep up the good work!
Heating oil must be close to the most expensive way to heat a building. I would look into a heat pump, even if just a portable heat pump to get through this winter.