You don't need to open the wall to fix the electricity, you just pull out the damaged cables and thread in new ones through the pipe/tube; that's why you have the pipe/tube.
The first house in a new country is always an adventure. I bought my first house here in Sweden too. And oh boy did it come with a lot of surprises, it was a lot older than yours with zero renovations, had zero blueprints with drawings of the electric wiring or water pipes, so yeah that can be an adventure. On top of that it came with two really dangerous apparantly self-made botch installations, one was so dangerous it could bring electricity to the ground, the other one was a fire hazard I uncovered under the kitchen ventilation. After 200+ repairs I gave up on writing them down, but it has been an interesting learning journey. I'm of course excited 10+ years later to follow your journey, the journey is exactly the same. When I saw my neighbor buy his first house, same journey. It's super interesting to see that most people experience the same progression. My progression (and even my neighbors is like this: First year is like a 1000 plans, expanding everywhere. Then you find out equally many things to fix and maintain, this is the year you find all the hidden secrets. Fortunately if you bought your house with standard law-guarantees against hidden flaws, you can make claims on the bigger ones. I had bought my house as so called "friskrivningsklausul" which roughly translated means "bought as-seen" and it means you're responsible for any direct hidden flaws you should have inspected before buying it, it's in the contract and you usually pay less for houses sold with this clause. Also it's important to check for any "liens" on your contract. Liens in Sweden could be "the right to your road", it could be that your property is owned by the gov. and you technically only rent it for a certain amount of years, but if you have "äganderätt" (right of ownership), then you own the property, if you have "tomträtt" it means you rent the property your house is on (and that's the one you don't want). Then there is the grand-plans we always do when new to a house, oh we're gonna expand-this-build-that. These are grand plans we save up money for, and ofc. those fade out after about 5 years living there when we realize real life costs. A couple of things you may want to be aware of: 1) You don't have the rights to do your own electrical installations in your house, this must be done by a qualified electrician (and you need to have that damage you did to the electrical systems looked at ASAP, or your insurance won't cover the future fires). 2) You can't do wet-room installations by yourself because you need a qualified plumber to do so, or someone qualified to do these if you want your house Insurance warranty to be covered. You can still do them, but in an event of severe water damage, insurance won't cover it. 3) Plans for solar panels? Well - if you wanna be connected to the grid - you have to get an qualified installer electrician to do this, otherwise it's in fact illegal to do so. Unless you keep yourself under 48v - and don't connect to the grid (it's a good backup power, I've done this, and then you don't really need an qualified electrician as long as you know what you are doing). Also - neighborhood disputes can be lifelong, and Swedes are renown for "yellow angry post-it-notes" they never complain to your face, so make sure you're on good terms with your neighbors. They keep it in forever, but let you know by never accepting your building plans or ideas when you need your neighbors approvals for this-and-that. Mostly the city zoning department will make a decision on whether you get these plans permitted or not, so it's not always the neighbors choice, but if you wanna be friends with your neighbors, always get permissions from them in writing, even for simple things like putting up an extra garage, gazebo or even an hedge close to your neighbors yard. We call "tujahäck" which is a fast growing hedge for the "peacekeeper hedge", in Sweden you have laws how high your planks can be to cover your yard, so these hedges can be a lifesaver when you want to keep your nosy neighbors out of your yard and keep your privacy since there are now laws on how high those can be, but make sure they don't grow on your neighbors side. Also - you may want to check the zoning laws for maintenance of your streets around your house, the public streets may be public, but you may have to make sure they're plowed during winters, and that you sand and salt the ice, so none slips and fall there. In some cases the county fixes this, but in a lot of cases it's the property owners responsibility to make sure the road front is free from snow and ice, so check that before you get nasty surprises. I could write a small novel about my experiences in Sweden, but I'll stop here since most won't be reading this, and I'm sure there will be some Swede reading this thinking I got it all wrong, in which case feel free to add or detract from what I've written - I don't know everything all the time, so it's all helpful.
You still need to change that or those cables that you damageded! And you probably get not electrified becuse of jordfelsbrytaren "eart circut breaker" in your electricity central! In anyway.. you are not supose to change those cables your self, by law, but mostly becuse of home insurance! Ask your sister for a local electrician! Its easy do by one self, but then one need to know about colour codes on cables.. its not enough, one need to measure if those that instaled it in first place actualy did it right! Colour codes is only to help and make it easyer for electricians! The damage on the housing.. its yor least problem, use duct tape when everything is electricaly in order! And your mirror got the right hight.. by gods will!
When I see stuff like the red light on the boiler I can't help but to point it out. I've worked too long with property/facility maintenance so that stuff is like a big flashing neon sign that reads "Look at me!" 😅 And for what it's worth it's actually a good thing that you hit the cables with the bigger drill cause you hit both the phase (brown) and the ground (green/yellow) which flipped the breaker. Also a tip, there are anchors that don't require drilling, you just screw them in. If you plan on hanging up more than one or two items they are much nicer to work with than the ikea ones. 🙂
Welcome to Sweden Devin! It was quite the surprise to see a recommended video in the feed, and on the thumbnail there you are. "Wait a minute, I recognize that man...". Have been following your Make Anything channel for a long while due to the 3D printing content, love your ideas and creativity! So it was a real curve ball to see you moved here to our lovely Sweden. You are in for a treat of things to explore! I sure will follow your adventure in Sweden 😃
The birds is TRANOR ! They move too Sweden now ...to a place HORNBORGARSJÖN . They coms like over 20.000 its a place you like to se ....take a camera with you .....its fantastic to look. ❤
If you ever drill into something again or your power goes out. Switch of all breakers lower than the main one and lower than the diff's (earth protection switch in the us these are build in the sockets, in the eu they are usually powering the whole house). Then switch them on one by one. When the main breaker pops you know which one has the fault. Leave that one off and the rest will still work. Also never drill above or under a switch on the wall, under a socket.. I'm an electical engineer in Belgium but i'm sure the same principles apply over there.
When the weather gets warmer you should drive south down the E22 and check out Karlskrona and the surrounding archipelago. It’s a quite beautiful town with a huge square and baroque churches. You can also take the E22 north to Oskarshamn and take the ferry over to Visby on the Island of Gotland. Very beautiful town with lots of medieval ruins. And Öland is also close ofcourse 😊
What a bummer about the drilling. I do love your attitude, though. Also, you're hella funny, man. Just a quick comment about the package delivery. Many here prefer to pick our packages up at ICA (or whatever you have nearby handling your packages), instead of having them delivered to the door. It stresses me out enormously whenever I am waiting for an Amazon delivery, because I don't want to leave it outside for too long. Instead you pick it up at your leisure while doing shopping. Perfect. Also, welcome to Sweden!
Agreed. I would only do home delivery for something big and heavy, and I certainly would not pay extra delivery fees for something I could pick up myself! I think he lives pretty far away from the shops though, and probably not a lot of package-searching villains around :P
Haha, a learning experience. I've never had any good reliable experiences with stud finders. Im curious for an update after you've gotten some help from an electrician. I'd recommend hiring a certified electrician, for your insurance.
If you ever pass by Skellefteå let me know and we’ll print something cool and head out on an adventure 🤟 MakeAnything/Skapa Allt Välkommen till Sverige 🇸🇪
Sadly I'm going to be that person but here it's illegal to do a lot of the electrical work by yourself. Our laws on that are pretty strict, but it's just for safety. 😊
Oh man what a bummer! I admire your resolve not to weep in a corner! I'm glad the mirror helped hide the hole LOL. Feels very Mary Poppins. Who knows, maybe you could engineer the hole to be a secret stash for your valuables! At the very least you could hide a time capsule in there. I would be very surprised and amazed to find a note made by an American and some strange, ancient 3D printed gizmos in my wall :D Loving these videos!
I don't think they should have drawn electrical wires like that. when building the house They are usually supposed to be drawn along the sides or corners, and not in the middle of the wall like that - so that shouldn't happen. Usually the wires are in more robust plastic tubes. But you don't know with the builders they hired.
Definitely not a correct installation. Wires and pipes are supposed to go straight up/down. So that you can know what to avoid based on where outlets, switches, or covers are.
Nothing wrong with the electrical installation as far as I can tell. In the past hard plastic tubes "VP-rör" were common but the flex-hoses used nowadays allows for a more direct path between switches, outlets and so on which makes it fast to install. There are no regulations against diagonal paths, but it's considered good praxis to drill in the middle of the stud so that the hose can get out of the way easier when hit by a drill, screw, nail, etc. The drywall on the other hand looks a bit odd to me, but then again I'm not a builder (I am a swedish electrician but not working as one for about 15 years). In any case the tubes are more often embedded in the insulation so I wouldn't be surprised if that installation was added afterwards.
@@MahBorok. Well, I can definitely understand that you wouldn't want to show it on UA-cam. Maybe you don't want to make it easy for people to find your adress and other info. I wouldn't show my license plate on social media, myself.
I understand why he wishes to hide the plate, I would have done that too. Good idea to blur the keys too. But based on the videos alone so far I have already found his exact address, so it also depends on how one film/edit the rest of the videos.
oh, are you used to using the metric system from before or are you trying to adjust? :D i was surprised to hear you say 11 centimeters instead of X inches when hanging the mirror.
Aaw man! Arule of thumb, if there is switch or a socket, 9 times out of 10 the wires will go either vertical or horisontal. the studs, at least in sweden are placed C/C45, 60 or 120 basically 45, 60 or 120cm between the center of the stud to the other. Drywall comes in sizes 90cm or 1200cm. So in this case i assume the distance between the corner to the window is about 120cm, so you can measure ~2,5-3cm to the left of the switch to find the center of the first stud, and if you measure 60cm to the right from that point you should be almost dead on the second, and another 60cm for the last :)
Don't they attach the switch box to the stud? My usual way to find stud if look for a switch or a socket, which is attached to one side of the stud, from there usual 16 or 20 inches.
@@mvaduWe do, that's what i meant by measuring ~2,5-3cm left of the switch to find the center of the stud by then measuring 60cm to the other side you'll find the center of the next stud. It's not foolproof but it's at least something if you don't know what's behind the wall :)
The builders could have placed the cables on the other side of the beam , so that you hit the beam before the cables 🙂 Hope you get to fix it and that you can manage to patch the hole in the wall somehow.
Btw, those geese you filmed are probably Canada geese. (brown/white with black neck and some white on the jaw) They spend the winter in the south of North America/Mexico, so they just made basically the same Journey as you! Great sign of approaching spring!
Tip about the car just in case you didn't know already. Unlike a lot of states in the US, here there are laws governing certain periods of the year when you have to have snow tires! Maybe you knew this already, but wanted to make sure.
You don't need to open the wall to fix the electricity, you just pull out the damaged cables and thread in new ones through the pipe/tube; that's why you have the pipe/tube.
The first house in a new country is always an adventure. I bought my first house here in Sweden too. And oh boy did it come with a lot of surprises, it was a lot older than yours with zero renovations, had zero blueprints with drawings of the electric wiring or water pipes, so yeah that can be an adventure. On top of that it came with two really dangerous apparantly self-made botch installations, one was so dangerous it could bring electricity to the ground, the other one was a fire hazard I uncovered under the kitchen ventilation. After 200+ repairs I gave up on writing them down, but it has been an interesting learning journey.
I'm of course excited 10+ years later to follow your journey, the journey is exactly the same. When I saw my neighbor buy his first house, same journey. It's super interesting to see that most people experience the same progression.
My progression (and even my neighbors is like this: First year is like a 1000 plans, expanding everywhere. Then you find out equally many things to fix and maintain, this is the year you find all the hidden secrets. Fortunately if you bought your house with standard law-guarantees against hidden flaws, you can make claims on the bigger ones. I had bought my house as so called "friskrivningsklausul" which roughly translated means "bought as-seen" and it means you're responsible for any direct hidden flaws you should have inspected before buying it, it's in the contract and you usually pay less for houses sold with this clause. Also it's important to check for any "liens" on your contract. Liens in Sweden could be "the right to your road", it could be that your property is owned by the gov. and you technically only rent it for a certain amount of years, but if you have "äganderätt" (right of ownership), then you own the property, if you have "tomträtt" it means you rent the property your house is on (and that's the one you don't want).
Then there is the grand-plans we always do when new to a house, oh we're gonna expand-this-build-that. These are grand plans we save up money for, and ofc. those fade out after about 5 years living there when we realize real life costs.
A couple of things you may want to be aware of: 1) You don't have the rights to do your own electrical installations in your house, this must be done by a qualified electrician (and you need to have that damage you did to the electrical systems looked at ASAP, or your insurance won't cover the future fires). 2) You can't do wet-room installations by yourself because you need a qualified plumber to do so, or someone qualified to do these if you want your house Insurance warranty to be covered. You can still do them, but in an event of severe water damage, insurance won't cover it. 3) Plans for solar panels? Well - if you wanna be connected to the grid - you have to get an qualified installer electrician to do this, otherwise it's in fact illegal to do so. Unless you keep yourself under 48v - and don't connect to the grid (it's a good backup power, I've done this, and then you don't really need an qualified electrician as long as you know what you are doing).
Also - neighborhood disputes can be lifelong, and Swedes are renown for "yellow angry post-it-notes" they never complain to your face, so make sure you're on good terms with your neighbors. They keep it in forever, but let you know by never accepting your building plans or ideas when you need your neighbors approvals for this-and-that. Mostly the city zoning department will make a decision on whether you get these plans permitted or not, so it's not always the neighbors choice, but if you wanna be friends with your neighbors, always get permissions from them in writing, even for simple things like putting up an extra garage, gazebo or even an hedge close to your neighbors yard. We call "tujahäck" which is a fast growing hedge for the "peacekeeper hedge", in Sweden you have laws how high your planks can be to cover your yard, so these hedges can be a lifesaver when you want to keep your nosy neighbors out of your yard and keep your privacy since there are now laws on how high those can be, but make sure they don't grow on your neighbors side.
Also - you may want to check the zoning laws for maintenance of your streets around your house, the public streets may be public, but you may have to make sure they're plowed during winters, and that you sand and salt the ice, so none slips and fall there. In some cases the county fixes this, but in a lot of cases it's the property owners responsibility to make sure the road front is free from snow and ice, so check that before you get nasty surprises.
I could write a small novel about my experiences in Sweden, but I'll stop here since most won't be reading this, and I'm sure there will be some Swede reading this thinking I got it all wrong, in which case feel free to add or detract from what I've written - I don't know everything all the time, so it's all helpful.
Thanks so much for all this information. Very helpful! It's great to learn from others who have been in my shoes :)
You still need to change that or those cables that you damageded!
And you probably get not electrified becuse of jordfelsbrytaren "eart circut breaker" in your electricity central!
In anyway.. you are not supose to change those cables your self, by law, but mostly becuse of home insurance!
Ask your sister for a local electrician!
Its easy do by one self, but then one need to know about colour codes on cables.. its not enough, one need to measure if those that instaled it in first place actualy did it right!
Colour codes is only to help and make it easyer for electricians!
The damage on the housing.. its yor least problem, use duct tape when everything is electricaly in order!
And your mirror got the right hight.. by gods will!
Next time you need to hang mirrors or paintings on a drywall, get some 3M Claw hooks. They require no drilling and they don't leave big holes. 👍
16:59 “What gaping hole?” made me laugh so much. I appreciate your optimism in this video ❤
When I see stuff like the red light on the boiler I can't help but to point it out. I've worked too long with property/facility maintenance so that stuff is like a big flashing neon sign that reads "Look at me!" 😅
And for what it's worth it's actually a good thing that you hit the cables with the bigger drill cause you hit both the phase (brown) and the ground (green/yellow) which flipped the breaker. Also a tip, there are anchors that don't require drilling, you just screw them in. If you plan on hanging up more than one or two items they are much nicer to work with than the ikea ones. 🙂
Atleast it wasn´t a water pipe you drilled into :)
You're right, that would be worse!!
Welcome to Sweden Devin!
It was quite the surprise to see a recommended video in the feed, and on the thumbnail there you are. "Wait a minute, I recognize that man...".
Have been following your Make Anything channel for a long while due to the 3D printing content, love your ideas and creativity!
So it was a real curve ball to see you moved here to our lovely Sweden. You are in for a treat of things to explore! I sure will follow your adventure in Sweden 😃
If I lived in Sweden I couldn’t help but visit all the places IKEA named their furniture after.
On the cpu problem. Did you convert/switch your old one to 230 v that we use in sweden? Because i think you use 110 v in the US.
I bought the power supply here in Sweden... as far as I know the other components aren't different, but maybe that had something to do with it
I thought for sure you were going to flip the lights back on and say, "just kidding!"
I wish! 😅
The birds is TRANOR ! They move too Sweden now ...to a place HORNBORGARSJÖN . They coms like over 20.000 its a place you like to se ....take a camera with you .....its fantastic to look. ❤
Welcome to Kolboda, you are going to love the summers here! The entire neigborhood transforms and it is really wonderful ☀️/ Neighbor
Äntligen lite optimism ❤
Sverige är fantastiskt vackert och det finns mycket att upptäcka
You are so easy to listen to, and even charming. And you bring optimism. Thanks for sharing.
I got the same car as. A Passat gte. We are really happy with ours!
What a bad luck. Byt you handeled it the right positive way. Keep on with the same attitude! Jan
Doesn't that stud finder have an electric field sensor aswell?
Electrical wire ran between the drywall and framing seems like not a great way to have that set up.
If you ever drill into something again or your power goes out. Switch of all breakers lower than the main one and lower than the diff's (earth protection switch in the us these are build in the sockets, in the eu they are usually powering the whole house). Then switch them on one by one. When the main breaker pops you know which one has the fault. Leave that one off and the rest will still work. Also never drill above or under a switch on the wall, under a socket.. I'm an electical engineer in Belgium but i'm sure the same principles apply over there.
Thanks! I was confused by the breaker in my unit not doing anything, but eventually found a main breaker in the pannerum
When the weather gets warmer you should drive south down the E22 and check out Karlskrona and the surrounding archipelago. It’s a quite beautiful town with a huge square and baroque churches. You can also take the E22 north to Oskarshamn and take the ferry over to Visby on the Island of Gotland. Very beautiful town with lots of medieval ruins. And Öland is also close ofcourse 😊
What a bummer about the drilling. I do love your attitude, though. Also, you're hella funny, man. Just a quick comment about the package delivery. Many here prefer to pick our packages up at ICA (or whatever you have nearby handling your packages), instead of having them delivered to the door. It stresses me out enormously whenever I am waiting for an Amazon delivery, because I don't want to leave it outside for too long. Instead you pick it up at your leisure while doing shopping. Perfect. Also, welcome to Sweden!
Agreed. I would only do home delivery for something big and heavy, and I certainly would not pay extra delivery fees for something I could pick up myself! I think he lives pretty far away from the shops though, and probably not a lot of package-searching villains around :P
Most walls are gipsskivor. If you have a mollyplugg it will hold a mirror no problem. No need for a stud.
I remember watching your main channel a lot back in the days. Surprised to see you move to Sweden! What made you move?
Haha, a learning experience. I've never had any good reliable experiences with stud finders.
Im curious for an update after you've gotten some help from an electrician. I'd recommend hiring a certified electrician, for your insurance.
If you ever pass by Skellefteå let me know and we’ll print something cool and head out on an adventure 🤟 MakeAnything/Skapa Allt Välkommen till Sverige 🇸🇪
Thank you for the optimism, you have an inspiring way of looking on your hardships. wishing you all the best!!
Oh NO! What were the odds? I love your attitude of glass half full, don't sweat the small stuff 👍
You are so cute and I love your positive attitude facing adversity.
Lagom is the best :-) Welcome to mellanmjölk ;-)
Hey man, love the series so far. Keep up with the nice content.
It is easy to fix the cable but you’re sadly not allowed to in Sweden.
You should definitely invest in an electrical wire detector :)
he was using one to find studs :p
Sadly I'm going to be that person but here it's illegal to do a lot of the electrical work by yourself. Our laws on that are pretty strict, but it's just for safety. 😊
if something is "Illegal" there has to be a law saying that. Can you inform the rest of us swedish what that law is?
Oh man what a bummer! I admire your resolve not to weep in a corner! I'm glad the mirror helped hide the hole LOL. Feels very Mary Poppins.
Who knows, maybe you could engineer the hole to be a secret stash for your valuables! At the very least you could hide a time capsule in there. I would be very surprised and amazed to find a note made by an American and some strange, ancient 3D printed gizmos in my wall :D
Loving these videos!
Hehe, I don't know if secret gizmos in the wall is up to code but it does sound fun 😛
Have you discovered the marvel of the Wettex trasa yet? It's a Swedish invention that is a must have in every home since you can reuse it!
Yes! I actually had some in the US, so I picked it up here on my first shopping trip :D
Hope to see more of this journey soon!!!
I don't think they should have drawn electrical wires like that. when building the house They are usually supposed to be drawn along the sides or corners, and not in the middle of the wall like that - so that shouldn't happen. Usually the wires are in more robust plastic tubes. But you don't know with the builders they hired.
Definitely not a correct installation. Wires and pipes are supposed to go straight up/down.
So that you can know what to avoid based on where outlets, switches, or covers are.
Actually I think that installation is fine by Swedish standards.
Nothing wrong with the electrical installation as far as I can tell. In the past hard plastic tubes "VP-rör" were common but the flex-hoses used nowadays allows for a more direct path between switches, outlets and so on which makes it fast to install. There are no regulations against diagonal paths, but it's considered good praxis to drill in the middle of the stud so that the hose can get out of the way easier when hit by a drill, screw, nail, etc. The drywall on the other hand looks a bit odd to me, but then again I'm not a builder (I am a swedish electrician but not working as one for about 15 years). In any case the tubes are more often embedded in the insulation so I wouldn't be surprised if that installation was added afterwards.
Your Swedish pronounciation is really good. Have you been studying Swedish before you moved here?
I know you probably know this already, but you don't have to hide your cars license plate here in Sweden like you have to in the US
Why would he want to show his license plate on UA-cam?
@@hannie1301 Why not? The only thing people can do with it is to find his real name. Most European youtubers don't hide their license plates
@@MahBorok. Well, I can definitely understand that you wouldn't want to show it on UA-cam. Maybe you don't want to make it easy for people to find your adress and other info. I wouldn't show my license plate on social media, myself.
@@hannie1301 I totally understand that
I understand why he wishes to hide the plate, I would have done that too. Good idea to blur the keys too.
But based on the videos alone so far I have already found his exact address, so it also depends on how one film/edit the rest of the videos.
Lol the beginning got me
oh, are you used to using the metric system from before or are you trying to adjust? :D i was surprised to hear you say 11 centimeters instead of X inches when hanging the mirror.
I was using a Swedish tape measure :P
In design I mostly use mm, but I don't quite have the intuition for meters and km yet!
Aaw man! Arule of thumb, if there is switch or a socket, 9 times out of 10 the wires will go either vertical or horisontal. the studs, at least in sweden are placed C/C45, 60 or 120 basically 45, 60 or 120cm between the center of the stud to the other. Drywall comes in sizes 90cm or 1200cm. So in this case i assume the distance between the corner to the window is about 120cm, so you can measure ~2,5-3cm to the left of the switch to find the center of the first stud, and if you measure 60cm to the right from that point you should be almost dead on the second, and another 60cm for the last :)
Don't they attach the switch box to the stud? My usual way to find stud if look for a switch or a socket, which is attached to one side of the stud, from there usual 16 or 20 inches.
@@mvaduWe do, that's what i meant by measuring ~2,5-3cm left of the switch to find the center of the stud by then measuring 60cm to the other side you'll find the center of the next stud. It's not foolproof but it's at least something if you don't know what's behind the wall :)
I'm very curious how they fix that wire in Sweden!
The builders could have placed the cables on the other side of the beam , so that you hit the beam before the cables 🙂 Hope you get to fix it and that you can manage to patch the hole in the wall somehow.
Btw, those geese you filmed are probably Canada geese. (brown/white with black neck and some white on the jaw) They spend the winter in the south of North America/Mexico, so they just made basically the same Journey as you! Great sign of approaching spring!
Poetic ☺️
Hi from Denmark 😊
Womp womp lol
Nice one
Tip about the car just in case you didn't know already. Unlike a lot of states in the US, here there are laws governing certain periods of the year when you have to have snow tires! Maybe you knew this already, but wanted to make sure.