WEIRD (but genius) THINGS ABOUT FINNISH HOMES | Part 3
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Dave's list of genious things:
keys, windows,carbage cans,storages
Life must be wack in London
You will learn, child.
Nina Ylimaki tää oli hyvä!
We have sarcastic bitches in Finland.
@@onearthonelegion and lots of stupid men... ✋
🤣
I'm a finn, these all are surprises to me like "wtf you dont have these things abroad?!"
Yeah, i thought all but double/triple decked windows were common, but guess not...
i knew about window and shoe thing but not that there isnt such recycling in uk nor storages, guess people arent as smart abroad
Ssammeee
@@JonVonBasslake Where I used to live, windows were to keep out birds and rain, and doors were closed with a padlock. Bare feet was the preferred footwear unless you went to the yard, where you had plastic flipflops.
I once saw a staring contest between a lizard and a big spider on the living room wall. The lizard decided to get a smaller snack instead.
There was running water though. I knew someone who lived in a place where running water meant walking real fast with the bucket and you had to walk like a kilometer to get it.
It is where it’s at all cold in the US.
taking the shoes off is almost like written in law
Indeed and even if you are told that keeping the shoes on is ok, you still feel so quilty if walking with them in someone's home.
the only exception is when you can wear shoes inside is when there's a formal-kind of party going on :D
@@iidaemppuu true, like christening or something like that. Even then it's your dress shoes/high heels you don't use tht often and only for formal parties
yeah why would you bring all that sand and dirt inside i dont get it..american's floor must be filthy
@@iidaemppuu I've never ever been in formal party in someone's house with shoes on. When there is some rented place, then of course but in those places you keep shoes on even if there isn't any party. Tho I must say that maybe ladies can keep their high heels on...?
I actually always feel so nasty and rebel when I walk with my shoes on at my home. I do it only when I forgot something on the livingroom or lights on or need to take groceries to kitchen. But still. It's so wrong.
👍👍👍😆😆👍
@@itsmesia2469 why do you use so many emojis
Yeah. Ill just take 2 really long steps to retrieve what I forgot.
I know, it feels so wrong. We had Japanese foreign exchange students staying with us back when my son was in high school, & they asked why Americans don't remove their shoes. I said "because we're always in a hurry" (instead of "we are barbarians.") And then one of the boys made me a beautiful crane out of origami paper. I still have it, and fond memories of those polite, clean, well-behaved boys.
When I used to live in the Toon and moan about inside temperatures I always got told off by the Brits. ”What are you on about, you should be used to the cold coming from Finland?!” And my response to that was always ”the place where central heating works and windows are triple glazed”. They didn’t appreciate my quips lol
Yup. I always said that I'm used to the cold outside, not inside.
I just moved to UK like two months ago and I get this all the time too 🤣🤣🤣
@NoNoNoNii Our cottage *can* be heated with wood, but is generally heated with electricity. Regardless, afaik it's had double glazing for 50 years or something, and being constructed of logs with insulation+outer cladding as well, it's pretty warm anyway.
Some cottages may be cold, sure, but frankly a lot aren't even intended for year-round use.
I still get that now 😅
I remember my friend coming over to Perth during our winter in 2001. She complained of our cold wet weather where the temperature was around 16°C. I joked that as a Norwegian, she should be used to cold weather and it was only after discussing he differences in how we build our houses that I realised their houses are built to keep out the cold and ours are built to keep out the heat in summer.
About recycling: If your building (or actually 'taloyhtiö') has 10 or more apartments, it's required by law to have recycling bins for biodegradable waste, cardboard, metal, glass and paper. Plastic is voluntary, I think (and not possible everywhere), but there are recycling bins for plastic containers in many places next to supermarkets etc.
Also, in some places, the plastic still goes to the burning plant and will not be recycled.
@@Saareem "burning" is a very mistaken, almost hostile concept. Most of types of garbage is still turned to heat in hot water systems, and to electricity. While not recycling, its still reusing.
A lot of metals, especially magnetic ones and heavy metals are separated. The ash is cleaned, the smoke is cleaned, and the air itself is cleaned. Put it in somewhere like Mexico city or Beijing, and the air comes out cleaner than going in.
You would not describe a Ferrari or Porsche an "oil burning machine made to burn oil" either. Because thats not what it is, unless you really dig for the worst possible description that is still containing a smallest shred of truth just for show.
50 years ago, garbage was burned. Today, burning is just one part of the process of separating different contents. The ash that comes out of the system and needs to be dumped is a mere 20% of the stuff that goes in. Rest is either cleaned, recycled, or separated. You see a cloud over the smokestack? Thats not smoke. Theres no smoke coming out the smokestack.
Thats water vapor and hot air.
I think plastic is required if there is more than 30 apartments!
Our building just got a bin for plastic and i started to gather them in a seperate bag and jesus how much plastic crap you use without even noticing and the bin is allways full
"Normal things British homes lack part 3"
I'm from Finland but live in Germany now and I definitely miss the warm apartments of Finland 😅 and everyone is always saying "But you are from Finland, you are used to it being cold." Öömm no, it's not supposed to be cold INSIDE 🤣
0:44 Dave: *talking about genious things in Finland* "this!"
Me an intellectual thinking: omg they dont have keys in England 😮
😂😂
@@davecad I'm not sure how those keys work, but i think since they're disc detainer type, the "common area" locks have only a few discs that match with all of the keys. Just guessing from what i've seen on Lockpicking Lawyer and BosnianBill videos :D
We're actually using these digital Iloq-keys too which is a small upgrade. Also in the rentable city apartments we got a optical fiber connection with 100mb for 1€/month. Kinda handy when playing WoW etc. :} ...oh, and the gateway modem came for free in post too :D
@@AmbientEpicuros You really sure you wanna call ILOQ-keys an 'upgrade'? XD Have you never forgotten something home when rushing out and having to go back for it only for the ILOQ-key to be like 'yeah, I ain't letting you in til you toss salt over your shoulders, pray for a saviour, achieve near-complete immobility and stop breathing while opening the door'. No such thing as 'I'll just quickly go back for something' with ILOQ 'please reach the pure zen state to open doors' keys. XD I had an ILOQ-key for four years and I cheered out loud and jumped up and down with joy when I found out my new place had the trusty 'stuff the key into the lock in a rush, any way around you please, and the door opens' ABLOY's back. XD Also, at least in several rental places in Tampere, a 100mb internet is fully included in rent.
@@YuliaLeafhill I couldn't agree more. They (ILOQs) probably use some sort of weird black magic force which just isn't always strong enough.
The best thing in living in Finland is that villasukat are completely acceptable accessory in almost any occasion in almost any time of the year
This is true. I saved the last two pair that my grandmothers gave to me so I can give them to my grandkids.
True! I even attended a wedding wearing party clothes and villasukat!
@@laaniska9957 haha.. my cousin had a pair made in black to wear with his tuxedo at his wedding.
Villasukat + crocsit
As a Finn, currently studying in Scotland, many of the things you just mentioned drive me crazy!! The flat I'm living in is freezing, because the windows are letting in so much cold air and the radiators are all electric and bloody expensive to have on, at least for a student... So, I just live in the school library now haha! And also the lack of recycling bins is really annoying... wooly socks is a given, even started knitting my own lol
Moving abroad really makes me appreciate Finland even more than before!
actually really intresting watching everyday stuff that I took for granted or forgot about, from a different perspective.
Hi Dave. We Canadians always take off our shoes when entering a home too. Thought it was only Americans that kept there shoes on. Always wondered how dirty their floors and carpeting got. Lol.
I think Americans vacuum their floors every day.
@@raapyna8544 Still, it's crazy. Why vacuum and clean dirt every day, if you can just leave the shoes in the hallway. :D
Rääpynä unfortunately they don’t vacuum everyday.. and the carpet flooring is so nasty. Full of stains!
Shoes don't just come off at someone's home. When you go to school, you take your shoes off as well. Well, in the lower grades at least.
@@sasu8411 yeah and depending on your profession..we use "work shoes" so have to change them at the locker room
@@sasu8411 there are differences between (junior high) schools. Some schools requires taking shoes off, others doesn't.
in our school, we have a carpet on most of the class rooms, so no shoes allowed inside them. (7-9 grade, finland)
Yeah it depends on the school. I know some high schools where people take off their shoes but I also know some school(grade 7-9) where they don't take shoes off
yeah, no shoes untill high school
You probably do have triple windows. These days two of the window panes are usually so close to each other that they might look like a single (thick) one. The thick looking (inner) double pane is sealed and has some fancy gas between the panes, not atmospheric air. What comes to the recycling, the law dictates some things about it. Like an apartment complex of some size must have certain containers. There don't need to be awfully many apartments to require exactly the ones you listed in the video.
Also what is great in triple glassed windows is sound insulation. Sound waves have harder time to go through 3 panels that are in different lengths from one another. That's why 1 panels is farther away from the other 2
The current building regulations for apartment buildings are such that now buildings would need five panes of glass in a regular window, so most manufacturers have switched to argon filled panes. Those can reach the same insulation with just the single double pane unit. Many have three though, the inner two being gas filled and the outermost a regular pane. This helps with heat recovery if the windows have built in air vents (Incoming air is passed between the outer and inner panes in order to recover any heat loss through the window.) and helps reduce ice buildup in the winter and fogging in summer time.
Many urban buildings have quad glass windows. And some have even thicker outer glass. And all because of sound silencing.
I'm fairly sure our building (built in the early 2010s) has sealed double glazing on both the inner and outer window frames = quadruple glazing. The balcony doors are either just one frame with double glazing, or what I actually think is more likely, triple glazing with sealed spaces in between.
I lived in uk for 3months as an au pair and after that, i agree with my father that england is still a developing country 😂😂
Sarrikka Victorian, still.
Sarrikka The arrogance is strong here
I went to england first time in Summer and I think a good way to explain how it went is that someone smeared shit on the bathroom wall in mcdonalds
@@sirikorkiakoski6162
Boo hoo hoo
I've never been as cold in my life as during my 3 month exchange programme in Scotland! I highly appreciate double or triple glazed windows and Finnish houses nowadays. They were shocked by the fact that we don't use electric blankets in Finland. They were like "how do you keep warm then?" Umm, heating... :D Plus I had never seen people use hot water bottles before.
To count the number of panes of glass you’re able to enjoy, light a match and you can count the number of flames in the reflection.... a trick I learned from a realtor.
Mind blown - but works flawlessly!
Yes! Two flames though should probably be three here in Canada.
VILLASUKAT💕 kesällä, talvella, kotona ja kylässä.
MsAim0 joooo! Villasukat on parhait
@Stimpy&Ren ME EI TOMMOSII YLELLILYYKSII TARVITA, KUNNON SUOMALAISET!😑😆
Mulla on villasukat just nyt jalassa :D
Joo
Ihanat mummon tekemät villasukat jotka haisee kahvilta ja pullalta (-ω-)
Taking the shoes off isn't only a Finnish thing. They do the same in Japan. In Japan they have a designated area in the entrance to change from outdoor shoes to slippers usually with a little cupboard to store shoes and boots. Makes sense. Who wants to trail street crap into the house?
Yep and in Finland we have thing called "eteinen" which serves similar purpose
@NoNoNoNii Some do. Or you come in, take your shoes off and put on your villasukat :D
It's common in all nordoc countries
Its common also in Poland :)
Catherine York In the Czech Republic you also have to take your shoes off indoors, and in Germany, and Slovakia, and Estonia ...
As a Finn living in UK I miss all these simple genius things. 😢
Finland isn't the weird one, England is O.o for not having any of this
Hehe, this is so true though
But we have most of this, maybe it’s just London that doesn’t, I’m so confused by this video. Although we don’t have the cool keys, that’s a good idea.
@@leea8706 what really?? :o interesting..
I use to watch this british tv-show called Grand Desings and 2005 in series 5 episode 4, was about this Finnish family building a Log House in Kent, and that host Kevin McCloud was honestly and truly amazed about this "new" Finnish invention called "triple glazed windows".. :D and we have had those atleast from the 80's...might be longer, i'm not sure...
Considering all these common Finnish things Dave listed (and keeping them as weird) i'm starting to think how weird English are if you don't have these...? ;D
My family's house was built in the 60s and has double glazed Windows so it's definitely older than just 40 years.
And older apartment building I lived in many years ago (in Töölö) had cold storage in the basement, where people used to store veggies and jams and other food stuffs and then we had warmer storage in the attic where people stored clothes and rugs and all manner of crap.
All the "wasted storagespace" should be used for something better. If you need to store some crap for years, means you don't really need it.
@@OjStudios You probably dont undestand how much people in Finland have stuff that can be only used in right season. In summer i store my cars winter tires, skis, snowboard, childrens winter toys and most of our winter clothes in the storage area or "häkkivarasto" and during winter there is my summer tires and my yard furnitures.
@@MrNiskala I do and at the same time I don't. Living here and watching people store all kinds of unnecessary crap just makes my skin crawl.
@@OjStudios What about seasonal stuff you don't need the whole year? Or stuff that you actually need once or twice per year and would take up lots of space in the apartment?
@@MollyMalone1983 I know, I know.
Went to Finland in January and fell in love. Everything is so organized and clean. The Scandinavian style is great... I try to apply it at home back in Chile 🇨🇱.
Best part of this series so far, when I had to live in Japanese houses with basically 0 insulation and literal gaps between windows and walls, the level of insulation in Finland made me so proud
and moldy
I always feel like I'm going to get murdered as well when I go down to the storage area of this building, so I can definitely relate to that. Been jokingly thinking that I should start carrying scissors around when I go there to have something to protect myself with.
Well, actually in the late 70's, early 80's there was a series of killings dubbed as "Helsingin kellarisurmat" or the Basement Murders of Helsinki. The killer/s never got caught :/
Dave, this was a good video. I've been to some 45+ countries, and this video really hit the nail. It is better for an "outside" observer to note these, at least one that has come from "the outside", otherwise it might not be a valid "testimony". I went to Italy for a friend's wedding, his home key looked like it had a two-way rake at the end, but without any leverage for turn it. It took him about a minute and two hands to open the door (he also had to "probe" the key, as the hole inside the lock was "loose" and the key did not go in straight but rather as a spoon in a soup). Here in Finland you can open a door with one hand in one second. I suppose we take all these things for granted, but for such as me, that has seen many things, there sadly is nowhere like home. And shoes inside? Barbarians...!
Did you know, that the little hole, that the key has, can be filled with a small colour piece. It is used to differentiate your key should you have several of those anyway. You get them at the lock smith stores. They cost like 20 cents a piece. 😸
There's one thing with triple glazing: the distance differs. As in, soundwaves don't want to travel from one substance to another, so certain frequencies go through the first gap and others bounce back. The second gap is different length that is not divisible but the length if the first gap. That blocks the frequencies that the first gap couldn't. So it's also sound proofing.
"divisible by the length of the"... I love typing on phone screens.
the acoustics in that storage area, spot on. You need to record more videos there
The best thing in Finland is definitely the easiness of recycling!
Insulation also helps to keep the house cool in summertime. 3 x windows work all year round 😊
Woolen socks box in the the hallway -Check!
Not all are from my grandma though, my friends from university make them as hobby so I have a collection from them aswell.
Yeah the law says all housing blocks in Finland must have that kind of light "bomb shelter" 6:40, except the very old buildings. Shelters are marked with a sign, a blue triangle & orange background. Many of the metro stations in Helsinki serve the same purpose. In case of a nuclear accident or if the Swedes attack, that's the place to run to ;)
That storage area under the apartment buildings is usually called "kanakoppi" (a chicken cage) because in older buildings those are made from wood and iron string net.
Ooh yeah, lived three years in London. Cold damp flats, moldy toilets, boilers not working. And if they work, warm water is prolly gone quite fast. Or somebody might be washing dishes in kitchen at the same while you showering, suddenly you have cold water in shower. Of course you can put heating on, but for some reason it was usually just used very sparingly in the evening for the room you where at the moment. Too expensive I guess. Of course you can wear more warm clothes inside but still the dampness slowly gets to you. London is nice to visit but living there after a while is really frustrating. God knows whats going on in those fitted carpets... =)
I watch your videos like 2 times per year and it still amazes me how small things like these can come out as a surprise to non-Finnish people. Keep at it.
One nice thing here in Finland is that quite often we don't have visible radiators: Heating comes trough the floor. Even if it's -25c (or -15f) outside we can walk in our flats bare footed with T-shirt and shorts on and feel comfortable. You talked about our windows having triple glass solution: That's entry level! For example in my house I have four glasses in each window.
wool socks are the best thing in the autumn and winter to keep your feet warm
When I was living in the UK I was honestly baffled when I saw all the garbage bags people just left outside their doors to the sidewalks for collecting. And it was cold in the winter with only one glass. Made me appreciate Finland a bit more.
Too many take it for granted. I know many young Finnish people and they say it's a worst country to live in, yes seriously
You never see garbage bags on the street in Finland, Much cleaner here overall.
Jin- Ingratitude, try living in Africa.
NoNoNoNii That’s total bs.
Jospa vaan muutat suoraan ameriikkoihin niin ollaan kaikki tyytyväisiä.
Dave’s videos are always so enjoyable, love watching after a long day of studying! ☺️☺️
Aw thanks :))
Really never understood wearing shoes at home. Here even in some public places it´s required to take shoes off or at least put those blue plastic shields over them ;)
You just explained to me why every single door in this place I live in UK has a different key, I just assumed this house was designed bit poorly. Also I'd like to mention that in Finland the walls etc. have good insulation, it's not only the windows that are amazing! I'm already freezing indoors here and it's just about to get worse...
And honestly, who doesn't get the creeps when they go down to the storage area?
One of the best things is so called "roskalava". It's a thing that some apartment complexes order to their yards few times a year and you can throw furniture and other bigger items to it rather than taking those to place like Sortti-asema.
The windows keep heat from escaping, sound and cold from coming in. It's effective, keeps running costs down. All the way just pure common sense. It's pretty hard to see how far behind Europe, except Nordic countries, is from Finland.
Many countries tell everybody how advanced they are but in reality they're not. Ame...hhhkrrhhh..ica. Nuthin said.
OniJon All of us do that? You spoke to all of us?!
@@codename495
He liked heckling several chains with his victim complex.
No outdoor shoes inside, please. That is disgusting. Bacteria, sand, dog boo etc.
If you want to wear shoes inside they must be clean.
You and Cat are so lucky to have each other 😊 You both seem so lovable.
Recently I've been having big issues with my significant other, and it's taken a turn for worse.
So whenever I'm feeling down, you guys lift my spirit with your videos.
I appreciate how genuine you are. How down to earth.
Cat's cooking videos, and your summer cottage videos (they remind me of summer, which makes me feel better) are excellent ways of distracting myself for a short while.
I wish you guys all the best 😊 AND Christmas is slowly on its way which you'll be celebrating as a real family ❤
I can appreciate that and I hope things work out for you, but probably not the best idea to size your relationship up agast another's social media highlights. ;)
@@RoyRissanen Sizing up? 🤔 You mean as in youtuber's only showing the good side of their life? Not to worry, I know that 😊 Everyone has their ups and downs.
@@johanna_na Don't' get me wrong; you're right, they do "seem so lovable" (don't hate me Dave and Cat). But yes, we tend to only show the highlights online. ;)
Woolly knitted socks are totally the best! ❤️❤️❤️
Actually 4-6 panes of glass on a window aren't too unheard of. Because we often have double windows (probably lives on from the time before double and triple glazing), and now everything is double or triple glazed, you get 2 times the triple glazed window...
You are so right! I appreciate our windows and recycling too!! AND...I love (and own many) woolly socks 👍🙏🇫🇮
The shoes part are my fav! But oh boy! totally agree with you on all the other points as well :)
Im half Finnish, born there, I ve never lived in Finland , but 2020 is finally the time to do it, my love for this country is beyond words..Oon niin monta vuotta halunnut tulla Suomeen. En puhu yhtään Suomen slangia tho 😁 puhun suomea ku vanha mummo mut ei haittaa, pikkuhiljaa! 💃
Slangi on ihan helvetin ruman kuulosta, parempi vaan ku puhut kuin vanha mummo.
@@eelisparkkinen joo sori , en puhu niin hyvin Suomea ku en oo koskaan asunut siel. en tiiä oikeeta sanaa to describe it better. en puhu nuorten ihmisten kieltä . better?sounding even more like a grandma?
Sohvi
Missä maassa on se sinun toinen puoli?
Lovely observations!
Weird but genius finnish things -baby edition up next? :D
Haha maybe! There are definitely some amazing Finnish innovations in the baby world!
villasukat (wool socks) THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD! Couldn't live a day without them!
Thanks Dave for your videos, started following your channel since my exchange 3 years ago! :)
And yep, these and many more are the reasons why my exchange year in UK wasn't that pleasant for a Finn unfortunately, mostly cos of the accomodation. But loved the old houses and gardens from the outside, and having pot of tea with refill for only under £2,50, berries were also so wonderfully cheap i ate them daily...
Haha you’re safer down in your storage area than you would be on the street and yeah the streets are quite safe in Finland too as you propably know by now 😄 so don’t worry 😂
I do a lot of house calls due to my work as IT-support and not in every home you're required to take off shoes. But in default you do and the house owner will notify you if it's not needed. But in office it's other way around.
Great video!
Living in UK (Exeter) the laundry did not even dry up on the laundry horse because my single glaze window was so leaky so I feel your struggle 😅
Had to put my laundry next to the radiator and change their places actively to get them dry evenly
in finland you can find recycling centers behind some grocerystores, its awesome!
This is entertaining. You are funny. I will surely watch more of your videos.
Part of me loves how warm the apartments are here in Finland, yet part of me misses all the duvet-wearing, cosy socks, radiator-hugging nonsense involved in UK housing 🤣 I see nice fireplaces in people’s omakotitalot, but I want to know, does it ever get cold enough in the house to use them?? 😂
Also, I really cringe now when I visit people in the UK and see them wearing shoes in the house...
If you have proper fireplace that is not just a beautiful ornament, you can save quite a bit in heating bill.
So yeah, people do actually use them, especially if they have their own batch of forest nearby they can heat their house for virtually free.
Though I remember reading something about taxing and/or monitoring the emissions from your chimney being planned, so not sure how viable option for heating that will be in future.
Yeah we have a wood stove in our kitchen and we use it for heating if it gets really cold outside.
Just turn the heat down if you want
Taking shoes off here is a regional thing! In MN we ALWAYS take off our shoes but in the south or places with milder climates they may not.
Many times you cheer for the things that are better or more brilliant in Finland but what are the things, in your opinion, that are better in the UK?
Tommi Westén Supermarkets & shopping.
You seem very energetic and happy! ✨🎉
20y ago my teacher once said that not many countries have this shoes off culture. Finland, Saudi Arabia and Japan are one of those. We are minority in this case which is strange since SHOES OFF!
Remind me to never sleep in anyone's bed who dares to put their dirty shoes on it.
As a finn now living aboard i can proudly say: ”we know how to build houses dammit” the windows and the walls and everything here... like its +5 and im freezing my ass off.
4:34 as someone actually from a third world country, I can confirm that windows have not been discovered yet
That's why living in Finland makes me healthier, just the key system compared back to my home country, every day there I got frastrating time opening a lot of locks with a pile of keys and before sleeping I had to think of how to open all of those as fast as possible if there was sth happens.
The trash sorting in Finland has also become my hobbies. there are 7 types of wastes at my home, it's really fun thing to do 😊
In addition of the light, the acoustics in the storage seemed pretty nice.
Never understood why you'd keep your shoes on while being home. After a long workday, aren't your feet hurting already? Not only your shoes are sweaty and dusty but maybe wet as well. You wanna spoil your wooden floor or white sofa with wet and dirty shoes? And if one wears shoes while sitting on the sofa, shouldn't the person logically wear them while sleeping in the bed as well?
It's obviously a different case if it's a formal dinner or a festive occasion. But being alone in your home, why care about dressing?
The City Wide recycling is amazing
I got woolly socks that my great grandma knitted for my grandpa (in the fifties), still perfect and going strong. Not in everyday use anymore, they are my riding boot socks for winter. Glad you have found the small pleasures of keys, windows, recycling and un-yucky floors :)
I was glad you mentioned the windows and the coldness of England! I was studying abroad in Ireland for few months in Janruary-February and I hated it because it was so cold! I've wondered why on earth britsin doesn't have triple windows because it affects SO much of the interior warmth!!
So clever, I live in a moderate climate but we end up covering our windows with curtains in the winter because the heat loss is insane.
In Finland you can find double glazing from very old homes. SO OLD SCHOOL!!!!! ;-) Triple glazing is have been standard at least 30 years.
I lived in Dublin for a bit 2 decades ago in a new-ish apartment building and there was basically a huge breeze indoors all day long. The windows were that bad. Sound-proofing as well. Never thought I'd share a room that was about as wide as a twin bed and pay pretty hefty for it. Shared the apt with 2 mates though, so not that big of a deal.
One of the cool things about those Abloy-locks are that they are very hard to pick on average, especially the newer ones (or at least require pretty specific tools and knowledge as far as I know). I'm actually quite surprised that they haven't become more popular abroad.
Everyone would understand the shoes-off -thing after a year in Finland :D Summers can often be quite wet, spring and autumn are definitely rainy and even the most pristine white snow can have surprising amounts of mud and dirt in it (and water, naturally). So everyone will be bringing quite a lot of water and dirt in whatever the season.
I live in a house built in 1911 and it has the original double glasing windows. So yeah, single glasing stopped being a thing in Finland sometime in the 19th century. :P
Actually, single glazing was used in summertime. The single window was a window you could open. For winter another window was put in the window frame. That was a normal procedure in the fall when the weather got cold. You couldn't usually open the extra, winter window. And again, when spring came you took the extra window off again. My grandmother lived in a house built in the 19th century, a cottage actually. I remember my granny doing this every year. And the window frames were built that way, for two windows. So yes, double glazing at least since 19th century!
to see what kind of windows you have, check the way ceiling lights reflect. for triple-glazed ones you get one clear reflection and one that looks like two poorly aligned layers.
My favorite is the basket of woolly socks for guests (who remove their shoes) I promise, I am doing this from now on!
In our last apartment the storage unit downstairs had an Abloy padlock FOR THE SAME KEY as the apartment door, can you believe that!
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It's designated in law that you have to have at least mixed, bio, paper and cardboard garbage bins in your apartment building. Most have glass and metal too.
woollie socks are a bliss m8. im currently wearing my grandmas homemade ones since my other socks at teh moment are pressing on my left feets hurt thumb toe so having woollie socks feels extremily comfortable and warm
I love your videos!
I just visited London for the first time last week and the poor windows defenitely shocked me the most
You definitely have at least triple windows. I haven't seen double windows in deceades in Fin. Maybe in some really old houses, but never in apartments. Sometimes I see even four glasses.
My house has only double glass, but they are still original from 1970..
I think i have new (2018) double glass windows on my living room... but its one of thous closed type windows that you don't need to wash from inside... and you can't wash them from the inside because you can't open up the window, since there is some gas between the panels
I was suprised too about the money things that I have been used to have as a Finn. Wolly socks are the saviour during winter time!
Omg i love your channel. I’m myself from finland and live in Espoo an yeah i love your work
A thing came to my mind about the recycling. It's not in finnish homes but in stores; bottle and can recycling and the pant system! (Return empty bottles to the store = get a small amount of money)
Love the socks!!
The Finnish windows also open up with a special window handle/key. They open inwards too, so they are easy to clean on both sides, even if you live on the 5th floor! Unlike in the UK, where you either dangle of the ladder or hire someone to dangle of the ladder to clean your windows on the outside. Also, the air is so dirty windows get dirty really quick In UK, even outside of bigger towns. A lot of people pay for someone to clean their windows every 2 weeks.
Sometimes when my mom stops by, she doesn’t take off her shoes and I always remind her to take them off. 😂
"its quite an old house but still" our house was built in 1908 and it has triple glazed windows, and they're the original ones from when it was built:P
(fun fact some company tried to sell my dad new windows but was like "oH well you probably wont be buying from us any time soon, we'll take your number off the call list" when dad asked if their windows will last over 110 years)
The window thing you said is one of the reasons we think UK is still a developing country.
I think it's more of a regressing country
@@are3287 you need to be something before you can regress.
No, actually it's the 2 separate faucets for hot and cold water, that some houses actually still have there
@@redX111t yeah that one too!
Just got home so now I can just relax and watch this
Enjoy!
Yes, socks everybody gets when visit somewere... And funny thing, as fast it gets darker in finland, at autum, not even cold has come, those socks are on everybody at home... Well, one thing is really tradition in Finland is Terva, in candy, Leijona, but also in shampoo, soap and of course in sauna... Its not only smells good, its daamn heallty...but for some thinks its totally crazy, is it not that, you paint wooden boat whits...😁
by far the easiest method of checking how many layers of glazing you got is to count the runners between the panels. one = 2 glass panels 2 runners = 3.
the most common type is to have one panel outside by itself that acts as a wind blocker, but is not sealed and might even have some gaps that provide a bit of airflow inside to keep it from fogging up. and then have 2-3 panels on the inner window that is the actual heat insulation.
its also fairly common for the elements to contain argon gas (or xenon but thats more expensive and rare). for better insulation.
you might also have a thicker panel outside with different thickness of glass on the other panels to provide better sound insulation. the thickness of the glass doesnt change the insulation that much but with difference in the thickness their natural resonance frequency does not line up so it provides better insulation across the board that way.
another common way to accomplish the same effect is to have the single panel outside be slightly smaller than the one inside (which is sometimes a side effect of the build rather than intended).
LOL! Yes! "Bed-socks!" My grandmother and mother both used to knit dozens of "bed-socks" when I was a kid. There were so many pair around that I took them for granted. Now I wish I would have learned how to make them myself. Fortunately, you can purchase similar types of slippers in the stores these days. But they don't compare to the ones handmade by mom or grandma. We used to sleep with them on when it was really cold, and therefore "bed-socks." Thanks for the memory!