American reacts to (a weird video) “CRAZY Reasons German Houses are built BETTER”
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Hey for anyone who hasn't yet watched, beware the video I react to is not very good, LOL. Sorry! I never know exactly what I'm reacting to before I react to it I'll still keep it up because it's kind of funny. I do like the concept of the title, so I'll look for more videos on the subject.
If you are interested in the construction of traditional half timbered houses, you could check out Laura Kampf's channel. She bought an old house near Cologne and has been renovating/restoring it for a while now. It's been quite a ride and a super fun watch :D The whole series is probably not suited for your reactions but she has a couple of "season wrap up" videos which might be nice. And the videos are in English, too! (And for sure very entertaining for an evening on the couch if it doesn't suite your work)
Haha!
I was about to write a comment to that effect, but I see others have done that for me.
Thank you for letting us know 👌
When you see mediterrean stock footage (or maybe hollywood hills stock footage) .. you should realize you are not in Germany any more :D
If you want mediterrean in germany: Insel Mainau im Bodensee. Worth a visit !!!
Not very good? How dare you!
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Despite the gentle irony that shines through, I will not give up on continuing to correct your excellent reactions 😉😁
a video about german houses but, NOT ONE single german house to see lol
There was a German house in the video. Funny enough it’s from the same video Ryan watched a couple of weeks ago 😅
@@THomasHH they showed so many not german houses
@@Bleed1987 yes, but @dasuniversum5875 said “NOT ONE single german house” 😉
yeah very weird video, constantly talking about german houses and then only showing those prebuild us crap.. and when they actual show something that is build in germany it was some company who builds us style cardboard homes...
The video is a fever dream with American stock footage and AI generated script with thesaurus plugin and AI narrator.
I hate these AI generated videos with misplaced stock footage and a simple script that are now all over youtube. I hope that reaction channels would not use them.
and not to forget the worst "music" ever created
Yes it is really bad with almost no footage of real German construction or houses. Soooo bad. And this obnoxious AI narration voice.
If this is the future of youtube it will go down the drain faster than a dump in a well engineered German toilet.
Was about to post the same comment.
Yeah that triggered me too
Most of the Houses in the Video are american, not German.
I spotted the plug!!!!! What the heck
Funny is, there was not a single german house actualy :D
I would say 90% of the footage in this video does NOT show german homes, so that might be confusing,...
I could hear at least 3 german grannies faint when Ryan said he never opens the windows
I’m not a granny and I almost fainted 🤣. Even in the winter I open my windows every day for fresh air to enter.
No need to open the windows when air comes in anyway.
that's the neat part: it won't@@GoodOlKuro
@@GoodOlKuroGood explanation why Americans don't need to open the window. 😂
@@GoodOlKuro I wouldn't trust cheap af air ventilation systems with my health like that.
Forget about the kitchen myth. In many homes, it can easily happen that there is a kitchen installed already, or the pre-owner sells it to you for a couple of bucks.
jaeh but its not a "myth" when the preowner sells you one thats possible.
Other then that i have never seen a kitchen already installed expect the case that you buy it from the pre owner (i did so myself)
because if you leave and you dont have an agreement with the new renter that he buys it, the landlord often requiers you to get out your old kitchen
Yeah, it’s obviously not a myth. Kitchen does not belong to the apartment you rent. Only because it may be handled differently sometimes, it does not change the fact that you won’t get a kitchen unless stated specifically otherwise. I had to explain this to my girlfriend who was checking for new places and it holds true at least as often as there is another arrangement, if not more.
That annoys me too!
Every single one of our 38 rented apartments has a kitchen installed and if you look on the major German real estate portals, apartments with kitchens are the norm.
The exception may be newly built detached houses.
I mean ved about 15 times and never there was a kitchen included.
@@CoL_DrakeI moved 8 times (6 times for rent) and except for one apartment the kitchen was always included. Maybe it's a regional thing or it is a city vs. town/village thing, I don't know. One was in Hessia, the others in Lower Saxony.
In Germany, we don't have trailer parks. The only thing comparable would be a permanent camping site. There, you have a camping trailer, and very rarely you're allowed to register your primary residence there so that you can live there permanently.
I mean some use it for "summer" camping, so they travel to their permanent camping site from May to September there because it's warmer there. But they usually have an apartment/house. They reserve their space and go there from years and years and years. So most tennants know each other. I know a couple that does it like this way.
We‘ve got a Band though.
Of course, we have a hookers trailer park here in cologne.
You just need a "Anschrift" technically so you can register at a friend's house and get your mail once a week.
@@Keksemann666 Most of these sites DO prohibit you from living there permanently and its usually also against the law
Yes we have 100 degree days. The best thing to do is actually to air out the house over night and close the Windows in the morning so the cold air stays inside. Then you can close the shutter half way so the warm sunrays get repelled at the oudsite and dont heat up the house.
Just wanted to comment the same :D
That's what we do in the summer as well.
Honestly that's a fairly new thing tho... Up until the late 90s/early 00s you'd mostly only had a few days per year above 30C (86F), while now it's up to several weeks.
@@DackelDelay when did you guys ever experienced a 100 degrees day?
I feel like it is cold all the time here xD
There were about as many German houses in that video as there were real humans in the production of that video.
The video has a lot of bullshit slapped on stock footage, which they mostly didn't even bother to get from germany.
Walls are not usually built from concrete, just makes no sense. Exceptions are walls in buildings with a lot of floors or the basement walls. The foundation and ceilings are made from it though.
Also wood is not per se a bad construction material, it depends on how you use it. And if used correctly it will last centuries. The industry in germany is slowly moving back to wood, because of stricter environmental protection laws. Wood takes a lot less gray energy to produce and by that has lower green house gas emissions than bricks and especially concrete.
Also from the video: "since the 13th century half-timbered houses have been largely absent from central europe." .... eh what? :D Germany is literally internationally known for their trusswork houses (Fachwerkhäuser) almost all of them beeing younger than 800 years. I swear the script for the video was written by Chat-GPT.
Ja, als ich das mit den Fachwerkhausern gehört habe,ist mir fast mein Brot aus dem Mund gefallen 😳🙄 Hier,in Deutschland kann man Fachwerkhäuser nahezu überall sehen, dazu muss man wirklich nicht weit gehen☝️Das ganze Video war irgendwie gestippt, mit Halbwahrheiten und Aussagen die in keinster Weise zutreffend sind!
Naja, ich vermute auch, das es KI generiert war 😒
Totally agree, except for concrete for walls. I know, nowadays fancier materials are preferred as Adobe and Ytong. The house I've been living in since 1998 is built predominately with concrete stones (outer and weight-bearing walls are 24 cm, non-weight-bearing walls are 17.5 cm, and the outer cellar walls are 30 cm thick), flint lime bricks (17.5 cm) for the stairways (because of better soundproofing), and 5 cm pumice for supporting bathtubs.
Please stop blaming Chat-GPT, the script is worse than that. The video felt like someone just skimmed a few google results, waited a while, and then shat out their misremembered half truths while trying to form coherent sentences. They failed terribly.
I am German and I lived for some time in a house that was more than 400 years old.
Our new house has quadruple-glazed windows, a pellet heating system, an additional heat pump, a solar and photovoltaic system and electricity storage. But that's because my husband is doing research in the field of renewable energies. I don't get involved 😅 I am a graphic designer and do the interior design
Sounds like the distribution of work. You design, he has to figure out how to do it.
One of my houses was build 1450 and now has straight up amored glas, the walls are already around 2 meters think... Basically a bunker...
Really nice house.
@@Keksemann666 Hope you changed the ceiling and door frame heights. The amount of head bumps i got when i lived in a house from the 1600s was disturbing, and i'm an average sized german woman.
What you are seeing here ist a so called "Fertighaus", meaning a prefabricated house. The walls come prefabricated and the complete house is assembled in one day.
The ceremony ist called "Richtfest" (roofing ceremony) and takes place after completion of the roof framework (Dachstuhl), so that the carcase is completed. After that, roof tiles, doors, windows and so on will follow. But in case of a prefab house evertything happens at the same day. The Workers in white shirts, black vests and hats are carpenters in their traditional clothing. Carpenters build the roof framework.
For days in the 30s, just keep the Rolladen down. Them being on the outside means the Sun isn't burning directly on the window, adding a 4th layer of insulation. Then keep the windows half open at night, Rolladen down, so it can cool off a bit.
Unfortunately, insulation works both ways.
If enough heat built up - which takes a good amount of time - the biggest issue in a modern house (the place I'm in is just 5 years old) is actually to get it *out* once the outside is reasonable again even if I keep the balcony doors open all day.
It doesn't need to be modern to be unable to cool down when you have several tropial nights in a row. 🥵
Keep the doors and windows closed all day, and fully open them at night, from around 11pm to 8am.
I hang a wet bed sheet in every room. That climates very well.
@@steemlenn8797 Yeah, like where i live around Freiburg we have this month where it just never drops below 25°C and that is something. When it first started we got ourselves an air conditioner for the living room (with 2 fat PCs it always ads a few degrees of heat) and a fan into every room. That was also the time when i started sewing clothes and me and hubby are sleeping in linnen or viscose pyjamas and a layer of thin linnen fabric as a blanket, with a fan blasting right into our faces. Otherwise we would sleep in sweat.
I'm from France ; my grandma's house was clearly from the Renaissance, in the 1500's. There were architectural remains of this style on the facade. Because her village was very old. That village's house still stands today, with another familly owning it. My sister's house, also in a small and ancient little village, is clearly very old since her ground floor is still paved with these enormous stone slabs polished by time that we only see in old churches these days. I live in the center of a medium/big city in a flat and my building dates from 1800's. But it isn't the older in the city since the very historical center of that city dates back to the 15th, wich is very evident with its tiny alleys (a challenge for cars ! ^^) and buildings... I think it is a european thing, the houses were built to stand a loonng time around ^^. And it's beautiful.
On very hot summer days we keep the windows closed to keep the heat out. At night when the air is cooler we open the windows to air out the house.
In Sweden you have wooden buildings that are hundres and hundred years old! There are even churches that are from the 13 century. And that in a inviroment with very severe winters.
In Stockholm that have even started apartements in wood!
I dont think the problem is wood, concrete etc. Its the quality and technic in comstruction.
Are you sure those wooden churches from the 13th century are still standing? I heard some fire loving dude caused mayhem there, if you know what i mean.
But it's not only construction. We have churches from over one millenium ago made of stone blocks that are just layered on top of each other and nothing holding them together but the way they were constructed. But wood is a more difficult material in Germany, we do have warmer summers and rainy springs and falls - wood would just rot and detoriate over centuries. I'm about to buy a house with a cellar from 1810 and the original wood door. Massive, beautiful things, but full of woodworms and wind and weather made the borders of the wood detoriate - you could easily fit 2 fingers between the door and the walls/the floor.
Also, Germany is quite smacked into all the different natural desasters areas of Europe. The tornado floor goes throug most of Germany. We have many flooding danger areas. My grandparents at the edge of the Black Forest live in a so called 'hail area' - there are months they see more hail than rain. We have smaller earthquakes all the time, which my parents noticed when they built their house, it was a specially intense quake year - every other week a new crack in the new plaster. Nowadays we can probably build wooden houses, with modern treatment so the wood doesn't rot, but you'd still have to replace some things every few decades. And in some areas, it would just collapse thanks to nature doing nature things witing a year or 2.
,,Where everybody comes and have...... schnitzels?,, 😂😂 killed me 😂
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There are not always only stone on stone houses in Germany, there are also prefabricated houses where a lot of wood is used, but also more stable than in America I think
The point of the Rolladens is not just to have a great night sleep, in summer you just keep them down so the little holes are still visible and that way you get light from outside but it's staying cool inside. Also very helpful, when its storming outside, you just put them down and they protect your glass from breaking in case some stuff is flying around, same with hail.
And additionally since you asked how we keep our houses cool in the summer without letting the warm air from outside in. It's rare that we get 100 degrees F but in August it does happen sometimes (at least here in the south). We just open up all windows while the air is still cool in the morning and then put all the Rolladens down to keep the cold air in. So we have a fresh aired and cool house till it's cool again at night were we sleep with the windows open
I wonder if that original video shows german buildings at all. I recommend watching SURPRISING FIRST WALK-THROUGH | Building a House in Germany and part 2 HARD Lessons from Building a House in Germany and part 3 We Built our DREAM HOUSE IN GERMANY 🇩🇪 | So, how American is it?
to survive a heatwave:
it happens a lot that windows are open at night when the temprature is "cold" so the inside walls cool down over night, in the morning hours before it gets hot, the windows and blinds will be shut to keep the cold air inside and the hot outside
I was raised in a venerable half-timbered house constructed in 1431, making it 593 years old.
I was raised in a former shipyard which is about 400 years old by now. Imagine the ceiling height. We were the only family with a Christmas tree of about 5 meters :)
I’ve renovated a burned out flat in a House, and yes you have to ground renovate everything + the roof maybe because it’s made out of wood, BUT the House with the Walls stand pretty steady 👌🏽
Having 100°F in Germany is not common, but happens in some parts of Germany for a few days per year.
The footage playing while they say German houses can’t be made of wood is actually a company that makes prefab wood buildings.
To answer the question about what we do with the kitchen when we move:
We either sell them to the next person or take them with us. Kitchen furniture is often modular, making rearranging into a new kitchen configuration easy. Usually, you can buy additional modules, when needed and you may only have to get new countertops when the new kitchen layout is too different for reusing the old ones.
Storage is a similar deal: If you don't buy the cheapest quality, it is easily possible to take your storage furniture and rearrange it into a new house or apartment. This also allows us to keep our own style instead of having to live with whatever has been picked when the other apartment or house was built/renovated, making the new place feel like home very fast.
That being said, the plugs you were checking were UK plugs - the only German content of this video was of a video you watched previously, all other footage seemed to be stock footage of either American or British homes.
The AI didn’t do a very good job of translating the German text. And the AI speaker is also very weird.
AI didn't translate it at all. That script was 100% written by AI in the first place. And then they just put it over random stock footage of houses (mostly US but also everywhere else)
I've lived together with a friend in his house (from around 1900) here in Germany. Last year it burned "down". But burning down in Germany doesn't mean it is gone. Basicly everything but the walls will be removed and now he builds his new house using the old walls with small modifications.
This part of the video at 10:35 is from an English house as you can tell by the English socket in the wall. The window also opens outward, in Germany they open inward.
In germany you have no closets, mostly, and you have to buy and install your cabinets often by your own. Storage room is not pre-build, you build it yourself by choosing your cabinets, regals and so on.
But if you move, you take all your storage romm with you to the new place and use it once more.
The most houses shown in the video are nor not German houses.🫢
That’s what happens when you can’t be bothered to put more than 2h into a video … fucking hate these cheaply made AI videos, especially when they are supposed to be informative
to high heat. having summer temps well over 100F in central EU is normal but remember that type of heat can differ from region to region. at some places you can't live outside when it's 80F and in some 100F is fine.
During hot days you DO NOT open windows. house isolation is retaining night cold and you open them at late evening and close in the morning 9am at the latest to let cold air (4-5am) in and speed cooling process. if temps are really high (usually peak lasts for 2 weeks) we use portable units. electric bills are on heavy side and for me it's close to 0,40$ per kwh. and portable is enough as i only need to chill 1 room. other 2 can stay as they are till evening cooling.
on your 100°F day (38°C), there is an easy trick: you air out the house early in the morning. 8am or earlier. then it stays somewhat cool.
You do not open a window on a Hot day. You open it as soon as the outside is colder than the inside and close it in the Late morning
That is a very controversial topic. Many people claim that moving air is better.
It depends how big your living space is.
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No, it doesn't. If you want to keep 33° hot air outside, you don't open your windows during the day, obviously.
@@dan_kay on the roof you will be happy about just 33 degree if your room is 39 ;) and yes i know what im talking about in that case xD
In Germany, there are hardly any mobile homes where you could live all year round because the heating costs would kill you in winter. but there are some people who live near the beach in campsites during the summer.
We mostly don't have air conditioning because it only gets really hot for 2-3 months where we live. However, due to climate change, it may be worth reconsidering this decision, as it is now getting hotter and staying hot for longer than before.
Here in Freiburg we used to have it, and it was even fine in winter cause it rarely gets cold enough to even snow. It was not 100% legal, but it's called 'hippies town' for a reason. I had a coworker live there till they disbanded it (it was bought and they built a whole new bunch of energy efficiency 'A' passive houses there). She literally bought a used trailer for 50 bucks and paid rent of about 70 bucks a month, plus 10 bucks for using the communal shower and bathroom. She said there were also 2 professors from her university, a lawyer and many other local students - they all only had in common that they basically only slept in those trailers, their lifes were happening outside.
We also have trailer parks, but we use them for holidays. They are often located by lakes or in recreational areas.
The thing with airing out the house in summer is that while yes, it won't cool down during the day with often over 100°F, we just do it over night. And if you're worried about burglars climbing into your windows while you sleep, just use your shutters, that's why you have them!
Also, trailer parks do exist, but they're more like a camping park like setup, where you'd rent a trailer for a short term period during holidays or long weekends. They often are attached to actual camping sites as well.
The average and highest daytime temperatures in the US are about 5°C higher than in Germany. That's one reason why you barely find AC in Germany houses (the higher energy cost in Germany being another one).
We usually do not have trailer parks like you have in the US. What we do is have "Camping Plätze" or caravan sites. Our mobile homes are usually a lot smaller than the ones in the US and are usually not meant as a permanent residence. Sure, there are some people living on a caravan site all year round, but normally people only spend their weekends and vacations there. They may have a "base" where they usually keep their mobile home, but for vacations folks just may hook up their trailer to their car, drive to some fancy place with a caravan site, spend a couple of days or few weeks there and return to their "base".
Ryan with the double subtitles to a English video :D. It gets hot in heat waves. I just roll down the shutters and only have slits between them, and close the windows. In the early morning it tends to be cooler so this is the point you open the windows and let air in.
I live in a basement apartment, so I'm fine keeping the windows tilted all day and just lower the shutters, to have some minimum airflow :).
I get the feeling the video is by AI.
Hello Ryan Wass, almost nothing of the film shown was filmed in Germany, I saw British sockets and of course American ones but nothing that pointed to Germany apart from the pictures taken from above and further away. In addition, many images did not match what was spoken.
To answer many of your questions, here are a few answers.
1.) Yes, in Germany there are a lot of rules and laws regarding house building and renovation. This includes not only the obvious things like that the house must not extend over the property line, but also, for example: window rights, shadows, bay windows, gables, color and shape of a roof, orientation of the roof, distance from the street, rights of way, ... and many more.
2.) Yes, front doors in Germany can be built to last.
The front door of a friend's house is 12cm thick at the weakest point and made of steel-reinforced hardwood with 8 framed bulletproof glass panes (protection) on the outside and normal double glazing (insulation) behind it on the inside. It is functional but also aesthetically appealing and made especially for the house. The house itself is about as old as the city in which it is located and has been rebuilt several times.
3.) In the city I live in, heating is mainly (65%) with district heating from the local waste incineration plant (85% comes from burning waste and 15% comes from natural gas). The better the house insulation, the lower the costs and the more houses can be connected, so everyone benefits from the good insulation of the houses.
4.) Due to the thick walls of our ground floor apartment, we manage to not exceed a comfortable temperature of 23 degrees Celsius even in summer by judiciously using the shutters and ventilation, unless there are actually 3-4 weeks with 35+ degrees then the apartment is at 27-28 degrees.
5.) I have moved three times so far and have taken parts of my kitchen with me each time. But I had a special kitchen made from several real wood elements by a carpenter over 20 years ago and parts of this kitchen are in other houses and are used in very different ways, three in kitchens as they were intended and one as a changing table in a children's room.
My wife also had a kitchen built at the same time and we have been using her entire kitchen and the most beautiful element of my kitchen for over 12 years now.
If we ever move again we will take the kitchen with us, it looks like it did years ago, it has just darkened a bit and I had to replace the drawer pulls after 19 years because the brakes no longer worked.
6.) Yes, I took all the lamps with me every time I moved, but I didn't use them all.
7.) I can't speak for Germany here because I've never dealt with it before, but here in my area families and friends move together. The person moving organizes a vehicle (truck, bus, etc.), something to eat and drink (pizza, sandwiches, crates of beer, soft drinks, etc.), makes an appointment and packs all the boxes in advance.
Most of the time you know someone who has already connected a stove and a water connection (or you can do it yourself) and then everything in one apartment is dismantled, driven over and reassembled, in one or more trips, depending on the size of the vehicle.
Once you reach a certain age, status, number of children, etc., you prefer to use a moving company, but to be honest, moving with friends is more fun and less is broken because everyone knows that they will move at some point and therefore make an effort.
That's enough for now. Many greetings from the coal pot
100°F is 37,7°C - there are only very few days a year that it get's THAT hot in Germany. Ten years ago I would have said - it almost never gets that hot, but thanks to Global warming we get to experience those extreme temperatures more often. But for a German home with concrete walls to really heat up, it has to be that warm for a few days. And if it cools down in the night and you use the exterior shutters (Rolläden) during the day and keep the sun outside, you can keep the temperature on an acceptable level. However, I suppose more and more homes in Germany will install Air Conditioners in the coming years, because of the temperature rising more and more in the summer.
in summer, you usually air out the house in the morning, so you get cool air inside which stays for the day (for the most part) due to good insulation
It's obviously an AI generated script and video, I really don't like these.
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In Germany it is a tradition to bless the home after the roof is build. A young birk tree will be nailed to the front of the roof and the carpenter bless the home.
In this it is tradition to thank all people which had build the home and wish the house owners and all which will be guest in future much good luck.
After the blessing the carpenter drinks a corn and drop the glas to the ground to break it. A German spreadword says: Shards will bring good luck. So it is the second way to lay good luck over the house.
It is generally recommended that house and side entrance doors should at least meet the requirements of resistance class RC2. This resistance class means that the door must be able to withstand an attempted break-in with simple tools (screwdriver, pliers or wedges) for at least three minutes.
In Germany it is not intended that people live permanent in a movebal home. Trailers and Campers are not declayred as livingroom. Its declayred as temporary holiday residence.
In Germany you have to have a Main-Residence-Adress where you can get officinal post like tax, election ore others. If you are homeless, most people have there post adress at social facilities like warming kitchens. If you dont have any adress the post will be hang out public in city hall.
If you want to live permant in a Tiny House you are needed to fulfill the law like a normal house.
That means you have been conacted to water, electricity, canalication and fulfill building law standards.
Also you need a Bauantrag.
A few issues require clarification: 1. brick houses burn slightly less often than wooden ones. Yes, bricks don't burn, but the interior of most houses is made of polyester, plywood and chipboard. Typically, after a major fire, such a brick house is unsuitable for re-inhabitation (the high temperature damages the structure of the load-bearing walls and ceilings). 2. The legend of German precision is a long time ago, currently many craftsmen do not do their job properly and increasingly cheat customers to increase their income. 3. Building a heavy house involves high stresses and frequent cracking of the walls (which is practically irreversible). 4. Leaks also occur in brick houses, resulting in the appearance of mold that is difficult to remove, paint peeling off, and weakening of the supporting structure.
All the socket outlets i see in this video are not german. And also most of the houses themselfes doesn't look german style.🤔
There is exactly one German house shown, all others are murican.
Well, I'm from West Poland. I have finished building of my house in 2017 and have good isolation, recuperation, photovoltaics and windows also HST and window blinds. No air conditionn, because we needed to decide, what we need more-lack of money for all. I can tell, that in summer, even if there is ver hot, means about 35 celsius, inside is ok, max 25 and in bedrooms 23/24, but it depends on personal feeling.
On really Hot day Germany close the windows and the Rolling shutters to keep the heat outside. At night we than open the windows to let cool air in
A lot of British footage in this video. You can see the three pin outlets.
Those look mostly like US three pins
you can punsh through a german door, sure.. if you`re Bruce Lee of if you finally master the Iron Fist Technique after 30 years of hard work and dedication!
You don't open the window during a hot day like that! You do your lüften during the night to get fresh cool air in and you close them in the morning. With good insulation it will stay cool enough during the day. There will be hot days where it won't be enough and you wish you had AC but as we say over here "Summer is the best week of the year" so you get through it and accept it for those few days.
Last Summer, outside 35°C or higher, inside my living room the temperature never passed the 23°C. Without any air conditioning. Just a good insulation :P
Yes, in many parts of Germany it can get up to and beyond 100 degrees Fahrenheit! There's only so much thick concrete walls and thick window shutters can do to keep out the heat. Heat-induced insomnia is a real thing for me personally (exacerbated by the fact that I have to go to bed at like 8 pm when it's still hot af, so airing out the room will not cool it down at all). I'm dreading the summer. Many homes have portable air conditioning systems now though. They're not super efficient and they're noisy af, but they can make it a little more bearable while they're running.
Windows are the largest contributor to energyloss here. Maybe search for Thermal Camera shots on german houses in the winter.
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if you are a trained boxer you can punch through a interior door in germany. But i guess i can not. I probably cant even kick a hole into it, but could probably kick it open.
We're in Germany got window covers called "Rolladen (window cover outside) / Rollo (window cover inside) ". If the temperature hits 100 degrees, you air up your house in the morning called "Lüften" and close it and covered it up for the rest of the day. The room temperature stays round about 25 degrees Celsius in the house.
All of the new windows in the house we purchased have shutters, but they can only be operated manually. Our neighbors have automatic roller shutters that adjust to the sun or are operated at the push of a button. Manual and perhaps automatic roller shutters can also be found in many apartments or apartment buildings built after 1990 in East Germany. Our house was built at the beginning or middle of the 19th century, it is an old half-timbered house, the walls on the ground floor are partly over 60 cm thick.
The last apartment we moved into had a fitted kitchen, which our landlady made available to us. Since the apartment was under the roof, no other kitchen would have fit. Our refrigerator didn't even fit in there. It was next to it in the living room. For our house we purchased a side-by-side refrigerator and a kitchen island.
i doubt that you can Punch through the average German inside door, but they are not really hard, with a small Axe you go through them.
Front doors vary very much in that context
that WAS an American outlet… So, the picture was definitely NOT of a German kitchen…
There is absolutely no way in hell that video wasn't made by AI
Ryan, as a German living in Germany I can assure that I NEVER rented or bought a flat or house without a kitchen!!!
I rented 3 flats and one house; I bought one house and two flats (for rental); and I sold one house. Each and every one hard a kitchen when sold/ bought/ rented. That‘s why I had to replace the kitchens in my self inhabited house and in one of the rented flat because they were old and Indidn‘t bothervthe tenants with such an old kitchen.
Perhaps it is different in other regions of Germany, but here in the north the existence of a kitchen is absolutely common.
100F is about the maximum you get in the summer. But only from like June to first half of Septemper. In autumn and spring its a good temperature and usually doesnt require heating or cooling. Only when you have weeks of bad weather you might consider heating a bit in like april or oktober. In the winter however it can go to about 0 F if there is a extreme cold wave with wind from russia. But 0F you see about once every 3 years for a couple of days. Usually winters average about 30 F. Southern Germany is about the same lattitude of the US-Canadian border. But its a bit warmer here because of the gulf stream from the gulf of mexico coming over. But if the wind comes from the east it gets as cold as it is there in canada or montana.
Sure these 4 summer month are hard to bear without AC and almost everyone has at least a fan in their homes. Not on the ceiling but one you can just put wherever u want. And people are outside a lot on lakes and stuff because they cant bear the heat at home. Some buy a mobile AC which costs around 300-1000€ or even more but not everyone can either afford it or wants to pay the electric bill for it.
Yes, in Summer, it can get that hot, but with the insulation, it stays very cool inside, even without AC. Opening windows when it's hot outside will let the hot air in, so we only air out once it's dark and the temperatures have dropped. During the day, when I open the door to go outside, I feel like I'm stepping into an oven.
I am from germany... u can try punch a hole throu a door, but i would not advise it ^^ Most doors even inside the house (because the outside doors are way more sturdy) are still quite damage resistant :) there are exceptions to everything ofc, but in general...keep your hand to yourself and healthy not trying to punch a german door :D
Considering the "How hot does it get?" You air out your house in the early hours of the day (sometimes late at night aswell, depending on your sleeping schedule), when it is still/already shady and relatively cool. When it is warm you make use of the "Rolladen" for further insulation. I have a relatively new apartment i am living at, and when it was around those 34 °C i would havearound 27 °C in the rooms with no oven or PC and 28-29°C in my working room or the kitchen after cooking. Of course without air conditioning.
P.S.: no, we don't have these trailer parks, or mobile homes, like in the USA. Some people build small houses around lakes, where they go in Summer, on vacation. There are Sinti and Roma people who live in RVs or in caravans that can be pulled by cars (at least for a few months per year), but there are designed areas where they can stay, and they never stay very long in the same places.
A word on Rollladen from a german guy:
Rolladen is a composite word made from "roll" (as in english rolling, meaning it is rolled up) and "Laden". A "Laden" or shutter is a flap of wood that was historically used to close Windows even in times when glass was not broadely available. As medieval shops often had a storefront window with wooden shutters opening downwards to provide a table to present goods, "Laden" is also the german word for a shop or store. Historically speaking, a wooden pane was the original means of closing windows and the glasspane behind it is a later, technically more advanced addition. There are buildings in Germany, that were first built with open windowholes covered in wooden shutters, were then later modernized to single-pane glass windows, then to dual glass and are now renovated with rolling shutters and triple-pane glass, with the original wooden swing-shutters installed on the outside wall as a means of decoration. Also, you can buy extra thin multipane glass in Germany that will fit historic windowframes, in case your house is under jurisdiction of the administration for the preservation of historic buildings and landmarks.
hoi about doors - a cheap door is not full solid wood - its hollow. Better ones have insulation material (certainly) for noise reduction. On older Houses there might be still solid wood doors (~2inches massive wood) there you would punch a hole into. I actually don't know if there are reignforcements inside the door, no guarantee you wont hurt yourself if you try here.
It's indeed quite striking how doors are often depicted in American movies as easily kicked down like cardboard, whereas in Austria, our doors are mostly security doors, very thick, equipped with multiple security pins, and in newer apartments, they have automatic closing mechanisms for fire safety
In hot summers here in the city of Munich it can be over 40 degrees Celsius, which is 104 degrees in Fahrenheit, in the nights we have around 30 degrees in the apartment, without air conditioning.
I'd rather be too warm than too cold, for example.
In my parents' house where I grew up, i.e. in Austria, in hot summers we had a maximum of around 24 degrees Celsius in the house, unless you had the windows open in the heat, but we also had the roller shutters on the outside of the windows. Let it down, left the small openings visibly open and you could easily open the windows to ventilate without having to worry about it getting too warm in the house.
we don't have trailer parks, but we do have camping sites or Schrebergärten, but those aren't used for living, more for relaxation and vacation
It can get very hot in Germany ... 120 degrees Fahrenheit is quite possible and in winter it can even get as low as -25 degrees ...
The biggest problem in hot weather is the windows, you just have to make sure that you ventilate them at night and make sure that no more sun comes into the room by 8 am at the latest
Something about the kitchens, the cabinets are a modular system and can be adapted, usually you only have to replace the upper worktop...
on the other hand, a kitchen like this can be very expensive, I know that my grandmother once spent 42,000 euros on her kitchen and then you will understand why you don't want to leave it there
If you know it will be warm, as you indicated around 37 degrees (Europe), then we leave the curtains closed and the outside wall (concrete and stones) also keep the heat out, so we won't need air conditioning anytime soon. in contrast to the 3 little pig houses in the USA where houses are largely made of wood, and the heat can easily get in
that video must have been written by AI and read by either a good AI voice or someone on fiver not giving a shit
the modifiable blinds that sta in place and simply rotate are interior, the heavy duty ones that you operate with the band are exterior
I live in a house in Germany with a basement build of concrete. The rest is made of wood. But I never understand how you hit a wall without breaking all your bones. At least our walls, and all other wood walls that l know, are very stable. It does not make much of a difference, whether you punch the wall or a large solid tree. I always believed, that punching through a wall is just a crazy Hollywood special effect.
If you're impressed by German houses you should see Finnish houses and buildings. (And yes I have lived in Germany, the US and live in Finland.)
Yes, you can knock through the usual lightweight, inexpensive indoor doors in Germany.
They sometimes have an inner structure of some kind of cardboard and a top layer of veneer or similar.
I myself punched a hole (just one side) in my bedroom door without meaning to when I was in a rage as a kid.
But you can also buy more solid doors that you can break your hand on, like the German solid walls.
if it is 100 or even 130° outside, you better keep your windows shut and the shutters down. Then your home stays at 60-80° all day long.
In Germany, it is considered a (statistically) "hot day", if it is above 30° Celsius (86° F) air temperature.
In the entire year 2023, there were ~12 Days, where it was that hot in the entire country (keep in mind, that Germany is much smaller than the US). Even though, the number of days did increase (and continues to do so), it is just not necessary to introduce AC on a larger scale just yet. Especially considering, that with the right strategy (airing out during the night, keeping the windows closed and shutters down during the day), you can keep the inside of the houses well below the average outside temperature - without the need for AC.
It is true that most houses in Europe do not have air conditioning and ventilation systems. However, this has been slowly changing in recent years as even well-insulated houses heat up considerably in summer due to more frequent and more extreme heat waves.
17:34 Nope, so to me it looks like a really nice American kitchen, with a natural stone countertop and beautiful, timeless cabinets. This island is something we really love about American kitchens and so you can find more and more islands in (richer) German kitchens too.
In Europe in general there are mobile homes and trailers but not as big in size as in the US. And trailer parks like in the US we don't have but there are some small ones in use by gypsies or we have camp sites where you put your trailer but most of them you can't live there all year around.
Popular German caravan (trailer) brands are Hobby, Knaus, Bürstner, Hymer, Dethleffs and they aren't towed by trucks but with for us Europeans normal cars.
No built-in storage so you can place your bed or whatever you want to place in the room to your own liking and not being hindered by the door of the built-in closet.
We have timberhomes that are way over 900 years old :D But you want a stong house here because if hurricanes come it dosent matter as well as an tornado. Quite rare but they rarly even pull down the roof because of the weight. Usually The Roof can hold its own weight and 25 cm of snow and after that you have a 3-6 times double as safety feature for calculating the needed thickness and material
4:15 you are right, that is the ceremony. And the people with these hats, looking a bit like Amish, are "Zimmermänner" with their traditional workingclothes. "Zimmermänner" are doing the woodwork on the roof truss
Was born in a wood house in Sweden, it still stands 53 years later and look about the same, a few minor additions.
One got to repaint the house to protect the wood tho.
Ryan first time in Germany. Standing in front of the window, watching the Rollladen going up ... down ... up ... down ... up ... down 🤣🥰
Yes the shutters are exterieur and can be used to regulate light and temperature, because if they're closed in summer, the glass don't even gets warm, BUT they can also be used to block insects, while the window is open, which still allows air circulation, AND you can make your living room a dark cinema at daylight without weird reflexions on the screen AND you can protect your window glass if there is some crazy ball game going on in the garden or during a big fat storm, which throws things through the air, AND you can protect recently cleaned windows from getting watermarks by rain drops.
But do you know what's the most genius thing about opening windows? If your wife is farting in the winter, you can instantly punish her by opening all windows and freeze her till she's an iceblock. Trust me, that's well proven educational method 🥶🤪
The usual max temperature in Germany is 85 to 90 degrees fahrenheit. Yes, may it be that over 100 is spotted at one day in one place a year, but even the 85 to 90 mostly just last for 2 to 4 weeks between july and august. Half of the country is on holidays in far away country with their school kids at that time, so it might be they completely skip this hot period. And if not, go swimming in a lake, eat ice cream or jump from shadow to shadow in a park. In Germany you have enough vacation to do that the whole day xD
In Germany houses burn out, not down. I mean, if the whole house is on fire it will be just cheaper to wreck it and build it new. But there are houses where people live and where just one or two rooms have been on fire some months or years ago and you can still see the smoke trails above the windows on the outside. Especially in big buildings with a lot of apartments the owner won't afford the outside to be redone completely just because some mommy made a fire in the kitchen.
No trailer parks in Germany. Trailers are for vacation or older people which live the whole summer at a camping site at the coast, but they still have a house or apartment anywhere. Living permanently in a trailer would be rather considered to be kind of homeless here. Expecially because we have no places to put them, so you'd need to buy a piece of land to put it and if you can afford that why wouldn't you build a house on it? Sure, because you want to live in a trailer. But you need land to but it..... See? Lost in circles here. The german equivalent to trailer parks, where young or poor people can live cheaper, would be a 1 or 2 room apartment in a big dirty building with loud neighbors. Kind of these blocky soviet style buildings you still see in eastern Germany, but not only there.
Yes, you buy the closets, but remember, if you move, you'll take everything with you, even the closets. You don't have to buy them new every single time. And it's true, we don't move so much. Look, when you're young you rent an apartment and begin to buy furniture. Then let's say you move together and get married, you build a house together, but you still have a lot of furniture from two single households, you can use. At least in the beginning. So then, as kids grow and destroy all your furniture, you can buy higher value stuff piece by piece and hope your little terrorists are mature enough now not to demolish it agein :D In general this system works out quite well.
Decorating a blank house is not only about decoration. Germans have very different tastes when it comes to interieur design, from country side style with wood and stone to modern glass and steel and anything in between. Don't get me wrong, but especially many women will hate an old kitchen in the house. Don't know why exactly, maybe it's the wrong style, design, color, concept where things a placed or just that it has been another woman who has expressed herself with this choice... idk, but many would be quite unhappy. They just want their own.
11:07 in the summer there are many 100 degress days and to be honest, the people who have their apartment in the attic struggle with temperatures over 85 degrees and can't sleep because of the heat. But installing air conditioning would be extremely expensive to maintain
A point often forgotten when it comes to concrete is the high amount of energy necessary during its production. That energy is part of the so called gray energies, that is energy that is being used but its use is invisible.
So, although I don't have any data on that, I'd assume it'll take some years for the concrete building to acutally be more energy efficient than the wooden one.
we don't open the windows during "100 degree days" we open them in the morning and in the evening when it's cool outside to cool down our walls and keep them closed during the day
Yes, we have exterior "Rolladen"
Otherwise, it wouldn't be Rolladen, but Jalousie :D
naturally the rolling shutters (Rollladen singular / Rollläden plural) are on the outside, they are supposed to keep the sun/heat out, so its outside the acutal window, so it does not heat up the room. same goes for the cold not getting in - the rolling shutters are cool but dont radiate that into the house.
Concrete actually leaks more energy than any Material used in a typical american home.
But the thing is, you only need complex insulation on outward facing walls, and on every other, a 1 cm sheet of Styrofoam completely does the trick.
100°F is quite common in hotter summer weeks however we reach even higher temperatures for arround 1-4 weeks per year up to 111°F
If the summer weeks are only hot for short times up to a week than cooling of by rain the isolation is normally enough to keep you cool inside if it stays hot for more than 2 weeks it is becomming an issue as the air in the house will heat up as well and it is hard to cool it down in the short run. Normally people will close all windows during day and open them during night to reduce the temperatures inside but in really hot weeks the temperatures over night stay arround 77°F which doesn't help much. If you miss the shutters the big windows can also be an issue as you are not able to limit the amount of sunlight which makes it easy for your home to heat up fast.
Normal temperatures in my living room during hotter summer weeks are arround 30 to 34°C (86 to 93°F) as I lack shutters for my windows and my living room has 2 big and 3 smaller windows and is widely open to the sun as I live on the corner of a crossroad and the windows face in southern direction. The benefit is I have a indoor garden with vegetables and even potatoe plants in my kitchen and another room facing in south eastern direction ^^
Yeah, heatwaves are when it really sucks to not have AC. We have to basically open all windows at 5am and close them at 7am to let the heat out of the house before the heat comes each day. And even then its still quite warm inside.
In the near future this will change, as more and more houses get heat pumps for heating and these are often reversible to act as AC in the summer.
The ceremony actually takes place when all the beams of the roof are put in place. It's called "Richtfest".