I haven't seen much of this in the US market. Cream rises, so it wasn't good enough to break into our market. That is a two way street too :) I am sure half of our stuff never makes it to Europe.
@@alans9707 It has all advantages and disadvantages. Most building in Europe are multi-flat, I have lived for a while in US in one like this, and had been waken up multiple times at night by someone floor up flashing the toilet on the other side of flat- never happened in concrete European building :-) Also, have you ever heard about building torn up by tornado in Europe? Worse can happen is few pieces of roof can fly off.
@@pilbomags488 I do not, I am an interesting person. Some of the European stuff isn't that great, just like some of the US stuff isn't great. if it is good enough it will make it into both markets. Everybody thinks their way is best. I have lived overseas and can say it is not any better there as a whole than here...building product wise. Having said that I really like some of the pellet furnaces from Germany :)
We retrofitted a treated, shredded paper-based insulation under the floors of our 120-year-old farmhouse. Until recently EPS was the easier way, now people want to use natural products that "work" with the existing building material. The thick underfloor insulation is so good that even in a -20 Deg C Winter here in Estonia, we can walk around in bare feet or socks! And we use minimal heating!
As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!
Healthiest materials to build a house from : earth and wood. I grew up in a village in Eastern Europe where all houses were built like that, with mud bricks. You have the best insulation and air quality. The mud bricks regulate the air moisture, they keep the house cool during the summer and warm during winter. You just have to build the house in a way that water doesn't damage it.
I have a Hormann garage door and what I like about it is that it's extremely well insulated for the winter. I spend a fair amount of time in my garage/man cave and cold is not something I need to worry about.
You are So right about Germans, and especially Swiss wanting only non-toxic building materials. Trust me Swiss build all there structures to last 200 years. I live in Switzerland and do refrigeration / air conditioning, and I can say. Their standards are ridiculously high.
@Bill Wang the cost of building is like 3-4 times more expensive, with the mostly higher land prices in switzerland a house will cost you more like 5 times
@@Josh-wq8tt I once read the average American moves way more often than the average European. That might be one reason for the Europeans to be willing to invest more into their homes. Another reason might be the strict rules in Europe. In Germany they have the EnEV (Energie Einsparverordnung ~ energy saving regulation) which forces anyone to have certain insulation, heating efficiency and other things to be noticed. And then there's crazy and strict regulations on fire resistance, especially on appartment buildings. E.g. you can't just drill through the ceilling to put pipes there without sealing the hole with intumescent products like Armaprotect or similar licenced products. These things (and many more) add up to infinite things to consider in construction work in Germany, so there's often no way to do it as cheap as in the US due to laws. Europeans usually can't believe when they see videos of Americans spraying PU-foam directly into a thin wooden frame.
When I was young a neighbor wanted a "Walk-in Cooler". they got together and built on with TWO WALLS, One outside one Inside with a one foot void between. They then filled the void with SAWDUST mixed with Borax to keep the insects out. It is still around and working GREAT and it was built in the lat 50s.
I am amazed that a heat exchange system that works on a closed heat system is new for you people. Think we been using them for 50-60 years, the main benefit is that you treat the heat water so you do not get build up of minerals in your exchanger and/or boiler.
Thorstein Mortensen in my trade magazines, there are a couple of companies, whom sell radiant systems that do domestic drinking water too, but my old house has a steam system, built in 1039, but wish it were a hot water system. In EUROPE there should not be any steam, but hot water,, older homes have radiators, mostly oil fired , I saw NO NATURAL GAS , only electric, and 3 phase in homes in Germany., but most the world is 50 HZ,
@@flybyairplane3528 Natural gas is very very common in Germany. Oil heating isn't something that really happened since the 70s. Steam heaters are a thing but more for not modernized buildings from about 1900 to 1940 and in industrial environments where steam is a byproduct and some trains until about 1990.
One thing you have to keep in mind when attending these shows , is that they are presenting their most extreme and newest versions of house building . Most house in germany are not built this way because of the expense . It's kind of like going to a new car show. Most everything on display are concept cars and or top of the line models. Also Switzerland imports most of their lumber from germany and scandinavia and scandinavia imports a lot of their timber from russia. So , when the swiss CLT Maunufactures state they are using trees from Switzerland , it's a bit of a stretch.
From watching this one video have gone back to the design stage to incorporate the Ligno laminated beams into our upcoming townhouse build. Also going to install the Chronoseal for the front door and door coming from the garage into the house. Pretty amazing reach for guys from the US, going to Germany and now influencing a build in Australia.
Purchased some german cabinet hardware for pull out cabinets. Seriously nice hardware, very impressive, installation was awesome and performance is amazing.
You guys are amazing...keep watching old videos and see how far you guys have both come in you fluidity in your presentation. Also the experts like Joe L, Mark L, Allison B, Bill W, and many more. Only bad thing is I have a hard time watching other channels because they aren’t organized anywhere close to your content. Hopefully one day I could be lucky enough to come see one of your projects in person (of course, off camera!!). Thanks for everything you guys have done.
Thanks for the insights! I am of German origin and when I bought my house here in New Mexico 15 years ago, I thought - Oh Lord, I move to the greatest country in the world by a time warp back into the 1960´s - construction-wise. I have made my peace with it and make my house the best out of two worlds! I use 2x6´s and measure them in millimeters before I cut them, I don´t pour a 4 inch concrete slab, but a 20 centimeter thick one - and no nails - no nails - nails! I am at an almost zero utility bill over the year. Solar electricity, solar hot water, air-tight wood stove for the winter, 10.000gallons of rain water cisterns for soft clean water! And my Chevy Volt also gives me 40 free miles per day from my solar system. Tesla Cyber Truck is on order! US can rock, if the people are willing to accept changes!
This European trip and all of the content you have posted has been Great, I've learned a lot and have seen some really innovative solutions. Thank You, Matt and Jordan.
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I live in an SIP home near Seattle, which I had built 18 years ago. My walls are R-40 with almost no thermal bridges, and my roof is R-48 with no thermal bridges. I used ICFs for the foundation walls, and form-a-drain for the footing. There are a lot of innovative construction methods and products for homes available in the US. Many of the posters below seem to think that there are no alternatives in the US to cheesy spec home construction methods usually used in the US.
Exactly. Been researching using ICF / SIP combination in my next home. A lot of comes down to money, and many of those innovative methods can get pretty pricey.
I think one of those two guys was the vendor/mfg. and he should have been aware that a film crew was filming his product and been more accommodating. If I was his boss I certainly would have a talk with him.
Or extremely European to not step to the side. I was just on an island with lots of US and EU tourist waiting around and a poor guy with a loaded hand truck trying to get by. The " rude" Americans moved off the curb to let him by without thinking and the Europeans just refused to move making him go off the curb both times.
Americans impressed by stuff we've had in Ireland for years. :) The skylight that's also a balcony is on my list to get for my attic conversion from Danish company Velux.
@ Because the heating water runs through the inside of the radiators and the heater. Obviously after that it is no longer of drinking quality. Tapwater is one of the most tested, checked and looked after "food items" in Europe.
Cool video, thanks! I'm actually building a house in Germany right now with pretty much exactly the same wall and floor structure, but with Stgeico materials, as at 6:50, except that we will leave the CLT visible in many walls inside.
I'm studying Architecture in Germany and theres like a reversion to natural building materials, because concrete and steel have been so big over the last 100 years. Especially when you think of the room climate and the toxic components that for example are used to make plastic-insulations fire resistent. And sustainability is getting a big thing - the energy you need to produce steel and concrete compared to wood is nuts. Wood is a good thing for the health of world and human :)
Concrete and steel ARE natural building materials . As much as i prefer wood to concrete and steel , there just isn't enough of it to use it exclusively around the world and its not very green to use it in places that dont have vast forests. It's best to use those resources that are locally available than to add on the cost of shipping .
You danes are in abit of a unique situation. Your fairly small, flat and surrounded by the ocean, so even in the winter it doesnt get very cold. Neither do you have much forrest. So bricks make alot of sense in Denmark.
@@ThePentosin It wasn't so much the weather consideration that I was commenting on. It was more that he kept saying in Europe they do thing different. There are as big differences in building style and techniques in Europe, as there is between the central Europe and the US.
I can agree, I live and build new houses in Sweden, and though Denmark its next to Sweden there is many differences. so to say all the time that´s how they build in Europe not right.
Yeah Polish construction is very much like German but then what i saw in Spain, Italy and then up north in Esti, Finland or Sweden is compeletly different.
You'll have to expand Risinger Exports to Risinger Imports/Exports ;) Bring in stuff from Europe for yourselves, and send us in Australia all the products you don't want to use anymore ;)
I have to say that i had my apprenticeship as plumber in germany 5 years ago and part of that were fresh water "heating systems". that's something that is very common nowadays because people dont like stagnating water. Cheers
My German brother-in-law has what would be considered a master’s degree in wood engineering. If there’s any place on earth where they could make wood and wood products work in situations that we wouldn’t try here in the US, it’s in Germany.
Cost vs benefit. I would put fiber board on my next project but the R&D would kill me. I am open as I assume most on this YT channel are to new ways of doing things.
Never Sleight That’s what I was about to say. The building techniques and materials over there have grown with what they want and need. We make a trip to Germany every year to visit family and I always hit the “Home Depot” there to see what cool tools they have that we don’t but that I can use. Plus what Matt said about people not being as mobile there as we are is true. So homes are built in mind to last hundreds of years and be maintained with materials that are readily available, namely, wood and stone.
@@douglaspohl1827 No, craftsmanship is just much older in Germany and because of our traineeship system, we preserve a lot of knowledge from previous generations.
Worked on a project with the Gutex insulation last year here in Kansas City, It is available, just need to get the right distributor. It is not air tight, so detailed air sealing is critical.
@@knallm1chboll3r29 not sure where to find energy efficiency rating per country. However, oecd rating is quite clear that the us has more space per person and more indoor flushing toilets in per cent comparing to the most of the EU countries. Cost of having a roof (housing expenditure ) is lower in the us as well. Housing is cheaper, construction labor may be not cheaper, but with better service and more choice and, average income per person is higher. Add lower taxes and you will see much more affordable house upgrades and new house (new standards) construction in the us comparing to Europe www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/housing/
@@personne4985 yes of course its cheaper in the us because the houses are crap... cardboard houses with no real Walls. You Cent compare the us with the eu especially the western states with eastern europe... european standarts are much higher then in the us and thats why its much more expensive to build a house in europe. The houses in europe are most build with bricks and not with cardboard like in the us. In europe nearly all houses got good insulation... in the US not. The houses in the US are very unefficient and not really the best in quality.
You want to see CLT in the USA? Already been done for a VERY long time. Go into a Church... If you want massive wood structures go to anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. We have several hundred foot wide all wood buildings. Heck, the Tacoma dome is all wood/concrete construction.
Last year there was a small convention held in Germany called `GuitCon' by and for guitar based You Tubers. It was held at a factory that makes high end guitars (Framus and their sister brand Warwick). Anyway, so many of these guys spent so much of their time talking about and shooting the plant and the various systems of the building because they were so impressed with all the thought that went into the buildings themselves. There was a lot of attention to efficiency and limiting waste in energy, material, you name it, everything. The owner is a very long term, large scale, innovative thinker. Come to think of it I think the area where this is located is near the Swiss border, lol. Well, this video reminded me of those guys going on and on about how smartly that place was designed.
@@thomas1116 Nah he's not. But I recognize rudeness where ever it raises it's ugly head. It gives people the impression that all Americans are loud, obnoxious, self centered bullies which of course they aren't. Some are also arrogant.
Thank you for taking the time to show what types of construction materials and techniques that are used in other countries. The Swiss people build to last unlike here in the states.
That uponor system can also be used for long-distance heating where a distant power station generates heat which is then pushed through huge and highly insulated pipes to various sized houses (single family home to "skyscrapers"). It wouldn't make sense in most parts of the US because of the long distances but in Europe it makes a lot because if we would travel the distance from one state to the next we would literally leave the country ;) The big downside of the uponor and similar systems is that hot water takes some time until it arrives at the faucet and that the temperature changes from hour to hour. One side note is that in at least Germany, Austria and Switzerland the system for heating is completely sealed away from the system for drinking water. Drinking water never touches anything that is used for heating.
In Belgium, Velux is the more known vendor for roofwindows. They have a version of the balcony roofwindow as well. Its a danish company (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VELUX)
As a German I think it is somewhat humbling if someone says they have the fancy stuff that must be German. But let us be honest, there are and have been bright minds in other countries as well. And especially for Poland out of a lot of other countries I think it is more than fair to say if there was a lack of visible and available high tech and innovative industries some decades ago (I guess the iron curtain left its marks, as you somewhat can compare it in eastern Germany), Poland did more than well catching up and showing what it can do.
I'm happy I found this video. The chronoseal product looks really interesting. I've just had a pivot entrance door installed and I'm experiencing the problem of inadequate sealing due to the manufacturer's use of a brush seal at the top of door because there's no jamb that the top of the door comes into contact with, so I'll definitely be checking out that Chronoseal product.
Love watching your show Matt! keep up the good hard work! Its obvious you really enjoy this stuff and Its really cool to watch somebody with the same Enthusiasm about building as I do about plumbing MORE PLUMBING VIDEOS PLZ MATT!!
"Instead of just two panes...three panes" "You heard of this thing the eight minute abs...well this going to blow that right out of the water...seven minute abs"
Dont if you guys got the answer for the difference of U-Valve and your R-Valve, its the opposite so to say. R-Valve is Thermal resistance U-Valve is heat transfer coefficient - amount of heat per time ( 1 square meter per second and the unit is Watts per square meter and Kelvin [W/(m²·K)] ) R = thickness / thermal conductivity and the other would be U = thermal conductivity / thickness Hope I didnt butcherd it with my little non technical english knowlege :D
@@Fixmix78 he should make a tour along the channel up to Norway and afterwards visit Berlin and other certain parts in Germany. Then he should be well informed about walls and their effectiveness, or let's say outcome.
As I mentioned in an earlier post in this series, the sheathing on our Bensonwood/Unity house is interlocking panels made by Steico. Glad you went to their booth! You _can_ get it in America... you're welcome to visit us, too ;).
That getAir HRV is not intented to be used in older houses since those have gaps everywhere where air can get in or out. However with newer houses the regulations for air sealing are so strict that we have issues with enough oxygen getting into, thus you are required by law to install fresh air supply and ideally you do this by using HRVs. I happen to have three of these in my apartment and (depending on the control unit) you can regulate the speed/noise and also if they pull in for a given time and then swap direction. Normally you install these in pairs and configure one to pull while the second one is configured to push so that you always have a neutral pressure.
Yep, houses in mainland Europe are pretty good, don't go to Ireland though, I live here and the houses have the worst quality! Especially when builders skimp on materials and space.
Second time when I heart that... Chimney's material is called lightweight concrete, made of expanded clay and cement. Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) is so much different material - you can build decent walls without isolation (walls U-0,15), google Bauroc. After you have finished with block laying, you have 500mm or 19 2/3inches thick inside-outside full stone walls. No moisture barriers, special weather sealing etc, just plastering. AAC is great idea for episode, imho. Like said before, every European country has it's building culture - in my country, I guess max 5% of new residential houses are built from wood. These are mainly built from different combinations of blocks and insulation, but I haven't ever seen building from hollow blocks.
Great video! Btw, you can eliminate the flickering by switching your camera from 60 Hz to 50 Hz. Remember the European electrical grids (and therefore lights) run at 50 Hz.
Europe has never taken domestic hot water from the heating circuit. Traditionally we use one heat source, but it has always fed two hydraulically separate systems!
9:48 The high rise garage system is meant as a solution for areas with sparce parking space inside bigger cities. Works like a storage system you might see inside large warehouses. Drive onto the platform, go outside, the car gets stored and an empty platform will arrive for the next car. Want to get your car out? Insert the ticket/card and the system will pull out your car for you. Like it says on 9:54 "Wöhr verdichtet Parkraum" - Wöhr (the company) compresses parking space.
Seems like the Europeans are further on with building technology than here in the States. What cool things have we invented lately besides the Philips head screw?
To the video shooter: if you lock your camera's shutter speed to 1/50th of a second, you'll eliminate the flickering of European lights. This will work even if you're shooting at 24 or 30 frames per second. You can then adjust the final exposure with ISO, aperture and (if necessary) neutral density filters.
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It is so much fun to watch American professional builder getting excited about European common stuff. :D
A lot of the things in this video seemed pretty high-end.
I haven't seen much of this in the US market. Cream rises, so it wasn't good enough to break into our market. That is a two way street too :) I am sure half of our stuff never makes it to Europe.
@@alans9707 It has all advantages and disadvantages. Most building in Europe are multi-flat, I have lived for a while in US in one like this, and had been waken up multiple times at night by someone floor up flashing the toilet on the other side of flat- never happened in concrete European building :-)
Also, have you ever heard about building torn up by tornado in Europe? Worse can happen is few pieces of roof can fly off.
@@alans9707 Slick wording. I bet you never run out of things to talk about at a party.
@@pilbomags488 I do not, I am an interesting person. Some of the European stuff isn't that great, just like some of the US stuff isn't great. if it is good enough it will make it into both markets. Everybody thinks their way is best. I have lived overseas and can say it is not any better there as a whole than here...building product wise. Having said that I really like some of the pellet furnaces from Germany :)
Hormann are the Rolls-Royce of garage doors. They are BIG. Great series from Switzerland & Germany. Well done!!
We retrofitted a treated, shredded paper-based insulation under the floors of our 120-year-old farmhouse. Until recently EPS was the easier way, now people want to use natural products that "work" with the existing building material. The thick underfloor insulation is so good that even in a -20 Deg C Winter here in Estonia, we can walk around in bare feet or socks! And we use minimal heating!
As an amateur with woodworker, i typically feel overpowered with the entire arrangement ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxrYREG3-7f1Aqk9ams3ZESRNzGnfdUtyQ . Be that as it may, this arrangements drove me through with much clarity and effortlessness woodplans. Works i now work like a genius. That is great!
Healthiest materials to build a house from : earth and wood. I grew up in a village in Eastern Europe where all houses were built like that, with mud bricks. You have the best insulation and air quality. The mud bricks regulate the air moisture, they keep the house cool during the summer and warm during winter. You just have to build the house in a way that water doesn't damage it.
I have a Hormann garage door and what I like about it is that it's extremely well insulated for the winter. I spend a fair amount of time in my garage/man cave and cold is not something I need to worry about.
You are So right about Germans, and especially Swiss wanting only non-toxic building materials. Trust me Swiss build all there structures to last 200 years.
I live in Switzerland and do refrigeration / air conditioning, and I can say. Their standards are ridiculously high.
murderdogg How is their cost compare to US average? Roughly 2 times or 5 times higher?
Unfortunately we tend to build cheap. Plus we build in such a way it's easy to tear down and do again every so often...
@Bill Wang the cost of building is like 3-4 times more expensive, with the mostly higher land prices in switzerland a house will cost you more like 5 times
@@Josh-wq8tt I once read the average American moves way more often than the average European. That might be one reason for the Europeans to be willing to invest more into their homes. Another reason might be the strict rules in Europe. In Germany they have the EnEV (Energie Einsparverordnung ~ energy saving regulation) which forces anyone to have certain insulation, heating efficiency and other things to be noticed. And then there's crazy and strict regulations on fire resistance, especially on appartment buildings. E.g. you can't just drill through the ceilling to put pipes there without sealing the hole with intumescent products like Armaprotect or similar licenced products. These things (and many more) add up to infinite things to consider in construction work in Germany, so there's often no way to do it as cheap as in the US due to laws.
Europeans usually can't believe when they see videos of Americans spraying PU-foam directly into a thin wooden frame.
High standards is something I wish my country had, don't complain about it, it's a good trait.
Matt, you are the best..
Even going to Germany to show new things.
Very, very cool.
Thanks Buddy. Appreciate that.
Really enjoying this series, Matt.
Me too. It could not be more irrelevant to my profession or my lifestyle but it's fascinating anyway.
Great! You guys look like two kids in a sweet shop!
I LOVE GERMAN TECHNOLOGY.
THEY ARE SMART
Like Mercedes, BMW and VW tech? Or BER tech?
When I was young a neighbor wanted a "Walk-in Cooler". they got together and built on with TWO WALLS, One outside one Inside with a one foot void between. They then filled the void with SAWDUST mixed with Borax to keep the insects out. It is still around and working GREAT and it was built in the lat 50s.
This channel and series is better than most broadcast shows.
Very kind. Thanks
Agreed!
I am amazed that a heat exchange system that works on a closed heat system is new for you people. Think we been using them for 50-60 years, the main benefit is that you treat the heat water so you do not get build up of minerals in your exchanger and/or boiler.
Thorstein Mortensen in my trade magazines, there are a couple of companies, whom sell radiant systems that do domestic drinking water too, but my old house has a steam system, built in 1039, but wish it were a hot water system. In EUROPE there should not be any steam, but hot water,, older homes have radiators, mostly oil fired , I saw NO NATURAL GAS , only electric, and 3 phase in homes in Germany., but most the world is 50 HZ,
@@flybyairplane3528 Natural gas is very very common in Germany. Oil heating isn't something that really happened since the 70s. Steam heaters are a thing but more for not modernized buildings from about 1900 to 1940 and in industrial environments where steam is a byproduct and some trains until about 1990.
One thing you have to keep in mind when attending these shows , is that they are presenting their most extreme and newest versions of house building . Most house in germany are not built this way because of the expense . It's kind of like going to a new car show. Most everything on display are concept cars and or top of the line models.
Also Switzerland imports most of their lumber from germany and scandinavia and scandinavia imports a lot of their timber from russia. So , when the swiss CLT Maunufactures state they are using trees from Switzerland , it's a bit of a stretch.
yeah, that wood fiber insulation is new stuff, but the ceramic block building is very much standard for central europe
Except the wood isolation I did not see anything that is uncommon on building sites in the last 5 year's.
I always wished there was a Build Show for the German market. And there it is! Thank you guys!
We build a Swiss chalet in suburban Austin this time ON THE BUILD SHOW. I love the series, keep it up!
From watching this one video have gone back to the design stage to incorporate the Ligno laminated beams into our upcoming townhouse build. Also going to install the Chronoseal for the front door and door coming from the garage into the house. Pretty amazing reach for guys from the US, going to Germany and now influencing a build in Australia.
i LOVE the lateral rollback doors!!!!!! love love love em!!!!
Purchased some german cabinet hardware for pull out cabinets. Seriously nice hardware, very impressive, installation was awesome and performance is amazing.
You guys are amazing...keep watching old videos and see how far you guys have both come in you fluidity in your presentation. Also the experts like Joe L, Mark L, Allison B, Bill W, and many more. Only bad thing is I have a hard time watching other channels because they aren’t organized anywhere close to your content. Hopefully one day I could be lucky enough to come see one of your projects in person (of course, off camera!!). Thanks for everything you guys have done.
Matt "REALLY cool" Risinger
i love all the enthusiams you bring for european building btw, make more tours over here^^ xD
thanks for taking us to the real world,,
Thanks for the insights! I am of German origin and when I bought my house here in New Mexico 15 years ago, I thought - Oh Lord, I move to the greatest country in the world by a time warp back into the 1960´s - construction-wise. I have made my peace with it and make my house the best out of two worlds! I use 2x6´s and measure them in millimeters before I cut them, I don´t pour a 4 inch concrete slab, but a 20 centimeter thick one - and no nails - no nails - nails! I am at an almost zero utility bill over the year. Solar electricity, solar hot water, air-tight wood stove for the winter, 10.000gallons of rain water cisterns for soft clean water! And my Chevy Volt also gives me 40 free miles per day from my solar system. Tesla Cyber Truck is on order! US can rock, if the people are willing to accept changes!
This European trip and all of the content you have posted has been Great, I've learned a lot and have seen some really innovative solutions. Thank You, Matt and Jordan.
I live in an SIP home near Seattle, which I had built 18 years ago. My walls are R-40 with almost no thermal bridges, and my roof is R-48 with no thermal bridges. I used ICFs for the foundation walls, and form-a-drain for the footing. There are a lot of innovative construction methods and products for homes available in the US. Many of the posters below seem to think that there are no alternatives in the US to cheesy spec home construction methods usually used in the US.
No no no... don't shatter their illusion of superiority.
Exactly. Been researching using ICF / SIP combination in my next home. A lot of comes down to money, and many of those innovative methods can get pretty pricey.
That was extremely American of you when you barged between those fellas.
was funny. The one guy even had the look...ah, classic American.
hell yeah, we saw Trump doing the same. No excuses, it is US!
Lol He said excuse me.
I think one of those two guys was the vendor/mfg. and he should have been aware that a film crew was filming his product and been more accommodating. If I was his boss I certainly would have a talk with him.
Or extremely European to not step to the side. I was just on an island with lots of US and EU tourist waiting around and a poor guy with a loaded hand truck trying to get by. The " rude" Americans moved off the curb to let him by without thinking and the Europeans just refused to move making him go off the curb both times.
Americans impressed by stuff we've had in Ireland for years. :) The skylight that's also a balcony is on my list to get for my attic conversion from Danish company Velux.
Nobody drinks heating water in Europe! Those are two separate systems.
And that is always the case in europe. I am not sure wether its even legal to drink heating water (here in germany.
@@Esablaka you dont drink dead water because of health reasons.
@@Esablaka Apparently they drink their heating water in the US. How else would you even get the idea?
@ Because the heating water runs through the inside of the radiators and the heater. Obviously after that it is no longer of drinking quality.
Tapwater is one of the most tested, checked and looked after "food items" in Europe.
@ I have glycol in my house heating system. Makes water taste funny so maybe thats the reason.:)
As a mechanical engineer, I can attest that anything I’ve seen that’s German-made is top notch designed and made.
Thanks for sharing what you are saw. Amazing to see innovative new products.
Awesome series Matt. Professionally presented and seriously interesting construction products.
Excellent presentation of amazing products!
Love the quality from over there
Great to see that you’re going abroad like this to find out about the latest and best ideas, in emerging building tech!
Cool video, thanks! I'm actually building a house in Germany right now with pretty much exactly the same wall and floor structure, but with Stgeico materials, as at 6:50, except that we will leave the CLT visible in many walls inside.
17:20 well that was rude, just the american way!!!
Extremely rude. Embarrassingly so.
that rude indeed!
The face of the guy behind him says it all.
Poor way to represent Americans. Never do this again.
Did the same thing at 3:55, barged in front of a man watching a video
Great video, Matt! Always fun to learn something new from you guys. Thanks!
I'm studying Architecture in Germany and theres like a reversion to natural building materials, because concrete and steel have been so big over the last 100 years. Especially when you think of the room climate and the toxic components that for example are used to make plastic-insulations fire resistent. And sustainability is getting a big thing - the energy you need to produce steel and concrete compared to wood is nuts. Wood is a good thing for the health of world and human :)
Concrete and steel ARE natural building materials .
As much as i prefer wood to concrete and steel , there just isn't enough of it to use it exclusively around the world and its not very green to use it in places that dont have vast forests. It's best to use those resources that are locally available than to add on the cost of shipping .
@@siriosstar4789 That’s one reason why I like that the us uses wood for 99.9999% of our homes.
WE love the off gassing and chemicals here in america. What ever is cheaper and makes us look richer, were ok with being sick.
You know that one building was reeally beautiful, I'm glad he clarified that because it wasn't clear in the original video.
In stead of in Europe, more correct would be saying central Europe.
The constructions is quite different from what we have here in Denmark.
You danes are in abit of a unique situation. Your fairly small, flat and surrounded by the ocean, so even in the winter it doesnt get very cold. Neither do you have much forrest. So bricks make alot of sense in Denmark.
@@ThePentosin It wasn't so much the weather consideration that I was commenting on. It was more that he kept saying in Europe they do thing different. There are as big differences in building style and techniques in Europe, as there is between the central Europe and the US.
I can agree, I live and build new houses in Sweden, and though Denmark its next to Sweden there is many differences. so to say all the time that´s how they build in Europe not right.
@@arne.munther yes, but then you use Denmark as an example which is the odd one out.
Yeah Polish construction is very much like German but then what i saw in Spain, Italy and then up north in Esti, Finland or Sweden is compeletly different.
You can't do anything but marvel at German efficiency
You'll have to expand Risinger Exports to Risinger Imports/Exports ;) Bring in stuff from Europe for yourselves, and send us in Australia all the products you don't want to use anymore ;)
You never heard of Hormann, you never heard of Fisher. Are you guys really into building materials?
Technotube55 i thought exactly the same😂
Wow almost like he’s visiting from somewhere else 😵
@@Stevenlust1 Hormann sells in the US too....
Hormann? Ich lache mich tot :D
The Hörmanns actually went to my school
Dude, you’re awesome bro!! I’m a contractor/developer in Missouri and I love watching your videos!
Thanks Jeremy! Appreciate that
I have to say that i had my apprenticeship as plumber in germany 5 years ago and part of that were fresh water "heating systems". that's something that is very common nowadays because people dont like stagnating water. Cheers
My German brother-in-law has what would be considered a master’s degree in wood engineering. If there’s any place on earth where they could make wood and wood products work in situations that we wouldn’t try here in the US, it’s in Germany.
BECAUSE???? Its treated or because of what? Regulations?
America's houses are far more beautiful than Germans and they have lots of land to play with.
Cost vs benefit. I would put fiber board on my next project but the R&D would kill me. I am open as I assume most on this YT channel are to new ways of doing things.
Never Sleight That’s what I was about to say. The building techniques and materials over there have grown with what they want and need. We make a trip to Germany every year to visit family and I always hit the “Home Depot” there to see what cool tools they have that we don’t but that I can use.
Plus what Matt said about people not being as mobile there as we are is true. So homes are built in mind to last hundreds of years and be maintained with materials that are readily available, namely, wood and stone.
@@douglaspohl1827 No, craftsmanship is just much older in Germany and because of our traineeship system, we preserve a lot of knowledge from previous generations.
Worked on a project with the Gutex insulation last year here in Kansas City, It is available, just need to get the right distributor. It is not air tight, so detailed air sealing is critical.
_"Americans discover how real houses are made"_
Haha, quite sarcastic since the most of the EU buildings are old and do not fit modern standards🙂
@@personne4985 maybe in the more poor countries of europe
@@personne4985 not really...
@@knallm1chboll3r29 not sure where to find energy efficiency rating per country. However, oecd rating is quite clear that the us has more space per person and more indoor flushing toilets in per cent comparing to the most of the EU countries. Cost of having a roof (housing expenditure ) is lower in the us as well. Housing is cheaper, construction labor may be not cheaper, but with better service and more choice and, average income per person is higher. Add lower taxes and you will see much more affordable house upgrades and new house (new standards) construction in the us comparing to Europe www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/housing/
@@personne4985 yes of course its cheaper in the us because the houses are crap... cardboard houses with no real Walls. You Cent compare the us with the eu especially the western states with eastern europe... european standarts are much higher then in the us and thats why its much more expensive to build a house in europe. The houses in europe are most build with bricks and not with cardboard like in the us. In europe nearly all houses got good insulation... in the US not. The houses in the US are very unefficient and not really the best in quality.
You want to see CLT in the USA? Already been done for a VERY long time. Go into a Church... If you want massive wood structures go to anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. We have several hundred foot wide all wood buildings. Heck, the Tacoma dome is all wood/concrete construction.
I absolutely LOVED this video! You guys did a GREAT job. Keep up the good work!
Last year there was a small convention held in Germany called `GuitCon' by and for guitar based You Tubers. It was held at a factory that makes high end guitars (Framus and their sister brand Warwick). Anyway, so many of these guys spent so much of their time talking about and shooting the plant and the various systems of the building because they were so impressed with all the thought that went into the buildings themselves. There was a lot of attention to efficiency and limiting waste in energy, material, you name it, everything. The owner is a very long term, large scale, innovative thinker. Come to think of it I think the area where this is located is near the Swiss border, lol. Well, this video reminded me of those guys going on and on about how smartly that place was designed.
17:23 couldn't you have been more polite and waited. Rude.
I didn't want to believe it,...TILL I SAW IT! 😅
I wonder why euro types think americans are rude...
Paulo Marcondes you think a Guy named grant adamson is european?
@@thomas1116 Nah he's not. But I recognize rudeness where ever it raises it's ugly head. It gives people the impression that all Americans are loud, obnoxious, self centered bullies which of course they aren't. Some are also arrogant.
@@marcondespaulo yeah it's really confusing.
at 17:45 the skylight balcony windows in triple glaze, thermally broken frames have been available in Canada since at least 1995.
I plan on building a German style house here in the US, complete with terracotta brick and roof, white stucco finished walls, and rolladen windows.
good choose. because american style is sh&t.
Hope you don't have to get the bricks imported by boat ;)
Alan Fox as for the TERRA COTTA ROOF, they are all,over FLORIDA, & partsof TEXAS& KALIFORNIA, now there is METAL ROOFS that LOOK like the clay ones
Thank you for taking the time to show what types of construction materials and techniques that are used in other countries. The Swiss people build to last unlike here in the states.
Thank you for doing these videos!
Very informative.
@ Nina Diamant True the video is informative
How are you today?
That uponor system can also be used for long-distance heating where a distant power station generates heat which is then pushed through huge and highly insulated pipes to various sized houses (single family home to "skyscrapers"). It wouldn't make sense in most parts of the US because of the long distances but in Europe it makes a lot because if we would travel the distance from one state to the next we would literally leave the country ;)
The big downside of the uponor and similar systems is that hot water takes some time until it arrives at the faucet and that the temperature changes from hour to hour.
One side note is that in at least Germany, Austria and Switzerland the system for heating is completely sealed away from the system for drinking water. Drinking water never touches anything that is used for heating.
Hormann is just finishing up a huge new plant in Cookeville, TN...they will have a very large presence in the high end garage door market in the US.
Fakro is Polish company. You're welcome :)
tak myslalem . polacy robia dobre okna :)
In Belgium, Velux is the more known vendor for roofwindows.
They have a version of the balcony roofwindow as well.
Its a danish company (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VELUX)
True. Fakro comes from Poland. Now its more like international company, but still base production lines are in Poland.
As a German I think it is somewhat humbling if someone says they have the fancy stuff that must be German. But let us be honest, there are and have been bright minds in other countries as well. And especially for Poland out of a lot of other countries I think it is more than fair to say if there was a lack of visible and available high tech and innovative industries some decades ago (I guess the iron curtain left its marks, as you somewhat can compare it in eastern Germany), Poland did more than well catching up and showing what it can do.
Fakro is more a B brand when Velux is way better! @@JelleRevyn
I'm happy I found this video. The chronoseal product looks really interesting. I've just had a pivot entrance door installed and I'm experiencing the problem of inadequate sealing due to the manufacturer's use of a brush seal at the top of door because there's no jamb that the top of the door comes into contact with, so I'll definitely be checking out that Chronoseal product.
Imagine having a dream home built by this man.
Love watching your show Matt! keep up the good hard work! Its obvious you really enjoy this stuff and Its really cool to watch somebody with the same Enthusiasm about building as I do about plumbing MORE PLUMBING VIDEOS PLZ MATT!!
Thank you for sharing your trip!
"Instead of just two panes...three panes"
"You heard of this thing the eight minute abs...well this going to blow that right out of the water...seven minute abs"
17:22 wow top rudeness here
Yes, it was very rude for them to not move out of his way.
He pushed them away with his huge backpack
Good job guys.
Americans: Passionate, creative, daring
Germans: Efficient, practical, straight-forward
Love the content! I will be going to this convention when I'm ready to build a custom house!
Thanks for this - really interesting - please go again and demo more stuff
Dont if you guys got the answer for the difference of U-Valve and your R-Valve, its the opposite so to say.
R-Valve is Thermal resistance
U-Valve is heat transfer coefficient - amount of heat per time ( 1 square meter per second and the unit is Watts per square meter and Kelvin [W/(m²·K)] )
R = thickness / thermal conductivity and the other would be U = thermal conductivity / thickness
Hope I didnt butcherd it with my little non technical english knowlege :D
AJ821000 you are good to go,
Trust the germans when it comes to building walls :D
Still waiting for Trump's call..☎🇺🇸🙇
@@Fixmix78 he should make a tour along the channel up to Norway and afterwards visit Berlin and other certain parts in Germany. Then he should be well informed about walls and their effectiveness, or let's say outcome.
The Chinese do it better. 🐸 ☕️
Fixmix78 the sooner the better
:D german houses are built for eternity
2:38, yea man, common thing here in Europe, that kind of system is used here a lot and it proven itself to be very functional and efficient.
I love the way CLT buildings feel vs steel.
As I mentioned in an earlier post in this series, the sheathing on our Bensonwood/Unity house is interlocking panels made by Steico. Glad you went to their booth! You _can_ get it in America... you're welcome to visit us, too ;).
That getAir HRV is not intented to be used in older houses since those have gaps everywhere where air can get in or out. However with newer houses the regulations for air sealing are so strict that we have issues with enough oxygen getting into, thus you are required by law to install fresh air supply and ideally you do this by using HRVs. I happen to have three of these in my apartment and (depending on the control unit) you can regulate the speed/noise and also if they pull in for a given time and then swap direction. Normally you install these in pairs and configure one to pull while the second one is configured to push so that you always have a neutral pressure.
Try to shoot in 60 fps (if camera unable 25/50) to avoid so much of 50 hz flickering ! test it.
These videos make me feel like houses in the US are just awful.
They are
To be fair, most of the things they are showing are most likely too expensive for an average European as well.
Its very strange that hes so surprised by the Steico secure plaster, every house is made like that in Austria and has been since the 70's minimum
@@uramalakia No its not
Yep, houses in mainland Europe are pretty good, don't go to Ireland though, I live here and the houses have the worst quality! Especially when builders skimp on materials and space.
if your there check out Gerberit you will love that as well [went to there sewer pipe tower display in the Netherlands past Wednesday]
Super bueno, as they like to say in Germany.
Yeah good building materials and I really like the German company Steico
Second time when I heart that... Chimney's material is called lightweight concrete, made of expanded clay and cement. Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) is so much different material - you can build decent walls without isolation (walls U-0,15), google Bauroc. After you have finished with block laying, you have 500mm or 19 2/3inches thick inside-outside full stone walls. No moisture barriers, special weather sealing etc, just plastering. AAC is great idea for episode, imho.
Like said before, every European country has it's building culture - in my country, I guess max 5% of new residential houses are built from wood. These are mainly built from different combinations of blocks and insulation, but I haven't ever seen building from hollow blocks.
really really enjoyed that fellas, much love from oz.
Air-to-water heat pumps using CO2 are big in Japan (where they're called Eco-Cute systems). Sanden is already selling their system in the US.
Great video! Btw, you can eliminate the flickering by switching your camera from 60 Hz to 50 Hz. Remember the European electrical grids (and therefore lights) run at 50 Hz.
17:23 Hi we're Americans, now get out of my way. (doesn't even show us the detail) lol
Yes, it was very rude for them to not move out of his way.
Europe has never taken domestic hot water from the heating circuit. Traditionally we use one heat source, but it has always fed two hydraulically separate systems!
You're amazing! You are the first not telling "German" but - and that's right "European".
The way they build is really interesting, all that compressed wood fiber would be a nightmare wet, and expanded; I'd think any ways.
that camera head bob at the end
Hormann is actually one of the most popular garage doors maker in Poland. Everyone knows Hormann :)
17:19 "Outta my way Fritz. Ugly American coming through!"
Huge HVAC nerd here, this is pretty cool.
That's a sly dad joke.
9:48 The high rise garage system is meant as a solution for areas with sparce parking space inside bigger cities.
Works like a storage system you might see inside large warehouses. Drive onto the platform, go outside, the car gets stored and an empty platform will arrive for the next car. Want to get your car out? Insert the ticket/card and the system will pull out your car for you.
Like it says on 9:54 "Wöhr verdichtet Parkraum" - Wöhr (the company) compresses parking space.
Climate zone 9? Houston's humidity? I doubt it. It'd never dry out. Interesting though. Needing that door seal like last year. Love it!
Love these travel videos!
6:58 well, back in 2012 when i was an apprentice we already had 320mm (that's about 12-1/2 inches) of insulation on newly built houses ^^
Seems like the Europeans are further on with building technology than here in the States. What cool things have we invented lately besides the Philips head screw?
To the video shooter: if you lock your camera's shutter speed to 1/50th of a second, you'll eliminate the flickering of European lights. This will work even if you're shooting at 24 or 30 frames per second. You can then adjust the final exposure with ISO, aperture and (if necessary) neutral density filters.