Thank you, Nigel. I loved this video. My family hail from Sweden and way back when my parents married back in the late 50's, they built a 'Swedish style' family home on our farm. It's still standing today and looking just like new. The wood is treated every few years to keep it in tip-top condition and looking pretty. Apparently, it was quite the thing back in the 50's to cavity fill the walls with an expanding sort of foam, I believe, so I do know that it was correctly built. In fact, my parents said that they laid the foundations themselves and built the fireplaces and then the house arrived in sections on the back of two trucks. It was erected in three days and they moved in within the week. Not bad! There are two toasty warm log burners in the house plus an AGA range in the kitchen that runs all the radiators. I've never once felt cold at home - never. When my sister was engaged to be married, many years ago, she too went down the route of having a similar property built and I, next year, will be following suit. I presently live in an old Victorian property in the middle of nowhere that is mighty chilly! So, of course I'm looking forward to my home arriving on the back of a couple of trucks. Thanks again, Nigel for your informative presentation. Stay safe out there and have a lovely day. Many blessings, my friend to you and yours.
In the interest of balance it's the history & character remaining in its housing that “made" England great, God forbid houses are pulled down because of a bit of mould. Interestingly half price electricity costs also help but why?
Thanks Chelam. Brits turn their noses up at wooden houses. As you know, they are very common in Nordic countries and are incredibly warm in the winter. Give me a wooden house over a draughty damp Victorian brick built English house any day of the week. Also the standard of the UK new builds is shocking. There are some great YT videos showing this.
Ian, you have summed up the British approach. The Finns are more practical, and have no problems at all in innovating. They have very high standards too. Recently a perfectly good-looking day care centre for kids was demolished in our village because somebody spotted a small damp patch on a wall. The village now has a new day care centre. Finns are more investment orientated, whereas the UK is more consumption orientated. @@Ian.Gostling
Finnish houses, particularly modern ones, have excellent insulation. I frequently feel warm in January wearing only underwear, while recalling with horror my stay in a damp, cold London flat.
It is the damp that is a problem in most British houses. The climate is a problem over there because even when it is not raining, the humidity is still normally very high. As you know, buildings with even a hint of mold get pulled down and replaced in Finland.
Nigel your NIBE unit is a ground source heat pump not and air source heat pump. They are more efficient in cold weather as the ground is generally more stable than the outside air.
It's the dampness in the UK for sure. On a frosty day when it's cold but the air is dry it's actually warmer inside as exposed to camp days when the temp is higher.
I lived in a bad situation (old dilapidated mobile home) over many UK winters some time ago. It was paradoxically easier to stay warm (wood burner) once it dropped below freezing and stayed there, as that finally took all the damp out of the air. The temp range of up to +5 in the day and down to 0 at night was the worst, the wind chill combined with the wet - around Feb - March.
You're right. Another thing that I should have mentioned is that in Finland houses are heated 24/7, i.e. the heating never goes off. I think in England the damp comes in when the central heating is off and the house gets cold.
Thanks. It's horses for courses my friend. Many Brits would hate being close to nature. They prefer shopping and Instagrammble restaurants and flashy leasehold cars. Finland isn't status or ego orientated either - so many would miss the keeping up with the Jones culture
@nigelwatson2750 stop please hahaha, It really does sound like a utopia. Luckily I moved out of a main city(Manchester) over 10 years ago now but sadly I'm still I'm seeing a society that I cannot stomach,with people so far removed from my wave length and the things that really matter that I often wonder if they are capable of anything independent of what you described above.I think we know the answer to that question.
To be honest, I was also disgusted by how people behaved in England in 2020 I just all confidence in the judgement of my fellow Englishmen. I seem to have more in common with Finns these days. They are straight-talking, no nonsense types who respect each others privacy and independence @@pea-dub
@nigelwatson2750 yes,I feel the dumbing down process has been successful with many in the UK. Keep up the good work mate and thanks for the pearls of wisdom you bring us,much appreciated nigel mate👍
Thanks, Marty. I'm sure that you would enjoy it. However, for many people, Finland wouldn't be for them. They would hate it. Bragging about stuff you own and Instagramable holidays / restaurant visits, etc is really frowned upon here in Finland. In contrast, I think many Brits enjoy living in a highly materialistic society where conspicuous consumption of status symbols is the done thing - what people aim for in life. The British class system & the keeping up with the Jones's phenomenon - some people like this, and are not interested in nature. They're more interested in trying to create a fake image, which they hope will impress other people.
Any Brit remember that statistic that all the money spent by Tony Bliars government invading Iraq could have superinsulated every single home in the UK?
My sister tells me that If I had watched 'Grand Designs' 25 years ago, I would know all this! 😂 However I haven't had a TV for 30 years so I hadn't! Very interesting and informative!
Great video Nigel , it’s not as cold here in southern Austria, now sign of snow yet at our altitude ( 1050 metres) looking forward to winter and the start of the ice hockey , my motorcycles are tucked up for winter so it’s time to get the quad bike out Have a great winter , best regards , I’ll raise a Gosser to you 😃
I have fat bike 5 inch tyres great in the snow ❄️, by 4x4 has intermediate 50-50 tyres with the three peaks winter snow rating , I also have rescue boards in the jeep for mud snows and sand only cost me 55 quid delivered, the trouble is people in uk get stuck because the tyres , they don’t understand that these winter tyres work in temperatures below about 8 degrees Celsius than normal tyres ,they think winter tyres are for just snow they’re not , as the saying goes prepared for the worst hope for the best many thanks Nigel 🙏👍
Good points. Contrary to what people say, ice on roads is a thing in Britain. I also know sensible people who have winter tyres (non-studded) on their cars in Britain.
Heat pumps are widely used here in NZ. They are good because they do heat and cold. The problem is, sometime the outside units can be noisy if cheap or badly fitted, and I can imagine there would be a hell of racket with one or two outside a row of terraces. People here also supplement heat pumps with wood burners, especially in the colder regions. Our houses are often badly insulated, so that in itself is not necessarily a problem. Do you have issues with the 'dew point' when the unit switches off at a certain temp? I hear Canadians complain about it.
Granted, I'm an old fart so things might different now but back in the day in Turku we were not allowed to stay inside during recess unless it was colder than -15C (5F)...
It's finally looking like the temperature will stay below freezing for a good while in Turku now, so we get to enjoy some proper winter weather after a straight month of ~0C and rain. I bike to and from work 5 days a week and the cold is a nice pick-me-up, either for waking up in the morning or getting some extra energy later in the day.
@@nigelwatson2750 cdn.fmi.fi/documents/climate/vertailukausi_9120_www/vuodenajat/kasvu_pituus_9120.png Pori and Turku belong to same South-West Finland climate zone. See the link above regarding the length of a growing season in days in a year. Usually Pori has milder end-of-autumn and early winter weather, and Meri-Pori is one of the last areas to get a snow cover in the continental Finland. But this year the strong North-East winds brought the arctic winter here. For Pori region North-West winds kills the summer heat, and in winter North-East winds give us the worst cold temperatures. This cold November is like a once in a twenty years scenario.
And now that we started to talk about climate, I think you’ll find it interesting that Meri-Pori is one of the most Northern point in the planet that still belongs to the Warm-Summer Humid Continental climate zone according to Köppens climate type system. (I think in Norway there is still one area that is a tad more in North). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Finland#/media/File:Finland_Köppen.svg
Damp and dry cold environments, need different heating solutions as well as the fact that clothing plays a huge part as well as a house is not supposed to retain 24ç all the time.
Finns hate being cold. You won't find Finns wearing jumpers inside their houses. The other thing that I should have mentioned is that the heating is on 24 hours a day.
In Pori we have two indoor rinks as well as local outdoor rinks - two in our village in Meri-Pori. The other thing Brits would find weird is the Finnish culture where kids are allowed to roam about outside in the evening unsupervised by their parents. @@j-p.alanen
Thx. Most interesting. Here in Germany, the government is trying to bully/scare people into switching from gas to electricity for heating. Many (more wealthy and/or more gullible) have spent big money to install heat pumps. Heating engineers are overworked, as are manufacturers, so probably anyone installing now is paying over the odds. I'm extremely sceptical about all the sense of this electrification, so it's interesting to see that the heat-pump is working for you. How long have you had your pump for? Does anyone around you run electric cars or have solar panels? Greetings, N
RU-vid ate my comment. Try again. 12 deg in my house today. When the kids come home, we have a choice of open fire, or freestanding calor gas one. Only using the boiler for hot water for a bath, and we share the water. Still £400 a quarter. I have to charge my mobility scooter as we can't do without that. This isn't fun, it makes my arthritis bad.
For what it's worth, you have my sympathies. The damp climate in England won't be helping you either. What about burning wood that you have collected & seasoned yourself? That would slash your heating bill.
The trouble is storage, we live in a very typical Victorian terrace, there is only room for what we store for Winter. Believe me, I have thought about it. Then I wonder how long we will be here, because the landlord has started making noises about his wife is ill, and he's not too good, and I'm thinking we will yet again face a "no fault" eviction. We seem to have to move every 5 years, nobody wants to rent to disabled people and I can't get a Council house for reasons I have never been able to fathom. If you know you are staying somewhere its worth doing all this stuff, setting up storage for seasoning my own wood etc. And to do it properly I really need to make it lockable because my scuzzy neighbour is having his chimney renovated, so he will probably be stealing my wood soon. Its a good time to be a chimney sweep, seen a lot of them around! @@nigelwatson2750
Finland declared independence, during the Russian revolution, in December 1917AD. The 2 tribed Kingdom of Judah's punishment started when they were taken away captive by the Babylonians and ended after 7 times(2520 years) when British and Allied forces delivered Jerusalem (Judah) from the grip of the Ottoman Empire in December 1917AD and when Iceland (Benjamin) secured its sovereignty during the breakup of Nordic region, which commenced when Finland declared independence, during the Russian revolution, also in December 1917AD. The 10 tribed Kingdom of Israel's punishment started when they were taken away captive by the Assyrians and ended after 7 times(2520 years) in 1798AD when a general of Napoleon's (named Berthier) entered Rome with his French army. The Papacy was abolished, the pontifical ring was removed, and the sitting Pope--Pope Pius VI was sent to France, where he died in exile. Around this time the new nation of the USA (Manasseh) was formed and the British Empire (Ephraim) was at the height of its power forming the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Nations.
😂 no. I'm just wondering what job you do out there. I used to teach KS3 to KS5 science a few years ago in the UK, but left teaching and took a different career path. I'm looking for a way out of the UK and was interested in how u had managed it. Didn't occur to me that I was prying.
Basically Britain is a shithole.I agree.can you go swimming in summer in Finland? It looks amazing.We are knee deep in mud in Cornwall.Its been raining for weeks.Chemtrails all the time, do you get chemtrails?
Very similar too Canada where i lived for 35 years before it went socialist communist!!Yes sun over rain any day and only been back 3 years andthe rain is getting to me as i do like to go for a walk every day.! Canada has changed for the worst and i was in the 50% tax bracket for year and sale tax 17 on all goods.house price ahve gone through the roof and wages down and i am waiting for the buble in real estate to clasp as they are trying to bankrupt work class Canadians so the will accept digital money.God bless and off out for my walk before the rain come!!
