@@Gambantein No, stupid, it'ts not, we've had almost no water last summer and this winter has not been able to fill our water reserves, we are almost out off water unless you live right next to a river. And this invention for the toilets wasn't meant to be used only in Sweden you moron.
@@Kolfonik Ok, tack för invektiven! Där jag bor fanns och finns mycket vatten och det gör det generellt även i övriga Sverige. (Det är inte ofta vi får så varma och torra somrar som förra sommaren). Var skrev jag att snålspolande toaletter bara fanns ii Sverige? Varför så arg?
@@Gambantein Jag blir arg för att du skriver att det finns mycket vatten i Sverige och du verkar tro att du och jag då inte har samma vattenkälla. Varken jag eller mina grannar har fått tillbaka det vatten vi behöver sen förra sommaren, och har VI slut vatten, så har DU också snart slut vatten. Och fortsätter det då här 1-2 år till så är katastrof. Inga bönder kommer få vattna varken grödor eller djur och så vidare. Och snålspolande toaletter är till för att spara vatten, oavsett. Bara för att du har vatten i kranen för tillfället betyder det INTE ALLS att vi har "plenty of water" Goggla runt lite, flera kommuner gick redan ut förra månaden med rekommendationer för att inte ha vattenbrist kommande sommar. Din första kommentar är bara dum.
@@Kolfonik En torr och varm sommar gör inte Sverige till Afrika... Om stat och kommun inte klarar vattenförsörjningen är en sak men att säga att det inte finns vatten är inte korrekt. I Sverige finns otroligt mycket vatten. Just nu regnar det och tidigare har kommit mycket regn - våra dammar är överfulla. Tips till dig! Gör som jag - flytta ut på landet och ordna en egen brunn. Jag tror du skulle bli lyckligare då, för du verkar så arg. :)
It was fashionable once. Like 30+ years ago, I believe. You can still find it some places, but most of the time those wall-to-wall carpets were installed in the 80s or earlier.
They were popular but the Swedish Health Board recommended that we should not have them because studies made in the late eighties showed that the wall to wall carpet was a big source of respiratory illnesses, so we tore them out.
I think he is a bit out there.... We live in Florida and my home can go through a cat. 2 hurricane. I wouldn't trust a Swed home to that. Plus we have most of the stuff he talks about. Plus I like my carpet in current areas of our house. We of course don't have it everywhere, but in the places we like.
My point was that it's harder to break into when you can't just use force. Which, as you say, could be slowing the firemen down a bit. But that's more of an issue of security doors being hard to force rather than the way it opens. The firemen will have tools to force a door anyhow, or they could go through the windows. The argument of the door being blocked from the outside is in my opinion just ridiculous. How often are you in that very specific circumstance where someone completely blocks your door? The only reasonable case I can think of is if there's suddenly 1 meter of snow outside. But on the other hand, areas that see a lot of snow typically have a decent roof above the entryway. If not, if something could easily block your door due to weather, you probably live in a house where there's windows on the ground floor... So, personally I would much rather have the security benefits of a tough security door opening outwards and take the minimal risk of being trapped inside in some extraordinary circumstance.
Actually alot of Swedish homes has both a Washer and a Dryer with a separate room for it. I mean, usually not in an apartment, but in villas atleast. Also, spiral staircases isn't super common in Sweden either. But otherwise I like these type of videos!
Spiral staircases are actually very common in Swedish apartments from the 80~90ies. thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/vit-l%C3%A4genhet-med-trappuppg%C3%A5ngen-89606282.jpg Usually this variant.
@@fiskmas3887 I have never been there my self but I have heard of my friends that the tap water is not recommended drinking.. you have to buy water if you wanna have clean water..
I have visited Texas quite a bit, and the one thing I remember is the tap water smelling of chlorine. Like, of you left the tap running for a little while the kitchen would instantly smell like a swimming pool. Sure, you could drink it, but I would always put a lot of ice in it so it wouldn't taste so bad.
Why do you think all Americans are slobs? No matter where you live clean people don’t wear shoes in the house. Never seen anyone I know out of hundreds of homes ever wear there shoes in the house. Most people can not wait to get their shoes off when they get home. Long day at work in boots. Oh man.
Well, it would be a short comparisson since you don't pay for college/university in Sweden, it's free. Ofc you will still have to support yourself during your studies but anyone can get a student loan with subsidised interest in Sweden so it's not a social class thing like in the US where you have to pay big money for higher education @Hillside Chalet
It always pisses me off when my dad from Germany comes visiting me in Sweden. He just walks straight into our home with his shoes on, no thought whatsoever where those shoes were just minutes before. I have to remind him and it gets awkward. Every time. To me, not taking shoes off when entering someones home is rude. It is not so much about hygiene as showing a bit of respect to the people inviting you in. Manners..
Well, all a matter of culture, I personally prefer anyone who visits me at home to keep their shoes lol I do not like to see people in socks close to my stuff
Actually, my (again german) dad told me that during the Tjernobyl disaster in 1986, he and his neighbours in the apartment house made it a custom to take off shoes immediately after entering the door to the house. This is one of his strongest memories of this time, all the neighbours shoes piled up at the bottom of the stairwell.
@@ricardo_boutique How come? Those feet are incased in socks, so it's no worse than someone sitting on your couch. There's only a bit of fabric between their butt and your furniture, but that doesn't worry you, right?
@@JWildberry But feet sweat, which in turn comes through the socks, specially if they are thin. Just sweat a bit from your feet and you will start to see those feet sweat prints everywhere, heck no. I know the outside dirt may be dirtier, but I do prefer outside dirt over any sort of human produced substances. I do also dislike others to be in my couch, thats why I avoid it whenever possible and why Im a germaphobe :D
Where's the Tvättstuga? I think that would be an interestin thing for the americans watching. A comunal laundryroom. And that wall sounded like plywood, not concrete.
@@emns-fn9xh From what I've understood it works a bit differently in the US. You most often don't have a communal place to wash your clothes, you have places where you go and rent a machine for a period of time instead and it is typically not in the building where you live.
@@SWEmanque Generally speaking... only really shitty / low rent / very old apartments do not have laundry facilities. In Sweden it is *required by law*, which is why you see it everywhere here.
The bedding you mentioned a sheet in a sheet lol is actually a quilt inside a duvet cover we have the same bedding in the UK single layered sheets went out in the 70s.
We have duvet covers in the US too I was counting all the things in the house from Ikea. You find any of those same things in or homes now too. I was just planning a trip there this week myself.
I haven't been in a whole lot of American homes, but based on the few I have and on movies/TV it seems like a lot of the time you just step right into peoples living rooms, and that a lot of times there isn't a whole lot of space to hang up your jacket if you're wearing one. In Sweden I've never seen a home that hasn't had at least a small area right inside the door for that, usually followed by some kind of hallway conecting the other rooms. And of course I've never been to a carpeted home in Sweden (maybe some people do have carpet, but it's really unusual), while a lot of American homes seem to have carpet. And as a Swede I't drives me crazy, why do you pick a material that is A: hard to get dirt and stians out of and B: is going to be attatched to your floor until you throw it out, and then chose to walk with your shoes on that (like you said, not all Americans walk with their shoes on, at least not all the time, but the general consensus seems to be that Americans do have their shoes on inside unless they are muddy or wet, but even when dry your shoes could still be dirty).
That's common in the 1950/60's floor plan. Most newer houses on the west coast of Canada and US have a second entrance into a mud room, but guests wouldn't come in that way.
I agree with entering a home, right into a main living area. I never liked that. The home I grew up in had a door entrance that also had a closet for coats and things separate from main room, small but enough. You mention flooring, is it hard wood you're referring to?
It's true that dirt sticks in the carpet and can be hard to get out, but a huge pro is that dust also gets stuck in the carpet instead of floating around in the air, so you can just vacuum the carpet and get rid of all dust. And also as was already mentioned, it makes a huge difference to room acoustics, a carpeted room is much softer acoustic wise which makes it more relaxing and also better suited for music or TV audio.
Patricia Egan just to start off with which is very important to us we have a Swedish building code which is law and if you don’t follow the code your “a..” is grass . We take building very seriously ( we do have a small period which we had homes of lesser quality because of rapid population expansion which we are really regretting but those have still stood 50 years now but because of the winters home is a huge part of a Swedes life .. that’s also why you never ask a Swede how much do you earn but where do you live and what did you study )can be hard wood can also be a linoleum carpet which is a more hardwearing non carpet carpet which is a flat surface which can be sandpapered down a couple of times and is really hardwearing ,flexible and soundproofing and which you put a wax coating on top of ... we normally put hardwood in the living room and bedroom for aesthetics and linoleum in the hallways and kitchen which is a really old practice . Linoleum works until it starts to crumble if you haven’t waxed it properly or if you have had so heavy objects ie over 300 kg on it so you have marks and you want to change things up it’s environmentally friendly and you can easily use it for 50 years plus I’ve seen 80 years old still in good condition- for a sound problem it’s really good! . Modern standard for bathrooms are complete ceramic tilling for all bathrooms up to the ceiling and up to at least as we call it breastheight ( no idear what you would call it over midriffs but below shoulder height ) for toilets .
there are some things you forgot to mention and, among other things, that the entire houses are usually much more isolated and also insulation in interior walls in wooden houses and Swedish houses is also quite air-tight with thresholds that seal at doors and windows so as not to waste energy and our exterior doors are quite strong and insulated and open outwards. Houses that have been built since the 1980s have a requirement for sound insulation and thermal insulation, which has got stricter rules during the time when reduced heating cost / energy consumption is a way to reduce the environmental impact (you can compare energy consumption for villas in equivalent climates) and I have seen clips from northern usa there they boast about how well insulated their walls are when they are as isolated as windows are in sweden (new energy windows but still) (in sweden and europe it counts backwards compared with the usa)
Yeah I've lived in both countries and Swedish homes are definitely way better insulated and sound proof. Hell I've lived in india and Japan also and both places have excellent sound proofing. And the housing construction is better in both countries more than the US I'm afraid to say
My common experience is that the main purpose of doors is to _not_ be able to open them. =P Happens every damn time I want to go inside somewhere and I am not 100% sure that it's open at that time.
@@joelout Not really, it's just that whenever I hope that a door is open, it almost always turns out to be locked. Like for example if I want to take a shortcut through a hallway at my school then that door will almost certainly be locked. =P
The good about Swedish windows is that you can flip them all the way around to wash your windows from the inside, instead of standing outside to wash the the other side of the window.
You can get windows in the US where they flip inside the house to clean. It's just a pain in the butt to use te buttons to flip the window in (stupid child safety shit).
Are those windows that common here in Sweden, though? I always thought that they were kind of special, and I haven't seen that many people who have them. Obviously a good idea, of course, but not super-common, IMO.
Thats really a pain in the ass during winter months in my home, one of the cats open the door at night, gets very cold , i live in a rural area wher you tend to not lock the door :)
TheHermago Or installing a cat flap. Even the cat would probably find that an easier way in and out. But then, cats are assholes so he/she might just use the door handle anyway for the fun of it. 😁
Um, I’ve had a removable shower head in my house since the 90’s and I live in New York ... most homes in America have that now. You should get out more 😳
(Swede living in the US). One of the main differences is construction quality. In the US the houses are built with an expected life span of say 50 years. But in Sweden/Europe it is usually built with an expected life span of 100+ years. One other big difference that is tied to this too is indoor living climate and quality, I've come to understand, especially in California, that people don't care too much about the indoor living climate because most of life is spent outdoors here because it is always sunny. In Sweden where the weather isn't as nice much more time is spent indoors and thus people invest a lot of money in making sure that the indoor living climate and quality is the best it can be. Other differences include: - No grinder in the Swedish kitchen sinks. - US has 1-2 pane windows where in Sweden it's almost always 3 pane (even in houses build in 1920). - Carpets vs hardwood floors. - OMG the heating systems... The US mainly uses Forced Air, which is incredibly inefficient and loud and bad in every form. And in Sweden we mainly use water based radiant heaters. - US homes mainly use PEX tubing for water pipes, but in Sweden we use almost exclusively copper pipes - IKEA has a bad reputation here and people believe it is low quality because it is cheap, but then they spend $10k on a sofa that is really bad quality because "sofas are expensive". :) But as every Swede know, some things at IKEA are great quality (beds, sofas, wardrobes, kitchens) :)
@@gamerjohn310 pretty generalizing. Had a house from the 1940s. My house now is hurricane proof and solid stone. I lived in some of the wealthiest parts of Stockholm. I had more in my single income house, both in quality, quantity, than some of those people.
Old houses in the US are a big turn off, that’s why, people buy a new house every 4-8 years because they just can afford it more than Swedes. You’d be lucky to afford rent in a tiny apartment in Oslo or Stockholm.
Interesting... I watched 8 min video clip I didn’t know I was interested in, and spent over half an hour reading comments 😁. Thanx for making this vid, and thanx to everyone posing comments here. Cheers
@@Robman92 Yup! Now they will punish everyone instead of the TV owners :P I haven't watched TV for at least 10 years, and I certainly never watch svt 1 and 2, it's a load of garbage!
Hi! You forgot about the heating system. Every apartment we had in the US was heated by a gas furnace tha blew hot air through vents in each room. Very fast but noicy and not really economical. In sweden most apartments have radiators with hot water that circulates. Quiet and probably more efficient.
Many old houses still have electric heaters which mostly is a waste of energy. If there is space in the walls it's possible to convert it into water heating, which also is more flexible. Oil is being used less, but it is used with solar panels, geothermal and earth heating, district heating and pellets (instead of wood).
Most new apartment buildings heat the intake air with the outtake air. If you look around you see vents that blows fresh air, and different vents that suck expended air. In a technical room, the heat is transferred from the expended air to the new air. (The building I managed that system provided 80% of the heating.)
The American way of doing it is also very dusty, supposedly. All that air moving around means that you can dust your house and 15 minutes letter you have to dut it again. The ducts also harbor a lot of molds and help distribute the spores around the house for people to breath in.
I live in the states and I have door handles like yours and a detachable showerhead...it all depends how updated the place you live is. Great video though.
My friend in the US asked me if we always have the kitchen table in front of the window, and most people have that in Sweden! I had never thought of that before. Not everyone, but most of us do have that. 😊 / Disa
In the U.S. most of the newer homes have a decorative switch, these are a flatter design switch and outlet. The three prong plug has been mandatory since the mid-1950s in the U.S. the third prong is a ground. We get to pick what type of door handle we want. I don't know where you were in the U.S. but I have had a combination static shower head and one that's handheld for a very long time.
Andrew, my family have friends in the US (southern california) that moved from Sweden many years ago, I visited last year and was very annoyed with the showerhead. Not only that it was fixed but also the fact that it was very low on the wall. im 185cm and couldnt stand straight beneath the shower head. I asked the father of the family which is almost 200cm tall how he managed and he said he didnt and had hated the showerheads ever since they moved over in 1993.
"To the tv tax people, this is a large computer screen" So i guess he did not get the memo, regarding the tax update this year (2019). You do not pay the tv tax anymore, it is baked in with your "normal" taxes now, regardless if you have a tv or not. So sorry dude, you are paying the tv tax even if you only have a "large computer screen. :P
In new houses, the windows flip like that, either up or down. Many old houses still have two windows that open in the middle, in a frame. There's also a type of window that opens at the side so it's a lot of window that moves. Many of those, especially in apartment houses, that have a slot at the side to open for ventilation.
@@Grandmaster-Kush när Erik Sigfrid Persson lät uppföra Ribershus - Tessins Väg 2 och 4 - så ville han ha perspektivfönster i dessa för utsiktens skull. Han såg dock att putsning av dessa jättefönster på våningar över markplan skulle innebära svårigheter. Lösning, som han själv kom på, blev ett fönster som var upphängt i dess horisontella centrum och kunde roteras 180 grader. Han sålde sedermera idén till en fönstertillverkare. sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Mobil/Artikel/7111
@@hanebosocken2383 your grandson will be named muhammad. Whats happening in Malmo is spreading across Sweden. Its funny how now you acknowledge Malmo has all that- in sweden. 10 years ago no one wouldve ever imagined that. The country is crumbling and youre bitter.
When I lived in Austin, Texas for a while something that was weird for me was that everyone was using broomsticks instead of a vacuum cleaner and there was rugs instead of wooden floor. My husbands family thought I was strange when I took off my shoes not to destroy the floors. 😅
I live in Texas but not Austin. But just going off of what you said.. I can say that I have never seen anyone use a broomstick on carpet. And I have never known anyone who doesn't known a vacuum.
This isn’t very representative of US homes. I’ve lived many places across US. I’ve lived in homes with plaster walls as well as ones with Sheetrock. Doors often have same handles rather than knobs. I have friends and family with induction cooktops. Hand held shower heads are common. Homes in wet, cold areas have mud rooms where shoes are removed and coats are hung. Many Americans don’t allow shoes in home. Most homes have hardwood, laminate or tile flooring rather than wall to wall carpeting. Many homes have low-flow toilets. I think the windows and light switches are the least common, but I have even seen them here in US.
Not to mention that he stated that only some older homes have three prong outlets in the US. Our new 2020 home build only has three prong outlets throughout. Yes, no shoes in this house, we do have a mudroom, plus we have vinyl flooring throughout the main area. We also have the same kind of flat light switches. I guess this guy has only ever seen one kind of light switch. Maybe he's only ever seen one house in the US and thinks they're all the same🤷🤣 I don't know
More things I find different is: Americans store their clothes in drawers, drawers in the bed room is much more common. Electricity lines in sweden is always inside pipes. A garage in america is often the center of the house. In sweden the garage is many times in basement or separate house. The vacuum cleaner in sweden has replacements bags and are dragged behind you on the floor. In america big curtains at windows is common, while in Sweden no curtains or smaller once gets more popular. Bath tubes are easy to replace in sweden and move around to clean under, while the standard american once are built in. It's more common that you shower in the bath tube in america. I noticed that the bath tube tap is often "leaking" while showering in US. In Sweden now days plumbing connections is never made inside a wall. Stow and owen is often one unit in america, while in sweden they are independent. Freezer and refrigerator is often one big unit, while in sweden the are mostly separate. If something breaks it's easier. Washing mashine is often loaded from the top in america, and you poor the soap inside. While in Sweden they are loaded from the side. So you can stack a dryer on top. Washing in cold water is more common in america. American houses roof are often in different levels, while Swedes mostly likes it in straight lines. The main door is often in the front of a house in Sweden, while in america on the side or back. Etc... These are some of the things that I didn't see people mention already in the comments :)
A Duvet cover is called "Påslakan" in Swedish. And the little thinner mattress on top of the bottom mattress is called a "bädd madrass". It's really easy to make your bed with a påslakan!
You forgot a big difference. In Sweden there is (almost) always a hall where you can hang the outer clothes. In addition, if you live in a villa / house, there is often a laundry room even in larger apartments. Otherwise, interesting differences that you showed.
Krister Forsman And in like all apartmentbuildings there is a laundry room for everyone that lives there so most people don’t have washing machine in bathroom.
Also, Sweden, like most other contries have 240 Volt system in the outlets. I read somewhere that Canada made it mandatory to have "swedish" door handles on public buildings in order to make it easier for old people to open them. If you have your hands full of stuff and need to go through a door in sweden, just back up to it and use the elbow to press the handle.... a bit hareder to do it with a round knob :) Also, if you have small kids and you dont want them to run out, people sometimes remove the handle from the door and put it back facing down. From "three" to "six".
I work as a plumber here in Sweden. As you mentioned about water installed inside the walls, we do that too on newly built houses and renovated houses. However, some people don't convert to it since you need to demolish all the walls and is not always worth it, therefore just keeps the pipes on the outside of the walls which becomes more common. When it comes to plumbing it's all about how much money you want to spend really, because we have every single solution of it here in Sweden as well.
We have the same kinds of windows and doors here. No big difference. We have spiral staircases as well. We have the same toilets as well, it just depends on the choices people make. Moveable shower heads are not uncommon either. This guy is loopy.
There are many houses in the US that have detachable shower heads. What is different (and not mentioned), is that the Swedish shower head attaches to a pole and it can be raised or lowered on the pole. Very neat! In all my friends’ houses in Sweden, there are big freezers in the kitchen. Their refrigerator/ freezer combinations are equal in size. I only know one person in the US who has has a unit like that.
As a Finn for some things you said that were different in US compared Sweden is something like difference of being in Finland here 50 years ago and now.
Another Finn here and same opinion. Like the light switches and sheets, and many other stuff. At our summer cottage (some decades ago) my grandma was sometimes making the bed with the top sheet instead of the bag type of "duvet cover sheet". Påslakan.
Yes you are right, and Norway 60 years ago. Most places I have been in the USA is very similar to Norway in the early 60s, only more poor people and crime. How can people brag about the size of their houses, when they in the same time have homeless people living in their streets?
Also, it’s funny how Americans call a separate toilet with basin a ”half bathroom”, so a house can have ”2 1/2 bathrooms”. 😳 Like ”toilet” is such a taboo word in the land of porn and guns and movies where the actors say ”f***ing” in every other sentence.
6:10 You don't wash your duvet (täcke)? Even if you have a duvet cover (påslakan), you should wash your duvet from time to time. It's like even if you wash your pillow case, it's good to wash the actual pillow some time too. I haven't heard of any Swedes who doesn't wash their duvet.
The kitchen is Very important to swedish people and even if you are of means and can afford a diningroom most modern swedish homes dont actually have a seperate diningroom . You eat at a table in the kitchen or if you have a large Livingroom and just an extremely small kitchen then you Will have more formal dinner set in the living groom but will eat breakfast and casual meals in the kitchen still . Also We have way fewer bathrooms .
Vet inte vad du är van med för svenssonhus men rör man sig bland lite finare folk i stora nybyggda villor finns allt i 99% av fallen en matsal eller åtminstone kombinerat allrum/matplats.
ra86 folk som inte är Svensson köper inte stora nybyggda hus generellt sett förutom då möjligtvis med öppen planlösning .Det är en preferens . Man behöver inte skryta med ett rum man oftast inte använder.
@@annarehbinder7540 Märks tydligt att du inte vet vad du talar om, skrytande är definitivt inget som går hem i de finare kretsarna, det om något är typiskt Svensson beteende. Du verkar ju tro att jag menar just Svensson villor på 150-300 kvm i en vanlig Stockholmsförort där klubben för inbördes beundran och jantelagen styr.
So why do you Americans have people living in your streets then? Just rebuild your houses to smaller apartments, and give room to everybody like we do in developed countries. Then tell me how big house Americans really have compered to Sweden.
David J modern am toilets are very narrow in the drain so they always get booged up, it was very embarrassing when I visited a private home in the us ( every 3 ish visit the toilet clogged for everyone in the family who was a grown up )
@@annarehbinder7540 I've talked to a person from the sanitation department (in Sweden) and she said that the low water toilets are a problem for the lines. They are built for more water so when it's less the flushed gunk sticks to the inside. I think it's a good thing that we can save water, but we have to update the rest of the system as well.
Note that the guy lives in some sort of apartment. Most one family houses have a separate laundry room called Tvättstuga or Grovkök. Older houses with a cellar tend to have a Tvättstuga/layndry room in the basement and more modern houses without a cellar often have a Grovkök/laundry room at the first floor (American first floor, not UK). Most commonly people have separate dryer and washer as the combo model usually are less effective with the drying. If you look at older apartment building it's common with a communal Tvättstuga/laundry room in the basement or in a separate house. In those communal laundry rooms most often you have larger industrial type machines, maybe even a drying room with a large fan that blows hot air.
Hejsan Andrew, tack I enjoyed to watch the differefens. I just need to tell you that we wash our påslakan regularly yet our duvet we also do wash. If you haven't done that yet. Wash i 60° twice or buy a new duvet. 😊
Erika Girhammar You don't always have to wash your duvet. It's enough to just hang it outside for a couple of hours. Washing it twice a year is enough. I changed the cover to the duvet every 4 weeks. If you sleep naked, then of course more often.
Duvet?? Is that a "täcke"?? Americans won't understand what that is as they're called Comforter in the US. (I, who actually had top grades in English and am fluent in English hadn't heard the word duvet before...) :D
The windows opening outward are the same like with the doors. A part of it is the fire safety. If there is a lot of people wanting to get out quick, it's safer for the doors and windows to open outward since people usually push and press you against the door if you're the first one to get to it!
Hello Evelyn, how are you doing. I hope this year brings happiness prosperity love and peace all over the world. I'm Thomas from Virginia nice to meet you.
Its uncommon in Sweden to have kitchen sink disposal even if it does exist. In Sweden we sort a lot of stuff.. Plastic, paper, glass, metal and so on.. Biowaste is put in a separate bin for either compost or the municipalities collect it and produces biogas from it to fuel our cars (CNG/CBG). Things that are not plastic,paper,glass,metal is put in the garbage bin. BUT.. not electrical components or other stuff that can be recycled at a recycling station... where you sort even more stuff... (everything with a cord goes in one bin (electrical)), lightbulbs in another, batteries in one, insulation in one, wood in one, concrete in one, and so on.. kind of hard to explain but i think you have it in US also nowdays?
It's the same in Finland. And I've been watching American cop shows wondering how they would cope if one day they would find that the door they're supposed to bust in opens outwards 😄
I noticed this too. I was told the reason the door open inward in the US is for security. If a door opens inward, the hinges will also on the inside. If the center pin of the hinge is removed, the door can be opened no matter what kind of locks are there.
The window thing is just so you dont let other people in. Like if ur going on a walk you can still have an open window with out someone easily jumping in and take all your belongings
This is Sweden, so if thieves want to get in to a house, they can just use the front door. It is in developing countries people have to lock every door and window before leaving their house. In Sweden, Norway and other modern developed countries most people dont.
If you would go into a Finnish house it would be very much the same as the Swedish house, at least where I live on Åland. One difference though is that almost every house here has a sauna. On the mainland of Finland many apartments also has a sauna!
Hopefully Medical Research and Neuroscience will soon find a cure for the increasing number of people unable to complete a bloody sentence unless they uptalk. The irritating sods!
It's fun to make and observe these comments, some of which easily demonstrate that the observer hasn't traveled much in his/her own country. In the U.S., for example, we do have the flexible shower-heads/hoses in many places. We now also have many localized water heaters instead of central ones. We also have two-flush buttons on toilets now. By contrast, you also find that in more affluent homes in Europe "American" carpeting is preferred to localized rugs and screens are being provided for people who don't like flies all over their food. So we learn from each other, although it would be fair to say that environmentally-conscious materials and technology tend to come to the U.S. from Europe and Asia, not vice-verse, whether the Americans like to hear it or not.
I enjoy your vlogs. Ok then. All the new homes in Canada have the door handles that you show in Sweden. The round knobs are apparently not easy to use for people with certain handicaps. Ditto to the two flush toilets. They conserve water. I believe both are mandated in the building code. Perhaps they are changing in the USA too. I've read that the North American electrical plugs are the result of us being early users. There are better ones out there, but it's too late for us to change them now.
Many Swedes put in screendoors to keep the bugs out. But not with a doorframe, you just attatch the mesh and magnets in the middle to Open and close when you pass. Google "mesh doorframe". 🙋♀️☺
The windows can flip 180 degrees making it easy to clean them from inside (would otherwise be impossible if you live on 2nd or 3rd floor. They are almost always 2-sheet glass and sometimes even 3, for greater insulation (saves alot of energy and noise reduction). But the biggest difference i would say is the insulation and centralheating in all houses. This way the house/apartment is always at a stable temp (usally 22 degrees) no matter if its summer or winter and saves alot of energy. I know this is not as common in the US and same thing in Japan. Usally little insulation in walls and 1 sheet windows. And instead of centralheating use AC. This to me is really annoying becouse then the room is ice-cold in the winter and terrible if you have to use the toilet in the middle of the night. And in the summer it gets super hot.
Nyymi Nyyminen The concrete wall is behind the bed between the apartments and it’s very thick. I did a mistake knocking on the wrong wall you are correct.
Great video....compare the homes in Sweden to here in the UK. I guess that you already know, that us Swedes and Finns brought the log cabin over to the US....you're welcome! 😉😆
That's funny. Right now, I have that IKEA lamp right beside me in the US (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YZgXsDyIYFs.html). Actually, there's nothing different about the technology. We have all those features. The main difference is the size of the house and rooms. There ARE smaller rooms/houses in the US. However, most of our homes are twice this size (esp. post-1970 homes.) Exterior doors in the US (almost) ALWAYS swing IN - not out. (That allows for the screen.) Double hung windows tend to be standard here, but the others are available. We tend to stick with the Williamsburg home design. (Yes, there are other modern designs.) --It is the "traditional" look that so many Americans prefer.
The doors in US seem very weak and the locks too, no wonder you have burglary. Another thing I've been thinking about is why you have no hallway and place at the front door for outer clothes. Where do you put them?
Steel doors are very common. You just haven’t seen enough of America. They make them to look wooden or flat painted surfaces like a poplar wood would look. Just look up doors on Menards.com or HomeDepot. Paella and AndersonWindows make some nice doors too.
Most homes have front door for guests with small closet but most home also have garage door entrance with possible laundry room andor mud room. (Swede living in US)
@Lorne Johnson Theres no need for that. And any bigger building will have air-raid shelter . So that would be enough shelter for a tornado. Edit. Not 100% sure about laws for Sweden building standards. If they are required to have that. But at neighbor country they do have law for that.
If you are an American and want to make a fortune, import Swedish water efficient toilets to the west coast. I think the detachable shower nozzles would be a big seller aswell! It bugs me everytime i take a shower in a US hotell!
In FL, homes are concrete and then covered over with a veneer to make them look like other stuff. This is due to the hurricanes. US walls used to be made of a hard plaster but moved to Sheetrock in the 50s, probably due to the economic & housing boom when more people could afford their own homes. Also it’s more expensive to repair plaster and it cracks easily. Some US homes now do have the light switch you show as well as the washer/dryer combo, shower head, and many other things. The utilization of the bathroom as a multipurpose area has not caught on here, I have also seen it in Japanese RU-vid videos too. Thanks for sharing, I love to see how other people live.
Hello, just gonna point something out, the windows that you have there are more common in the south or in schools, most homes do have a screen (but it often doesn't have the frame, it's more like a web that you stick on) and have windows that open from the left/right, like a door. For some reason there's usually one/a few window/s that you actually open, the other windows play more of an aesthetic role. Just something I felt like pointing out, great video, have a great day/night!
The windows differ a lot between houses. The flyscreen is common depending on where you live, but you have generally casement windows then which allows a flyscreen in.
The biggest difference in USA houses and European houses is the construction solidness. No wonder complete cities get destroyed when there is a hurricane in the USA. The walls are so thin and light. American construction is how we in Europe build our shed or kids playhouse in the garden. I always thought it was just for the comedy of TV series and movies that people could fall through a wall or hit a hole in it. Today I understand that is actually reality. If you try that with an European house, you would break your hand or foot but the wall would not be damaged in any way.
Interesting video! as I see, many homes also in western europe they look similar, this appartment you showed, looks like my mother appartment, here in Spain, all the modern appartments and homes nowadays look like this, thank god the construction quality has improved a lot the last 10 years💪 And by the way, Why some of you guys get so offended here in the comments? he is just showing his experience, don't be that over sensitive😉
Oj jag visste inte att det var så mycket skillnader mellan Sverige och Amerika speciellt det där med spisen, så konstigt att hela spisen blir varm när man bara ska använda en platta, pratar du Svenska? (🇸🇪)
Jag tror han menade att induktionshäll är ovanligt i usa. Vad jag vet är det ganska vanligt med gasolspis i usa så... ananrs så har dom väll ungefär som de flesta i sverige bara helt vanlig spis som värms upp och då blir det ju lite varmt runt om också... induktionshäll så är det ju magnetism som gör att matlagningsbyttan blir uppvärmd... men många har ju inte induktionshäll i sverge så vida man inte har ett helt å hållet nybyggt kök
I'm a home-builder here in the USA and I've seen all of this, except for the outlets ... when you say "concrete" walls, I'm assuming you mean "lathe-and-plaster, and this is very rare in new homes, it's expensive and the skills to install are all but gone ... the cost of drywall and all the repairs over 100 years is still much cheaper than plaster, as plaster is not immune to damage ... and we can't use latex paint on plaster, so that's another can of worms ... No bug screens? ... is it fair to say Sweden doesn't have the problem of tropical disease vectored by mosquitoes like we have here in the USA? ... phaw ... American homes are much much bigger, laundry rooms, couple of walk-in closets, libraries, dens, parlors, sitting rooms, 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, family room, TV room and we Americans just can't survive without 4,500 sq ft living space ... I've built dog houses bigger than your apartment ... ETA: I forgot the gun vault ... something unheard of in Sweden ...
@@avenderiel - According to the Swedish National Police Agency, only 6.5% of Swedes own guns ... do you know something the police don't ... ha ha ha ha ...
@@russcrawford3310 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country Every nordic country is in the top 10% percentile of gun ownership in the world. (Swedens comes at place 22 in the world.)
@@avenderiel - there is no gun registration in the USA except for fully automatics ... funny that you didn't know that ... it's no one else's business whether I own a gun or not, and certain not any of the government's business ... I don't have to register my religion, the people I associate with nor my political views ... these are called "individual rights" and includes owning a gun ... Sweden requires gun registration?, that's hilarious ...
Trottoar ? We even have special bike/walk lanes nowdays. In Minneapolis I had to walk on the grass to get to the office, no sidewalk. I felt very odd not going by car, the short distance of 1000 meters. Lucklily I did not get shot.
