American Reacts to GENIUS Things Found in FINNISH Homes

[@Tonzeeee]

In Finland are 5.5 million people and 3,000,000 saunas in Finland. Here are more saunas than cars!

[@juhajuntunen7866]

Everyone can use sauna but not car! (edit) Year 2013 3,2 million sauna (not official data available but Saunaseura estimated) and today 3,6 million car.

[@Noksus]

Not true about more saunas than cars

[@Tonzeeee]

@@Noksus here are 3 million saunas, 2.74 million cars and 5.5 million people in Finland

[@IlllIlIlIIlll]

It's very hard to estimate how many cars there is because 2.7mil is the number of registered cars only

[@Brendo2386]

I'm heading to Finland in September!

[@mcinen67]

There was once a group of Finnish opal prospectors in Australia and the first thing they did, when they settled in some desert place, was to build a sauna. The aborigines who lived there ask what is that? And the Finns said it's a sauna, and it gets +90°C in there. The aborigines just shake their heads and thought, it will be 45°C here in the shadow and they go in where it is twice as hot, they must have a screw loose. The Finns told them that, when you come out after an hour or so, 45°C is nothing. 😅

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Finns always build sauna first.

[@esaedvik]

This is also why taking hot showers is better in the summertime. Most think cold showers are better, which is a common misconception (as is the opening and closing of pores).

[@madyottoyotto3055]

@@esaedvik opening and closing of pours a myth Saying that literally invalidated anything you said Skin which is an organic material WILL ALWAYS EXPAND IN HEAT ALWAYS GIVEN that skin is a porous layer expanding CAN ONLY MEAN pours opening up more So thanks but no thanks for the misinformation As for closing the pours it simply refers to cooling the skin back to its original size and pour size but that shouldn't need explaining people are well aware that skin breathes etc

[@kingwacky184]

@@esaedvik Yep but a cold shower on a really hot day is extremely nice.

[@kmeanxneth]

finns do that even in Africa and Estonians too

[@ricolync]

He didn't mention "Rappuralli" - a metal grate with three brushes we have in front of our front doors. You can wipe mud, snow and sleet out of your shoe bottoms on the grate. And you get ankle height cleaned on the three brushes. So no poopoo gets inside the house 😊 Cheers from Finland!

[@seacucumber00]

Fr amerikas ei oo niitä?

[@wombat4191]

One thing that I think is also taken for granted in Finland is double windows. That is not the standard in most of the world, but when it gets cold, double windows save a ton in heating costs. Air is one of the best insulation materials, so having a layer of it in between the outside and your home instead of just one pane of glass is a relatively cheap way to keep warmer.

[@mhh7544]

He forgot to tell about engine block heaters, basically every car importer instal an electrical heater to a engine block. In front of your house you have a socket to connect your car into, it also have a timer. So when you need to get up early in the cold winter morning your engine is already warm. They also instal indoor socket for a heater fan, so even outside in snow storm, your car is warm inside and windows are clear of snow and ice.

[@735337707]

Or fuel operated heaters like Webasto and Eberspäher. With or without timer.

[@olavinto]

While these are very common, we have lot's of cars without heaters too.

[@TopiasSalakka]

@@olavinto I don't remember seeing a single car wtihout at least an engine heater, but i've seen some that don't have the splitter for an interior heater. Certainly a rarity to see a car without an engine heater. My car is a bit of a rarity because it doesn't have heated seats, not even for the front seats 😅

[@toniheikkila5607]

Im from Finland, living in apartment building. We have in basement a communal sauna, laundry machine and drying room, you book your turns for using them, free of charge. Also there is bike storage room, and storage lockers for each apartment. I dont have a car, but i think theres only regular parking places under sky. And outside theres a kind of hut with mixed garbage, biowaste, paper, cardboard, plastic, metal and glass bins.

[@olavinto]

"Free of charge" is not actually true. The owner of the apartment pays a monthly fee to the building's association and the cost of those turns is covered by that pool as a all other expenses (either you are the owner and ay this or you rent the apartement and pay more to the owner who then covers these expenses). Usually each tenant also has a limited quota of these turns (like once or twice a week for a sauna etc.). You pay for it, just not directly. It's not free to heat up an electric sauna like this (they tend to be a bit larger). Everything costs in a building and no one else pays for it but those who live in it - just often indirectly so it seems free.

[@mamatroll8898]

@@olavinto that´s right- we pay 10€ per month for our sauna. We have sauna every saturday 1h. And we pay also 10€ for our car park per month. About drying room, that is free for use. But we don´t have any laundry machines

[@anttikristian]

There is also "lenkkisauna" - common sauna shift - once a week, 1h for ladies, 1h for gentlemen, for every inhabitant to use. Yeah, naked with neighbors, and that makes north-Americans scratch their heads. :D

[@mhh7544]

Around Finnish settlers in US sauna is common, majority settled in upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Iron Range of northern Minnesota . Today some 650 000 Finn-American lives in US. Much of the population in these regions remains of Finnish descent.

[@ninnik]

What's fascinating about Finnish settlers in US is how well they got along with the indigenous people (mostly the Ojibwa people), compared to other Europeans. They had a lot in common in the way they live and their outlook on life. One big unifying factor was the relationship with nature and especially forests. They hunted and fished together, taught each other skills (for example, Finns introduced the skill of building log cabins) and eventually some of them fell in love with each other and started families. And that's how a new ethnic group, Findians, was born. There's a book about Findians, published in 2016 and called Fintiaanien mailla (= in the lands of Findians) and they also made a documentary. Unfortunately the book hasn't been translated into english and the documentary is not availeble outside Finland. But there is this short video someone made which I would recommend to anyone interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6KXZIynnppgi6c

[@57WillysCJ]

As did many of the northern Swedes. Saunas were for many years outside buildings but in the 1990s they started coming in to homes with the availiabilty of electric burners. Many of the old timers had Saturday as sauna day. Some would get a case of beer for the day. They would go in for an hour, come out and sit in the doorway, drink some beer and cool down, then return to the sauna. Rinse and repete until the beer is gone. Any time they thought a cold was coming on, they would take a long sauna. Really the ones that spent the day really never got sick much.

[@blechtic]

Of course, the sauna on the thumbnail is a sauna module, which is something you won't find in Finland. Walls and ceilings and floors tend to be light-coloured because it gets dark in the winter. Dark colours also make it feel smaller and suck out all the light. Living in a small dark hole will get to you when it's also dark outside. In the summer, the contrast of outside light and dark inside will also be problematic. Neutral tones are easier (and also easier to sell). They go with everything and you can add all the colour you want with paintings, plants, furniture, etc.

[@rapsarummakko1330]

,?

[@blechtic]

@@rapsarummakko1330 !

[@verttikoo2052]

Sauna module could be something for him

[@JuzRaza]

0:44- "Tappo Hapocha" 😆

[@SideKickStudios]

Here in Estonia (southern neighbour of Finland), we have very similar ways of living. The dryers are great if you neeed dry clothes fast out of the wash, but the racks are the best, because no amount of fabric softener can replace the fresh smell and feeling of clothes that dry in the open air outside. Obviously the air quality here in the northern Europe is very good, so that also plays into this, but still.

[@henningbartels6245]

Drying racks are fairly common also in the rest of Europe.

[@grantodaniel7053]

And Australia. 👍🇦🇺

[@madyottoyotto3055]

We have both being from the UK dry weather isn't the most reliable

[@MKitchen75]

I agree drying clothes with rack open air gives great smell...

[@psycele2859]

Estonia to nordics🇫🇮🇪🇪

[@tiaelina1090]

I live in Brisbane, Australia, I am a Finn and in every house we have lived in we have had a sauna. We use it all throughout the year. Summertime we enjoy the sauna and then jump into the pool. Brilliant

[@AlainnCorcaigh]

the clothes rack is pretty common all over Europe really, we call it a clothes horse in Ireland

[@leiflillandt1488]

When thinking of Ireland, Craig Breen's girlfriend was competing in Turku, Finland tonight. Fourth at 100 m hurdles.

[@mikkorenvall428]

It's handy too, you van open it into the barhroom for a night in winter/bad weather or on the balcony or yard in dry and windy weather. Sometimes we have it in the living room while at work.

[@samivatanen8706]

Some other stuff that comes to mind; the tap water is the same as washing/toilet and its one of the cleanest In the World. No bottled water here. Also when the guy talked about taloyhtiö, "house community", he just scrathed the surface. You basically own stock of that community that entitles you to live there. That way no-one can half-ass maintenance or be a menace and big renovations get done with better decicion making.

[@formatique_arschloch]

But to mention, owning a HOUSE is a different thing. He lives in a building with apartments. We also have plenty of bottled water at the stores, but I guess you meant that there's no need to buy water because of quality issues. But still comes handy on the road.

[@samivatanen8706]

@@formatique_arschloch Doesnt really matter, its the same water In condos and houses.

[@formatique_arschloch]

@@samivatanen8706 Sure it is. I meant that house and water thing to be separate.

[@Qwarzz]

@@samivatanen8706 Plenty of quality differences in tap water tho. If it comes from a spring or ground water (usually smaller towns/villages), the water can be really fresh. In cities you'll probably get reminded of a swimming hall as the glass comes under your nose. It's all usually drinkable everywhere in Finland sure.

[@postoffice146]

@@formatique_arschloch Taloyhtiö is a housing cooperative. You buy a share of it and share the expenses. Some consist of a group of separate houses that share the same property, or rivitalo is houses in a row, walls connected to each other, sharing the same property and each having their own small private yard, or kerrostalo is condominiums in a big building. Of course there is also houses of just one owner on his own property, but most Finns also have a summer cottage and a sauna by a lake or the sea, so we don't want more maintenance work on a yard and houses besides that, and buying services is expensive in Finland because of tax laws so we are used to doing it ourselves there. No need to buy drinking water because tap water is very clean but you can find different water in the grocery store if you want it, I drink tap water every day.

[@Delewaa]

Fun fact about saunas in Finland. There are so many saunas in Finland that every finn could be in a sauna at the exact same time.

[@ChristianJull]

Having lived in Finland for nearly 15 years I remember well living in the UK where everyone walked in all sorts of dirt on their shoes and all over their carpeted floors. The thought of the disgusting hygienic state of those carpets make me shudder... 🤢 Perhaps they keep their shoes on so they don't catch something off the carpet....

[@Alienking01]

Here in Germany we have dryers but mostly use these drying racks, saves energy / money. Dryers are mostly used in the winter, when it is cold outside.

[@varmastiko2908]

In Finland we use these drying racks inside our homes.

[@ynnhoj798]

And to keep air moist in winter 🫵🏻

[@MrRanosama]

It's also traditional to dry your clothes outside in the winter, although not so common anymore. One of the rare cases where the water sublimates, i.e. freezes and evaporates without melting.

[@KimmoJaskari]

Sauna culture in Finland has changed a lot in some decades. It used to be routine for people to just do naked sauna in entire family groups and in multiple generations, it was just a way to get clean. I'm sure that's still the case for some families but way less than it used to be. But generally Finland is a lot less prudish than the US, for instance.

[@ConemantheBarbarian]

I’m Finnish background and grew up in Ontario , Canada. We had a in house sauna back in the late seventies, early eighties

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

The reason why windshied freeze is that on cold cloudless nights heat radiates straight to space and thin surfaces lose heat fast. Cold surfaces collect condensation.

[@Koziolrh]

I recommend actually using your dishwasher. Not only it saves you bother but is also more water efficient than handwashing.

[@McGhinch]

But you must have enough dishwasher save dishes to fill the dishwasher to be more water efficient than handwashing. 🙂

[@Koziolrh]

@@McGhinch which as a family man he does easily. Obviously there are factors but we're generalising.

[@McGhinch]

@@Koziolrh Certainly, there are other factors. But my general knowledge about US Americans triggered the answer. (I did play music in the USAFE club circuit -- I know many Americans -- even at their homes...)

[@psycele2859]

5:15 this so funny. We have the exact same drying rack, and never use our 2 drying machines.😂

[@randomdriver]

This might explain it better why the tools are shared. I think this is one the most common way of living after owning a house or renting. Straight quote from wiki "Finnish tenant-owned housing properties are generally organized as limited companies (Finnish asunto-osakeyhtiö) in a system peculiar to Finnish law. The Finnish arrangement is similar to a housing cooperative in that the property is owned by a non-profit corporation and the right to use each unit is tied to ownership of a certain set of shares." You do not actually own the apartment but you own certain set of shares of the company which owns the buildings and property. Also you pay monthly maintenance fee to this company which keeps things running. Also this company is responsible of certain parts of the homes like water fixtures, radiators, doors, windows etc.

[@mikkorenvall428]

That's one way of putting it. Comparment to a Holding Company would be more accurate. But instead of owning shares, this holding company owns the property/housing. And since it's no profit Company, one pays for the holding costs. And of course shareholders control the property. And the idea of tenant is a little misleading. As a part owner one of course contributes to the expenses.

[@hackbyte]

5:50 It's actually mostly the same over here in germany. We have laundry drying racks in several styles .. heck we even have some spider-web (standing on a pole) like - actually called "wäscheschpinne" (laundry spider) - racks, for installation in the yard.. With folding mechanisms for the winter when they're not in use.... We're fully appreciating natural fusion powered clothes drying using traditional wind and solar........ It's actually everything you need (if not in winter... ;))

[@kala1780]

Yeah we have the "wäschesschpinne" in Finland too, usually on the yards oldish houses like from the 1950-1970 though, at least in my experience. There are also different styles of outside drying racks etc. but the one he showed is quite common for one to have indoors and for example in a flat.

[@freezedeve3119]

i think main reason for drying racks is that humidity is usually low so drying works fine, in some other countries humidity might be to high already so drying machines are better option.

[@kala1780]

@@freezedeve3119 good reasoning

[@hackbyte]

@@freezedeve3119 Well, while that is basically true ... you actually might need overall humidity values above 60 to 75% to really effect the possible amount of "natural drying" in usual wind and humidity conditions...... hhmm.. ;) Heck, even in the deepesd ant most humid jungles, they hang their clothes to dry after they needed to swim... ,)

[@freezedeve3119]

@@hackbyte yes, but in apartments it start condensate to surfaces if humidity goes too high.

That "taloyhtiö" he is talking about actually is a sort of an apartment company, where when you move in, you actually don't just buy the apartment you live in, but also a share of the company. It's the company that actually owns the property (and the lawn mower). I don't know if you have that in the States. Of course most single-family houses are not a part of any company, but apartments in townhouses or apartment buildings almost always are. Sometimes a group of detached houses can also form a company. Or it could be a group of townhouses and detached houses. Kinda hard to explain...

[@okaro6595]

Technically you do not own the apartment but the stocks that allow you to manage the apartment. Of course in everyday speech people do not make the difference. You can live I the apartment or rent it out. You have to pay a monthly fee based on the size of the apartment to common expenses.

@@okaro6595 Yes, that's more accurate. The "company" actually owns the apartmants too.

[@Kropikovo]

@3:47 I used to wash the dishes by hand too. Then i found that even if a though I was conservative with the water, i still used up over 30 Liters of water. With the dishwasher, i fill it up, and the most eco friendly program will use only 7 Liters per one load. I don't wash my dishes by hand anymore.

[@McGhinch]

But you must have enough dishwasher save dishes to fill the dishwasher to be more water efficient than handwashing. 🙂

[@Kropikovo]

@@McGhinch There's never been a problem with that. :D

[@devilkuro]

About the drying rack for clothes, in America it is considered a sign of poverty, especially drying your clothes outside on a clotheline so it's not seen often, but here in France, it is kinda seen as a sign of wealth to use a clotheline outside as it means you have land property to use this instead of a dryer. They will be way more common here, same for the drying rack.

[@madelinehellena4596]

Eastern Europe here - floors, check. Drying rack in cabinet, check. No dryer and manual drying rack, check. No sauna, but shared tools/equipment are a thing especially if it's an old house turned into individual apartments. We also have carports like that more often than garages.

[@nitroruski7986]

that was a new build what was shown but usualy with older highrises aka commie blocks its just 1 sauna where they have sauna turns

[@billigmad3720]

Here in Denmark I use a dryer for bedsheets, towels, underwear and socks. They just take up too much space if I had to use the rack. But pants and hoodies etc. goes on the rack for drying :)

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Oh, the sauna. Finnish sauna culture is actually on the UNESCO's Cultural Heritage List. Here's their video about it: "UNESCO Sauna culture in Finland". It's often said, that there's more saunas in Finland than cars. Sometimes a car is a sauna: "Sauna in a Volvo". If you found the look into the Finnish homes interesting, you might enjoy a look into the Finnish summer cottage culture also: "Finland Friday: THE AUTHENTIC SUMMER COTTAGE EXPERIENCE!". Since the Midsummer Festival is just around the corner and people will be going to summer cottages in masses, here's an Italian KZbinr's view to the Finnish summer cottage living, with sauna and info about it included: "Trying Finnish Self Care Summer Habits | Ep.1 | Peaceful Cottage Culture". About that Finnish pragmatism, here's the US ambassador to Finland, at the time, talking about the subject relating to saunas also: "Bruce Oreck has an unusual sauna experience". Here's a video about the Finnish sauna culture and it's history in the US: "Finlandia Foundation National An Authentic Finnish Sauna".

[@formatique_arschloch]

Perhaps someone already brought this up, but I'll do it anyways: Many many apartments in apartment blocks in Finland has a sauna built in. If not, there's a building sauna, usually in the base floor, which can be used by all inhabitants in that building. There's a reservation system, where every household gets one hour per week on their own, personal time. Usually it costs about 10-20 €/month. And this is mind boggling to many foreigners: If you are unemployed and in a tough financial situation, the state not only pays your rent, but also the additional monthly sauna charge. That's how important sauna is here. Even the state of Finland recognizes that.

[@Kris1964]

The finnish army even have mobile field saunas 😂😂

[@fnbtt]

And tent saunas as well. In the winter war finns had dugout saunas which helped as it was extremely cold winter.

[@elsufox]

If Finns went on Mars we would build a sauna there too XD

[@juhapihkanen]

4:15 That finnish style drying rack was invented by a finnish lady Maiju Gebhard some 80 years ago...

[@littlecatfeet9064]

I love it; wish we had them in Australia.

[@karelianshaman]

In Finland sauna is religion. Christians have churces, Jews have synagogas, Muslims have mosques. I have my own shrine and its my own build log cabin sauna.

[@kala1780]

2 points in this video that he kind of got wrong, or maybe skipped in the video. 1. People have driers, it looks like they had the provision to mount a drier on top of the washing machine. It looks that they just prefer not to have one. Well, I don't have one either, but maybe if I had a bigger house/flat then maybe I'd get one. They are rarer than drying racks, that is for sure. 2. The "Talonyhtiö" community thing is more than just sharing tools. It is actually a limited company of sorts possibly could be translated to "housing company" so, everyone who owns a house in the "talonyhtiö/housing company" has a share and a vote at the housing company meetings about the government/board of the company. They budget their money and the "pool of money" which comes from monthly housing company payment. This payment can vary a bit, for example if there is a big apartment building complex housing company they might have profitable rental spaces and thus the payments are smaller or non-existent in rare cases. The housing company usually is resposible for common areas (incl. these tools), shared technical spaces, renovations & modernizations of the shared spaces, landscaping and snow removal and garbage services deals for example, or what ever they deem is necessary for the company. The idea is to provide services to ensure that the houses are kept in good condition to live but also so that they hold their value.

[@mikkol.1376]

Teppo forgot to mention that every single Finnish kitchen has a built-in cutting board. It's usually the top drawer. There's no need to have a separate cutting board taking up space somewhere, unless you need a really large one.

[@herrakaarme]

No, they used to be more common back in the day, but if your home is newer or the kitchen has been renovated within the last couple of decades, chances are you won't have it anymore.

[@Tomi-oe5mz]

Not anymore

[@pate7179]

No they dont lol maybe until 90s?

[@makkarakivi]

Asun kohtuu tuoreessa rivarissa ja meillä se lauta löytyy. Ja on edellisissäkin asunnoissa ollut, jotka on kaikki rakennettu viimeisen viidentoista vuoden sisään. Tosin en kuollakseen muista ikinä sitä leikkuu lautana käyttänyt, mutta säilytän siinä muovisia lautoja. :D

[@WoRMaSTeR64]

This one is partially true but not that great since cleaning it is more of a hazzle + cutting boards tend to wear out so it is much easier just to buy a fresh one from store.

[@aaabee5440]

It would be interesting to see similar video showing Finnish cottage / summer life in cottages by the water. Nice video

[@oakld]

Water condensation falls basically down, so roof protects the windshield from being frozen. Car ports are popular in the central and western Europe as well. I think most of people in Europe doesn't use dryers, so it's same here. You can buy saunas in DIY shops, but honestly, I've never ever seen any in a house or apartment. You can find them sometimes in weekend houses. My neighbor has a sauna in his "garden house", but it's a pretty rare thing here. Sure a great thing up in the North! :-)

[@dwightk.schrute8696]

Yes, and also there's much less wind in that alcove so less movement of air overall

[@JaikoFin]

Also, temperature changes slower under roofing, so it does not condensate water so much when temperature drops. Wintertime car is typically few degrees warmer than open space temperature.

[@BeTeK11]

I think actually it's because if clear sky the temperature difference is between air and cold space (around -270 Celsius). So wind shield will get colder than air surrounding thus condensing water from moisture from air (even below 0 degrees air has some moisture only air that is around -55 has zero moisture). When there is roof over the car then difference is between ceiling and car that is close to 0 degrees of difference hence no condensation.

[@JaikoFin]

@@BeTeK11 Usually, when we have about -30 C degrees or less, there is not so much wind.

[@oakld]

@@BeTeK11 Coincidentally, I know few things about condensation, dew point, etc., but I fail to understand what you try to say. But from experience, you don't get frosted windows just because it's cold. It depends on atmospheric conditions. Of course, in autumn and early winter we have most days overcast and effect we call literally "falling droplets" (not sure if it's a best translation). Those are the days with the worst frost on the windshield and that's what I meant. Of course dew point and frost are another ingrediences needed to get the effect.

[@infernalstormrider]

I have two saunas . One on my home and another at sommer cotrage. It's pretty normal that peoples have sauna here in Finland

[@marcburton541]

I really enjoy your channel, keep up the good content. We permanently relocated to Finland from the USA last year- clarifying some of the generalizations in the video… - We have a dryer in our laundry room, it is not that common but we do have them here. - Shoes are removed so you do not track outside dirt into the home, regardless of the flooring material. Interestingly this is true at many workplaces and commercial fitness centers or gyms too, there are large storage cubbies at the entry where you change into our indoor shoes. -Our community doesn’t share pressure washers or yard tools, I believe it depends on the management company’s arrangements when living in row houses or townhomes. - An interesting add to this is our home has triple pane windows with two operable panes per window casing. It really helps in the winter but opening them in the summer is a pain. Also no screens on the windows and a lot of flying insects, kind of sucks as summer as it is beautiful in the Turku Archipelago,our part of Finland, where it is in the 70 degree Fahrenheit range.

[@esaedvik]

We don't have anything shared here either cause everything is taken care of by a third party :D It does get annoying when I got plowed-in by a snowplow and couldn't dig out my car cause we didn't have shared snow tools and the company who does that was busy elsewhere cause of heavy snowfall. And washing your car outside the house is pretty much forbidden in Finland nowadays.

[@juhokaartoaho]

@@esaedvik Washing your car isn't forbidden, but there are some regulations that says that excessive washing isn't allowed. This is just to stop people from poaring all of the chemicals used in different washing products to the street or sewers. Car detailing places have to have specific kinds of drainages for this reason also.

[@kimmikke_]

Love your open mindness and willingness to learn and to see what could be make use of also in your life. Shows intelligence and maturity. Keep it up and super entertaining to watch these and also hear your on topic comments!

[@nikomaila1497]

We Finns do rock electric dryers (never gas), but there's no point in one until you get kids. A married couple can rack dry all their clothes with one rack like showed here but when 1 kid is easily 3 adults worth of laundry, rack drying becomes impractical real fast...

[@VilleVallaton76]

4:45 -> we do have tumblers/dryers, just not perhaps as common, maybe 20-30% of the households, family homes typically. A single person or a couple can manage with a rack and use the space for something else.

[@CuccoBilli]

The "dish drying cabinet" was actually patented in the US in 1932, before it became popular in Finland. The Finnish variant was developed by Maiju Gebhard during 1944-45 for Työtehoseura (Work Efficiency Association). I guess the invention never got much traction in the US, but almost all Finnish kitchens have one.

[@8tonystark8]

It's also all over Spain and its islands

[@keyser5555]

also russia and most of ex soviet countries have had these at least past 40 years

[@Hybridial84]

What I've noticed is that usually USA sinks have a window to outside. In Finland we have cupboards over ours.

[@hematula1]

these days even Ikea sells them almost globally... the models they stock do not have an open bottom though, instead the have a built-in drip tray. But it gets the job done.. Funnily enough, US of A is one of the global locations that do not offer those models. Go figure, they do have multiple space hoggin' ones though.

[@andy70d35]

Ian, we use clothes drying racks as he called them in nearly home in Scotland, many days you can't hang the clothes out on the line outside, but leave them on the clothes dryer overnight and it's done and because of the crazy energy prices in the UK they are a must.

[@MetallicMutalisk]

in finland we use the racks inside most of the time unless the weather is really good

[@stolisna]

i live in finland and well ofc i have sauna in my house. and seeing American react to that everybody in finland have sauna in their home is just something. i love it❤

[@Sappengold]

Greeting from Finland, this is really hard to explain and is actually quite complicated physics. But the reason why the windshields do not freeze under the canopy is so-called back/counter-radiaton which slows down the temperature drop or even prevents the formation of frost. In a way, it is a reflection of thermal radiation, the thighter the space is the better this effect works.

[@FinCrow84]

In Finland it is like 6 months dark, wet or snow so that covers the habit to take shoes off.

[@akitahvanainen]

It's easier to think those "shared things" as things that you usually don't use, but it's great to have when you need to use them. Of course you can buy your own stuff which you might need more often.

[@janemiettinen5176]

My very first own place had communal gym, photo developing room, computer room (they had both Windows & Mac), “club room” for larger gatherings and a sewing machine (which I was in charge of). We also had communal sauna, laundry room and recycling room, where anyone could leave unwanted but still useful stuff and take what they wanted. Outdoors we had big barbecue with tables. 3 apartment buildings occupied mostly by students, it got pretty wild at times, but surprisingly nothing got stolen or broken in my 4 years living there.

[@Idefixu]

On thing I have to say. Sauna is a must all around the year. When it is cold in winter it is very nice to go to the war sauna, but it is as enjoyable to go to sauna in the evening of a warm summerday, and wash off the sweat, that makes your skin sticky. In the apartment building where I live we have a sauna on the basement. My time slot is between 3 and 4 p.m every Saturday, that is 4 times per month. And it's only 14 euros or $US per month.

[@Roggen45]

I live in The Netherlands and dont have a dryer either, use to have a drying rack like these guys, but i guess u can say i "upgraded" 😂, my lines are inside a nifty machine mounted on the wall, all i have to do is pull it out to the other wall in the room put it on the hooks and voilà i can hang my clothes, and when im done take the lines of the hook and they auto roll back into the machine lol, takes up even less space compared to that rack. The sharing tools is a great idea, less wasteful and expensive!

[@marina410]

i live in finland and we actually have a drying machine but we only use it for things like bed sheets or towels since the whole drying process in a dryer can damage the clothes quite a bit. so using a drying rack to dry clothes keeps them in better quality for a longer time

[@shinx67]

4:41 i think most homes here has a dryer, we mostly use the rack for things that might shrink if you put it in the machine.

[@juicetin5652]

i am finnish and we have a drying machine but we mostly use the drying rack for clothes

[@esaedvik]

Dryers use sooooo much power. Modern washing machines are combo machines though, they have a dryer in them too, just a bit less powerful than a dedicated dryer. In small apartments the drying rack is a pain. Some use saunas for drying too, we did that growing up. Sauna is a multi-use space.

[@henningbartels6245]

One feature he forgot: in Finnland it is common to have triple glassed windows.

[@sanchu6335]

I get your point but three paned windows are fairly common anywhere in most of even slightly northern europe, they aren't nearly as exclusive to finland as, say, saunas and drying racks

[@henningbartels6245]

@@sanchu6335 so, you basically saying that you can find them ib Sweden, too. They are not common in Germany, Denmark or Russia, and by far not in the UK. In the last you stll often find single glass windows.

[@sanchu6335]

@@henningbartels6245 really? I've been told they are common in like germany, poland, russia and the baltics, huh

[@henningbartels6245]

@@sanchu6335 maybe on single new projects, but in the masses of existing houses.

[@kimnice]

Triple glassed windows are for the poor people. Mid- and upper class uses quadruple windows in Finland.

[@tonikaihola5408]

Most people don’t have separate dryers but there are washing machines that have a dryer built into them. I don’t often use the feature because as mentioned the clothes won’t last as long.

[@matsv201]

I would say its kind of depending on the size of the home. Small home typically just have washers. Medium size home have a combi unit and large home usually have two units.

[@esaedvik]

@@matsv201 More of a thing if you have a large family (not related to apt/house size necessarily) as you can dry clothes whilst the other machine is washing a new batch.

[@rehtireipas4170]

That thing presented by finnish guy is not sauna. It is electric torture room. Real sauna will be warmed up with wood.

[@fdk7014]

Having your own sauna is common but it's not in every apartment. However if there is no apartment sauna there is usually a shared sauna in the housing block so almost everybody has access to a sauna without going to a public bath.

[@simmoehasoo3779]

He didn't talk about the bomb shelter either. They are located in every apartment building, residential area and office buildings and wherever possible.

And the car shelters usually have power outlets, so you can preheat your car in the winter. :)

[@verttikoo2052]

Or charge your ev

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Clothes drying racks were quite common in Australia up until about the '80's, then dryers became more common. You can now get combination washer/dryers that save space and energy, some people don't have dryers here so drying racks are used.

[@magicofshootingstar]

One thing I'm very confused of American homes that seems to be different thing than in Finland are showers. Every video I have seen from there, the showers seem to be fixed. In here you can either have the showerhead up in it's rack (similar than the fixed ones in USA) or you can take it down and use as a handshower. Makes it easier when cleaning or washing kids etc. Also you can lower or raise the height where the rack is, so the water hits you differently 🙂

[@samiheiskanen5311]

That draining rack for dishes was pretty much invented by ms. Maiju Gebhard ca. 1945. Not so surprising, after all her father was a professor, and mother financial Counsellor AND long time serving senator.

[@fortuna7469]

Thank you for having an open mind for using a drying racket for clothes! It is the same as with everything.. when you are used to some method it does not bother you. We have a dryer and a racket, and we use the dryer for bed linen and towels, and the racket for clothes. The dryer indeed does consume fabric pretty fast.

[@Herrolas]

The drying rack thing is almost the same in germany, we barely use our dryer (most like myself have a combo mashine with washer and dryer in one) because energy costs are so high.

[@seppoharkkonen5766]

in here where i live we do have public washing machines and dryers, but also shared drying rooms and ofc, the racks with the outside drying lines.

[@vilkkiz7397]

Finnish people do use drying machines aswell

[@mr.wizeguy8995]

12:40 Moisture comes from sky that causes windshield to freeze. You can avoid that by even parking front bumper right next to big tree. So basically any cover above windshield does that trick.

[@mjrauhal]

"Every single apartment" is somewhat exaggerating but it's certainly _not uncommon_ to have a sauna in an apartment too. (Most actual houses would have one.) Generally if your apartment doesn't have a sauna of its own, you can have a standing reservation at the apartment building's common sauna (which _will_ exist unless pretty much every apartment has their own in that building...)

[@mattipiirainen7440]

The frosting of the windshield has something to do with clear night sky. Even when outdoors, and when cloudy, it really doesn't happen at least so much. Obviously when cloudy, it often snows so it is easy to miss this phenomenon.

[@tonikaihola5408]

The carpet explanation makes no sense to me. Why would you want to drag all the crap on your shoes onto the carpet? That’s even harder to clean up 😅

[@cobacaba]

You also have undestand that here Finland is cold in winter time. Basically that is one reason why we don't have massive houses -> warming costs are huge. Warming time starts begin of the September and hopeful end before May. Thats why we also have thick walls in houses. What I have seen NA documents where they build houses we definetily use more insulation and we take much more care about condension and air flow between walls and outer surface and especially under the roof, so places dry well (over 20mm). And that sauna. You need to understand, like Teppo says, we dont use phone in the sauna, because we don't even go there if sauna is colder than 60 degrees of celsius. BR, Finn

[@numchacar]

I found you last year reacting to Aussie stuff and I happen to be Finnish Aussie so it’s cool to see

[@TheMrGazoline]

While it is common to have a sauna in every house not every house has one. In block of flats to save space there's usually a sauna that everyone in the building shares. Well, technically it's still in the same house, even if it's shared.

[@ln8173]

We have a sauna in our house (in Sweden) and we actually have clothing lines in the cieling of it so we mostly use it to hang dry clothes 😂 But we do use it as a sauna too, mostly during winter

[@elinde]

We do not take off the shoes because of floors. We do it because our home is clean place and coming inside with shoes is just plane rude thing to do...

[@30secondish]

One of the (main?) reasons of the tradition of colour white inside the house is the amount of darkness Finland has every winter.

[@Nemioke]

One hint for Finnish pronunciation: Whenever there's "ja", it's similar to English "ya". Same applies to "ju" - It's "yu". So, "Haapoja" = "Haapoya". And make that wovel a long one. And, as with all Finnish words, the first syllable is weighted. The language is relatively tonally flat.

[@artoniinisto9022]

So, if all our words have first syllable stress, then e.g. juhlajumalanpalvelus means there is actually a thing called 'juhlajumala' . . .

[@Nemioke]

@@artoniinisto9022 You know we play with our words quite a bit. And yes, in that the stress is on the first syllable - there's no second stress point. When it comes to "juhlajumala", I know some of them and occasionally have ascended to that state. 😂

[@themadsamplist]

I know those dry racks in a cupboard from Spain. Never seen them anywhere else before.

[@Sta-Hi]

About sauna, it is very good when it's hot also! Actually, I think the stereotype sauna picture is summertime, beside water. It helps too, after sauna 25C (bäd shit hot) feels nothing :D

[@anttikalpio4577]

You should start using your dishwasher. It saves water and energy. You waste a lot of warm water when doing dishes by hand

[@papalaz4444244]

absolute shite

[@chipdale490]

That may not be true if you happen to live in the US. I have a feeling large household appliances there aren't as energy efficient as those in the EU. Quoting Tim the Toolman, in the US it's all about MORE POWERRR. (just kidding eh)

[@anttikalpio4577]

@@chipdale490 do you guys have dishwashers running Chevy big-block V8s?😅

[@1andonlyMiro]

As a Finnish civil engineer the biggest difference between Finnish and U.S houses is that in the U.S they build their houses basically out of cardboard. The weather is just so different at different times of the year in Finland that it demands a lot of the houses. Insulation, amount of rain/snow, how to get that water out of the structures, wind, heat in the summer. The structures are so different it's staggering.

[@altzu9918]

ah.. sauna and cold beer !!

[@kohinarec6580]

I was living abroad and I didn't understand what the plastic rack box on the counter was. My landlord then explained it was the dish drying rack.

[@Lithgow11]

We only put towels and underwear 🩲 in the dryer. If you put shirts 👕 and pants 👖 through the dryer, they tend to shrink?

[@mkm83672]

Sauna is pretty basic thing to have in apartment/house in Finland. There are some apartments without sauna but most of them have saunas. And then big apartment compex's have even community saunas and every resident can reserve own time for that. It is norm that can get to sauna, own or that community one on (usually) basement.

[@Mart687]

There's a ton of vacation parks in the netherlands usually close to nature reserves with woodlands. Proper houses with all kinds of sizes 2 person, 4, 6, 7, 12, 20p. And a fire place or wood stove, bathtub, central heating, nice kitchen, dishwasher, outdoor area and they do luxurious homes with heated floors 2 bathrooms and a sauna and solarium. Park facilities supermarket, restaurant, indoor pool etc. Most sauna's are 2p max so bit small.

[@sshortcuts3994]

with the washing mashin and dryer, in my home in Finland we have something that looks like q closet from the outside but inside there are those lines where you can hang the clothes, and also it is a machine, you can put warm air to go through and dry them faster

[@Lithgow11]

You need to build a Hills Hoist clothes line in the backyard

[@pmkgamingtv]

Sauna is Finnish word and we can dry clothes in sauna too.

[@ingvartorma9789]

Swedish and Finnish homes are very similarly equipped. BUT only up in my home region of Lapland and maybe a few places in Norbotten, most newly built apartments and villas are equipped with a sauna. Too many residents up here have their roots in Finland. My roots are partly from Tornedalen and Finland on my father's side. I grew up having a sauna in a wood-burning sauna. Not electric. Because these wood-fired ones are the best.

[@verttikoo2052]

Swedish don’t know anything about saunas. I could never imagine home or a summer cottage without a sauna. I live now in Spain and we are building one.

[@ingvartorma9789]

@@verttikoo2052 If you READ what I wrote, I wrote that many people have their roots in Finland and so do I. Then stop talking crap about other people. Stupid Finn

[@bakeraus]

@@verttikoo2052 I'm sure they know something about saunas, they are only a stones throw away.

[@verttikoo2052]

@@bakeraus That is the thing. They don’t. Biggest minority in Sweden are the Finnish people and that is the only reason they have Saunas.

[@ajm8077]

We also take our shoes off inside of apartment, because we dont live in a fcking barn 😅

[@eeeeezzz]

I got the exact same drying rack in belgium! A drying machine always seemed so unnecessary

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Ian you do know that if use your dishwasher to wash your dishes, you will use less water than washing by hand. BUT only if fill the dishwasher before using it.

[@janus1958]

If you go up to the Northern parts of Minnesota and Michigan, you'll find a fair number of homes with saunas, due to the high percentage of Finnish Americans in those areas( Almost 1/3 of the population with Finnish roots in the US live in those two states). They might not be in the house proper, but a separate small building. Growing up in Northern MN, we had a sauna built into the corner of our garage, while my uncle had his in his basement. This was back in the 60's, and, at least then, most saunas were heated by a wood fire stove, which made a separate structure more practical. My uncle built his own electrically run heater for his.

[@Qwarzz]

Saunas heated with wood are much more comfortable (at least I prefer that) compared to those with electric stoves but unfortunately burning wood isn't that good for the environment. Also wouldn't be that easy to implement in apartment houses :)

[@hematula1]

@@Qwarzz not that difficult. After all there are apartment buildings with real fireplaces too. But it is a lot more costly to build, which is the reason you generally find wood fired saunas in semi-detached houses or (detached) houses more often. That being said, even on those the norm has been with electric saunas just due to the building costs being higher for wood burning ones (separate chimney per sauna etc.). And as Janus above points it out, generally speaking wood fired sauna's will give a much more pleasant or even experience (electric ones tend to give sharp "löyly", so when you chuck water on the hot rocks... mostly due to the fact that they are incorrectly sized). So it's again a question of costs, a properly sized electric one will be quite big... thus heating it will take quite long (and also require a lot more kW), plus the costs upfront will be bigger. That being said, a good electric Sauna can give a better experience than a really bad wood fired one... But good electric ones are not common and bad wood fired saunas are almost like a unicorn... a mythical creature of the fables and tales... never actually seen...

[@Jemme95]

4:44 im pretty sure thats a combo washer AND dryer in 1, no? I can be wrong but it definitely looks like one

[@kohinarec6580]

Usually apartment blocks have a shared sauna for the residents. You can book your own weekly sauna turn for a small fee, usually 10-20€/month.

[@g-man4297]

I use the clothes drying rack here in Scotland called a clothes horse, essential as we get a fair bit of rain and saves on electricity cost and wearing out your clothes, also have an outside whirly gig clothes line for when the weather is good, unfortunately no sauna.

[@Hannu_H]

Hi from Finland! I really like you channel. Yes we have dryers in Finland, but not everyone buyes them, because normally there is not enough space for them.

[@stevesteiner6844]

It's funny how you were like "Wooow that is so cool" when he opend the sauna door because it's something I've seen my whole life. 😄