Brit Reacts to 10 Things in My Finnish Home That Just Make Sense

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[@Aquelll]

The tap to control water to dishwasher/washing machine is a safety feature. If you turn off the water when you are not using the machine, it prevents leakage if the machine has a fault.

[@hakis7139]

Yes its required on building's regulation to have open/close tap on washingmachines.

[@Songfugel]

Also makes installations/modifications so much easier

[@MoMsUuH]

Also it protects your home and the machine if there is a fault like too much pressure in the water pipes.

[@Zinetha]

Dish drying cabinets come built in. They're regular cabinets, but the shelves are made of metal wire, and they're always built over sinks. So then you can do the dishes and just put the wet dishes in the cabinet and let the water drip down the drain. Also, you can hang the dish brush on the bottom shelf. The switch for the washing machines is turning the water on/off for the machine. There's no risk for water damage if you keep the switches on "off" when you're not using the machine. And yes, our apartment has a sauna. Saunas are a huge part of our culture and have been for thousands of years.

[@EkiHalkka]

As far as i have understood, the coarse and quick-drying plastic dish brush is much less prone to gather bacteria and other nasty stuff than a sponge (which is essentially a perfect petri dish for the microbes to grow in).

[@Tyrisalthan]

What? Doesn't every country have a cheese slicer? It is so common everyday item that I never though about most countries not having it.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Apparently not. I can't imaginate how people cut cucumbers without cheese slicers.

[@GugureSux]

It's a VERY Finnish thing. Thus why in most places, cheese comes either pre-sliced, or you grate / cut bits of blocks with a literal knife.

[@ChristianJull]

If your dishwasher connection sprung a leak when you're away and flooded your entire floor/apartment, you'd know exactly why there's a separate tap. And so would all of your neighbours on all of the floors directly below in your apartment building! The washing machine has a similar tap.

[@Narangarath]

The most practical benefit of a dish brush vs a sponge is that the brush stays sanitary for far longer, since it dries much faster and doesn't provide a convenient growth surface for bacteria. You can also trow them in the dish washer to clean/sanitize them as needed. And if the bristles are stiff enough, it's a nice halfway measure between the normal side and the scrubby side of a sponge.

[@torpmorp1324]

The heated floors don’t usually really cost much extra because you have thermostats which keep the room temperature the same. The cost depends on where you live and your contract. Nowadays the war Russia started and maintenance of the nuclear power plants have caused fluctuations in price if electricity is needed. And no, it’s not cold all the time in Finland, heating is used in the winter only. Summers can be hot.

[@Narangarath]

Let's not go crazy. Finnish summers are only hot for people who are used to living in Northern locations.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

Sweden: Plastic in one bin (sometimes two, one for hard and one for soft), metal in one, paper in one, cardboard in another, food waste in one, general waste in one. Colored glass in one, clear glass in another. Batteries and electronics usually has to be taken to a special waste station. Garden waste is usually not allowed to be thrown away in say the food waste bin, but has to be taken away to the waste station.

[@eml1620]

Quite the same here in Finland 😊

[@jadedlotuz5095]

Bidet, can be found but are not common in Sweden, It was most popular in the 80s (i think), and mostly in houses. Every sane person in the nordic countries has a cheese slicer. Many think its a Swedish invention, but it is actually Norwegian (1920s). Swedes love cheese, realy LOVE cheese, so its a nesessity. It can also be used like she showed to slice cucumbers and such. Any food store in Sweden probably have it for sale, and IKEA has it, and so on. A friend of mine once lost his cheese slicer (he couldent understand how), and he was a bit upset that he had to buy a new one, but I hade 3, so I gifted one to him. Best day ever. :) Sweds use dish brushes AND sponges (depends on what you work with) or a dishwashermachine. The yellow gloves "Diskhandske" exists in sweden to, but seem to be less common now days. Recycling bins for various things is also common in Sweden. But it varies from city to city. Saunas is "luxury" in sweden, but many love it and wished they hade space or money for it. But the Finns has it in their genes. Saunas are though often available in bath houses or some common areas in some appartment houses. Cheers.

[@SteamboatW]

The cheese slicer is common in the Nordics - a Norwegian invention originally - but you can find it anywhere. In Sweden we use dish brushes, and I myself have both brushes *and* a cleaning sponge on a handle. I have seen the dish drying cupboard in Sweden too, but it's very uncommon and is called a "finnish dish rack".

[@kimreinikainen]

When my dad built the home in the 90's where i spent my childhood, he decided to include the heated floors to every room. But he chose the natural heat from the ground as the energy source and a pump to control it. The natural heat heats up the water and the floors.

[@ChristianJull]

She did sort of breeze over many of her 10 things and could have made it a little more clear how they work. In particular with the blinds she just said blackout curtains and didn't explain. When you have constant daylight during sleeping hours, the blinds and normal curtain just don't cut it. Blackout curtains are made from special lightweight material that blocks nearly all light.

[@oldinion]

The bottom 2-3 shelves in the dish drying cabinet are wireframe. It's located right above the sink so any dripping water drips straight down to the sink.

[@ToPAnDER]

10:34 I dont have a sauna, but my fathers apartment has one, my mothers apartment has one, my brothers apartment has one. My girlfriends parents house and summer cottage both have one, same thing with my best friends family. TLDR; Yes, most people have a sauna in their homes

[@jenniheinanen8434]

Recycling bins avaidable vary a bit. I have 2 bins but have baskets/bags for cardboar, paper, metal and glass. Biowaste goes straight to the outdoor bins. Every apartment building with more than 6 apartments, if I recall correctly, are required to have recycling bins for these materials. And cities/town tend to have recycling stations where you can also bring stuff. Recycling in other ways is also a big thing, not just in re-using old sheets etc. I actually have a dishbrush that I bought some 20 years ago. It has removable bristles, so instead of buying the whole brush I just swap that one part. And the handle is still just as solid as it was when I bought it, no fractures or wear. And I've been hand-washing stuff pretty much since I moved out, with nearly scalding wate, and I don't even want to use a dishwasher for that matter.

[@LoneWolf731000]

As she said , speaking about Finnish homes, for a Finn, a home is not a real home without sauna, it's like having a bathroom without a toilet.

[@sagamaraia]

If you have heated floors, you don’t need radiators. Floorheating saves power when applied right and it keeps the house and its occupants warm with very little effort.

[@dudesome69]

Late 80's and early 90's most of the heated floors in wet areas (bathroom, toilet, sauna) were made with electric heating elements. These are energy hogs and not so common anymore in a new house. Nowadays, you have water circulated floor heating in the entire house, including the wet areas, and the water is heated with electricity (not so common anymore) geotherm, air to water pumps, or with centralized industrial heating distribution (kaukolämpö=long distance heating).

[@nina-kitty6573]

Chelsea slider you can found in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland...🧀 Why you have switch for water, is good, close you not using dishes mashine and no leaking risk..

[@maijumatikainen1411]

We live in a house and we have two saunas. One downstairs and another is an outdoor sauna with jacuzzi. We are not rich, just typical Finnish family.

[@mikatuorila9823]

I lived in a building with 72 apartments. All apartments have their own sauna.

[@YehaaMaria]

You can probably buy osthyvel (cheese slicer ) in any ikea store because we have it in Sweden and all over Scandinavia 👌🏻😊

[@avatara82]

Dunno if ikea's juustohöylä/osthyvel is good...

[@polytaur]

@@avatara82 Its stainless steel, easily sharpened and very thin. I can promise you it is a good osthyvel.

[@Narangarath]

@@avatara82 I have one from Ikea, a Fiskars and two Hackmans and personally, I find the Ikea slicer best for the softer cheeses I usually slice. And I mean, it's certainly better than the slicer side you get on a cheese grater, never mind using a knife, so...

[@yennasama]

My parents have floor heating throughout the house instead of radiators +a fireplace for winter. It doesn't really cost more than radiators would and dad chose that for living comfort when building the house. The fireplace is very effective in the winter especially. Sauna also heats up the house (I don't know any house/apartment building that doesn't have at least a communal sauna, most people have one of their own). I live in an older apartment building and I don't even have heated floors in the bathroom -only a heated towel rack (looks like a ladder on the wall). Instead, I have regular water radiators in every room. And yes, I have 7 different recycling bins in my home: bio, plastic, cardboard, metal, glass, paper and burnable waste. As well as a bin for all the bottles I can take back to the store to get my money back. That's all the bins they have outside my apartment building, so that's what I recycle. On a random note, I lived in Thailand some 20 years ago and we had a dish drying cabinet built into the apartment there. And we certainly used the cheese slicer that we purchased from there. But some items we're used to needed quite a bit of hunting and being inventive to get. We also had a sauna in the building and my family was mostly the only one using it.

[@raiminho14]

All the houses have sauna for sure. Older houses used to have extra buildings on loft and lot of old houses have pihasauna "yard sauna", that is basicly just a sauna cottage. but novadays all houses have sauna built in, and there is a big percentage of apartments with built in saunas in apartment buildings. I have a sauna that fits like 7-8 people with 12Kw tower of rocks to throw water at. just came from there. have a nice weekend everybody.

[@ellinorsilwer]

It’s a water-stop to the dishwasher. You turn it on when you use the dishwasher and of when you don’t. We have it in Sweden too, most of us just turn it off if we going away for more than a day.

[@3M46DN1M]

Yeah. On when home, off when away longer times. Just kind of easy safety feature. Greetings from Finland.

[@BeetleJuiceFromHell]

I have 2 saunas in my house. I use the cheese slicer to peele potatoes and vegetables also. You should also look up the most commonly used can opener here. I know Americans are amazed by its simplicity and reliability🙂

[@henriikkak2091]

Bum gun is lovingly called the * lady part* telephone in Finland 📞 When you have heated floors, you don't need radiators. We don't use gas to heat our homes (

[@haardo]

Well said. :D

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Not only do we have Marigold gloves, but also synchronized skating five times world champion team Marigold: "Marigold IceUnity Worlds 2018 Free Program". Looking into Finnish homes, here's a typical Finnish condominium: "Siberian Gone International A typical Finnish home (condominium)". And yes, sauna is a human right. At least it's listed on the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: "Sauna culture in Finland". People go to sauna perhaps even more during the summer. There's over half a million summer cottages in Finland, which have saunas. Here's couple of videos about summer cottages: "Trying Finnish Self Care Summer Habits | Ep.1 | Peaceful Cottage Culture" and "Finland Friday: THE AUTHENTIC SUMMER COTTAGE EXPERIENCE!".

[@Ioniq5user]

Dish washers are the biggest reason for household water damages, thats why there is a water tap to close water flow when not using the washer.

[@terouotila1425]

Yes I have a sauna at home, pretty much all homes have one. In apartment buildings there can be a shared sauna if the homes don't have one

[@artoniinisto9022]

A store mag in Finland called 'Pirkka' prints readers' tips for creative uses of everyday items. I haven't seen an English version yet, but the tips are quite short and a lot of fun, useful too. Probably other mags have them as well, this mag costs like 5 bucks if you're not a member, but there's much Finnish stuff inside. One tip for a cheese slicer, and why you want one, is if you use cold butter from a fridge - it's a pain to spread it cold, but with a cheese slicer making a sarnie couldn't be easier, well worth it.

[@AlvenmodFoto]

The cheese sli er is common in all the Nordics, Norwegian invention, but you can probably get one in your nearest Ikea store. The dishbrush is primarily superior due to the harder bristles, removes hard stuck food more efficiently. Edit: and yes, we have a sauna. Would not buy a house that didn't have one or at least a space where I could build one. Sweden, but still

[@skywraith6454]

Most houses do have saunas, and finland has ton of them, even sauna ferrish wheel, if you do come to finland you have to check it our, its basically smaller version of london eye but its saunas, and they are functioning ones

[@jonisalmela2399]

in Finland even some apartments have their own saunas, houses are expected to have their own sauna; it can also be its own building.

On recycling: on my apartment building we have separate (outside) bins for paper, plastic, metal, glass, cardboard, bio and burnable waste and one is expected to sort their trash into those categories.

[@kurikuri1619]

in our home we have 1. a compost/bio 2. the "normal" trash, thin plastic goes here and stuff like wrappers and paper towel/kitchen paper 3. hard plastic 4. glass 5. metal 6. batteries etc 7. paper and some more papery cardboard 8. cardboard as in milk, juice etc. that super strong cardboard bottles get collected and returned and electronics, old clothes/fabric and other stuff go to their own places too, but those are not everyday things so much. and now that i actually list these it looks a lot, but it does not feel like it at all, it is so automatic and normal at this point.

[@patezh]

Dish brush is also really good when washing tall and narrow glasses in which you couldn’t fit your hand with a sponge

[@bengtolsson5436]

Underfloor heating in Sweden is usually a water system that is heated by a heating system, e.g. wood. It is significantly cheaper than electricity. Cheese grater is a Norwegian invention that you can buy at IKEA.

[@annina134]

I have 2 saunas, both warm up with wood. One inside the house and the other outside in the yard.

[@DR_REDACTED]

Yes we have a Sauna at home with electric or wood as heating options and we also have wood heated one at our cottage😊

[@undertasty]

Yes, practically every Finn has access to a sauna. Many even slightly bigger appartments have a mini sauna built in, and basically all bigger appartment buildings have a sauna that is shared among the tenants. And every gym, swimming pool, and basically every hotel and place of leisure has a sauna. So yes, they are EVERYWHERE, and all of them are appreciated.

[@tonikaihola5408]

Apartment here, with a sauna. Many newer buildings tend to have them in the apartments. Before they were just a shared sauna on the ground floor. Many separate homes have them because why not 😅

[@hakis7139]

@3:42 former plumber here. In fin and most of the Nordic countries we use watercirculted floorheating. (there is electric too in some houses, but its kinda dumb) and there is manyways to heat that water exempl. geothermal heating. And yes system will be instaled that way that you dont need traditional radiators in your house. There is manyways to heat your house, but thats one of those.

[@elfbiter]

Sauna is kind of default in Finnish buildings. If you in the apartment building, apartments usually do not have saunas but there is building-specific saunas. And then there are public saunas, which include most swimming halls. And Finns build saunas just about anywhere - including trenches in the wartime.

[@kellun83]

I have own sauna in my house , also my mom has one, my brother, grandma etc.... i think most houses in finland have saunas, row houses, seperate houses etc.. some apartments have their own saunas also and some has building saunas for everyone to use in their weekly turn.

[@kellun83]

And our summerhouse we have 3 saunas, smokesauna, electric, and wood burner, so saunas are very common 😃

[@eml1620]

You pronounce Finnish quite well 😃 and your English is pleasant to listen to, so soft and clear 👍

[@Ninni3535]

We have a sauna (actually 2 saunas, one indoors and one outdoors) at home. Floor heating is common in Finland, especially houses built in the 2000s! They are hot water circulation pipes, and it's the main heating system of the house, not an extra one for comfort. Our house has floor heating combined with a geothermal heat pump, and the electricity bill is below average.

[@pamelakilponen3682]

The water switch is there because the connection of the dishwasher or washing machine is often connected to the sink plumbing......Yes we have a sauna in our unit.

[@leopartanen8752]

I have a sauna in my apartment and that's one of my criteria for a home. 😅

[@bettyhappschatt3467]

You are welcome to move in Finland. I have a heated floor in my bathroom and there is only a towel rack with heated water flowing through in addition to that. I renovated my house and gave up my sauna to have more space in my bathroom. People said I am bonkers to have done that, but I only like the sauna in the summer when I can cool off outdoors .

[@tuomka]

We have a heated floor in the shower and toilet. Heated floors are not very smart, because electricity is expensive. There is always a drying cabinet in the closet, although nowadays they may not be in every apartment anymore. There must be an on/off sink switch so that there is no leak for some reason. Otherwise, the insurance does not cover damages. Of course, we have a sauna. 😉 In Finland, apartment buildings also have a public sauna with sauna shifts. Sauna shifts must be booked if you want to go in the sauna. This sauna shift is generally always the same one you booked from the beginning, and you keep it until you move out. Nowadays, new apartment buildings have their own saunas, so there is no public sauna.

[@Moukula]

Finnish homes have to be heated most of the time anyways, so the houses have a variety of different heating systems installed. IMO the best is floor heating with water circulation. You can heat the water any way you like, for example electricity, air/water heat pump, oil burner, gas burner, solar etc. and it's relatively easy and inexpensive to switch from one heat source to another. If your house only has electric radiators it might get really expensive if the price of electricity goes up (like last winter).

[@ttlbig]

I have only heated floors and this building was build in 2013. And in Finland. Ps. Yes, i have a sauna.

[@Lilianne8]

Yes, us too for the two most recent homes we've lived in, from 2016 and 2022, only have had underfloor heating. It's practical as the newer flats are getting smaller and smaller, there are no radiators to take any space. They're heated via the district heating system where a larger energy producer distributes their heat over water to apartments and houses. These systems are very common in cities and towns but less so in the more rural parts. We don't need a water boiler in our flat as all of that is done communally and paid for in our rent (or maintenance fees if you own your home). Hot water just magically appears from the tap (single with a mixer, never a separate hot and cold that I still see a lot in the UK) 😁

[@Lilianne8]

Oh and I forgot to add that our flat doesn't have a sauna but we chose one without it to give a little more space for storage instead. There were plenty of rentals available with saunas in them. Our building does have a communal sauna though where you can book a time when your family goes if you want to do that. I don't care for the electrically heated saunas which are what most block of flats have, I only enjoy them with a real log fire.

[@Xerdoz]

The cheese slicer is actually a Norwegian invention but very common in the Nordics.

[@erichani1]

Ohh I didn’t know that

[@katriarjava658]

The bidet showerhead is much appreciated in housholds with females. It makes it so much easier to manage certain aspects of our life. I personally don't need a sauna in my apartment. I prefer to have more room for other uses. As I go aqua jogging twice a week I can enjoy the sauna at the swimming centre.

[@MoMsUuH]

What comes to the sauna in apartment buildings some people have their own sauna in their apartment, but those apartments tend to be more on the expencive side. Usually apartment buildings have one communal sauna for everyone to share just like in your house. People will pay to use it once or twice a week and they will book a sauna shift which is usually 1 hour. Detached houses usually always have their own sauna. I personally have never seen a detached house that didn't have a sauna. Sometimes the sauna is not in the building but there is another tiny building in the yard where the sauna is. It is called "pihasauna" yard sauna. But a house which has no sauna at all, I think that you really need to look for them to be finding any in Finland.

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

Saunas truly are common. we have 1 sauna for all the people in our apartment building, you just reserve a time for it. but i also have a sauna on my summer cottage. There truly are alot of saunas here :D

[@newsnowsweden1661]

3:18 heated floors are more energy effective than radiators, because you feel the warmth sooner than with radiators, so you can turn down the heat compared to radiators.

[@TheSamElwood]

The cheese slicer is awesome tool to have. It's cheaper usually to buy cheese in blocks and then slice it yourself. It also tastes considerably better in thin slices which are fresly cut. Just avoid trying to cut very mature hard cheeses like 12 month old gouda. I've tried couple cheap Ikea-style versions but the only correct brand for me is Fiskars. Pricier tho but it will last you 20-50 years easy just like their scissors.

[@MoMsUuH]

I think that the dish brush scrubs the dried food off better than a sponge.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Heat rise, so what do you think is better? Cold floor and a radiator on a wall, or heated floor? Dish dryer cabinet above the sink is a must. You will never sell a house or apartment without it in Finland. Last time I check, we have this thing called skin, it is water proof. Dish brush is not for our protection (sometimes it is. When the water is too hot, you can poke it :P ). Sauna in every apartment start to be a thing in new buildings around -95 to 00 or something. Sauna's after heat is used to dry things.

[@MrBern91]

Heated floors do indeed cost more energy. I've got heated floor in my kitchen for some reason, I did not ask for it when I moved in here, it was just there. :P I dunno why it's there, but it automatically switches on during the late Autumn and winter and is on constantly during this period of the year and I am incapable of turning it off by myself. I personally think it would be so much better if you standardized floor heating and increase the building costs of the houses rather than paying extra every month in energy costs. :)

[@dabblingwithbonsai]

I have a sauna in my apartment, but the apartment building I live in has also a communal sauna for apartments without one. We do have marigolds but I think most people hate using them and almost only use them for cleaning toilets. An extra feature that wasn't in the video: Almost all the houses and apartments have fire alarms, also summercottages and other free time lodgings should have one (all should have, but some people are ignorant and stupid) and this is actually written in the safety law. Dunno if this a thing in UK.

[@hippitukka]

Dish drying cupboard is in every home. Basically those are plastic covered "wire shelfs".

[@NightBlado]

A sponge is less hygienic, it can become a nurturing bed for bacteria.

[@Amh088]

Floorheating can be also made by water circulation. Typically there are no radiators if there is a water circulated floorheating, some rooms may have but typically there are no radiators.

[@kirsiselei8703]

I have sauna in my apartment.and the dish cabinet is a standard in all houses. We do have the rubbercloves to cover hands when one do dishes or washing floors etc.thin rubbercloves are used when oone cooks(i use those allso when i pick blackberries or clean strawberries or any kind of thigs what stains the hands) Cheesslicer is really handy.(i slice other staff with that too).that is one thing u have to buy when u come to Finland(u will find those in sweden too) I recycle everything.paper in one bin,cardboard in other,glass in one,metal in other,plastic in one.i have my own composter backyard so not much trash to take in mixed waste bin.maybe one bag in month or two👍

[@toinenosoite3173]

If the entire apartment is floorheated, then it is usually done throung the district heating system, i.e. instead of the water going to radiators it goes through pipes laid under the floor. Also, I have heated floors in the bathrooms of my house and this is done through the water system. Electrical arrangements are usually found in older apartments where everything has been installed later.

[@fredrikandersson5548]

Whatttt ?? I thought everybody got a cheese slicer

[@Xerdoz]

Nobody knows what a cheese slicer is outside the Nordics. Maybe some Dutch people and a handful of Northern Germans might've heard of it but that's about it.

[@fredrikandersson5548]

@@Xerdoz ok nice to know.. to bad not everybody knows..😀🤣

[@MissSylvia67]

I'm Swedish but lived in the UK for a while. Brought my ex boyfriend's mum a cheese slicer and she was so happy because she'd never seen one before as they don't have them in the UK 😊

[@fridamarias]

I'm Swedish, we have dish brushes everywhere but I honestly prefer the sponge. You get wet either way but with a sponge you can apply diffrent pressure on diffrent spots (a brush would just fold their strands)

[@rusty6714]

We have a sauna at work that's on a timer so it's always on after every work shift so people can go if they like

[@Sir_Baddington]

We have 6-7 bins. I have a sauna. My father has 4 saunas, one at home, three at a summer cottages , two of those are smoke saunas.

[@moonliteX]

think about this. toilets are often in the middle of the house. if you warm up the toilet floor, where does the heat go? .... particularly, how would the heat be wasted? where would it go to be considered waste? if you have a greenhouse and warm it up in any way, the energy will exit through the walls into the air. having something that is warm is not in itself wasting energy. it´s ONLY about the way how the warmth goes away. even old glow-lamps didn´t really waste energy if you needed the heat

[@hedviglinnea]

I have separet bins for glass, metall, plastic, paper, cardboard, and carton wich all can be resycled here. Then i have my compostbin and a small bin for the waste that can't be resycled.

[@ATSUUH.]

i have an sauna in my house and in finland its estimated that every second fin has a sauna in their house/apartment

[@rekkaus]

Yes, I do have Sauna. I think only for few rental apartments do not have they own Sauna (just shared one for people who live there).

[@minnakangaspuoskari]

You are not supposed to dry your clothes in the sauna because of the risk of fire. Although some common sense applied here and it is fine but don't put anything too near the heat source. Just a while ago we had some news here of a housefire that started from the sauna and killed a family. They suspected it was cos it was used to dry clothes but I haven't followed up if that was actually the case.

[@OGU44]

We have a stereo system, designed for boats under the sauna seats

[@ss28611]

We have sauna in our house. Most of apartments/ houses where I have been living or visiting

[@ansuseiskaviisi]

Almost every house have a sauna. Ours has woodburning kiuas. And the hatch is class, so we can enjoy live fire during sauna.

[@hansstromberg5330]

The cheese-slicer was actuallyinvented in Norway, but is considered to be a normal thing, rather a necessity in all of the Nordic countries. The raison d´ ëtre being that cheese, for us, is normally - nay, universally - hard chese, such as Cheddar (the Swedish version actually being at least as good as the original) Herrgårdsost, Prästost and even the Dutch Gouda. Thus the Nordic concepstion of "cheese" has very little in common with the French Bries and its ilk. Hans Strömberg, Stockholm,Sweden

[@19smkl91]

Heated floors are the best, warmer air goes up heating the whole house and the cost is about the same. And less draft so the air difference of 30C between outside and in doesn't affect as much.🔥

[@Benderkekekekekeke]

Dish brush is not for keeping hands dry, but protecting hands from hot water. Hotter the water, easier to wash dish.

[@anupaananen6475]

We have a common Sauna here for all the people living in our house. It's not like every apartment has a Sauna of its own.

[@moukka]

Heated floors are a lot cheaper than having a radiator or heater on the wall (which is the worst), since heat ascends (and cold descends). Then combined with an air-source heat pump, you're electricity consumption is rather low. Just the ASHP is quite cheap to have.

[@PetriApell]

underfloor heating is provided with electricity or central heating (hot water)

[@paulawallenius502]

I have sauna in my house. I live in Sweden and many Swedish people had saunas in their houses but not used them 😂

[@Jonke75]

We have both the sponges and the gloves. But the gloves are inpractical and smell bad :P The Switch on the dishwasher is for turning off the water if you are going for a vacation or something. This is to prevent water leaks if you are not at home.

[@tuijakarttunen9164]

I think the brush is more hygienic.

[@tiina8076]

Yes, i do have a sauna at home and at summer cottage 😊

[@sirpakuparinen7309]

I live in a apartment building where there are separate shared sauna for women and men different time one time a week

[@kuunteletkokuuletko40]

🇫🇮 I do have a sauna in my house, I also had my own sauna in my old small apartment. Before that we had communal sauna in old apartment building where I lived my childhood. I have never lived without sauna and I am 50 now. Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮

[@taijak6822]

Fun fact: That hand shower is also called "ladyphone". 😃

[@maatuainen6208]

I do have my own sauna. But I have lived in appartments that don't have sauna. Then the building has a common sauna.

[@pirttila2729]

I have 4 saunas, 1 (electric)in apartment where i live, 2(woodburning and electric) in one house, 1(woodburning) in other house.

[@MikkoHakkinen]

Got a electric Sauna at home. One at cottage which is heated with wood.

[@tiialarissanykanen]

About heated floors, we have "heat factories", where we burn waste and get hot water and electricity. Then the hot (over 100⁰) water is transferred thru big, insulated pipes to homes and to floors. Heating floors with electricity is dum and very unficcient.

[@samilepp]

Fun fact when i was serving my military conscript in minecarier there is 2 saunas in ship

[@Keilahoro]

I live in apartment and we have our own sauna. ofcourse our apartment building has three common saunas for men, women and private uses.

[@SuperMaimed]

cheese slicers are available at your local IKEA

[@calnorman1660]

Just a Fin doing their commenting duty to tell you that yes, I do have a sauna in my apartment.