FINNISH HOMES VS BRITISH HOMES!

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F.A.Q.
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• How old are you? •
32
• How tall are you? •
6ft 4 (or 192 cm)
• Where do you live? •
Helsinki, Finland
• What camera gear do you use in this video?•
Canon EOS R (body)
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Adobe Premiere Pro CC

[@jemhams]

I'm so glad carpeted floors aren't popular here. They are one of the most impractical and gross things ever invented 😅

[@davecad]

I agree! 😂

[@user-bv3cn4rj8y]

Yess 100% agree! 😂 As a cat owner I couldn't imagine having a carpeted floor 🐾 I mean, those furball stains would be here to stay 🤣 not to mention the occasional ”poop stuck in my butt” extravaganzas 💩😄

[@keimojeppe]

Yeah.... full carpet floors and using shoes inside also sounds absolutely disgusting...

[@ilesalmo7724]

I will not clean mud and slush from whole-floor carpets. I thank whatever deity you prefer that Finnish culture takes shoes off inside

[@mejamariellee]

And think about it if you vomit on the carpet it is hard to get out or spill wine etc

[@RoyRissanen]

I just love that they mostly all have a sauna, ether in the unit or for the building. (Miss having a sauna) :(

[@herrakaarme]

Regular, easy access to a sauna should be a part of the universal human rights.

[@MyHabbits]

It's entirely possible that in Finland there are more saunas than there are buildings.

[@juhva]

The word you were looking for is "kokolattiamatto" 😁 Carpet covering whole floor

[@davecad]

Thanks for that!

[@tanyaahmed4801]

Living in England, from Finland. The houses here are terrible, everything from the waste management system, carpeted floors, lack of built-in cupboards, heating, no bathroom light switches, no mixer taps etc. In some houses, you need to go through the kitchen to get to the bathroom. I've been in homes in Brighton, Birmingham, Cardiff, Luton, etc. I don't understand why they don't invest in housing.

[@davecad]

I absolutely agree. Some housing planners need to visit Finland and get some ideas!

[@lemonsherbert4451]

I'm Finnish living in Brighton, we have mixer taps in bathroom and light switches and this is first flat we found like this but have carpets but this is more modern flat

[@AnqaOdyssey]

The smell of mildew, how old everything is. I lived in Norwich and my second year house was probably at least 100 years old. Shower was tiny and upstairs, the stairs were ridiculously steep and small. Also the freaking heating with student budget meant freezing in winter, hot water bottle became a close friend.

[@slaikka633]

And still if there arent any sockets in bathrooms still they use those electric showers for hot water

[@IceAokiji303]

I do not get carpets. I just don't. They get dirty and gross so easy, and they don't even feel good under the feet. And putting it in a kitchen or a _bathroom?_ Inconceivable.

[@davecad]

I know! The more people comment about it the more weird it seems 😂

[@nerudaad]

I suppose that Britts have carpet floors because their floors are cold? In Finland we have triple windows and no draft, so floors are warm enough to not need wall to wall carpets.

[@11Mr_BeaN11]

And also nowadays most Finnish apartments and homes have floor heating also. So floors definitely are not cold.

[@davecad]

Exactly right!

[@Aceriale]

In our flat in Scotland we have a "mixer" tap in the kitchen. If it's even lightly to the cold side it gives completely cold water, if even slightly to hot then the water comes straight from the boiler :D It was a fun surprise when we moved in

[@davecad]

Ohhh classic! 🤣

[@hertwend]

There was back in time in the 70's when we had a carpet covering the floor of the living room, in our Helsinki apartment, it was probably a fashion thing back then?

[@nicas901]

No carpets? Blasphemy! 🤣 Tbh I don’t miss it. Getting a rug is just as good. Carpeted bathrooms I never understood. That just shouldn’t exist. Imagine all the nasty things there 😷

[@davecad]

Haha so true!

[@Fritha71]

Whole floor carpeting went out of fashion by the early 80s, I think 🤔 It was never as ubiquitous here as in the UK but those of us old enough to have lived back in the 70s do remember seeing them in homes quite frequently. Oh, I was involved with a British guy for a short while in the early '00s and visited him a few times - will never forget how hard it was to clean myself and especially my long hair in his bathtub because there was no shower head, just two separate taps! Shocking, lol. I had to do it the way we do it in a traditional Finnish sauna: mixing the cold and hot water in a bucket and then pouring water all over me with a ladle. And his place wasn't exactly old, built in the early 80s...! 🤨

[@themightyshrelock3818]

One of the reasons you don't have plug sockets in UK bathrooms is to do with some of the regulations in BS7671 for electrical installations. I can't remember exactly why that's the case, probably too much corrosion was happening in sockets or people doing *Questionable* things with electrics in the bathroom

[@davecad]

Haha I wonder what those questionable things could be! 🤔😂

[@hannuvarjo458]

@@davecad Electrocuting themself, in finland atleast in new buildings everything in bathroom has to be behind "residual current circuit breaker" so you cant kill yourself or far enough from showers or so on. Check your "bathroom mirror closet" if it has "press this button atleast once a month to check if protection works!!" socket.

[@Vvopat96]

The classic TV-advertisers are getting into the new world. This better than 2min classic add, actually fun to watch.

[@davecad]

Glad to hear :)

I remember in Dijon, France, a hotel suite with no mixer taps, only cold, but in the bathroom two taps, one giving white wine, the other red wine. In Paris I lived in a 16th century building where the toilet was in the corridor, the Turkish type ie a hole in the floor. No shower of course. When I was child I remember we got the water from the well outside, this was in the countryside. Also, in Lapland, no toilets inside which was a bugger in winter ....

[@Katirin89]

I guess most of the efficient and comfortable design in finnish houses is due to our long winter. For example floor heating, double windows, thick outer walls etc. I have only lived in South-Korea besides Finland so I can't compare the differences to any european houses though. But I'm curious about the bills and costs in european houses. Finnish homes are heated during the winter all the time but for example when I lived in Korea they saved in the expenses by heating only when there were people present in the room.. so imagine coming from outside -10c temperature to a very cold home and freezing for an hour before you were comfortable enough again.. and they explained this behaviour by expensive electricity bills.

[@henkkaa88]

Suomen kerrostalojen lämpöpattereissa kiertää kaikille yhteinen kuuma vesi (kaukolämpö useimmiten), ja ne putkilinja menee kaikkien asuntojen patterien läpi. Koreassa, jenkeissä ja monissa muissa oikeistovetosissa maissa ei ole muskettisotureita, vaan jokanen pitää huolen itsestään. Sen takia esim jenkeissä kaikilla on oma vedenlämmitin asunnossa, koska kaikki yhteisöllisyys on heti kommunismia. Mehän maksetaan senttejä lämmityksestä, kun ei tarvii mitään leivänpaahtimia lyödä seiniin kiinni lämmittämään asuntoa.

[@ArualCrisp]

Many British homes have a boiler which uses natural gas to heat up the water which is then pumped around the house to heat up the radiators and give you hot water from the taps. The tenant controls the boiler settings and puts the heating whenever needed. So its technically available all year round. Bills usually depend what company provides you with gas and electricity but my mum is with SSE energy supplier in Scotland and pays around 30/40 pounds for hot water and electricity during warmer months and during colder months it goes up to 50/60 pounds a month. In our older apartment that we lived in in Scotland, electricity provided us with hot water and heating so we would pay up to 40 pounds a week during winter months by only heating up one room... The insulation was absurd in the apartment and I cannot believe how much money was lost. We did not heat other rooms because of how expensive it was, so the rooms would always stay around 13c during winter months. It was horrible. I moved to Finland in July and me and my boyfriend pay 16 euros each for water each month and we paid around 9 euros for electricity for October.. The utility costs and the differences between the two countries are so crazy to me.

[@ArchieArpeggio]

@@ArualCrisp I pay 18,50€ for water/month with rent, but my landlord pays back for me if i haven´t consumed as much of water that im payd for advanced so every 4 months period i get most of the money back. Last time i had paid 4 x 18,50€ = 74€ and got payback as 66,78€! So actualy i had consumed water only for 7,22€ for last four months. That´s less than 2€ for month. I don´t even try to safe water anyhowe. I take showers, wash dishes, flush toilet and etc. as normal person. I don´t have waching machine so loundry i do elsewhere. So water is very cheap and for rental apartment you usualy pay overprice for the water. It is very rare that landlord is paying back if you had overpaid for it.

[@ArualCrisp]

@@ArchieArpeggio oh thats really interesting! I just had a look and it seems we might be under some similar contract! I actually didn't know about that 😄

[@l-llaajalahti80]

The only thing I'm missing from my UK homes are plug sockets which you can switch on and off. They were so handy! No need to pull every plug off, when you can just turn the socket off.

[@Vuusteri]

Why would you need to turn the socket off? Also, you can just buy extension cables that have a switch if you hate leaving your gadgets on standby-mode.

[@DavidCruickshank]

@@Vuusteri ​ 2 years later but, if you want to turn something off you can just turn off the switch rather then having to unplug it and just leave the plug lying on the floor. Extension cables like the unplugged plugs are just added mess. It's not essential but like many things in this and other videos, it's just a nice addition.

[@leenahongisto]

My family had carpet floors in the living room back in the good 80's. I even remember we had a special vacuum cleaner for it. =D

[@amalia466]

I think there are just different laws and standards in Finland and UK when it comes to installing electrical sockets on bathrooms/toileits etc. Here it's common to have sockets in "wet spaces" because there are spesific sockets and ways to install them that are safe for wet places (doesn't electricute anyone). UK seems to be so old-fashioned in many things related to building etc. Everything is just cold, wet and moldy unless you are crazy rich. :D Don't let me even get started about the carpeted floors.. Utterly disgusting! hello mold, bacteria etc..

[@davecad]

Yep! It's pretty crazy some of the things they get away with in the UK

[@janstenstrom7986]

You forgot the ikkunaremppa, kattoremppa and hissiremppa!

[@Dimefield]

Dave's videos bring up interesting things, things that we take for granted but for some it's something like from the far future. Like the dish drying thing above the sink, everyone has those, why wouldn't it be there. =)

[@hannayoung9657]

Finnish bathrooms are wet room, ment to handle the water so even it electric are ment to handle water. UK, this isnt true, most bathroom are moist proof but not water proof and same goes for the electrics it isnt ment to be wet.

[@Dome123456]

The electric connections in bathrooms are no more waterproof than any other electric in an apartment. Most modern houses have efficient electric killswitches though so power is cut down instantly if there’s a short for example, so no one would die even if they somehow manage to drop the hairdryer in the sink/shower/tub

[@fdk7014]

You should not drink water from the warm tap in Finland or any other country either. Only the cold tap is certified potable. This is because the warm water lines might leach metal ions into the water and too high concentration of metal ions are not good for you.

[@joonakumpulainen8068]

In england light switches are basically reverse of finland in finland when you put switch down it shuts but in most other european countries you put it down it switches on

[@IceAokiji303]

There's one light switch in my apartment that goes in reverse to everything else and it throws me off _every time._ I guess I would be getting constantly confused by switches if I moved out of Finland :p

[@jemhams]

Wait, people actually pay attention to that? I just slam my hand on the switch and hope for light regardless of which direction it goes 😂

[@dualityofsoul3841]

@@jemhams me too lol

[@IceAokiji303]

@@jemhams Yup. I put my hand on the switch and slide it the appropriate direction. If I've lived in a place for long enough I've learned the elevations of the switches, so I can just jab the correct end of the switch without looking. But as the one backwards switch in my apartment has taught me, I'll still try to do it as if that switch was the "right way" around.

[@joonakumpulainen8068]

@@jemhams my techer told me about that bcs i am in school for electrician and he teacyed us how to wire light switch correctly

[@alexbrodie6053]

Im an electrician in the uk and the reason there is no socket in the bathroom is because of the amount of people who did get electricuted using electrical equipment in the bath. If your bathroom is big enough that you have more than 3m from the bath/shower then you can have one there 😉

[@humppapomppa1186]

All the floors are not wooden for sure. I'm pretty confident that most of places, especially for rent, do have a soft plastic floor, and some of them could be seen even on your video. They just imitate the floor pattern. Or not even that, some of them are just delightfully gray, uh.

[@ZnakerFIN]

I live in a condo but when I moved here I was happy to know that my place already had pipes renovated. I think there are still others in this condominium who will get to experience that within the next few years.

[@davecad]

Yeah! The pipe renovation can be a huge pain!

[@Kk-dh2qw]

the worst part about british homes is the heating. or rather the lack of it 😅 Ive never been so cold in my entire life. Heating is also the reason why the UK has carpets and Finland never does. God bless finnish reasonable priced heating

[@tontsa77]

I think that different tab for hot water has something to do with avoiding the legionella bacteria that grows in warm water.

[@YouSillyClown]

huh... i just realized "putkiremppa" might be the reason my house is gonna get totally renovated soon & why they have to kick out all the residents...

[@davecad]

Maybe so!

[@tontsa77]

Carpeted floors are nightmare if you have any problems with dust allergies or asthma.

[@kettukehveli]

Have you thought living in somewhere else than Helsinki in Finland?

[@davecad]

Nope! We love Helsinki so much!

[@iLoveTheseRemoras]

Exotic Espoo is near too - it's the LA of Finland (no real center and everyone drives everywhere)

[@Antti-ox1ho]

@@iLoveTheseRemoras Cat is originally from Espoo so she doesn't want to move back there again.:-)

[@iLoveTheseRemoras]

@@Antti-ox1ho Understandable, gotta get off the countryside 😁

[@ellik1165]

I always get allergic symptoms from those carpets in the UK! They collect dust... I never understood the taps either. They aren't practical. Don't get me wrong, I love The UK!

[@davecad]

Haha I sometimes get a little itchy from the carpets too!

[@TheArseen]

Funny thing just happened. I noticed that your new video was up but didn't read the name, I then quickly glanced elsewhere and then back and during that time videos had moved one step left (removed an add from first spot) and on the spot where your video was was now video called r/Tifu By Buying a DNA Kit For My Boyfriend's Family. I thought huh? Then noticed the shift (net is bit spotty and images had not loaded yet).

[@blue_jm]

Actually most have laminate floors that are essentially mostly plastic that looks like wood

[@fdk7014]

The carpets make you sick. All sorts of junk gets stuck there. You can make a living fitting wooden floors in Finland :)

[@peittoburrito]

I wonder if UK homes have carpet floors because they feel warmer when houses are not built to resist cold weather otherwise (double-windows etc.). But then again, does it matter if British people don't take off their shoes inside? I am confused. Carpeted floors remind me of the ferries that run regular traffic between Sweden and Finland, and they also make me think of an old American cat-woman living in a very small and dusty house.

[@iirouotila6455]

My friend's shower caught fire spontaneously in his flat in the UK. That tells something about bathrooms in the UK

[@davecad]

What! Oh no that's terrible!

[@iirouotila6455]

Yeah. Each shower had its own heating apparatus / boiler (basically a box with a dial for the temperature) and some short circuit happened in the wires there causing the fire. Ironic though that the place which is usually the wettest place in the apartment caught fire 😅

[@warone100]

@@iirouotila6455 did he put it in himself ? Why wasn’t fused? Moronic to think that’s typical of uk bathrooms

[@iirouotila6455]

@@warone100 Dunno. It was student lodging in Exeter and everyone in the housing complex had the same apparatus so 🤷‍♂️ . That's my anecdotal experience.

[@Perkele_Itse]

Now I started stressing about whether my building has had a pipe renovation, thanks xD

[@davecad]

Haha! Sorry 😂😅

[@TheEdgarMueller]

building code: water and electricity do no go together. This is in most countries like that, just the way they realize it is different. Bathrooms where you take your shower (and clean the floor by doing so) on the ordinary, uncompartmented floor I have experienced only in Finland.

[@tomzu8848]

True water and electricity don't go together, but that's why electricity in bathrooms have been safe in finland. You just break a circuit if you do something stupid in bathrooms with electric device.

[@TheXnocf]

In the UK there are showers that heat water on demand with electricity. And yet no outlets in the bathrooms while being scared of electrocution, kinda funny :)

[@sarimaenpaa7588]

Because the rules about domestic power in the UK are some of the safest in the world (partly because we use 240V which has a higher risk of death) and having power outlets in a bathroom, particularly on an earthed system like the UK uses, is very risky, as people will plug things in which shouldn't be used when wet; ... Found this

[@Lanka0Kera]

In my parents house (built by them at 80s), there's half a room of wall to wall carpet at downstairs area that wasn't originally supposed to even be a built room but the hill was deep enough that they decided to add extra space.. sort of confused combination of storage and living space. Guess the cold floor makes sense since the room would otherwise have concrete floor. :p

[@Vuusteri]

Those carpeted floors must be a nightmare to clean. If you spill your chocolate pudding or red wine gravy on the laminate floor, a quick wipe will do and it's good as new, whereas the carpet would've absorbed all moisture in it and the stains would need some plutonium-acid to get rid off.

[@henkkaa88]

Carpet flooring has to be the most disgusting thing ever. I wouldn't eat anything from it. I do eat everything I accidentally drop on my hardwood floor. 😁🤣

[@davecad]

Hahaha I never considered that! That's another point for wood floors!

[@user-xq9wt3sp5m]

Wow, have never thought that houses in England are that bad in many aspects 🌚 Maybe it's a matter of how are you used to that, but for me that looks little bit savage. Like in Russia we also used carpets around 20 years ago, and sinks like in England. BUT! 20 years ago, if nowadays I will see such kind of thing even in Russia, I'd be like: - Screw you, guys, I'm outta here! No offense, just all things straight. Good luck to you in Finland. Finland is a very nice country, and in my humble opinion: heaven on Earth if such can probably exist)

[@jole0000]

Imagine having a carpet and then someone for example pukes on it. What do you do then? Rip the entire carpet off?

[@davecad]

Haha I guess just cut a hole in it and put a rug on top? 😁

[@janneturpeinen3027]

Suojeluskunnat takasin

[@jole0000]

@@janneturpeinen3027 ehottomasti

[@warone100]

Do you buy a new towel every time you dry yourself after bathing or do you wash it?. Yet you complain about the once a decade moment where someone throws up on the carpet

[@sleepines]

carpet flooring could make ur place feel warmer in winter time tho, but having carpet flooring in bathroom???? D: ew !!!???

[@henkkaa88]

The temperature doesn't change at all in Finnish apartments. If it's -30 outside it will still be same.

[@sleepines]

@@henkkaa88 i live in finland e.e but lucky u if u don't feel cold indoors..

[@veltsu8870]

I'm also 192cm tall!

[@schwartzy65]

Shouldnt drink from the tap in finland either since hot water comes from the copper pipe and its not good for you

[@ArchieArpeggio]

Nobody drinks hot water here. Cold water comes from copper pipe as well. And speakingn for myself if i take water to drink i let it pour down from i while even if i take cold water cause it is never cold wor bagining if someone hadn´t use the tap for while then it isn´t cold enough for pleasant drinking. So if there are bacteria or dissolved something from the pipe it´s already gone in the sewer.

[@jannekaanta2884]

Have you looked at a apartment or a house in Närpes?🤔❤

[@Antti-ox1ho]

You have to compare also Swedish homes vs. Finnish homes if Cat has relatives in Sweden also and the coronasituation is better.:-)

[@dennislindqvist8443]

It is impossible to generalize. It depends on how much money you pay and in what area you live. The Soviet era is over.

[@Arstik]

Full carpet floors were pretty popular in the 90's and mostly in your own house and not in rental places, we had this ugly brown colored carpet :D

[@petrihakkinen2336]

You shoud bye hotel in pieksämäki. There is carpets allmost everywere

[@ArchieArpeggio]

Hotellit varsinkin ulkomailta tulleiden ketjujen moiset käyttävät paljon kokolattiamattoja. Saman voit huomioida laivalla risteilyllä käydessäsi, että varsinkin käytävissä tuppaa olemaan kokolattiamatot. Niihin yksi syy on se, ettei ohi kulkevien ihmisten kenkien kopse häiritse hyteissä/huoneissa nukkuvia ihmisiä vaan meluhaitta olisi mahdollisimman vähäinen. Se myös poistaa kaiun ominaisuuden käytäviltä. Suomalaisissa rappukäytävissähän kaikuu kun lattiat on usein esim. laattaa ja kaikki seinät maalattua betonia, jolloin ääni kaikuu käytävissä herkästi.

[@TheKimbH]

Yhteistyössä, eli mainos

[@moniqvi7693]

Live in UK and Im so jealous that you have wooden floor. Take my carpet 😂

[@davecad]

Hahah 😂

[@MarkDewill]

Finnish electricity systems are littlebit difrent then UK, here we have fuses in on fusebox while in UK fuses are inside wallplug. Think this when in UK fuse blows elektricity still flows to wallsocket but in here fuse is in complely difrent room, and there is no electricity flow in socket. So if bathroom is realy wet whitch you think is safer option. I still do not recommend going to the shower with a hair dryer or when charging the phone, like some idiots have done.

[@elderscrollsswimmer4833]

Phone? No way. Maybe an electric toothbrush.

[@melekonensonni3064]

phutkhi rempha

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

I have walked on a wall-to-wall carpet in a Finnish home. That was in the 1970's 😊

[@Pekeliini]

Well yeah if your budget is "up to 1500€/month" is prolly not that hard to find a place. Sweet jebus that's a lot.

[@TeeDee87]

Well for a joke I've heard so many people calling great britain development country :D.

[@sirwilliamthepickle3874]

I´ve been dreaming of moving to UK and these videos make me not want to, like, how am i supposed to live with a carpet in my bathroom and no mixingtabs??

[@miikakemppinen]

Dave, stop cheating with the British flag. 😜 Also, carpet in bathroom sounds like the worst idea ever.🙄

[@itsIida]

carpet sucks so much bacteria!

[@warone100]

Saunas are packed full butt crack sweat but doesn’t seem to bother you lot but yet you complain about carpets! Lol

[@ratyjoona]

Hello. I contacted you on Instagram :-).

[@paivitee]

The whole floor carpet is unhygienic and gathers all the crap and you walk shoes on! Disgusting

[@haikara72]

moi

[@davecad]

Terve!

[@Landingdos]

??? Finland is nordic. Ingland is 🤔🤔🤔...just ingland....

[@m1inty]

:)

[@herrakaarme]

Come on! You started the video saying it's quite different, but then you could only come up with a few differences. I'm sure there are more since you did say the differences surprised you.