34:21 In Sweden it's not legal to do water and power without certification, if you do it and are found out the house will become uninsurable. If you sold the house to some one else and they did that through a mortgage the bank could legaly foreclose and you could get sued. So if you would do this it wouldn't be a great idea to put it in a video on TH-cam.
Basically, anyone can do water and electricity but before connecting it has to be certified... and good luck finding anyone to sign a cert they didn't actually see how it was done.. They would have to go thru EVERY join and junction.. Or risk losing their license if they sign it and the house burns down. It is illegal to connect non certified circuits to the power grid. Same with water, you can do anything you like with it but can't connect it to the mains.. That is straight up illegal. Illegally connecting to a mains or grid comes with hefty fines and possible prison sentence.
@@squidcaps4308 That is what I meant. Hire a guy checking all the things. If you know how to do it, it cheaper even it takes time for the pro to carefully go everything trough. If you dont know how do to it, then it is just waste of time and money. Basic house-electricity is not a rocket science, but must always be evaluated with someone with proper licence. there's lot of potential hazards what layman might not see. e: Finn here, but I think we have about hte same rules.
I've never seen anything but solid copper wire in installations, in Europe. I don't even think braided wires are legal. In Denmark, we use solid copper wires, in conduits. There's no issues pulling the wires through, as long as the conduits were properly fastened. Cables are also allowed (because of EU), but I'm glad this was approved after I stopped working as a house electrician (basically after I graduated). I would never personally buy a house with cables. There's no chance of replacing the wires.
@@darkiee69 What I understand as braided cable, is like the cable you use in appliances, speaker wires, the cable from your washing machine to the wall, etc. We have two words in Danish, "kabel", which is stiff cable for installation, and "ledning", which is flexible wire. Although a "kabel" can also be a soft cable, like for industrial machines, a "ledning" can never describe a cable.
OSB, or striling board in the uK to a lay man is similar to ply wood, but in many ways its very different. Ply is built up of different layers rotated at 90 degrees to each other, giving strength and rigidity in both directions. OSC is different, in many ways its more like chip board. it is built up of compressed thin pieces of wood, glued and pressurised, but in random directions. Thing about an area of ground that in the fall gets covered by many large leaves, and you are most of the way there to understanding OSB. It doesnt respond well to moinsture, much worst than non marine ply. its benifit is that itsa much cheaper than the equlivalent thickness ply sheet
He raises the floor trusses just like my dad. Who also learned it from the "elders". But dad also tauht to put down sheets for standing and not walk on the floor beams if you don't have to... Even two sheets that you move along makes a TON of difference. Just being able to sit for 2 minutes, place down tools and the boxes of screw/nail boxes.
As for cables being and electrician I can fill in that cables here in Finland are all solid wire double insulated cables and electrical piping was and is used only when you don't have double insulated cable available (then you have to use single strands of solid insulated wire) or if there is a risk for cable damage from abrasion or other reasons. I've never seen flex cables used in a construction except as low voltage cables, flex for 240v is used only in commercial / industrial settings.
Hi, i had both of electric heat cable, inside the water pipe and on the outside. Roof tiles is made of clay or concrete. Building a wall its more common to not use plywood/OSB on the outside of the wall bec Tyvek/asfaboard let the wall breathe better, we use it on the inside. The moisture comes from the inside of the house and we do not want it to go in to the constructions. Notice that we do not need to crawl under the floor joists, we can install the 1x4 in the joist before w install the joists, then we can do every thing from inside the house. What happend if you not use a preinstall tube for wireing and you get a nail hitting the wire. Then you must install a new wire on the outside of the wall or open the hole wall. We also want our floor to be inside the house and not under the wall connect to the outside. The wooden planks we normal use on the roof comes pre installed like a board sheet with different C/C lenght so its easy and quick to install.
The first minutes construction is typical nordic bulding style and when it comes to spacing and timber size. Basements are not allowed in sweden nowdays as sewage systems are put more shallow. In some areas you can get allowed to make a basement but often it is quite expensive due to alot of extra sewage stuff you need to make. Most commonly you make a concrete plate with water based heating integrated in it. Many countries buy swedish timber as it is better suited for house building, higher quality. Mostlty spruce and pine. 17:30 sweden uses hammer bands, stronger with less material. C-beam is hammer band on both sides, both outboard and inboard. 22:00 most common is to use floorboards (OSB) that you switch to use as wall boards. And then add other floorboards that are thicker. OSB is rough shavings that are press glued, cheap but strong. 37:40 no plywood is laminated wood with the grain rotated 90 deg in each layer. 29:30 I guess he just wanted to make as much as possible before the rain :). 32:00 yes the swedes use both nails and screws just the way you explained. 34:00 With insulation you want to have it ventilated due to moist but still important to prevent the air to move to much within the insulation. I agree that the inside plastic is better due to the natural ventilation from the outside air. 40:30 as we have an extra insulating wall 2in thick we can put the outlets on boards so they level out with the inner wall surface.
My father was an Architect, so I know a bit of house construction. There are regulations for dimentions and how big of an angle the roof has to be, depending on where in Sweden
Yes. Scandinavian houses are better. So much better. Thats because we start building even under the house. And all stuff is high guality. One median size (150m2) house takes usualluy at least 2 years to build and cost 3-400000€,and its only basic, not so fancy.
Not sure if I misunderstood, but the normal way of installing electric cables are through plastic tubes, with a line lying there to pull the cable. And the voltage doesn't really matter, the reason for thicker cords is for safety in general. And is it standard in th US to have grounded electriciy? That makes for an extra cord inside the cable, which makes it bigger
People building houses by them self is not that uncommon, I helped my father out building a house 20 years ago, he's built an other one by him self after that. He wasn't even a carpenter but had dreamt of being a furniture carpenter in his youth. His day job was a telecom executive and the second house was built in his retired years. My grand father on my mothers side also built him self a house, he was a mansion by trade and when around demolition sites and requested spare brick that he cleaned and laid into a new house. So at least in my family this is the thing you do.
Some tips regarding improving the quality of your videos, 1) No pauses without saying what you are doing- E.g. I'm searching for X, because of Y. 2) Also, keep health stuff out of your videos, hint: eyes 3) Cut stuff, where you're looking at something for a long (more than 2 to 4 seconds) time.
Actual plywood is made up of several "slices" of wood sheets glued together, but every ply turned 90 degrees to the previous. Wood is very strong in one direction but weak in the other. Imagine felling a tree with an axe, how many hits does that take? Then split the same tree with the same axe for firewood. You can easily do it with one hit as you're splitting with the grain. Plywood makes it so there's no "weak" direction. You have individual wood fibers running the length and breadth of the sheet. OSB is just glued together wood chips. The longest wood fiber in there is like 2-3 inches. There's very little structural integrity to it compared to plywood of the same dimension.
@mcjibbin, most of the time, your comments seem kind of clueless, but this time, you showed that you have a brain and experience in this field! I'm so happy to be wrong! my respect for you has increased a lot. Sorry for being a dick, but that was my subjective opinion.
Nah, getting the material beforehand isn't a problem, sufficed you know what you need, the problem with most people is that they don't know or understand for example what a load bearing wall is.
I was half way in, before I realized this is a Swedish guy talking with an American bot, on how he builds houses in Sweden. I thought it was an American guy, building in the US.
Since you are on a construction binge, here is a short video where an American steps into an Icelandic house construction and points out interesting differences. th-cam.com/video/7RuTizbnH4s/w-d-xo.html
Sweden has nationally protected forests so all of the wood they use for IKEA comes from Romania which I know people from Romania are not very happy about.
What he say about outlets, as you see he put the electric cabel on the inside of the plastic then OCD and plaster. So you only make a hole in the ocd + plaster for the outlet not in the insulation.
Denmark is part of Scandinavia, and we almost entirely build brich houses. I've only ever once seen a new wooden house, except for summer residents (vacation houses), which are almost all made out of wood.
Well that’s purely due to your climate. Also I dunno how much deforestation that’s been done throughout the ages in Denmark’s history, so maybe that’s also why?? Here in Norway we hardly build using bricks. It’s either wood vs concrete depending on where in Norway. There are a few brick houses, but they tend to be older like your grandparents or parents era depending on the generation… and as you probably know, we have an abundance of wood.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti We have a lot of clay and not much wood so we use brick's, an advantage of bricks is that they are more resistant to wind and sun and do not require special maintenance such as painting and last for hundreds of years, we have a lot of wind here in Denmark, maybe it was the reason why modern windturbines was invented here
@@Ikkeligeglad I think brick the way it is used further south than southern Norway would end up with issues further north where even the smallest flaw in how you construct would lead to water freezing in and around the brick and mortar degrading the connections leading to cracking. Brick does not seem to like water expanding when it freezes in the inevitable cracks. Where I live a house would have maybe 75 to 100 days where the house moves from several degrees below freezing into several degrees above and I believe this would stress pure brick constructions a lot. Some days a house would start with an exterior temperature of -20 at night an then be at +10-15 degrees in the sun facing side at midday 6 hours later and then be below freezing again 4 hours later. The only brick I see here is as decorative facing on commercial buildings.
Totally different that finnish drawings or way to build. Looks much weaker roof and foundations. And corners seem cold, insulation can't made good with this way. And all seems cheap and thin. 🇫🇮
That the Nordics can actually build over a crawl-space foundation tells you a lot about how temperate those countries are notwithstanding their latitude. Where I'm from (the Canadian Prairies - a VERY continental climate: none of that namby-pamby Gulf Stream here!), "below the frost line" inevitably means you have to have a full-height basement. Since water intakes are also below the frost line, I've never heard of heating lines around the water intake. This can play tricks on us: a few years ago, the usual period of intense winter cold (in the -30s C) was so unusually prolonged that a lot of intake pipes froze up for several weeks.
He may be a "legend", but he's also a menace: I know of a lot of occupier-built "handiman houses" here in Canada. It's well-nigh impossible for ANYONE to master every single bit of the home building process and have seen a lot of dangerously "cut corners"...
OSB is made from coarse wood chips. Plywood is made from thin layers of wood.
Yes, at 38:04 he scrolls past all the actual plywood to find OSB and then says "this is plywood".
@@frankkrunkmost people don’t work with wood or in construction whatsoever, so Plywood would be the easiest comparison for most
He is not talking about asbestos but about the chemicals (as isocyanates) that are used in foam insulation.
asbestos use was banned year 1989 if member right.there brofed Cansers 35 year
34:21 In Sweden it's not legal to do water and power without certification, if you do it and are found out the house will become uninsurable. If you sold the house to some one else and they did that through a mortgage the bank could legaly foreclose and you could get sued. So if you would do this it wouldn't be a great idea to put it in a video on TH-cam.
Also Denmark
i would not be surpised if you just need signature ;)
Yes you can do, but you just need someone with the cert to check it up and give signature to the work done?
Basically, anyone can do water and electricity but before connecting it has to be certified... and good luck finding anyone to sign a cert they didn't actually see how it was done.. They would have to go thru EVERY join and junction.. Or risk losing their license if they sign it and the house burns down. It is illegal to connect non certified circuits to the power grid. Same with water, you can do anything you like with it but can't connect it to the mains.. That is straight up illegal. Illegally connecting to a mains or grid comes with hefty fines and possible prison sentence.
@@squidcaps4308 That is what I meant. Hire a guy checking all the things. If you know how to do it, it cheaper even it takes time for the pro to carefully go everything trough. If you dont know how do to it, then it is just waste of time and money.
Basic house-electricity is not a rocket science, but must always be evaluated with someone with proper licence. there's lot of potential hazards what layman might not see.
e: Finn here, but I think we have about hte same rules.
"where do you put the outlets???? wherever the fk you want ....... lol
I've never seen anything but solid copper wire in installations, in Europe. I don't even think braided wires are legal.
In Denmark, we use solid copper wires, in conduits. There's no issues pulling the wires through, as long as the conduits were properly fastened.
Cables are also allowed (because of EU), but I'm glad this was approved after I stopped working as a house electrician (basically after I graduated).
I would never personally buy a house with cables. There's no chance of replacing the wires.
Wrong. braided is used.
@baldis12 Where?
@@akyhne Everywhere. But calling it braided is wrong, it's several thinner wires twisted together then insulated.
@@darkiee69 What I understand as braided cable, is like the cable you use in appliances, speaker wires, the cable from your washing machine to the wall, etc.
We have two words in Danish, "kabel", which is stiff cable for installation, and "ledning", which is flexible wire.
Although a "kabel" can also be a soft cable, like for industrial machines, a "ledning" can never describe a cable.
OSB, or striling board in the uK to a lay man is similar to ply wood, but in many ways its very different. Ply is built up of different layers rotated at 90 degrees to each other, giving strength and rigidity in both directions. OSC is different, in many ways its more like chip board. it is built up of compressed thin pieces of wood, glued and pressurised, but in random directions. Thing about an area of ground that in the fall gets covered by many large leaves, and you are most of the way there to understanding OSB. It doesnt respond well to moinsture, much worst than non marine ply. its benifit is that itsa much cheaper than the equlivalent thickness ply sheet
Plywood is made out wood sheets glued together, osb is made out of wood chips glued together.
Hi from Finland! Both my grandfathers and my father build houses by themselves like this.
He raises the floor trusses just like my dad. Who also learned it from the "elders". But dad also tauht to put down sheets for standing and not walk on the floor beams if you don't have to... Even two sheets that you move along makes a TON of difference. Just being able to sit for 2 minutes, place down tools and the boxes of screw/nail boxes.
As for cables being and electrician I can fill in that cables here in Finland are all solid wire double insulated cables and electrical piping was and is used only when you don't have double insulated cable available (then you have to use single strands of solid insulated wire) or if there is a risk for cable damage from abrasion or other reasons. I've never seen flex cables used in a construction except as low voltage cables, flex for 240v is used only in commercial / industrial settings.
Hi, i had both of electric heat cable, inside the water pipe and on the outside. Roof tiles is made of clay or concrete. Building a wall its more common to not use plywood/OSB on the outside of the wall bec Tyvek/asfaboard let the wall breathe better, we use it on the inside. The moisture comes from the inside of the house and we do not want it to go in to the constructions. Notice that we do not need to crawl under the floor joists, we can install the 1x4 in the joist before w install the joists, then we can do every thing from inside the house. What happend if you not use a preinstall tube for wireing and you get a nail hitting the wire. Then you must install a new wire on the outside of the wall or open the hole wall. We also want our floor to be inside the house and not under the wall connect to the outside. The wooden planks we normal use on the roof comes pre installed like a board sheet with different C/C lenght so its easy and quick to install.
in Sweden we have heating cables around water pipes, so the water doesn't freeze
Or inside the pipes
No we dont, only in locations were the are suspect to freeze.
The first minutes construction is typical nordic bulding style and when it comes to spacing and timber size.
Basements are not allowed in sweden nowdays as sewage systems are put more shallow. In some areas you can get allowed to make a basement but often it is quite expensive due to alot of extra sewage stuff you need to make.
Most commonly you make a concrete plate with water based heating integrated in it.
Many countries buy swedish timber as it is better suited for house building, higher quality. Mostlty spruce and pine.
17:30 sweden uses hammer bands, stronger with less material.
C-beam is hammer band on both sides, both outboard and inboard.
22:00 most common is to use floorboards (OSB) that you switch to use as wall boards. And then add other floorboards that are thicker.
OSB is rough shavings that are press glued, cheap but strong. 37:40 no plywood is laminated wood with the grain rotated 90 deg in each layer.
29:30 I guess he just wanted to make as much as possible before the rain :).
32:00 yes the swedes use both nails and screws just the way you explained.
34:00 With insulation you want to have it ventilated due to moist but still important to prevent the air to move to much within the insulation. I agree that the inside plastic is better due to the natural ventilation from the outside air.
40:30 as we have an extra insulating wall 2in thick we can put the outlets on boards so they level out with the inner wall surface.
What i would like to know, is why his previous house burned down?! 🤔
My father was an Architect, so I know a bit of house construction.
There are regulations for dimentions and how big of an angle the roof has to be, depending on where in Sweden
35:30 There is like two walls. One is the insulation and then the plumber and electrician is only working in a part of the wall
I have exactly that, freeze safe water and sewage pipes or it will freeze up in winter, my house is 100km south of Stockholm
Yes. Scandinavian houses are better. So much better. Thats because we start building even under the house. And all stuff is high guality. One median size (150m2) house takes usualluy at least 2 years to build and cost 3-400000€,and its only basic, not so fancy.
If you build it on your spare time it takes two years. Otherwise more like a few months.
Not sure if I misunderstood, but the normal way of installing electric cables are through plastic tubes, with a line lying there to pull the cable.
And the voltage doesn't really matter, the reason for thicker cords is for safety in general.
And is it standard in th US to have grounded electriciy? That makes for an extra cord inside the cable, which makes it bigger
I am from Estonia.. we are under Sweden and historically houses were built from wood.
People building houses by them self is not that uncommon, I helped my father out building a house 20 years ago, he's built an other one by him self after that. He wasn't even a carpenter but had dreamt of being a furniture carpenter in his youth. His day job was a telecom executive and the second house was built in his retired years. My grand father on my mothers side also built him self a house, he was a mansion by trade and when around demolition sites and requested spare brick that he cleaned and laid into a new house. So at least in my family this is the thing you do.
the heating cable is outside of the waterpipe, its goes around it and just keeps the pipe above freezing level in winter
Or you can have the heating inside the pipes
Youré right without the heating cabke there won´t be any water available in the winter
🇫🇮 My earlier comment ment building houses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, I mean north of Europe. 🇫🇮
Some tips regarding improving the quality of your videos,
1)
No pauses without saying what you are doing- E.g. I'm searching for X, because of Y.
2)
Also, keep health stuff out of your videos, hint: eyes
3)
Cut stuff, where you're looking at something for a long (more than 2 to 4 seconds) time.
Actual plywood is made up of several "slices" of wood sheets glued together, but every ply turned 90 degrees to the previous. Wood is very strong in one direction but weak in the other. Imagine felling a tree with an axe, how many hits does that take? Then split the same tree with the same axe for firewood. You can easily do it with one hit as you're splitting with the grain. Plywood makes it so there's no "weak" direction. You have individual wood fibers running the length and breadth of the sheet.
OSB is just glued together wood chips. The longest wood fiber in there is like 2-3 inches. There's very little structural integrity to it compared to plywood of the same dimension.
@mcjibbin, most of the time, your comments seem kind of clueless, but this time, you showed that you have a brain and experience in this field! I'm so happy to be wrong! my respect for you has increased a lot. Sorry for being a dick, but that was my subjective opinion.
Answer: Resounding YES.
Nah, getting the material beforehand isn't a problem, sufficed you know what you need, the problem with most people is that they don't know or understand for example what a load bearing wall is.
I was half way in, before I realized this is a Swedish guy talking with an American bot, on how he builds houses in Sweden. I thought it was an American guy, building in the US.
Yes👍🏻
If you're not in construction you should. Sounds like your dream job 😊
What’s osd
Of course they are. American build them from paper and sticks....
Tiles are ceramic .
thermal cable
On the water pipe not in....
You can have it both ways, either in or on.
Osb is shipboard
ALSO A shoes box is better than american houses 😅
Since you are on a construction binge, here is a short video where an American steps into an Icelandic house construction and points out interesting differences. th-cam.com/video/7RuTizbnH4s/w-d-xo.html
This house will be totally rotten because sealen under floor. Mold will rise in all walls in couple years. I promise ☹️
Bro playing minecraft irl
No sane person in Sweden would buy that joke of a house.
Sweden has nationally protected forests so all of the wood they use for IKEA comes from Romania which I know people from Romania are not very happy about.
Sweden produce 18 million m3 timber annually, Romania 1.2 so that´s not true.
rhode island gang
70% of Sweden is forest.
What he say about outlets, as you see he put the electric cabel on the inside of the plastic then OCD and plaster. So you only make a hole in the ocd + plaster for the outlet not in the insulation.
Tunnel Construction in Switzerland - th-cam.com/video/htVqxyyFoVo/w-d-xo.html company film but still interesting
Yes. That is all. US houses are garbage in comparison. Like paper really :D
Denmark is part of Scandinavia, and we almost entirely build brich houses. I've only ever once seen a new wooden house, except for summer residents (vacation houses), which are almost all made out of wood.
Well that’s purely due to your climate. Also I dunno how much deforestation that’s been done throughout the ages in Denmark’s history, so maybe that’s also why?? Here in Norway we hardly build using bricks. It’s either wood vs concrete depending on where in Norway. There are a few brick houses, but they tend to be older like your grandparents or parents era depending on the generation… and as you probably know, we have an abundance of wood.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti We have a lot of clay and not much wood so we use brick's, an advantage of bricks is that they are more resistant to wind and sun and do not require special maintenance such as painting and last for hundreds of years, we have a lot of wind here in Denmark, maybe it was the reason why modern windturbines was invented here
@@Ikkeligeglad I think brick the way it is used further south than southern Norway would end up with issues further north where even the smallest flaw in how you construct would lead to water freezing in and around the brick and mortar degrading the connections leading to cracking. Brick does not seem to like water expanding when it freezes in the inevitable cracks. Where I live a house would have maybe 75 to 100 days where the house moves from several degrees below freezing into several degrees above and I believe this would stress pure brick constructions a lot. Some days a house would start with an exterior temperature of -20 at night an then be at +10-15 degrees in the sun facing side at midday 6 hours later and then be below freezing again 4 hours later. The only brick I see here is as decorative facing on commercial buildings.
Totally different that finnish drawings or way to build. Looks much weaker roof and foundations. And corners seem cold, insulation can't made good with this way. And all seems cheap and thin. 🇫🇮
We have the same building codes so this is not a bad house!
🇸🇪
That the Nordics can actually build over a crawl-space foundation tells you a lot about how temperate those countries are notwithstanding their latitude.
Where I'm from (the Canadian Prairies - a VERY continental climate: none of that namby-pamby Gulf Stream here!), "below the frost line" inevitably means you have to have a full-height basement.
Since water intakes are also below the frost line, I've never heard of heating lines around the water intake.
This can play tricks on us: a few years ago, the usual period of intense winter cold (in the -30s C) was so unusually prolonged that a lot of intake pipes froze up for several weeks.
This thread is full of errors and shit talking from people who is not knowing what they are talking about, tiresome asf.
finland is not part of scandinavia
He may be a "legend", but he's also a menace: I know of a lot of occupier-built "handiman houses" here in Canada. It's well-nigh impossible for ANYONE to master every single bit of the home building process and have seen a lot of dangerously "cut corners"...
He's a professional builder, it's his occupation. He's not just some random handy man building a house.
this is some ai bs channel