Here in the Netherlands we don’t have a real winter anymore. But in the past, a long time ago, for me in the seventy's, we had a coal stove. My mother lay a brick on it to get warm and then wrapped it with a towel. This was placed at the foot of the bed to keep our feet warm at night. When your feet are cold your whole body is cold!
Rozenglycerine werkt ook goed. Ik mix het met een handmixer met een huidolie (kies er eentje uit die lekker ruikt, of goed invet ofzo) tot een soort van mousse. De huidolie helpt extra met invetten van de huid, maar blijft bij mij er altijd zo op liggen, dus dan heb ik de hele dag gladde vingers en het hele huis zit onder de vette handafdrukken. De mousse maakt dat de olie sneller intrekt.
As a dutch woman I can recommend a rainsuit to people cause its the easiest to cycle in. And waterproof mascara. Those are 2 things you'll need as new dutchy. Its gonna rain, like a lot. Good luck.
Dry skin happens to me in airconditioned rooms, so would be worse in the States for me. And yes also from heating sometimes, getting used to it in fall, but overall in winter my skin is better. Moisturizer is essential of course
Our first winter here and am now just learning about the dry rooms in winter! I was so worried about too much humidity and didn’t expect the opposite problem. I find myself coughing all night from a dry throat. And with dry skin, ugh. Also having a hard time finding lotion that’s strong enough. I welcome anything that comes close to Aveeno or Cetaphil excema cream found in the U.S. Otherwise, coming from CA and FL, the winter hasn’t felt too intense so far.
Lived there the past three years and I must say, this past year was brutal. Exceptionally windy, rainy, and cold. I’m not a homebody so that was rough.
I had a similar experience in reverse when visiting the southern U.S. Here I was in California at a balmy 25 degrees Celsius and then at 6 pm, boom, the universe shuts the lights down. When it is 25 degrees outside according to my brain there should be daylight until at least 9 pm.
Have you ever experienced a cloud burst? It’s when a heavy rain cloud drops all its content in just a few seconds to minutes. Trust me, when you experience a cloud burst then you are definately wet and not just vochtig. 😂
Het geet neet wieter dan t vel, in good old lower saxon. (D: het gaat niet verder dan je huid) (E: it doesn't get past your skin) That's what my granny said when i complained about getting soaked by the rain.
There are many houses and apartment buildings from reinforced concrete house partition walls and floors and the outer walls (front and back) are made of cavity walls where the outer wall is brick masonry and the inner wall is wooden framework with insulation. The inner wall is a prefabricated house-wide element with the window frames already in it. It is fixed at the concrete partition walls and floors and sealed off by PUR foam and bituminous tape. There is (prefabricated) gypsum sheeting at the inside, so it looks and feels as drywall. It is a fast way of getting the house or apartment closed off from weather (wind- en waterdicht) so finishing can start early.
Growing up in the nineties and early twothousands it was between -7 to -17 degrees every winter for several weeks and we had 5-20 cm snow several times a year every year. Your wardrobe doesn't have to change, the climate has changed. And I grew up in the less snowy warm part, yet a few weeks around -10°C wasn't uncommon at all Had peaks I recall of -20 and -23
My apartment was build in 1961 and it has single window panes in the bedroom but not in the living room without any heating on it gets about 5 degrees celsius and with that comes a nice ice cold outside wall so keeping the heat in is really difficult. Most of my neighbors are retired over the age of 65+ so they all use space heaters just to get the rooms to a normal acceptable temperature.
The great thing where I live is that my apartment was renovated last year and we got new ventilation that really works a treat drying up the shower room and the kitchen. And I've got a few aquariums in the living room but it's not overly humid in winter time. And it helps bringing down humidity a bit during hot humid summer days.
I am here to defend Michelle's Chucks! It's all in the socks. In the winter, I wear merino wool socks with my Chucks - of varying thicknesses/density according to temperature -- and my feet stay warm and dry. The shoes may get completely soaked but they dry out really quickly. And they're washable. It really is an effective system, even if it does sound counter-intuitive to non-Chuck wearing Dutchies (to be). I worked this out living in Glasgow one winter.
A mattress heater seems like a really big thing to get when you can also buy a hot water bottle for 5€ at hema and fill that up. I don't usually put one in the bed before bedtime, but you can certainly do that. If i'm really cold I get one for my feet and it heats up the bed in no time. Just hot water from the tap in one bottle is enough for hours of warmth. It is a bit smaller though, so I tend to shift it around a bit as I lie in bed, but so long as you feet are warm you don't get too cold overall. When I was younger I got sleeping socks as well. My great-grandmother knit them for me, super soft wool knit in a lacy pattern with a really soft ribbon to tie them around the ankle if needed. They're not meant to be walked on, the wool is the delicate type for expensive sweaters or baby clothes etc, so they're really only to sleep in, they'd wear out too fast otherwise. Wool socks in general would work too. Real wool is best, acrylic yarn is okay but not as good, and regular socks barely do anything tbh. We also have a duvet stuffed with wool. It's warm and cosy in the winter, and the slightly thinner summer duvet (also stuffed with wool) is great in the summer, we don't overheat. Wool is great at temperature regulation in general. Heating the house is important, yes, you don't want the temperature inside to go down too much, especially with the risk of moisture damage and mold. I believe the minimum temperature is about 15 degrees. So we have set our heater to heat to about 20 degrees during the day, and 15 at night. If you let your house cool down too much it takes much more energy to heat it back up every time. It's much more energy efficient to keep it somewhat warm. Of course, not if you aren't home at all for example, but in general. But like you said, wearing warm clothes in general is much more energy efficient. I wonder at the difference in isolation between the US and the Netherlands. Like, most of the homes I see from the US have the front door open into the living room. I have never seen that in the Netherlands, there is always an entrance. No matter how small in between the living area and the front door. That seems like a cold (or heat) leak in a house. Every time you open the door the warmth just gets out (or in). If there is a space with a door in between the cold outside and the warm living room to act as a buffer that won't happen as much. Like, sure, there will be some cold that gets in, no house is airtight, but there will be a much smaller effect on the entire house, than if you open the door into the living room (that is connected to the kitchen and dining room). Or are entrances like that more common in colder parts of the US?
they're more common in old homes in the US, like pre-1940s homes, but newer homes might have a "mudroom" on the side or in the back which functions very similarly we have this here and we have one of those little things you slip under the door to further insulate the entrance area and the living room, which is great, it keeps our living room super cozy
I used to have a double dekbeds in the winter, those were synthetic or with feathers, but I bought a sheep wool winter dekbed 2 years ago after reading lots of positive things about it and I have to say that one does keep me warm at night. It may feel a bit heavy at first, but that feeling will go away once you're used to it.
Zodra de zon schijnt naar buiten gaan. Desnoods op balkon. Nep kaarsen maken het ook gezellig. Ik heb lichten die van kleur veranderen. Je moet het zelf gezellig maken. ❤
my window in the bedroom is always open on like 1 cm for air and temp is there in winter around 15c i got down duvet its nice also my animals love it.I also always take a rain poncho with me on the bike that you can hang over your handlebars when u use it.and the seasons are shifting very much here in the Netherlands, summer used to start at the end of June, now in mid-August and winter started at the end of November, now we sometimes have winter around February or March
Most houses are insulated quite well actually, most walls of Dutch houses are double and in the spaces in between are fiber glass wool insulation. Mostly double windows but these days even triple glass or in my case “kunststof kozijnen” or plastic window frames ( sounds cheaper in English) fitted with super isolated glass. My walls have had extra insulation added and underneath my house I had extra insulation placed. I’m not an exception! Also added solar panels. I have a middle house and only use 400m3 gas a year! Mid winter day still has about 7 to 8 hours daylight but if the day is gloomy it feels semi dark much longer.
> Most houses are insulated quite well actually If privately owned, rental is a mess. Most before the 40's houses are either upgraded or privately owned. The 50's and 60' construction, mostly rental, has only recently been "upgraded" (started in the 90's and continues to now as it's only done when new renters go in). And upgraded means absolutely minimal needed. This means only replacing single glass to minimal needed, which explains why I have three different window types (ancient normal double, double with special stuff and one tiny high efficiency one) each upgraded to the minimum required at the time. Note for renters: if they come to record your energy level (the AAA to G scheme for rating the house as energy efficient), make sure they record the shittiest window. They can take any they like as an example and in my case they were looking to take the single high efficiency glass windows which is about 5% of the total. This makes a difference in the rating, and if it is sufficiently low the rental company might be required to upgrade, in my case they also wanted to ignore the geiser which kicked the rating down to D from C. This also makes a difference in the allowed rental points for maximum price.
@@NoNameForNone actually in the town I live there is a large suburb with many rental homes from the early 80’s, (just like my house 1983). In the last two years they have been extensively upgraded, new roofs, with about 25 cm insulation ( I saw the insulation pads), new roof tiles, dormers placed ( dakkapel ), new windows and glass put in, and probably more work done that I couldn’t see. My brother lives in a social rent home, part of the same suburb. He had new central heating system put in as well as floor and wall isolation. ( polystyrene particles put underneath the floor and isolation pumped into the wall. He had had new windows a few years back. The privately owned houses can be spotted because they still have old roof tiles that lie about 15 cm lower due to less insulation.
@@RealConstructor ik heb een huis uit ‘83 maar de steenwool isolatie in de spouwmuren was een beetje ingezakt, ik heb er een soort vlokken laten inspuiten, lijkt veel op kunst sneeuw by kerst shows. Ook de kruipruimte extra laten isoleren.
Modern buildings here are likely made of concrete and the outer walls are always cavity walls, usually insulated. Non load-bearing interior walls are gypsum blocks or plasterboard (drywall) with insulation
What I occasionally hear being said when it’s raining cats and dogs and all the other pets even is ‘nou ja, het is in ieder geval droog tussen de druppels door’. (Well, at least it’s dry in between the drops.) Somehow that’s not really a consolation 😾
I think you guys have one of the fifty houses in the Netherlands that is still made of wood, some houses have wooden floors and ceilings but since the 90's all houses in the Netherlands are made with cement and brick's or concrete... wooden beams are used for the roofs but not for the walls...
As a Dutch person I am of course used to the yearly rhythm of daylight and night light. For me it was once great to experience the Swedish summer in mid-north Sweden. Turn on the BBQ outside at 1:00 in the morning and it is just light. Very special.
About food and Dordrecht -- in August (10-13) there will be a Pasar Malam in the city center. That means lots of Indonesian food stalls! 😋 🍚🥟🍜 Grtz from sandy Vlissingen!
Duracell is one of the better batteries. And one of the first commercials was a kind of endurance test with various brands. In running rabbits, that's why the rabbit still exists
Oh this winter is bloody warm Nothing to whine about. Last night I couldn't sleep because of the heat for the umpteenth time this winter. Sitting in the living room right now almost sweating and my thermostat is turned off (because stadsverwarming is unnafordable) this winter is like fall and spring used to be a decade ago
My aunty whent to Florida 80 years ago and she brought the 4 seasoning pictures of the dutch with her because she would mis them, well...its changed . Spring is the best then summer is more like wet start and then hot. Autum : wet and windy and then winter : wet and windy not that cold any more. Wardrobe : in winter , you look like those people who will remove asbest ! Love the video 🌷🌷🌷 PS : Gas or electric heating , always vantilate.
Same climate where I am, in British Columbia...similar weather, with darkness too early....can't wait until, daylight savings time again in March (I think?). Counting down already. LOL.
I would just love to skip december and januari purely because of the cold and constant rain. Just give me spring and summer with a little bit of autumn.
If you have central heating (most homes have that) with one or more radiators per room you can (partially) shut off the radiators that don’t need to heat up as much as others. This will restrict (or shut off) the the hot waterflow to those radiators. The radiators that haven’t been (partially) shut off will get nice and hot, while the ones that have been restricted will stay cold or get luke warm only. This’ll save you money. Btw if you do turn off certain radiators DON’T shut them off completely. Keep turning the thingy for shutting off the radiator until it’s completely shut off but then open it up again for half a turn. It’s better to have at least a little bit of waterflow going in every radiator than to have some shut off completely with stagnant water in them.
If that's a recently built home it's unlikely to be made of wood. The inside of the utilities closet is usually panelled with wood in order to mount the appliances on; are you sure that's not what you saw? New wooden buildings do exist in the Netherlands ("houtskeletbouw"), but it tends to be expensive detached houses. The majority of houses in the Netherlands are concrete (poured, prefab, or aerated concrete blocks) inside and brick outside.
My house in The Netherlands is about 25 years old and insulated throughout. In winter I wear woolen jumpers and slippers, so I don’t need to use a lot of gas to heat my home. I’m surprised you two are sitting in a T-shirt and a cotton jumper 😮
Allthough rather cold, I enjoyed the shoppingtrip to Germany with a good friend an my daughter in his car. The sky was clear and the sun was shining. Thanks to the warmth of the sun we didn't need the car's heater. But in this time of year the sun is rather low and can be a bit blinding. Both in and out we enjoyed todays weather.
Any home built after 1975 is insulated. In general there is an inner wall (concrete or sand bricks) and an outer wall (clay bricks). The space in between is filled with insulation: PUR, glass wool or rock wool.
The most fun thing to do for me is driving topless (no not that kind of topless) with mine convertible car in de winter even when it freezes and when there is snow. The way my fellow Dutch people look at me like i’m crazy while at the same time they are cycling in the snow because thats totaly normal is just to funny for me.
i think what most people also forget during winter is a backpack with some supplies a thermo with a hot beverage some sugary sweets or something high call food biscuits im working in construction so its important to be prepared on power outrages have bottled water for 1 month and heater on gas with canister nd candles and aa radio for listening to radio one just incase or locaal radio network dried pots of food made or bought. its called WEKpot that suck out the air the lid will have a valve first aid kit for your kids and medicine ofcourse.. dont forget ski outfits incase you live in a older house its abit overkill but still i keep them around just incase suddenly it gets minus 10 or more.
Koude Kikkerland! What do you hear about the Elfstedentocht this year?I thought it has not been possible because the ice has not frozen over enough to have the race.
Well, there used to be a yearly race for marathon ice skaters in one of the nordic countries. I honestly don't think the original 11 cities race will happen again. Part is climate change the other part is the reluctance to organise it again... Infrastructure and ice plays a part and the willingness of various people to even put time and money in.
Children, children….. play nice 😅🤣 Love your silliness. I never learned how to bike with no hands. But I do master biking with an umbrella. So as a dutchie I’m a bit of a disappointment😇😁
Ik heb eigenlijk nooit een paraplu gebruikt toen ik in de omgeving van Rotterdam woonde, vanwege de wind. Meer oostelijk is een paraplu wellicht bruikbaar.
I never use an umbrella while cycling, I always have my rain suit with me if there is even the tiniest chance of rain. And I don't care if I get soaked on the way home, dry clothes are waiting.
Houses are typically build of brick. As in, actual brick, not a layer of decorative faux bricks over a wood frame. Very few houses are made of wood actually, most are from brick. There is likely to be some wood holding up floors or roofs, but that's it. Really old houses tend to have way thicker walls that insulate really well actually, brick holds onto warmth a lot. Cheaper houses from the 1800s will have thinner walls. Houses from the 1950s until the 1970s often have thinner walls and lower quality materials. Starting in the 80s the houses were better insulated again. Most of the time the insulation is a double wall. Which works really well.
Homes in NL are pretty well insulated overal. On average, but the difference between houses is insane. So some people struggle with their heating bills since the war.
Most homes have double walls. You can extra material in between those walls for more insulation. Compared to the UK, insulation of Dutch homes is not that bad. It is just that Dutch homes tend to be bigger (and have bigger rooms specifically).
@23:08 heating a room using a space heater. Those are pretty inefficient. If you are allowed by the landlord it would be better to get a split airconditioning unit (inside and outside unit) installed. Not to cool the house down in summer but to heat the room it's installed in up in winter. An Airco is basically an air to air heatpump and way cheaper then the Hybrid Air to water heatpumps that are advertised and promoted often in the Netherlands. (about 1/10th of the price) and they have about the same efficiency in heating.
Where I live in Belgium I'm roughly on the same latitute as Calgery, Alberta in Canada Europe really is deceptively more north then americans think it is. The northern most point of Africa is on a higher latitude then North Carolina
Fall and Winter, it used to be the highlight of the year, though it changed when health took a down turn, permanently. It now just a tedious time and I can't wait for temperature to rise. I have no problem with rain, it is primarily temperature and wind... then again, 35⁰ every day gets tedious too. 😂
The climate here has become much milder over the years. Winters used to be much harsher and summers much shorter (altho they are still sh!t). Snow in the winter was common and it wasn't unusual to have -10 degrees temperatures or worse. I used to have a dedicated winter wardrobe, but nowadays I wear the same things all year round.
Hm, complain about weather? Not me! I lived in (and survived) Minnesota. The US state that actually shares its climate with Siberia and still you see diehard Minnesota specimens who walk around in shorts and sandals during a blizzard with -20 real day-time temps (not going into wind-chill.). NL is lovely an balmy compared with that and you'll NEVER hear me complain about the weather here.
No it isn't Dutch.... It is so Netherlands. Foreigners complain just as hard about the changing and unpredictable weather. Romanians, Ukrainians, Syrians .
Waterkou the most horrible thing off the Netherlands. I have bin in the mountains with minus 20 degrees, it wasn’t that cold a + 1 with rain and wind in the Netherlands, it’s going to the bones.
I absolutly hate a warm matras and bed. My bedroom needs to be cold like 16c max. Matras and sheets need to be cold and only the blanket should be warm Otherwise I absolutly can't sleep when it's warm.
The Netherlands has one of the biggest natural gas fields, only the government banned it's winnings because it causes earthquakes in Groningen. So we import gas which also makes it more expensive. Plus the whole environment thing.
On daylight: never overlook that the Netherlands are located way closer to the North Pole than Seatle; hence less daylight than you were used to. On isolation: ever since the late 1970's isolation between the walls (inside the "spouwmuur"), and under the roof, of newly built houses and apartments is required by law. That is now more than 50 years... But only if you're in an old house where the owner never retrofitted "spouwmuurisolatie" it can be draughty or cold - though I heared you saying you have double glazed windows. On feeling cold in the house: one thing perhaps new to you but every Dutch person knows: dress to the season. Meaning apart from underwear, shirt, (long!) pants, socks from late autumn to early spring wear a vest/sweater as well, I mean the woolly knitwear ones (NL: "trui"). What I see on the your video is summer dress: no leg cover, thin T-shirt. What you choose to wear is up to you of course, so no offence intended, but dressed like that way doesn't really makes complaining about cold credible. Just saying... And don't overlook warm "pantoffels"😀!
@Michelle vaseline is really bad for your skin. I don't know if you use cocos fat for cooking, if you do, try it on your face. It has no taste and really does great on a dry skin, and it's a natural product.
Hmm, not sure about this "not insulated"... What I can imagine is that that stat says that they aren't as insulated as they could be. Double glazing has been standard since the mid/late 70s, and cavity insulation since the early 80s. Sounds to me like wrong data/conculsions
@@buncharted2 Odd, indeed. You'd think they would do insulation stuff before expensive upgrades to heat pumps and solar panels...but hey, I escaped from the Netherlands almost 30 years ago, so what do I know
Many people give recommendations, so I will too. Ofcourse it's about the wet pans. I recommend diapers against incontinentia. 😂😂😂 I use to ware poncho against rain too, because you have more ventilation. But with lots of wind I would not recommend it.😊😊😊
Here in the Netherlands we don’t have a real winter anymore. But in the past, a long time ago, for me in the seventy's, we had a coal stove. My mother lay a brick on it to get warm and then wrapped it with a towel. This was placed at the foot of the bed to keep our feet warm at night. When your feet are cold your whole body is cold!
I use a mattress heater too (called 'electrische deken' in Dutch). My cat loves it!
Bought 3 all broken in a winter so done with those
@@janvandeven906 Perhaps buy a better brand?
@@PaulaBean Did that already Thermal safety is the problem most likely and cannt reset it
Uierzalf is the best against dry skin . Your hands can feel like sandpaper and 15 minutes after applying uierzalf your hand will feel soft again
Oh die kende ik nog niet, top tip bedankt! :)
Rozenglycerine werkt ook goed. Ik mix het met een handmixer met een huidolie (kies er eentje uit die lekker ruikt, of goed invet ofzo) tot een soort van mousse. De huidolie helpt extra met invetten van de huid, maar blijft bij mij er altijd zo op liggen, dus dan heb ik de hele dag gladde vingers en het hele huis zit onder de vette handafdrukken. De mousse maakt dat de olie sneller intrekt.
En dan katoenen handschoenen aan , ook perfect tegen kloven. Er is ook uier crème , minder vet.
Heyyy leuk weer een upload! :)
I'll definitely check this out later guys. 😊🌷
As a dutch woman I can recommend a rainsuit to people cause its the easiest to cycle in. And waterproof mascara. Those are 2 things you'll need as new dutchy. Its gonna rain, like a lot. Good luck.
You have to get a rainsuit that breaths or you are going to get drenched from your own sweat
@ This is exactly my experience.
As a man I recommend no mascara and just being authentic. No mascara, no panic when it rains. 🤓
As a Dutch man I strongly disprove of rain suits. If the rain doesn't get you the sweat will. 😂
Dry skin happens to me in airconditioned rooms, so would be worse in the States for me. And yes also from heating sometimes, getting used to it in fall, but overall in winter my skin is better. Moisturizer is essential of course
Our first winter here and am now just learning about the dry rooms in winter! I was so worried about too much humidity and didn’t expect the opposite problem. I find myself coughing all night from a dry throat. And with dry skin, ugh. Also having a hard time finding lotion that’s strong enough. I welcome anything that comes close to Aveeno or Cetaphil excema cream found in the U.S. Otherwise, coming from CA and FL, the winter hasn’t felt too intense so far.
Lived there the past three years and I must say, this past year was brutal. Exceptionally windy, rainy, and cold. I’m not a homebody so that was rough.
So excited for the next episode now MY pants are wet!
I had a similar experience in reverse when visiting the southern U.S. Here I was in California at a balmy 25 degrees Celsius and then at 6 pm, boom, the universe shuts the lights down. When it is 25 degrees outside according to my brain there should be daylight until at least 9 pm.
"Je bent toch niet van suiker gemaakt?"
Have you ever experienced a cloud burst? It’s when a heavy rain cloud drops all its content in just a few seconds to minutes. Trust me, when you experience a cloud burst then you are definately wet and not just vochtig. 😂
Het geet neet wieter dan t vel, in good old lower saxon.
(D: het gaat niet verder dan je huid) (E: it doesn't get past your skin)
That's what my granny said when i complained about getting soaked by the rain.
@@Data2.0yup, when 100% of my clothes are soaked, i concider myself wet, not moist.
@ hehe, your reply is great! indeed moisture doesn't go further than the skin.
There are many houses and apartment buildings from reinforced concrete house partition walls and floors and the outer walls (front and back) are made of cavity walls where the outer wall is brick masonry and the inner wall is wooden framework with insulation. The inner wall is a prefabricated house-wide element with the window frames already in it. It is fixed at the concrete partition walls and floors and sealed off by PUR foam and bituminous tape. There is (prefabricated) gypsum sheeting at the inside, so it looks and feels as drywall. It is a fast way of getting the house or apartment closed off from weather (wind- en waterdicht) so finishing can start early.
Growing up in the nineties and early twothousands it was between -7 to -17 degrees every winter for several weeks and we had 5-20 cm snow several times a year every year. Your wardrobe doesn't have to change, the climate has changed.
And I grew up in the less snowy warm part, yet a few weeks around -10°C wasn't uncommon at all
Had peaks I recall of -20 and -23
My apartment was build in 1961 and it has single window panes in the bedroom but not in the living room without any heating on it gets about 5 degrees celsius and with that comes a nice ice cold outside wall so keeping the heat in is really difficult. Most of my neighbors are retired over the age of 65+ so they all use space heaters just to get the rooms to a normal acceptable temperature.
yeah, the single pane windows are rough
1958 apartment here, ditto. I don't mind a lower temperature though.
My house 1956, have the same problem.
Ouch 😮 that’s the main appeal of newer buildings to me.
High time to get double glazing.
The great thing where I live is that my apartment was renovated last year and we got new ventilation that really works a treat drying up the shower room and the kitchen. And I've got a few aquariums in the living room but it's not overly humid in winter time. And it helps bringing down humidity a bit during hot humid summer days.
oh man, that’s nice. it’s the thing we miss most from our last apartment
I just love your chemistry together ❤❤
I am here to defend Michelle's Chucks! It's all in the socks. In the winter, I wear merino wool socks with my Chucks - of varying thicknesses/density according to temperature -- and my feet stay warm and dry. The shoes may get completely soaked but they dry out really quickly. And they're washable. It really is an effective system, even if it does sound counter-intuitive to non-Chuck wearing Dutchies (to be).
I worked this out living in Glasgow one winter.
100 percent Alpaca socks are the best, never have cold feet again! Trust me ❤
@@martijnkeisers5900 Ohhh, saw some alpaca socks in the market in Leiden last Saturday. I'll have to see if they're better than merino!
*WOW* I can't believe Alex dared to touch that microphone stand!
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I'm calling HR like RIGHT NOW~! ;)
A mattress heater seems like a really big thing to get when you can also buy a hot water bottle for 5€ at hema and fill that up. I don't usually put one in the bed before bedtime, but you can certainly do that. If i'm really cold I get one for my feet and it heats up the bed in no time. Just hot water from the tap in one bottle is enough for hours of warmth. It is a bit smaller though, so I tend to shift it around a bit as I lie in bed, but so long as you feet are warm you don't get too cold overall.
When I was younger I got sleeping socks as well. My great-grandmother knit them for me, super soft wool knit in a lacy pattern with a really soft ribbon to tie them around the ankle if needed. They're not meant to be walked on, the wool is the delicate type for expensive sweaters or baby clothes etc, so they're really only to sleep in, they'd wear out too fast otherwise.
Wool socks in general would work too. Real wool is best, acrylic yarn is okay but not as good, and regular socks barely do anything tbh.
We also have a duvet stuffed with wool. It's warm and cosy in the winter, and the slightly thinner summer duvet (also stuffed with wool) is great in the summer, we don't overheat. Wool is great at temperature regulation in general.
Heating the house is important, yes, you don't want the temperature inside to go down too much, especially with the risk of moisture damage and mold. I believe the minimum temperature is about 15 degrees. So we have set our heater to heat to about 20 degrees during the day, and 15 at night. If you let your house cool down too much it takes much more energy to heat it back up every time. It's much more energy efficient to keep it somewhat warm. Of course, not if you aren't home at all for example, but in general. But like you said, wearing warm clothes in general is much more energy efficient.
I wonder at the difference in isolation between the US and the Netherlands. Like, most of the homes I see from the US have the front door open into the living room. I have never seen that in the Netherlands, there is always an entrance. No matter how small in between the living area and the front door. That seems like a cold (or heat) leak in a house. Every time you open the door the warmth just gets out (or in). If there is a space with a door in between the cold outside and the warm living room to act as a buffer that won't happen as much. Like, sure, there will be some cold that gets in, no house is airtight, but there will be a much smaller effect on the entire house, than if you open the door into the living room (that is connected to the kitchen and dining room). Or are entrances like that more common in colder parts of the US?
they're more common in old homes in the US, like pre-1940s homes, but newer homes might have a "mudroom" on the side or in the back which functions very similarly
we have this here and we have one of those little things you slip under the door to further insulate the entrance area and the living room, which is great, it keeps our living room super cozy
I thought what Michelle said about her wardrobe and Skincare here was actually interesting! Because I had noticed those too in myself!
I used to have a double dekbeds in the winter, those were synthetic or with feathers, but I bought a sheep wool winter dekbed 2 years ago after reading lots of positive things about it and I have to say that one does keep me warm at night. It may feel a bit heavy at first, but that feeling will go away once you're used to it.
yeah, we invested in high quality duvets last winter too, it makes a big difference
Zodra de zon schijnt naar buiten gaan. Desnoods op balkon. Nep kaarsen maken het ook gezellig. Ik heb lichten die van kleur veranderen. Je moet het zelf gezellig maken. ❤
You've become real experts of "overwinteren" in The Netherlands 👍😉
does it count if we are telling people to go outside? haha
my window in the bedroom is always open on like 1 cm for air and temp is there in winter around 15c i got down duvet its nice also my animals love it.I also always take a rain poncho with me on the bike that you can hang over your handlebars when u use it.and the seasons are shifting very much here in the Netherlands, summer used to start at the end of June, now in mid-August and winter started at the end of November, now we sometimes have winter around February or March
It’s very mild this year. Barely dropped below zero, no snow, not much rain. Just grey and uneventful.
You can sit in front of an EnergyLight, it helps.
Yeah, also called Daylight therapy lamp. The one I have basically looks like a small tablet but with a bright light instead of a screen.
Most houses are insulated quite well actually, most walls of Dutch houses are double and in the spaces in between are fiber glass wool insulation. Mostly double windows but these days even triple glass or in my case “kunststof kozijnen” or plastic window frames ( sounds cheaper in English) fitted with super isolated glass. My walls have had extra insulation added and underneath my house I had extra insulation placed. I’m not an exception! Also added solar panels.
I have a middle house and only use 400m3 gas a year!
Mid winter day still has about 7 to 8 hours daylight but if the day is gloomy it feels semi dark much longer.
PVC window frames instead of plastic sounds better. And cavity walls can also have rock wool in the cavity or PIR or XPS.
> Most houses are insulated quite well actually
If privately owned, rental is a mess.
Most before the 40's houses are either upgraded or privately owned. The 50's and 60' construction, mostly rental, has only recently been "upgraded" (started in the 90's and continues to now as it's only done when new renters go in). And upgraded means absolutely minimal needed. This means only replacing single glass to minimal needed, which explains why I have three different window types (ancient normal double, double with special stuff and one tiny high efficiency one) each upgraded to the minimum required at the time.
Note for renters: if they come to record your energy level (the AAA to G scheme for rating the house as energy efficient), make sure they record the shittiest window. They can take any they like as an example and in my case they were looking to take the single high efficiency glass windows which is about 5% of the total. This makes a difference in the rating, and if it is sufficiently low the rental company might be required to upgrade, in my case they also wanted to ignore the geiser which kicked the rating down to D from C. This also makes a difference in the allowed rental points for maximum price.
@@NoNameForNone actually in the town I live there is a large suburb with many rental homes from the early 80’s, (just like my house 1983). In the last two years they have been extensively upgraded, new roofs, with about 25 cm insulation ( I saw the insulation pads), new roof tiles, dormers placed ( dakkapel ), new windows and glass put in, and probably more work done that I couldn’t see.
My brother lives in a social rent home, part of the same suburb. He had new central heating system put in as well as floor and wall isolation. ( polystyrene particles put underneath the floor and isolation pumped into the wall. He had had new windows a few years back.
The privately owned houses can be spotted because they still have old roof tiles that lie about 15 cm lower due to less insulation.
@@RealConstructor ik heb een huis uit ‘83 maar de steenwool isolatie in de spouwmuren was een beetje ingezakt, ik heb er een soort vlokken laten inspuiten, lijkt veel op kunst sneeuw by kerst shows. Ook de kruipruimte extra laten isoleren.
Modern buildings here are likely made of concrete and the outer walls are always cavity walls, usually insulated. Non load-bearing interior walls are gypsum blocks or plasterboard (drywall) with insulation
What I occasionally hear being said when it’s raining cats and dogs and all the other pets even is ‘nou ja, het is in ieder geval droog tussen de druppels door’. (Well, at least it’s dry in between the drops.) Somehow that’s not really a consolation 😾
I think you guys have one of the fifty houses in the Netherlands that is still made of wood, some houses have wooden floors and ceilings but since the 90's all houses in the Netherlands are made with cement and brick's or concrete... wooden beams are used for the roofs but not for the walls...
As a Dutch person I am of course used to the yearly rhythm of daylight and night light. For me it was once great to experience the Swedish summer in mid-north Sweden. Turn on the BBQ outside at 1:00 in the morning and it is just light. Very special.
About food and Dordrecht -- in August (10-13) there will be a Pasar Malam in the city center. That means lots of Indonesian food stalls! 😋 🍚🥟🍜
Grtz from sandy Vlissingen!
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Duracell is one of the better batteries. And one of the first commercials was a kind of endurance test with various brands. In running rabbits, that's why the rabbit still exists
Oh this winter is bloody warm
Nothing to whine about.
Last night I couldn't sleep because of the heat for the umpteenth time this winter. Sitting in the living room right now almost sweating and my thermostat is turned off (because stadsverwarming is unnafordable) this winter is like fall and spring used to be a decade ago
My aunty whent to Florida 80 years ago and she brought the 4 seasoning pictures of the dutch with her because she would mis them, well...its changed . Spring is the best then summer is more like wet start and then hot. Autum : wet and windy and then winter : wet and windy not that cold any more. Wardrobe : in winter , you look like those people who will remove asbest !
Love the video 🌷🌷🌷 PS : Gas or electric heating , always vantilate.
I loved to go to my cold bedroom to cosy up and feel everything worming up. Now living in Malaysia I do the same thing without the feeling that cosy.
Same climate where I am, in British Columbia...similar weather, with darkness too early....can't wait until, daylight savings time again in March (I think?). Counting down already. LOL.
I would just love to skip december and januari purely because of the cold and constant rain. Just give me spring and summer with a little bit of autumn.
If you have central heating (most homes have that) with one or more radiators per room you can (partially) shut off the radiators that don’t need to heat up as much as others. This will restrict (or shut off) the the hot waterflow to those radiators. The radiators that haven’t been (partially) shut off will get nice and hot, while the ones that have been restricted will stay cold or get luke warm only. This’ll save you money. Btw if you do turn off certain radiators DON’T shut them off completely. Keep turning the thingy for shutting off the radiator until it’s completely shut off but then open it up again for half a turn. It’s better to have at least a little bit of waterflow going in every radiator than to have some shut off completely with stagnant water in them.
If that's a recently built home it's unlikely to be made of wood. The inside of the utilities closet is usually panelled with wood in order to mount the appliances on; are you sure that's not what you saw? New wooden buildings do exist in the Netherlands ("houtskeletbouw"), but it tends to be expensive detached houses. The majority of houses in the Netherlands are concrete (poured, prefab, or aerated concrete blocks) inside and brick outside.
i'm pretty sure that's what it is, i don't think michelle was right about our home here being made of wood :)
My house in The Netherlands is about 25 years old and insulated throughout. In winter I wear woolen jumpers and slippers, so I don’t need to use a lot of gas to heat my home. I’m surprised you two are sitting in a T-shirt and a cotton jumper 😮
when it’s sunny outside our apartment gets pretty warm
I actually don't like a pre heated bed and a warm pillow is terrible. I'd rather get in a cold bed.
Your sweater is so cute!
Just buy a Senz windproof umbrella (stormparaplu). ☂
Ever tried Brown bean soup bruine bonen soep
Allthough rather cold, I enjoyed the shoppingtrip to Germany with a good friend an my daughter in his car. The sky was clear and the sun was shining. Thanks to the warmth of the sun we didn't need the car's heater. But in this time of year the sun is rather low and can be a bit blinding. Both in and out we enjoyed todays weather.
today was a very nice day!
Any home built after 1975 is insulated. In general there is an inner wall (concrete or sand bricks) and an outer wall (clay bricks). The space in between is filled with insulation: PUR, glass wool or rock wool.
The most fun thing to do for me is driving topless (no not that kind of topless) with mine convertible car in de winter even when it freezes and when there is snow. The way my fellow Dutch people look at me like i’m crazy while at the same time they are cycling in the snow because thats totaly normal is just to funny for me.
brrrrr :)
i think what most people also forget during winter is a backpack with some supplies a thermo with a hot beverage some sugary sweets or something high call food biscuits im working in construction so its important to be prepared on power outrages have bottled water for 1 month and heater on gas with canister nd candles and aa radio for listening to radio one just incase or locaal radio network dried pots of food made or bought. its called WEKpot that suck out the air the lid will have a valve first aid kit for your kids and medicine ofcourse.. dont forget ski outfits incase you live in a older house its abit overkill but still i keep them around just incase suddenly it gets minus 10 or more.
Koude Kikkerland! What do you hear about the Elfstedentocht this year?I thought it has not been possible because the ice has not frozen over enough to have the race.
Well, there used to be a yearly race for marathon ice skaters in one of the nordic countries. I honestly don't think the original 11 cities race will happen again. Part is climate change the other part is the reluctance to organise it again... Infrastructure and ice plays a part and the willingness of various people to even put time and money in.
Are special storm umbrellas, those are the ones with a strange shape?
Children, children….. play nice 😅🤣 Love your silliness. I never learned how to bike with no hands. But I do master biking with an umbrella. So as a dutchie I’m a bit of a disappointment😇😁
Ik heb eigenlijk nooit een paraplu gebruikt toen ik in de omgeving van Rotterdam woonde, vanwege de wind. Meer oostelijk is een paraplu wellicht bruikbaar.
I am from midwest US and winters here are nothing. I will take weather here in the Netherlands any day.
I never use an umbrella while cycling, I always have my rain suit with me if there is even the tiniest chance of rain. And I don't care if I get soaked on the way home, dry clothes are waiting.
Also a warm shower, which I like to take after cycling anyway
Houses are typically build of brick. As in, actual brick, not a layer of decorative faux bricks over a wood frame. Very few houses are made of wood actually, most are from brick. There is likely to be some wood holding up floors or roofs, but that's it. Really old houses tend to have way thicker walls that insulate really well actually, brick holds onto warmth a lot. Cheaper houses from the 1800s will have thinner walls. Houses from the 1950s until the 1970s often have thinner walls and lower quality materials. Starting in the 80s the houses were better insulated again. Most of the time the insulation is a double wall. Which works really well.
Have you trie Rasa Senang in Dordrecht. Would like to know your experience
we haven’t! we live in the city center so that looks a bit far for us. we have a great indonesian restaurant in centrum :)
Homes in NL are pretty well insulated overal. On average, but the difference between houses is insane. So some people struggle with their heating bills since the war.
Finally a lekkerbekje?
(i soooo miss the snow and ice nowadays)
Most homes have double walls. You can extra material in between those walls for more insulation. Compared to the UK, insulation of Dutch homes is not that bad. It is just that Dutch homes tend to be bigger (and have bigger rooms specifically).
@23:08 heating a room using a space heater.
Those are pretty inefficient. If you are allowed by the landlord it would be better to get a split airconditioning unit (inside and outside unit) installed. Not to cool the house down in summer but to heat the room it's installed in up in winter. An Airco is basically an air to air heatpump and way cheaper then the Hybrid Air to water heatpumps that are advertised and promoted often in the Netherlands. (about 1/10th of the price) and they have about the same efficiency in heating.
Where I live in Belgium I'm roughly on the same latitute as Calgery, Alberta in Canada
Europe really is deceptively more north then americans think it is.
The northern most point of Africa is on a higher latitude then North Carolina
Fall and Winter, it used to be the highlight of the year, though it changed when health took a down turn, permanently. It now just a tedious time and I can't wait for temperature to rise. I have no problem with rain, it is primarily temperature and wind... then again, 35⁰ every day gets tedious too. 😂
spring and fall are the best seasons :)
Die ‘insoles’ noemen we ‘binnenzool’ 😊
Well, I personally was very curious how Michelle’s clothing changed from Austin to NL 😂
The climate here has become much milder over the years. Winters used to be much harsher and summers much shorter (altho they are still sh!t). Snow in the winter was common and it wasn't unusual to have -10 degrees temperatures or worse. I used to have a dedicated winter wardrobe, but nowadays I wear the same things all year round.
Of course we go outside when it's raining. If we didn't, we'd never go outside at all.
Can you remember the last Friese Elfstedentocht?
heyyy i wear the same things year round too 😄
@@PaulaBean Not really. Do you?
@@PaulaBean I can. The last one Evert won was in the year I graduated high school. I had Chemistry that day :o).
Hm, complain about weather? Not me! I lived in (and survived) Minnesota. The US state that actually shares its climate with Siberia and still you see diehard Minnesota specimens who walk around in shorts and sandals during a blizzard with -20 real day-time temps (not going into wind-chill.). NL is lovely an balmy compared with that and you'll NEVER hear me complain about the weather here.
Why isn't the titel of this video "37 minute long tangent"?
26 CELSIUS!!! Yeaeeyy!
Like a mattress heater, you can also put a hot water bottle in your bed a half hour before bedtime.
Austin Texas 26 Celsius degrees in de winter time? On average? Please deduct 10 degrees from that.
NEW KING in amsterdam is nice.
Complaining about the weather is So Dutch 😂
No it isn't Dutch.... It is so Netherlands. Foreigners complain just as hard about the changing and unpredictable weather. Romanians, Ukrainians, Syrians .
And why do foreigners complain @lws7394?
Because of the Dutch weather, so yes it is very Dutch to complain about it.
Waterkou the most horrible thing off the Netherlands. I have bin in the mountains with minus 20 degrees, it wasn’t that cold a + 1 with rain and wind in the Netherlands, it’s going to the bones.
I absolutly hate a warm matras and bed. My bedroom needs to be cold like 16c max. Matras and sheets need to be cold and only the blanket should be warm Otherwise I absolutly can't sleep when it's warm.
What happened to the Dutch word of the week?
it’ll be back someday :)
@@buncharted2 I have some for you: bofkont, oelewapper, ouwehoeren ;)
@buncharted2 Here are a couple of Dutch words that you could give a try in your DWOTW section: mafklapper, uilskuiken, flapdrol 🙃
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7:27 No snow (anymore)
in NL! But still, BETTER NOT
being homeless in NL!! 🥶
The dry skin issue is real. Hydrate people.
Your shirt is really cute Michelle
That's a cat with bitterballen, no? Because nobody sticks a flag into a stroopwafel.
haha it’s sashimi playing with a bitterbal :) we had merch available like a year and a half or so ago and it was one of the designs!
The Netherlands has one of the biggest natural gas fields, only the government banned it's winnings because it causes earthquakes in Groningen. So we import gas which also makes it more expensive. Plus the whole environment thing.
energizer was made as a parody to duracell
On daylight: never overlook that the Netherlands are located way closer to the North Pole than Seatle; hence less daylight than you were used to.
On isolation: ever since the late 1970's isolation between the walls (inside the "spouwmuur"), and under the roof, of newly built houses and apartments is required by law. That is now more than 50 years... But only if you're in an old house where the owner never retrofitted "spouwmuurisolatie" it can be draughty or cold - though I heared you saying you have double glazed windows.
On feeling cold in the house: one thing perhaps new to you but every Dutch person knows: dress to the season. Meaning apart from underwear, shirt, (long!) pants, socks from late autumn to early spring wear a vest/sweater as well, I mean the woolly knitwear ones (NL: "trui"). What I see on the your video is summer dress: no leg cover, thin T-shirt. What you choose to wear is up to you of course, so no offence intended, but dressed like that way doesn't really makes complaining about cold credible. Just saying... And don't overlook warm "pantoffels"😀!
@Michelle vaseline is really bad for your skin.
I don't know if you use cocos fat for cooking, if you do, try it on your face.
It has no taste and really does great on a dry skin, and it's a natural product.
Bad weather does not exist here in the Netherlands, only bad waterproof clothing... 😳
Hold the phone! We're not complaining! We're stating facts and informing others, that's our story and we'll stick to it.
For enlightenment, suffering is needed. If you get home completely soaked, you will appreciate your warm shower or choco more. 😉
hahah this 100%
29:00 De 49ste breedtegraad (grens tussen Canada en VS) ligt ongeveer op de hoogte van Parijs. Het is hier net zo erg als diep in Canada.
maar we bestaan zonder tim hortons! 😄
Alex moving the mic stand again 🙄 smh
Just kidding haha
😅😅😅😅
What winter? I remember the winters with snow, ice and -10 temperature 😂
It's minus 10 here in Limburg and there's also still snow here.
Just like my winters 30 /40 years ago. 🤷
Ja paar dagen maar, helaas
You should research the winter of 1979
Bold assumption that we mostly complain about the winter-weather 😂
Hmm, not sure about this "not insulated"... What I can imagine is that that stat says that they aren't as insulated as they could be. Double glazing has been standard since the mid/late 70s, and cavity insulation since the early 80s. Sounds to me like wrong data/conculsions
i (alex) think the stat referenced actual insulation, like the pink stuff in walls
that’s why i was confused 😂
@@buncharted2 Odd, indeed. You'd think they would do insulation stuff before expensive upgrades to heat pumps and solar panels...but hey, I escaped from the Netherlands almost 30 years ago, so what do I know
Hey, I expected a different ending. 😉
haha i just realized we filmed the next podcast yesterday and didn’t even mention michelle’s big tease for it!!!
I love the sleet snow and rain. Wadda ya mean? Dutch peeps just love to complain just about anything.
Oh Alex. You were a bit mean this time to Michelle. She did her best to prepare this episode
haha, we’re just having fun
Haha, no one wore shoes with Covid? I'm curious what's the reasoning is there. ;)
It really isn’t winter in the Netherlands anymore.
winter doesn’t just mean snow
Finally. I don't see the appeal of that Tiktok trend of holding microphones …
i’m just cheap :)
@@buncharted2 You have two SM7B's. Not only that, _they're_ on mic stands. Nice try. 😄
Many people give recommendations, so I will too. Ofcourse it's about the wet pans. I recommend diapers against incontinentia. 😂😂😂
I use to ware poncho against rain too, because you have more ventilation. But with lots of wind I would not recommend it.😊😊😊
Walking snacks? Meaning you have to catch the meat yourself first. Oh...walk-in snacks...
wok en snacks :)
@buncharted2 woke in snacks
i'd rather walk around in shorts and t-shirts and have a blanket or oodie to warm myself during the cold seasons.
brrrrr!
@@buncharted2 i got born in the wrong country 🙂
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