Hello, here are a few numbers that probably explain why the houses in Germany are closer together and have several floors: The area of Germany is approximately 137,847 square miles, compared to Texas (a popular comparison) at approximately 268,596 square miles, making Texas almost twice the size of Germany. On the other hand, around 3 times as many people live in Germany with around 83 million people (Texas around 29 million people). Hence the dense development. To the carports and garages: Many houses in Germany were built at a time when not every family could afford a car, let alone one for each family member (as is often the case today). Therefore, there was no need for a garage at that time, especially since this also increased the price of the house. In many new houses, however, a garage is now "integrated" into the house, as in the USA, but the carport is often preferred for cost reasons. About the fridges: I don't know which apartments the creator of the video was in, but most refrigerators in Germany have a freezer compartment or even a freezer, otherwise the freezer is often located separately in the kitchen, the pantry or in the basement. Yes, our refrigerators are smaller, although there is a trend towards large double-door refrigerators in Germany too. But if the nearest supermarket is a 5-minute walk away, then you don't need a large fridge. To the windows: Screens can be retrofitted to older windows, new windows are offered with screens. The closets: This is also a question of the space available, and a wardrobe quite simply takes up less space than a closet. And, as with garages, when building a house, more space means more costs. About the heaters: It was not explicitly mentioned, but very few private houses in Germany have air conditioning. There are several reasons for this, not to mention the cost. The weather in Germany is not as extreme as in many parts of the USA, the winters are quite mild (except in the mountainous regions) and the summers only have a few very hot days. This is also due to the geographic location of Germany. Germany's northernmost point is roughly level with Québec (Canada), and its southernmost point is roughly level with the border between North Dakota and South Dakota. In addition, the houses are very well insulated, so it takes a long time for the heat or cold to get into the houses. And in the few hot days, airing it out early and a fan helps ;-) . I think that helps a bit in classifying the video content. greetings from Germany
Very well explained! What wasn't mentioned is the fact that older houses in particular usually have a basement, which is usually less the case in the States ;-)). The basement is also one of the biggest costs, which is why I see more and more new houses that no longer have one. I think.
What else comes to mind about the toilet is the following. There are usually two buttons for the flushing process, one for the small business and one for the large one ;-))
Toilets are available in all kinds of variations - hanging from the wall with the tank hidden behind the wall - standing on the floor with/without the tank visible - "dunk" water (like he showed) OR a "shelf" where "solids" land on [you should SIT DOWN FOR PEEING btw. ...]
When I was in Canada, as a german, I saw the toilet and the tub, were made of plastic. We don´t have that in Germany. The toilett is made from ceramic and the tub is made of emaile.
you dont see the freezer, because they also looking like a cabinet, some like me have a fridge/freezer combination... my sister got her freezers ( yes, she got 2 ) in her basement!
The houses in Germany are very different ... my german house look extremly different - in all aspects. And the places I lived before, too... So there are a lot of varities of housing, depending on where you live or how old/new your house is. So I won't call THIS a typicall german house in general.
@@Pjalphareacting What is typical about German houses is the way the houses are built. They are built from stone, not wood. The interior design, on the other hand, depends on the taste of the owner and is therefore very different.
The fridge thing is stupid. Most people i know, myself included, have normal big/mid Fridges from like samsung etc.. Thats just in older homes where you have a pre build kitchen or someone who thought it would look nice if its hidden and blends in with the rest of the kitchen. But its not that common anymore (IMO)
@@Pjalphareacting - 3:56 Where he talkes about the fridges. In most german homes there is a normal Fridge with a freezer built in. Its not that common anymore to see hidden fridges which fit perfectly with the kitchen. I hope you get what im trying to say, if not im sorry. My english isn't the greatest but im trying to improve it everyday edit: and personally i think they're soo ugly. Also, how are you supposed to find your fridge when its dark and you're drunk or faded af.. nahh
@@mwubi That's not true what you write. Yes, there is a trend with fridges that are set up openly, but as a carpenter who builds kitchens, I can tell you that there are still many customers who do not want their fridges set up openly.
@@michaelkuschnefsky362 Well in that case i guess you're right. But i wanna mention that im speaking from my own experience. Maybe its has something to do with my region/city or other factors. But the last time i saw a kitchen with the fridge like that must have been almost over 15 years and in this time i visited a lot of houses. im not kidding but whatever
@@mwubi Join me there... all my friends and family members have stinky regular fridges too. these optically cleaned refrigerators are something from the 2000s.
German houses are OLD (100 years is still "relatively new" and in many smaller cities the houses are 200+ years old) ... and thus have existed BEFORE the "flood of clothes". People used to have 2-3 sets of clothes ... and they were stored in a TRUNK, big wooden chests.
Und diese 200+ alten Häuser stehen A) Unter Denkmalschutz und B) sind sie nicht der Standart. 100 jahre sind relativ neu? oO... what the fuck redest du da? Die meisten Häuser, sind Plattenbauten... und Plattenbauten wurden erst ab den 70Jahren gebaut, dank den türkischen Einwanderern, kam dann der Plattenbau boom. Alte Häuser sind A) eher in Dörfern zu finden B) ehr selten und C) alles ab 100Jahre steht unter Denkmalschutz. Ich ahne schon wo du mit der Aussage hin willst.. deutsche Häuser sind viel krasser und ami Häuser sind eh nur aus Pappe - deutsch=Qualität - ami=billig
Passiert den voll krass qualitativ hochferigen dEuTsChEn Häusern ebenso. Weniger Polemik - mehr recherche täten dir evtl. gut. google einfach: sturmschäden deutschland 2022 Oder erinnere dich ans Ahrtal... wow wat ne krasse quali deutsche Häuse haben, einfach nur widerstandsfähig. Es kommt auf den Baustil an - NICHT auf das Material! Wir reden von einer Windgeschwindigkeit von 300+km/h - bei einer Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit zwischen 15-25 km/h -- wie kann man da glauben, das dem Beton, Zement und Ziegel stand halten? Hast in Physik nicht aufgepasst?
The problem with "we have LAND" is that this PREVENTS COMMUNITY from being formed ... because you are MUCH further apart. Compare the size of "suburbia houses" from the 50s to the plots they occupy today ... they get bigger and thus PEOPLE ARE FURTHER APART ... and a part of the reason is "building WIDE instead of UP". This is BAD, because humans NEED communities and the "I have a car" reply is NOT VALID, because your children are further away from friends. *_DIVIDE and CONQUER!_*
Your logic has, at the latest at the point, CITY. Hundreds of thousands of people and more... and yet the majority are alone, lonely. When was the last time you said "hello" to someone in a city? It doesn't happen either. One is many and yet alone. How can that be? According to you, it really shouldn't be. Education has little to do with society. With thousands of people around, who can learn? There's a reason why universities, schools... tend to be cut off from the outside world.
@@dumontxt9813 I live in a city in Germany and I know and greet all people living in my house (low-rise apartment building) and on my street. My dad talks to oodles of people every time he's out, too. In a German city, you might not speak to everyone, but here in Europe, you speak to the people living close by you meet often. It prevents some loneliness. Plus, we have third places where you can meet people from your neighbourhood easily and connect to them. Universities and schools are not cut off from the outside world here, either. The campus of the uni I went to is open to everyone to walk around in and most schools are open, too, although you should have a reason for entering them if you're not a student or teacher or other employee (such as in administration).
I personally, as someone who weighs more than 80kg, find it very uncomforting to sit on a toilet that isn't connected to the floor. I have that and a tank in the back. That used to be the standard over here as well. Suddenly I saw all these hip and modern homes pop up with these hanging toilets. There is a also a difference within the toilet itself. With these hanging toilets (Though there are some that are connected to the floor as well), they have it so that the poo falls right into the water and splashes you from below every time. I personally am more of a "not have my anus splashed by poo touched water" type of dude, so I prefer the older styles that have a little step in the bowl where the poo lays until you flush the toilet. So, personally, I enjoy the older toilet bowl styled quite a lot more.
@@lent10Poseidon kiss made me giggle. That was a good one! Well, I don't want to waste extra toilet paper every time I go to the toilet. At some point I might as well have stuck to the toilet I have now.
Built-in wardrobes are of course very practical, but they leave little room for the individuality of the changing residents. We Europeans are very unique in this respect.
In my opinion, the creator of the video generalises some of the details in a German house. Bathrooms: For example, toilets do not always look like this. There may still be stand-up toilets for older seniors or in houses where it would not be technically feasible to convert the stand-up toilet into a wall-mounted toilet. I used to work in a wholesale company for sanitary and heating products. We only had plumbers and heating engineers as customers (for insurance reasons, not all construction work may be carried out by the residents, e.g. with the electrics) and every year there were new models from Villeroy und Boch, Geberit, Duravit, Keramac, Kludi, Viega, Grohe and other manufacturers. As the toilet is there, the bathroom must have been renovated. But that could have been a little longer ago, because the flush button is a slightly older model than the ones I have at home. The water tank in this model is behind the wall, in a construction that is screwed to the floor and wall and then bricked up with tiles. That looks cleaner. The advantage is that you have a small shelf at the top for various utensils. As far as washing up is concerned, not much has changed. The wall-mounted toilet has only changed the position of the drain. But that also depends on the model. There are so-called shallow flushers and deep flushers. Flat-flush toilets have the drain at the front of the toilet, while deep-flush toilets like the model shown in the video have the drain at the back. Low-flush toilets are more efficient in water use because less water is needed to drain. Low flushes are still used more often in hospitals because doctors sometimes need to take a stool sample and this makes it easier to collect it. Meanwhile, there are also models without an inner rim (where the water is distributed all around and then flows downwards), which would favour bacteria. Without this additional rim, the toilet simply looks like a bowl with a hole in it. As for the bathtub, it is more common in flats and not so much in houses. The bathtubs in new buildings tend to be larger. Sometimes we have also delivered bathtubs with whirlpool capability that were around 1.5 x 1.5 metres in size. As far as the houses are concerned, it always varies. I have two houses. One is an apartment building with two flats. The other house is an old 200-year-old farmhouse built by my great-great-great-grandparents. It is one of the few farmhouses here in northern Germany that still has a reed roof. The hallway is central, more or less the same as in a flat nowadays, with all the rooms leading off from it, with the difference that the hallway is 10 metres long and about 5 metres wide. Whereas in the apartment building across the street, the toilet is right next to the bedroom in one flat, in the farmhouse the bedroom and toilet are at the other end of the hallway. But not all farmhouses are the same. My farmhouse has the barn where the cows were milked at the front of the building, which is separated from the living quarters by a door. At my cousin's, who lives a few metres away, it's completely different. There, the farmhouse is just the living quarters, while next door there is a separate part, the barn, where the cows live. But he also has two large halls behind the house, where about 600 cows have plenty of space.
i have absolutely no idea why there are so few or no integrated cabinets in germany. super practical and everyone needs a cabinet. the stupid ikea things never fit exactly and you have gaps on the wall that are hard (useful)to fill
Hello,
here are a few numbers that probably explain why the houses in Germany are closer together and have several floors:
The area of Germany is approximately 137,847 square miles, compared to Texas (a popular comparison) at approximately 268,596 square miles, making Texas almost twice the size of Germany.
On the other hand, around 3 times as many people live in Germany with around 83 million people (Texas around 29 million people).
Hence the dense development.
To the carports and garages:
Many houses in Germany were built at a time when not every family could afford a car, let alone one for each family member (as is often the case today). Therefore, there was no need for a garage at that time, especially since this also increased the price of the house. In many new houses, however, a garage is now "integrated" into the house, as in the USA, but the carport is often preferred for cost reasons.
About the fridges:
I don't know which apartments the creator of the video was in, but most refrigerators in Germany have a freezer compartment or even a freezer, otherwise the freezer is often located separately in the kitchen, the pantry or in the basement.
Yes, our refrigerators are smaller, although there is a trend towards large double-door refrigerators in Germany too. But if the nearest supermarket is a 5-minute walk away, then you don't need a large fridge.
To the windows:
Screens can be retrofitted to older windows, new windows are offered with screens.
The closets:
This is also a question of the space available, and a wardrobe quite simply takes up less space than a closet. And, as with garages, when building a house, more space means more costs.
About the heaters:
It was not explicitly mentioned, but very few private houses in Germany have air conditioning. There are several reasons for this, not to mention the cost. The weather in Germany is not as extreme as in many parts of the USA, the winters are quite mild (except in the mountainous regions) and the summers only have a few very hot days. This is also due to the geographic location of Germany. Germany's northernmost point is roughly level with Québec (Canada), and its southernmost point is roughly level with the border between North Dakota and South Dakota. In addition, the houses are very well insulated, so it takes a long time for the heat or cold to get into the houses. And in the few hot days, airing it out early and a fan helps ;-) .
I think that helps a bit in classifying the video content.
greetings from Germany
Very well explained! What wasn't mentioned is the fact that older houses in particular usually have a basement, which is usually less the case in the States ;-)). The basement is also one of the biggest costs, which is why I see more and more new houses that no longer have one. I think.
What else comes to mind about the toilet is the following. There are usually two buttons for the flushing process, one for the small business and one for the large one ;-))
Our house too, its from the 30s. Best wishes from Germany
Based Germany 🗿❤️
Toilets are available in all kinds of variations
- hanging from the wall with the tank hidden behind the wall
- standing on the floor with/without the tank visible
- "dunk" water (like he showed) OR a "shelf" where "solids" land on [you should SIT DOWN FOR PEEING btw. ...]
When I was in Canada, as a german, I saw the toilet and the tub, were made of plastic.
We don´t have that in Germany. The toilett is made from ceramic and the tub is made of emaile.
only the tub should be plastic but not the toilet lol
There are also plastic bathtubs in Germany.
you dont see the freezer, because they also looking like a cabinet,
some like me have a fridge/freezer combination...
my sister got her freezers ( yes, she got 2 ) in her basement!
actually that is kind of smart, we used to have a big freezer back in the day on my Grandma's basement.
Your sister is smart!
@@Pjalphareacting yes, but electricity is the first thing that will vanish in a disaster!
@@Arltratlo We only had the pleasure of disposing of thawed food after we got back from vacation ;-(( A fuse blew, probably due to a severe storm.
The houses in Germany are very different ... my german house look extremly different - in all aspects. And the places I lived before, too... So there are a lot of varities of housing, depending on where you live or how old/new your house is. So I won't call THIS a typicall german house in general.
what would you consider a typical German House?
@@Pjalphareacting What is typical about German houses is the way the houses are built. They are built from stone, not wood. The interior design, on the other hand, depends on the taste of the owner and is therefore very different.
The fridge thing is stupid. Most people i know, myself included, have normal big/mid Fridges from like samsung etc.. Thats just in older homes where you have a pre build kitchen or someone who thought it would look nice if its hidden and blends in with the rest of the kitchen. But its not that common anymore (IMO)
what fridge thing you are talking about?0
@@Pjalphareacting - 3:56 Where he talkes about the fridges. In most german homes there is a normal Fridge with a freezer built in. Its not that common anymore to see hidden fridges which fit perfectly with the kitchen. I hope you get what im trying to say, if not im sorry. My english isn't the greatest but im trying to improve it everyday
edit: and personally i think they're soo ugly. Also, how are you supposed to find your fridge when its dark and you're drunk or faded af.. nahh
@@mwubi That's not true what you write. Yes, there is a trend with fridges that are set up openly, but as a carpenter who builds kitchens, I can tell you that there are still many customers who do not want their fridges set up openly.
@@michaelkuschnefsky362 Well in that case i guess you're right. But i wanna mention that im speaking from my own experience. Maybe its has something to do with my region/city or other factors. But the last time i saw a kitchen with the fridge like that must have been almost over 15 years and in this time i visited a lot of houses. im not kidding but whatever
@@mwubi Join me there... all my friends and family members have stinky regular fridges too.
these optically cleaned refrigerators are something from the 2000s.
German houses are OLD (100 years is still "relatively new" and in many smaller cities the houses are 200+ years old) ... and thus have existed BEFORE the "flood of clothes". People used to have 2-3 sets of clothes ... and they were stored in a TRUNK, big wooden chests.
Und diese 200+ alten Häuser stehen A) Unter Denkmalschutz und B) sind sie nicht der Standart.
100 jahre sind relativ neu? oO... what the fuck redest du da?
Die meisten Häuser, sind Plattenbauten... und Plattenbauten wurden erst ab den 70Jahren gebaut, dank den türkischen Einwanderern, kam dann der Plattenbau boom.
Alte Häuser sind A) eher in Dörfern zu finden B) ehr selten und C) alles ab 100Jahre steht unter Denkmalschutz.
Ich ahne schon wo du mit der Aussage hin willst.. deutsche Häuser sind viel krasser und ami Häuser sind eh nur aus Pappe - deutsch=Qualität - ami=billig
German houses have more quality.
Look at your houses in the US, one hurricane and bye to your house!
Passiert den voll krass qualitativ hochferigen dEuTsChEn Häusern ebenso.
Weniger Polemik - mehr recherche täten dir evtl. gut.
google einfach: sturmschäden deutschland 2022
Oder erinnere dich ans Ahrtal... wow wat ne krasse quali deutsche Häuse haben, einfach nur widerstandsfähig.
Es kommt auf den Baustil an - NICHT auf das Material!
Wir reden von einer Windgeschwindigkeit von 300+km/h - bei einer Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit zwischen 15-25 km/h -- wie kann man da glauben, das dem Beton, Zement und Ziegel stand halten?
Hast in Physik nicht aufgepasst?
lol not all of them hahaha
This guy only compares his house in germany with american stuff. This is so ignorant.
The problem with "we have LAND" is that this PREVENTS COMMUNITY from being formed ... because you are MUCH further apart. Compare the size of "suburbia houses" from the 50s to the plots they occupy today ... they get bigger and thus PEOPLE ARE FURTHER APART ... and a part of the reason is "building WIDE instead of UP".
This is BAD, because humans NEED communities and the "I have a car" reply is NOT VALID, because your children are further away from friends. *_DIVIDE and CONQUER!_*
Your logic has, at the latest at the point, CITY.
Hundreds of thousands of people and more... and yet the majority are alone, lonely.
When was the last time you said "hello" to someone in a city? It doesn't happen either.
One is many and yet alone.
How can that be? According to you, it really shouldn't be.
Education has little to do with society.
With thousands of people around, who can learn?
There's a reason why universities, schools... tend to be cut off from the outside world.
@@dumontxt9813 I live in a city in Germany and I know and greet all people living in my house (low-rise apartment building) and on my street. My dad talks to oodles of people every time he's out, too. In a German city, you might not speak to everyone, but here in Europe, you speak to the people living close by you meet often. It prevents some loneliness. Plus, we have third places where you can meet people from your neighbourhood easily and connect to them.
Universities and schools are not cut off from the outside world here, either. The campus of the uni I went to is open to everyone to walk around in and most schools are open, too, although you should have a reason for entering them if you're not a student or teacher or other employee (such as in administration).
I personally, as someone who weighs more than 80kg, find it very uncomforting to sit on a toilet that isn't connected to the floor. I have that and a tank in the back. That used to be the standard over here as well. Suddenly I saw all these hip and modern homes pop up with these hanging toilets. There is a also a difference within the toilet itself. With these hanging toilets (Though there are some that are connected to the floor as well), they have it so that the poo falls right into the water and splashes you from below every time. I personally am more of a "not have my anus splashed by poo touched water" type of dude, so I prefer the older styles that have a little step in the bowl where the poo lays until you flush the toilet. So, personally, I enjoy the older toilet bowl styled quite a lot more.
Just put a sheet of TP on the water to avoid the poseidon kiss.
@@lent10Poseidon kiss made me giggle. That was a good one! Well, I don't want to waste extra toilet paper every time I go to the toilet. At some point I might as well have stuck to the toilet I have now.
Built-in wardrobes are of course very practical, but they leave little room for the individuality of the changing residents. We Europeans are very unique in this respect.
In my opinion, the creator of the video generalises some of the details in a German house.
Bathrooms:
For example, toilets do not always look like this. There may still be stand-up toilets for older seniors or in houses where it would not be technically feasible to convert the stand-up toilet into a wall-mounted toilet.
I used to work in a wholesale company for sanitary and heating products. We only had plumbers and heating engineers as customers (for insurance reasons, not all construction work may be carried out by the residents, e.g. with the electrics) and every year there were new models from Villeroy und Boch, Geberit, Duravit, Keramac, Kludi, Viega, Grohe and other manufacturers.
As the toilet is there, the bathroom must have been renovated. But that could have been a little longer ago, because the flush button is a slightly older model than the ones I have at home. The water tank in this model is behind the wall, in a construction that is screwed to the floor and wall and then bricked up with tiles. That looks cleaner. The advantage is that you have a small shelf at the top for various utensils.
As far as washing up is concerned, not much has changed. The wall-mounted toilet has only changed the position of the drain. But that also depends on the model. There are so-called shallow flushers and deep flushers.
Flat-flush toilets have the drain at the front of the toilet, while deep-flush toilets like the model shown in the video have the drain at the back.
Low-flush toilets are more efficient in water use because less water is needed to drain. Low flushes are still used more often in hospitals because doctors sometimes need to take a stool sample and this makes it easier to collect it.
Meanwhile, there are also models without an inner rim (where the water is distributed all around and then flows downwards), which would favour bacteria. Without this additional rim, the toilet simply looks like a bowl with a hole in it.
As for the bathtub, it is more common in flats and not so much in houses. The bathtubs in new buildings tend to be larger. Sometimes we have also delivered bathtubs with whirlpool capability that were around 1.5 x 1.5 metres in size.
As far as the houses are concerned, it always varies. I have two houses. One is an apartment building with two flats.
The other house is an old 200-year-old farmhouse built by my great-great-great-grandparents.
It is one of the few farmhouses here in northern Germany that still has a reed roof.
The hallway is central, more or less the same as in a flat nowadays, with all the rooms leading off from it, with the difference that the hallway is 10 metres long and about 5 metres wide.
Whereas in the apartment building across the street, the toilet is right next to the bedroom in one flat, in the farmhouse the bedroom and toilet are at the other end of the hallway.
But not all farmhouses are the same. My farmhouse has the barn where the cows were milked at the front of the building, which is separated from the living quarters by a door.
At my cousin's, who lives a few metres away, it's completely different. There, the farmhouse is just the living quarters, while next door there is a separate part, the barn, where the cows live. But he also has two large halls behind the house, where about 600 cows have plenty of space.
i have absolutely no idea why there are so few or no integrated cabinets in germany. super practical and everyone needs a cabinet. the stupid ikea things never fit exactly and you have gaps on the wall that are hard (useful)to fill
The thing with a wardrobe is that its way more flexible than a fixed one. So you can use the room more individually. Germany has many renter's
@@kueppi96 thats true. good point
@@kueppi96 That's exactly the advantage, but it makes my wife have to completely rearrange the furniture every few months ;-))
@@wallerwolf6930 it is what it is 😅