Walt Disney World has actually had a centralised rubbish disposal system since it opened in 1971! The rubbish bins around the Magic Kingdom lead to a waste vac system that sounds a lot like the one described in the video -- except that having been designed in 1971, it only has one option for waste, not separate options for different types of recycling.
@@ZeddZul living in Canad, those really caught my ttention too! Genius solution to our outdoor weather! No idea why a similar idea hasn't at least been: "trialed" in a few areas...
Finnish apartments are so great! I love that they seem to care not just about aesthetics, but also accessibility and optimization of space. Thanks for showing us!
For sure! And as mentioned in the video, this was an example of a building that was finished in 2012 so its really new. There are pretty huge differences between new and old buildings specifically in terms of how space is used. I really like these new kinds of solutions because they make living so much nicer 👍
@@egads2 They are. Apartments in Finland are often small. And I don't know what people are saying about accessibility. I used a stroller throughout a major city there and thought about how it would be horrible to be in a wheelchair there. You wouldn't be able to go to a lot of stores, restaurants, and apartments.
The drying cabinet is a dream come true. I'm building my house next year and this is definitely going to be installed. I hate plates and pots laying on counters
@@vickynicoll3045 a dishwasher is not practical for me . I live in an Asian country. We cook a lot of curries for a single meal with so much aroma and strong flavours. Dishwasher is not enough to remove all the staining and strong smells. So I prefer doing them manually
One of the most interesting things I found when living in Helsinki was the ceiling light fixtures. It is not common here (us) to take your ceiling lights with you because installing them requires an electrician. In Finland swapping a ceiling light is trival. like plugging it in and attaching the hook
That's nothing. An Englishman told me it's normal to buy a "new" apartment in the UK and have to install everything. Why? Because the previous owner ripped out everything. And by that, I mean he/she didn't unscrew the fixtures, they tore them out. I went home after chatting with him and browsed online for apartments in London/Westminster. Yes, he was serious. Everything had been torn out: the carpet, the light switches, you name it. The worst was one room where the previous owner tore out the STAIRCASE. How he did it, I have no fucking idea.
@@jebise1126 i guess that there are small rechargeable buffer batteries together with the electronics of the locks, and thus you only get problems on very extended power outages which are generally not very common in europe.
That was the one thing I noticed when I visited the UK, that garbage bags and containers were out on the sidewalks where people walk.. Americans would love to see this type of recycling systems in our cities.
@@kathysyphrit5713 this was made worse with the pandemic and longer pick up times, garbage and recycling rubbish everywhere. Also, most local councils still lump all recyclables together rather than as separated. (This is available but not as widely).
@@ange_109 It is for us to separate waste that is recyclable, why would the local Council bother when they can get the people to do that "for free"! I never actually saw very much that hasn't been in use somewhere in the UK over the last however many decades, apart from the sauna's which are not unheard of and the dish drainer then I can't really say I ain't seen any of these things before, the rubbish thing was great but not exactly relating to the title of the video.
@@redlioness6627 the citizens separate it, but some areas put plastic and metal together, for example. I fully expect that some areas separate the recycling for the theatre of it, then put it all in the same container to China
@@stevecarter8810 And that's another thing! Let's all be "environmentally friendly" by recycling and then ship all of the waste half way around the World.
As a Canadian, at first I was like "double glazed windows, yeah yeah we have that too...." but then I saw how the windows look, and.... that's cool, but also super weird. We have double glazing (and occasionally triple), but the two (or three) pieces of glass are like a few millimeters apart, the gap between is filled with a gas that doesn't conduct heat as well, and the two panes are sealed and mounted together and move as tho they are one thick pane. The way you Finns do it looks really cool, I wonder what the advantages/disadvantages are compared to our system. For one, we only have to clean two sides, versus your four sides, I guess that's something. You could probably put a plant or decorations in between the two panes tho, that could be neat. We also have double doors on our old houses, back when we only had wooden doors, but now with newer insulated doors, most new houses only have one door, maybe also a screen door on the outside.
Yeah, I think the exact point what surprises foreigners about Finnish windows is that it's almost always two frames of windows with their own hinges. In this video the window has three layers: the inner frame has double-glazed gas-filled insulating window and the outer frame has a singular sheet of glass. This is probably the most common combination, but 3+1 and 2+2 combinations also exist where the inner frame has always this gas-filled insulating window. I think one benefit could be that the outer frame protects the usually more expensive inner frame from harsh weather and accidents, but this indeed means that there are 4 surfaces to clean.
Yeh I was thinking the exact same thing. In Australia we have double and triple glazed windows to help insulate against the heat, protect from fires and keep warm in the few areas that actually get cold. The glass panels, once installed, just look like extra thick windows as they are set into a single thick frame a cm or so apart.
Totally agree. I love the double layered windows and wish I had them here in the UK. Great for condensation control as the inner space I've seen had a small drain line, I have had them when staying for work up in the arctic and you really notice how much they work at -40 deg C. 2+2 is the most common I've seen.
dude, i am from canada and i am surprised you never seen windows like in the video all over the place... you never seen them in commercial buildings or homes ?????!
wooden doors? rly in old buildings wow.. fascinating.. in our buildings that are 50 years old (in west asia) we have steel doors for the entrance door & only wooden doors for room doors inside. feels weird to hear that there were wooden doors still in usage as front doors O: like ppl didnt think of safety in old houses?
@@jguenther3049 yes, i noticed old houses are usually like that. my current home is the same. but my new house have the sink designed against the wall so it should be possible
We hang all our clothes. We hang them in a hallway that has the furnace at the end of the hallway so it’s warm enough to dry the clothes relatively fast. We hang tension rods (shower curtain rods) across the hall and hang clothes on hangers.the only things that go in the dryer are bedding and towels. Works like a charm.
I also take advantage of drying rods instead of using a dryer. I know that it increases the humidity in my house, as well as saving electricity. I hadn't thought about the fact that not using the dryer will make your clothes last longer, but that's another benefit from air drying laundry.
@@davebeach2343 Yes, your clothes will definitely last a lot longer. I do the same as the OP--the only things I use the dryer for are bedding & towels/washcloths. My clothes go out of style before they ever wear out :)
They usually have a sticker on the hinge side that states time in minutes that the door is rated for. In example EI30 is 30 minutes, EI60 is 60 minutea and so on. You get my point.👍
Double doors are not allowed to build for new builds anymore. New regulations are followed in building that have applied building permit beginning of 2020 or later.
Just to add to Nea's comment: apparently a fire can cause such a big difference in air pressure, that the inner door can be very difficult to pull open (easier to push open from the outside), which could cause someone to be trapped in a burning building. So, that's why double doors are not allowed anymore.
I have never seen a front door in the UK which did not shut "automatically". You can flick a knob to stop the door locking but every one of my relatives in the UK has a front door that you pull shut and it locks.
Very well described. I'd add the following nice features 1) big windows (in general) 2) fresh air vents above the window 3) handheld bidet (the small shower attached to the bathroom sink) 4) the thing for washing dishes -- 5:37 hanging from the dryer cupboard 5) nametags on doors 6) coffee machines as standard everywhere 7) second-hand culture (Buy&Sell groups, Kierrätyskeskus etc.) 8) snow brush (to get the snow off the shoes quickly)
We also have all those things in Slovenia. Duble glass windows, automatic locks, drying cabinet, drying rack. New houses usually have thermopan glass windows (basically 2-3 glass with insulation gas in between).
Greetings Slovene lady, I am married to someone who has relatives in your beautiful country and also, his father is from Rogaska Slatina. Lovely country, would love to visit again.
I just wanna warn you, especially in student apartments, your bike can still get stolen from the storage: tenant turnover is really high unlike in a regular building where many people own the apartments or live long term, so there can be some suspicious students living in student apartments and then disappear along with your bike. So get a damn good lock on your bike (bike theft is super common in a lot of Finnish cities in general) and if you have over a 1000€ bike just keep it in your apartment if you can. Also have a home insurance that covers bike theft.
Definitely keep an eye on the storages and their doors. In the recent weeks several doors to our building have been deliberately left open by someone - they put heavy stones between the metal doors to the cage storage and bike storage to keep them open so basically anyone could walk in. Definitely suspicious - even though it may not always be thieves but outsiders coming in to loiter and do drugs. If you see doors to these spaces left open, close them. No key, no business at all being in the bike/cage storage!
When I immigrated to Australia from Finland I couldn't believe there wasn't a drying cabinet for washed dishes in the kitchen. Something that I still don't have and miss it. :-)
@@fleaniswerkhardt4647 yep - we just need to replace the window above the kitchen sink with a wall first...Here there is always a window above the sink for some reason...maybe to get more light in and to see outside. Always been wondering about that.
@@shastabare6026 yep, it would be easy to make - but if you want it above a sink, there is usually (all the places I have lived in here) a window instead a wall or a cabinet above the sink.
The only problem is that a lot of people have the kitchen sink in front of a window so, its impossible to put a cabinet on the wall above the sink! This is very common in GB
There are actually three layers of window glass on those windows. In the inside frame there is the double layer thermal glass and in the outside frame a normal one layer window glass.
@@amc8409 I only realized the that there were 2 actual windows when he opened it. They way he said it I thought he was speaking about one window with regular double/triple glazing, which is fairly common all over Europe.
Towels are also much better dried on the rack. Yes, you’d give up the soft and plushy for a bit rougher, but it absorbs the water off your skin much better.
I feel you, about the cold. There are good laws where I live for new builds. The odd thing is that in truly old buildings you find 200 year old fireplaces that can truly warm an entire home. Fireplaces in the middle of the house, brick that will radiate heat, and can stay at 55-60 F all day (you weren't going to freeze! And just wear a lot of clothes!)
I love the older houses! Not only smart-placement fireplaces in the center of the house, but lots of built-in storage & amazing quality in workmanship. Real tile, real wood, even wooden ceilings! And kitchen cabinets built up to the ceiling! No dusty, greasy dead space up there. Houses built these days are all drywall (even the bathrooms) & vinyl, with fiberglass showers, giant ugly bathtubs in all the master bathrooms, & a blank wall to look at while you wash dishes. And the ceilings are drywall with nasty popcorn mess sprayed all over them to cover the cheap & ugly. Can you tell I've been looking at lots of houses? Lol! I've been house-shopping :)
@@JamieM470 There is much good and much bad in both new and old homes. With new homes you know what you're getting and you won't have major issues for awhile. But the better old growth woods and superb craftsmanship in old homes can't be done anymore. New homes have insulation, double-pane windows, and sealants which simply didn't exist in old times. Old homes were generally built to work with the environment instead of trying to beat it into submission. The ideal would be to incorporate the best of both old and new, but building codes prevent you from doing that. If you're house-shopping and considering old homes too, you need some very deep knowledge of them to avoid what can be major issues, but if none of those are present you can have something really special which will endure as long as you maintain it. I've got half a lifetime in working on old houses and truly understand them whereas few modern carpenters and home inspectors do. If you can't find an old fart like me to help you, then stick with new homes- at least you'll know what you have.
It´s actually triple. double glass is so 60´s or early 70´s. outer glass is just to keep raindrops out and bit of insulation purposes cos area between glasses is ventilated. inner glass is made of 2 glass panels, special insulation gas between them.
Thanks Esa for this interesting piece of information! I actually had no idea about this but now that you mentioned it and i took a new look at our windows, i can clearly see what you are talking about 👍
Finally a place where they seem to care about acoustic insulation! I wonder how they build walls and ceiling slabs to provide good acoustic insulation between units/apartments! Is it any different from how they do it in other countries? I would really appreciate any info/links. Really liked most of the other ideas as well in the video.
I was hoping there is something more specific (like if there is a material layer order in the walls/floors that's meant to reduce noise from a neighboring apartment or footstep noise), but thanks for the answer nonetheless!
@@9xqspx6 Apart from rare exceptions, apartment buildings in Finland are built from concrete, and walls between homes are weight-carrying concrete, with just paint on top of it. There are regulations on required sound insulation on corridor doors, walls between homes, etc. and maximum background noise levels in various spaces. I don't believe these have really changed much over the decades, but it may be that especially after less-than-stellar repairs of cheaper apartment buildings or questionable splitting of homes to house more tenants, they occasionally are not fulfilled as well as they should. Regarding walking noise from other homes, I believe there are regulations on how one should perform sound insulation of hardwood floors from the underlying concrete floor (with some sort of softer insulating material). These things definitely work in my case, I basically never hear anything from my neighbours, but I guess they just aren't noisy either.
@@foobar1500 The thing is that noise is transmitted by the walls as well - so even if there is sufficient noise dampening material under a hard wood floor for example, if that hard wood floor is attached to the walls (as it usually is) than that transmits the noise onto the walls and the walls carry it over to the neighboring floors (or even further). That's something one would not think about straight away, but it's often the walls that you hear the noise through, even if it's walking noise. That's why the stairs in stairways are often mounted to the walls through massive rubber blocks. But it's rarely done between the stories/floors of buildings. When I saw the double doors I thought there might be something special with the walls and ceiling slabs as well. I was hoping to learn about technology that I haven't heard about before. :)
@@9xqspx6 To my understanding walls between homes rely on mass of the concrete in practice. It is entirely sufficient unless your neighbours spend their time screaming as loud as they can all the time. On buildings which have particularly large amount of environmental noise the exterior walls might have special solutions, but that's a different situation. In practice this is more than enough if implemented correctly, apart from stuff being dropped on the floor and people chatting in the corridor it is very hard to ever hear on my apartment anything which wouldn't be swamped by (quite unnoticeable) ventilation. I'm confident that any noticeable level of improvement would be overly expensive to implement considering the marginal benefit. (Also, relatively light second door probably gives an improvement of less than 10 dB, which is not necessarily noticeable in real life.) Noises which could be heard through these walls would be such that they'd pose a hearing hazard in the long term to anybody residing near their source...
Maybe you can start implementing some of these ideas and they will spread? We all carry a lot of personal responsibility about what kind of civilization we create. After all society is just the sum of all people, and - well, people are people :)
@@thehighwayman78 There are factors in the way of living standards, unfortunately. Historical, economical, social, infrastructural, geographical, cultural.. etc. Majority still pay for the mistakes of the ruling elite, both in old times and new. The 'new-russian' business types can afford to implement what's shown here and much more. Small minority have the capital, but most don't have means or knowledge to get to that level yet. At lest they have kept most natural habitats unspoiled. Things seem to be steadily improving overall, but in meantime.. Wrap up warm and hope next generations have more to go around.
@@johnwhite2576 The same applies to dishwashers and countertop drying racks. I had one in my apartment when I lived overseas for a decade. The most commonly used dishes tend to live on the drying rack. I miss having one!
@@user-xd6nc6rg7b ah, yes, this is what i wanted to say, those dishes live permanently there, no moving, you just wash and put them in drying cabinets, when you need them you just take them out from there 🤗
In the U.S. we would do well to upgrade to the smart environmental ideas presented here. It would save energy and improve safety and livability. Something to consider.
@@cinemaocd1752 I live just north of you in Manitoba and I've seen a lot of these done. I've also been in a few houses with saunas in the basement which I heard was a Finnish thing too.
We'd do well to do it before it becomes an emergency too. If things get bad enough with weather extremes and fuel shortages, the devices we need will either be sold out or so expensive we can't afford them.
I think cold climates are the mother of invention out of necessity. Living in a hot tropical country as I do, we still dry our clothes outside most of the time because it's so fast, about an hour. Drying clothes inside would increase already terrible humidity. Our windows are open most of the time to catch the breezes so our sinks are usually under windows. Even in winter, double glazing is not necessary. It's too hot to bike everywhere - believe me! It's really interesting.
I live in Louisiana, and all I can think about is mold, mold, mold. Everywhere! These are great solutions to cold climate problems, but they won’t work in hotter climates. I mean, we have saunas, but it’s mostly stepping outside in August. So much moisture you can see the air, and your clothes stick to you in two seconds. This is coupled with not as much rain as the rest of the summer, but results in a massive hurricane at the end of it.
Thanks for pronouncing the Finnish words, it is appreciated! Here in the USA, we could learn an awful lot from Finland. In general, Northern European homes are built to much higher standard than here in the USA. Our Swedish friends lent us their Stockholm apartment for a week and the windows and doors were so much better than anything I have seen here in America. We have a lot of sliding glass doors (sliders) that connect indoor and outdoor spaces. They typically have a small bit of weather stripping and a simple latch. By comparison, the balcony door in Stockholm had triple glass, triple rubber weather stripping and a cam-lock mechanism that pulled the door tightly against the seals, locking out cold and sound. It felt and operated more like an aircraft door than anything else.
I remembered using drying cupboards in Finland and thought they were brilliant but didn't feel like completely remaking my kitchen, so I bought an "over the sink" drying rack for my kitchen. You get the benefits of the drying cupboard without blocking the window and light entirely. It's much easier to use, a lot faster and can hold way more dishes than a traditional drying rack. I often leave my cutting boards and a couple other larger items in it, freeing up space in my cupboards. I'm never going back. Best of both worlds. They're $60-150 USD online and worth every penny
you don't have to remake your kitchen, just cut out or remove the bottom panel from a cupboard or two and replace with metal screening of the type in the video.
@@kmakhlouf4387 Many American homes don't have a cupboard over the sink; just a wall. Lucky people have a window there. I have a wall, but I have a small half-cupboard over the sink.....but the light fixture for that area is on the bottom of that cupboard. I might be able to remove the bottom panel & replace with a rack, but I would probably need an electrician to change the wiring so I could put the light fixture in a different spot.
@@JamieM470 Just have the electrician remove the junction box and work it so you can install strip lighting that would be on the front/back of the open bottom cabinet. The advantage is you can easily find water resistant LED lighting that will work there. I'm sure too that the electrician will ensure you have the appropriate GFI breaker covering that circuit (hopefully it already does) so should water intrude into the wiring, it trips and prevents a shocking experience on your part. You want the shock to be from your guests seeing the cabinet, not you washing your own dishes. ;)
"This being an expensive area; roof saunas are still rare." Bah! Your key and automatic hallway lights made me think that apartment would be 3x as much as mine! Everything there (except the lack of a dishwasher or dryer) just seems smart. Not weird, other than the fact that I've never seen it before, but smart.
@@autumnramble that’s why you wash everything first, you wash away the soap when everything is clean, and then you put them into the drying rack, problem solved!
I actually "invented" this dish drying cabinet idea 20 years ago while studying design in Chile (Where most people DON'T have a dishwasher in their homes). "I think leaving dishes to dry obstructing work space from the kitchen and exposed to dust is stupid." I said. "Your idea is stupid". My colleagues and teachers said. Now I know Finns not only have one of the best educational levels in the world, they also use this same concept, BECAUSE IS A GREAT IDEA! Thanks, I really needed this reafirmation.
I’m sorry, some teachers are really stupid. I feel you, I grew up in a similar system. Anything that goes out of the mediocrity is criticised by mediocrity.
The drying rack is brilliant! If ever I build my own home it’s going in. Also love the bike storage, we need to encourage people to get out of their cars. Better for the environment and for us 🙂.
Bicycles ain't a answer for cities transportation. The public transportation is only way. The public transportation routes should be well designed and prioritized with small transport spaces but often moving (so instead 2 wagon tram in every 20 minutes, make 1 wagon tram every 7-10 minutes). The bicycles are like cars, but just powerless. When you get enough of them, it leads to situation that is just like traffic with cars, just worse as people using bicycle doesn't know the rules so well or obey them. And that leads eventually to traffic where moving with bicycles is not any faster than it was with a car. The real challenge is that there are people who can't use bicycles, be it their disability, age or requirement to transport stuff. This as well leads to situation where goods and other needs to be transported to stores and so on vehicles are still required. And if you mix vehicles and bicycles, it is just cause for accidents and lots of other problems in moving. Bicycles has their places, but larger cities ain't one. And they can't replace the cars. A best scenario is just forget the current city designs and plans, and start making more economical and environmental smaller cities, but connect them. These has been already designed. th-cam.com/video/tKYEXjMlKKQ/w-d-xo.html In Helsinki area it was Raimo Ilaskivi who was parlament member in 62-75 and designed a similar train network ("Helmi Rata") between smaller cities to southern Finland. The Helsinki was to be split to smaller cities, that were connected with main trainlines from the centrum, and then each smaller city was to be connected with local trains for fast movement. Each small city was to be covered with trams and busses so citizens could move easily over the city. The main city (south of Helsinki Harbor) would have the harbor for all traffic export/import and be transported with trains to these smaller cities across the area, and then with small trucks in the small cities itself. The enemy of the economical and environmental well designed city is the free market and democracy where people are against that cities would be build with specifications and each building would have specifications for services and all. Architects do not want to be designing buildings that are just made from specifications, people don't want to live in a buildings that are all looking same, and people don't want to live with a other people that do not belong to same class as they do. Too many opinions, too many whiners, too many dreams and all is destroyed with it, where greed and competition can control everything and eventually destroy everything as no one is requiring them for teamwork or make a rules for them what they can't do.
I would love to have all of this in my condo, especially the drying rack. I also love the recycling system. It beats filling my recycling bin and hauling it out to the street one day a week. I would be able to recycle all the time and get rid of the mess immediately.
Yes, I love that idea, especially for apartments. It would free up storage if you could take the waste down on your way out. Although in my country an outdoor facility would be underused when it rains.
esp. during the winter, I dry lots of clothing overnight on a discreet pull-out line in my apartment to humidify the brutally dry air - wash in the evening, pull out the line, go to bed, bone-dry clothes the next morning. [plus the energy and garment life-span benefits, sure, but mostly the dry air]
I'd love to have the drying dish rack inside a closed cabinet. In France its not unusual to place the drying rack above the sink to gain room at working level, but it's usually an open rack - so unless you are very organised and tidy it can become an eyesore fast. Hiding it inside a cabinet is brilliant.
@@dannycummings2755 yes, although were I live it's more like several hours until they are dry, so it looks messy for at least that long, and you are usually not available at the precise moment they are ready to be put away 😐 So its either the hand wiping with teatowel, or the cluttered open rack. But I agree that in dry climate, the open rack is simple and efficient ! 😊
In so many US kitchens, there is a window over the sink, so there's no way to install a cabinet there. Most people I know would balk at the loss of light and their "view". In an apartment building, of course, it's a different matter, I guess.
I don’t think the keys need to be electric special keys for them to work on all different rooms, you can do that with just regular abloy keys and it is pretty common that you can access storage room, laundry room, common sauna etc. With the same key in Finnish apartment buildings.
Oh you are very much correct, they dont have to be these electric smart keys to open up multiple doors. However, the big plus about the smart keys is that these can be re-coded when the tenant moves out or if you loose the key. So no need to a) ever change any locks or b) to make new keys. As a practical example of why these are really handy not only for the tenants but also for the landlords was during the covid lockdowns. In many student apartments in Finland, we have a lot of shared spaces. Our building has e.g. a shared gym that is free to use for all the tenants. However, during the worst time in the pandemic, all of these spaces were locked to mitigate the spread. Instead of having to keep an eye out on the tenants, or perhaps even chancing locks (which Hoas would not have done anyways), they were simply able to change the code on the gym locks so that only authorised people were able to enter. This kind of ability brings a lot of flexibility and usability to both parties - at least in my opinion 👍
@@TheParisquadrifolia Actually you can. It only has to be done by Abloy-approved locksmiths. This way there no chance that a key is copied for robbery/other purposes.
@@TheParisquadrifolia old mechanical security keys can also not be copied without a written permission from a licence holder (usually house maintainance company or landlord)
Drying cloths inside also adds quite a bit of humidity to the air. In a cold dry climate that gets snow that helps people and pets breathe and helps avoid illnesses. In the summer it’s best to keep a window open to avoid mold.
True. I'm from the South Island of New Zealand and when l lived in ltaly l was astonished to see people had ceramic "vases" to fill with water and hang off radiators to help put some humidity back into the air. We have completely the opposite problem here and in winter we have problems with mold in houses and also need to wipe the windows dry every morning just to be able to see through them.
finnish houses are certainly dry inside. I live in Finland and some of my UK relatives who visited have had trouble breathing thanks to the air being so dry inside my house. I like how towels in the bathroom dry just by hanging them up on a hook though.
Thanks, I love seeing how others do it. Whilst I like the dishes drying above the sink one reason it may not be adopted in Australia is because its a typical design standard to build sinks at a Window so you get lots of natural light and can see the view while washing and preparing.
Just looked at some new builds in Whitehorse, Yukon and the walls were R40, and roof R80. Also, windows were quadruple glazed. I have a coded fob for my office and teaching/research rooms at the university. At home, I have web-based locks and security. Consumer reports ran the numbers, and dishwashers use less energy and water.
The double doors have actually been banned in new buildings because they're a fire safety hazard. They're most common in buildings from the 80's and 90's. These days the builder focus has been to make single doors as insulating as possible.
@@gypsy_haas5869 Nah, the underpressure created between the doors during a fire is a real thing. There's no point inventing conspiracy theories about it. The second door was never a requirement, so no one in the building process would be saving money from leaving it out. On the contrary, the construction companies would be making more for every extra they put in. If they wanted to really nickle and dime the whole thing and maximize their profits, they could sell the second door as an optional extra for every residence individually. But they can't because adding them is now forbidden due to safety reasons.
@@gypsy_haas5869 No, but introducing interior doors also didn't bring them up. Again, those doors were never compulsory, builders could have them or leave them out as they pleased. They didn't need to change any laws for that. But the modern exterior doors are more expensive than they used to be to maintain the required level of insulation, so in terms of profit, I doubt that things have changed one bit.
Fire safety was the first thing I thought about seeing those double doors. Programmed keys are also dangerous. It's way too easy to override or copy those keys.
@@LoriCrabtree31 Nearly all locks in Finland are made by Abloy, which is one of the most secure consumer lock companies in the world. I'm pretty sure that these digital keys are their work, as well. I don't know the specifics about this model, but typically Abloy keys require proprietary hardware to make or modify that is only sold to registered locksmiths. Anything can be hacked, of course, but generally Abloy locks are simpler to smash or bypass than to pick or hack.
In America, when I was young we had a portable dishwasher. It was a free standing unit that hooked up to the kitchen faucet. It was on wheels to roll away and store against a wall or in a closet.
American here. I really like the cages and bicycle rooms. I've lived in similar apartments/dorm/barracks, and instead of a bike room, there was a mud room with special faucets for cleaning dirty items like boots - and bikes. Very useful.
I love the drying rack! I have 2 of them for my home and when I lived in an apartment I even had one that hangs on the back of a door so it wouldn't take up floor space (though it was smaller than the average drying rack). I'm in the US. It's still fairly common for people here to have a clothes line outside too (or at least in rural areas where I live).
In Spain most people use drying racks since it’s always so hot here. Having a dryer isn’t really that common because of it. In my house we haven’t had one for probably almost 10 years now
Very interesting. Love Finnish design. My favorite is the Finnish bathrooms that I've seen. They all have real tile, with a hose type sprayer on the wall and a drain on the floor. You can literally soap up the whole bathroom then spray it down. Impossible in most US homes because of wooden cabinets, drywall walls, & no floor drain. I wish some of these ideas would become popular in the US.
Drain in the bathroom floor is a must! I remember when I was in a hotel with friends in Latvia, one of us went to a shower in the bath. A little later someone come to complain that water was coming through their ceiling - the guy had left the shower curtain outside the bath so a lot of water flowed to the bathroom floor. Waterproof floor with a drain would have saved the day.
@@dannycummings2755 Yeah, usually vinyl tiles. Very different from porcelain, slate, ceramic, etc. Many homes even have carpeting in the bathrooms. (yuck. makes no sense to me)
@@dannycummings2755 Gypsum dry wall. Maybe a tile floor, but no drain. Water on the floor can be a disaster here. Wood quarter-round molding, baseboard molding. Water runs under that into the wall cavity and then ... a mess!
This is what I love about Finland. In the UK, everything is always just a little bit shit. Nothing work properly. But in Finland, everything is so efficient and works exactly the way it was supposed to.
I like how Finnish blinds properly block out sunlight, how some overpasses on the highway have their 'ceiling' painted light blue to mimic a blue sky, and I remember something over the doors to buildings that prevent snow build up from falling on your head.
i guess having daylight for days, or weeks or longer is a good enough reason to invest in proper blinds. Rolladen in Germany and other parts of Europe also block all light.
@@uliwehner yeah the nights in summer are so bright that it can make sleeping absolutely impossible without the blinds, on the other hand during winters some areas never shut down the lights outdoors so they also make sleeping difficult. The street lights by our house for some reason no longer turn off as they used to (all of the other streets are unlit after 10/11pm) and stay on through the entire night and the light hits me straight in the eyes on my pillow through the little holes the string goes through in the blinds, had to tape a strip of paper on the window to stop it
Forgot to mention that many new apartments has their very own sauna for it’s residents which is normal and also that how to unlock those spring locks. Still most typical abloy ones are best way to show it. Locks here themself are something I love so much and don’t understand why no one else uses them. However a moment ago I got rid of that laundry part since I bought new machine that dries clothes same than wash which I love 🥰🥰🥰
Great video, takes me back to my Erasmus year I spent at TKK around 2009. I lived in student building managed by HUAS at Kannelmäki. What a great time it was !
Well, l learned 2 new things from your comment. Googling to learn what an Erasmus year was, (l'm not from Europe) l also learned about backronyms. 😁 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
Fascinating! Europe, or at least Finland, is so ahead of the U.S. in using common sense in constructing living accommodations, at least in urban areas! Thanks for providing such an interesting insight into field! Tom
I live in Australia and I've never seen one of those dishrack cupboards in a house but I'm seriously considering making one for my kitchen now! What a wonderful idea, particularly for kitchens where there is a shortage of benchspace!
Yeah and there is no additional filling of the cupboard after drying the dishes. You just leave them there and take them out directly from the drying rack when you need them.
The dish drying thing is not a Finnish invention. I’ve seen these in Italy Spain Holland Thailand and Australia for decades. Particularly in very old kitchens from before dishwashers were invented. That’s not to say it’s not a good idea As clearly it is.
Well, these have been around here in Finland since the 1940's so the idea could have spread decades ago quite easily anyway. Officially the credit does go to a Finnish inventor and her name was Maiju Gebhard.
I studied in Sweden, and they don't have drying racks there. First time I did the dishes and opened the cupboard I was like, what? Who the heck built this apartment? I ended up removing the shelves, and adding string-shelves. The landlord was perplexed when I moved out and she came to inspect but I won the argument as I claimed it was an improvement and the system before was stupid :)
I first saw dish drying shelves in Russia in Stalin-era apartments. There are some commonalities between Russia, Finland, and/or Germany, so I don't always know which was first. I think we should have dish-drying shelves in the US. I've only seen them when people build their own tiny houses.
So many smart and efficient features in your buildings! I wish that more things were standardized here in the U.S., which would lead to the adoption of many of these principles. I think my favorite thing is the recycling system where the tubes suck the various items into them. I'm ashamed to say that my apartment building in the U.S., constructed in the 1980s and meant for people with some disabilities, does not provide any kind of recycling at all.
This makes me want to move to Finland. American Premium apartments aren't even well thought out like higher end student apartments...Very spacious storages...just in general so much space!
That is because EVERY decision in the US is made by the sole thing US people have valued. Money, specifically "How can we make money ?". And THAT boils down to "What do our few billionaires demand, after all they ought to become richer !" And that is fine, it is your choice to live that way. It certainly seems like the top ten percent tell the rest of you "We live in the best system in the world" . . . and if it suits you workers to believe that . . . well that is great for you, man needs to dream no doubt . . . However, all the European countries have a longer history, and much deeper experience. And we decided 200 years ago to try to correct the economic imbalance that the world has. One part of that, is deliberately and scientifically putting a different value set into place. So our question for public policy is "How can the world be made better ?". ( It is funny, but one way of answering the question is to ask the rich, and do the opposite of what they try to say is true )
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say neither of you have ever actually lived in the states or at least not in more than one area. it varies tremendously depending on what part of the country you're talking about. making broad statements about the standards of apartments in this country is nearly impossible. comparing a luxury apt in say nyc to one in houston or seattle or sf ect is somewhat pointless. from what the apt is like (amenities, sq footage ect) to it's cost all depends on the local market. there were a few clever ideas in this vid but nothing ground breaking or really all that diff from millions of other apartments throughout the world.
@@molliestanton8457 In the midwest, or at least in the two states I've lived in (Ohio and Indiana) double paned windows are standard and we don't have double doors that are actual DOORS, but storm doors are standard. Double paned windows are pretty much going to be standard/a necessity for any region that experiences harsh winters. My apartment was originally built in the 60's, is relatively crappy and cheap, and I have double paned windows and a heavy storm door.
I’ve been living in a HOAS apartment for almost 6 months, but I still cannot get used to a drying rack. So, after cleaning my dishes, I still wipe them with a towel, and only 3-4 sec later I realize that it’s kind of stupid 😹
😅 it takes a bit of getting used to, doesnt it. Having lived for a while in germany in a shared student flat where we had to dry the dishes for 8 people on the counter (because everyone was lazy and didnt want to dry them by hand), i would never go back to that system.
It's probably best to dry most of the water off before putting the dishes on the rack anyway to minimize dampness, the ventilation at Hoas apartments can be awful. I'm the last tenant left in one shared apartment at Hoas where it feels like the air barely gets circulated at all in the space outside my bedroom. Laundry won't dry in the kitchen for two days at least, and unless I have a window open literally 24/7, the apartment is taken over by a pungent smell that I've begun to honestly suspect is coming from some kind of mold somewhere. I couldn't be more glad about the fact that I'm going to have to move out soon anyway.
I think the double front door is a great idea, also your version of double glazing with a much greater space between the panes instead of sealed units.
We had double windows at my home and they were really pain in the ass when we had to clean them. We were so happy when we changed them to modern double glazed windows - it's maybe a third of the work now.
The funny thing is that the separate outer pane is often not completely sealed. It allows for some air to leak through in the seams, at least my windows are like that. I think it has something to do with avoiding fog buildup on the glass.
I think, his double glazing is separated by a vacuum that stops heat escaping but also stops the noise going through. As we learned at 6th grade Physics class, sound travels through solids, liquids and air but it cannot travel through a vacuum. Hence the famous saying "In Space, nobody can hear you scream."
To create vacuum in there, you need to get all the air out of there but that's not happening at all. I am weirded out by all the likes you got. I guess you slept on your 6th grade physics class, lol.
@@Bleiser3 There is no other way to stop noise going through. If you know of any, please, let us know. Vacuum is the reason you don't see enormous double glazing as the air pressure from outside will push the glass towards the vacuum and brake it. Prove me wrong, I dare you!
The inner double glazed units are usually inert gas filled..and coated to control heat loss... But it is the large air gap between the single glazed outer and inner double glazed that suppresses the majority of the noise.
@@clivesmith9377 Ive done it with secondary glazing inside historic single glazed Edwardian progecting V bay windows. With modern high rated double glazed units the new ones are Argon? gas filled and sealed a IR reflective coated to minimize heat loss. But the larger air gap does reduce noise .. try it but i have a number of architecture building books that illustrate it...though the one states the optimum is 50mm to prevent conduction convection heat transfer currents developing in the air void. Thermal bridging across frames is also a design issue, so the frame sections have to incorporate thermal breaks to prevent heat from being lost by conduction.
Gets to the list at about 1:00 1) Double or triple glazing for insulation and sound proofing 2) Double doors, same 3) Door automatically closes and locks 4) Smart electric keys 5) No dishwasher 6) A cupboard is secretly a drying rack for your dishes 7) They have washing machines but drying racks. 8) Shared laundry rooms are becoming more common 9) Saunas in every Finnish Apt. building
That dish drying cabinet blew my mind, and after looking through the other cabinets, I know I'm not the only one. Edit: While living in China, I was introduced to the wonderful idea of drying racks with built in space heaters. These are particularly useful in cities like Hong Kong which have a very high humidity that prevents wet clothes from drying quickly.
One thing i would add is "shower curtain". Usually all showers have rack/rail for it, but it's not included to "apartment".. And everyone will buy which ever color / pattern shower curtain they like.. This seems to be topic foreigners whine about, water spreads everywhere... simply buy shower curtain..
Oh this was an interesting one! Never actually heard people complaining about this but now that you mentioned it, its actually pretty obvious 😅. Thanks for the great addition!
I friggn love Finland - and wish I could speak Finnish but it is too hard to learn. You guys have the smartest living solutions to make it desirable to live there despite the extreme weather conditions.
I find interesting the recycling tubes and having to book an appointment for laundry machines. Like Double windows and doors are energy/heat saving. Cupboard dish racks are wider than sink, I noticed, and water would fall on counter and then floor. Overall video very interesting. Thank you. I am from Toronto Canada. Condominiums her have dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer but apartments don't. Cannot buy and have someone install dishwasher in apartment. We have a laundry room for tenants to put coins in machines and are first come first serve.
water does fall on the counter a bit but it's only a few dishes that are drying so not nearly enough water to be noticeable let alone to get on the floor
So I’m not the only one who thought it sounded odd to have to make an appointment to do my laundry? I’ve always seen “if there’s an open machine, use it.” And US apartments won’t let you install something, either. I had to ask permission to hang pictures on my wall and still got docked during the move-out inspection. I would never install an appliance!
Living in a very old section of my town any of these would be luxuries. The building I live in is about a century old but I would love to see a remodel with a drying rack over the sink. Counter space is a premium and that would make cleanup so much easier. I know it isn't as fancy as the sauna but I am a simple man.
So many great ideas that have been implemented because most of the people care about things (design, environment) and logical thinking is common, unlike here in the states. We could learn a lot from other countries and make the system better.
Great informative video, enjoyed to watch this even as a finn. :) I solved the bathroom space problem by getting a drying washing machine - a washing machine, that also dries the clothes after it has washed them! Which of course saves space but is also handy as you don't need to move wet clothes at all.
Thanks a bunch! Yeah we did the same with my gf. We still use the rack for delicates but its just much easier to dry sheets and other suitable stuff compared to drying them on a wardrobe door or something 😅. Regardless, next place we get has to have enough space for a dryer. Makes the life so much easier in the long term.
@@karyndewit193 It really is clever though. But then maybe when you are doing dishes it maybe like standing in a shower with water dripping down on you.... Not sure lol
actually the air drying of the clothes is not only good for extending their lifespan but a really good way to gently humidify the air in the room that can get really dry when the heating is on in the room.
Finland is a clean country 👌 Half my family lives there. I never saw any trash on the streets. LARGE American cities can learn a lesson. I like the heated floors and the vacuum in the wall. They recycle the water for watering the yard. I found Finns to be very, very practical.
The cabinet for drying and storing dishes, is not a Finnish "invention." I have one in my home in Tuscany which has been there for possibly a century and a half or more. It is called a piattaia. There is no door but the modern ones do have one. Otherwise, lots of great innovations for multiple dwellers.
@@mjlim6610 Not necessarily. Also if those cupboards are made of wood, then the wood will eventually swell with water from the dishes. Even with woods tgat are supposedly treated so as to be water resistant it's still an issue
I LOVE Finland and would move to live there in a heartbeat. I am in Australia. Clever ideas that think ahead for environment, good living and climate. Tax-payer dollars are not wasted on ideas that fail once put into practice. In Australia, we have uninsulated houses, electric or wood heating where the heat escapes the buildings. It is freezing indoors in winter and like and oven in summer. Many people here opt for heat pumps but they malfunction in freezing conditions. Australia is a beautiful country but I prefer Finland, I think my genes are made in Europe.
Awesome set up for drying dishes...I have a dishwasher but I never use it and your recycling tubes..GENIUS that is something that we need in all the new apartment complexes being built here..ty for the tour
Oh the recycling tubes are excellent! I just wish they were more common. Its a rather new technology so it is being implemented mostly in new neighbourhoods where the entire infrastructure is being built from ground-up. However, i really wish this could be built into older neighbourhoods as well. It is not only convenient for the tenants but its also great because we are not reliant on garbage trucks emptying overflowing bins.
Awwww... you have a doggie! You should bring it on the show, I guarantee you'd get even more positive comments. (My BF was from Iceland, and while I know it's not Finland, there's something about the Nordic cultures that is so attractive. :D )
Turnerat, dansband, i Finland. Besöker vänner i Finland. Älskar Finland och dess människor. Ogillar att jag alltid lämnar bastun före mina finska vänner. Övar/tränar.
For my US home, built in 1986, we installed an outdoor clothes drying line. Although it fell apart 3 years ago, & hasn't been replaced, I still dry my clothes on plastic hangers, etc & only dry sheets and towels in a dryer. My clothes last longer and don't shrink. Love the dish dry cabinet and the recycle tubes. Thanks for sharing!
What I remember about (out-side) clothes-line dried clothes is how fresh it smelled. This was in the 60's. It may smell differently today what with all the pollutants in the air but back then it was nice.
@@karenscarselli3395 no, even in recent decades it has that fresh smell. However, I live in a rural area, could be different in NYC. I remember that my MIL was so "proud" of me for having sweet smelling air-dried sheets on the guest bed, when she visited. I grew up with not only a dryer, but a "maid" who did the laundry & cleaned, etc. MIL was always pleased by my frugal ways, despite my "wealthier" upbringing.
I love the Japanese washer/dryers where the single unit that takes up the space of only a washer will both wash and dry your clothes for you. It save space and time!
The main reason you don't need a drying machine in Finland is that almost all homes/apartments built since the 50's have some kind of fan based ventilation system. The clothes will dry and moisture is drawn out of the house by a fan. This makes the inside of the house/apartment incredibly dry. You never see condensation on the inside of people's windows in Finland, unlike in the UK where their houses are really damp inside (and hanging up wet clothes will make things even worse).
Aye, I like them too. Had one. But now I have separate units - takes more spaces, but you can dry clothes while washing another load. It is important if you have three children. Also dedicated dryers work better (my observation). I HATE having drying racks in apartment. It is ugly and takes too much space.
The weird thing about the lack of dryers is that the dryer takes up less space than the drying rack, especially given that the drying rack he showed wouldn't even hold a single load of laundry.
@@ctrlz4439 Yeah a single unit wouldn't work well for all the laundry kids create. I'm not against drying racks but they are very hard to find and buy in my country (US) so I only use my shower rod to hang dry delicates that can't be in a dryer. It's really helpful to know condenser dryers don't work as well as the normal kind!
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The first thing I noticed was that the common hallway has motion-activated lights instead of being left on all the time. I love that!
my uni in the uk has that, blew my mind that id never considered such a great idea, glad to see finland has the same idea as well :)
Yes, I love this too
I just love the dish drying cabinet, and cannot understand why the rest of the world has not adopted it!!
they're really common in Poland, Bulgaria and Lithuania too :)
Because we use discwasher
Russia has))
Every Estonian kitchen has it
@@Diamond-vg4ep We have those in Finland too, obviously. But everything that you have in your kitchen can't be put into one...
I love the recycling tubes. That is an in genius way of taking care of trash.
No, but it is ingenious.
Walt Disney World has actually had a centralised rubbish disposal system since it opened in 1971! The rubbish bins around the Magic Kingdom lead to a waste vac system that sounds a lot like the one described in the video -- except that having been designed in 1971, it only has one option for waste, not separate options for different types of recycling.
Effing love that system. So cool. Also loved the double doors
@@randomcommenterfromdownund8949 it could be retrofitted...
@@ZeddZul living in Canad, those really caught my ttention too! Genius solution to our outdoor weather! No idea why a similar idea hasn't at least been: "trialed" in a few areas...
Finnish apartments are so great! I love that they seem to care not just about aesthetics, but also accessibility and optimization of space. Thanks for showing us!
For sure! And as mentioned in the video, this was an example of a building that was finished in 2012 so its really new. There are pretty huge differences between new and old buildings specifically in terms of how space is used. I really like these new kinds of solutions because they make living so much nicer 👍
"they seem to care not just about aesthetics"..... Well, you can't put lipstick on a pig.
I recently have a Tiny House Im finishing. This video is inspiring me to coat my windows with a glaze and build a drying rack. Thanks!
@@egads2 They are. Apartments in Finland are often small. And I don't know what people are saying about accessibility. I used a stroller throughout a major city there and thought about how it would be horrible to be in a wheelchair there. You wouldn't be able to go to a lot of stores, restaurants, and apartments.
The drying cabinet is a dream come true. I'm building my house next year and this is definitely going to be installed. I hate plates and pots laying on counters
We accomplish a wash and dry 'cupboard ' using a dishwasher
@@vickynicoll3045 a dishwasher is not practical for me . I live in an Asian country. We cook a lot of curries for a single meal with so much aroma and strong flavours. Dishwasher is not enough to remove all the staining and strong smells. So I prefer doing them manually
@Alexander Franke You can still have a drying cupboard over the draining board, plus the window in front of the sink.
IKR? I'm so with you! I always gave stacks of dishes hanging around and it's not aesthetically pleasing in any sense.
It seems like it would make the kitchen wet.
One of the most interesting things I found when living in Helsinki was the ceiling light fixtures. It is not common here (us) to take your ceiling lights with you because installing them requires an electrician. In Finland swapping a ceiling light is trival. like plugging it in and attaching the hook
That sounds coolissimo!
That's nothing. An Englishman told me it's normal to buy a "new" apartment in the UK and have to install everything. Why? Because the previous owner ripped out everything. And by that, I mean he/she didn't unscrew the fixtures, they tore them out. I went home after chatting with him and browsed online for apartments in London/Westminster. Yes, he was serious. Everything had been torn out: the carpet, the light switches, you name it. The worst was one room where the previous owner tore out the STAIRCASE. How he did it, I have no fucking idea.
@@largol33t1 🤯 That sounds nuts.
Is anyone else still waiting on the "Weird?"
I've got a whole list of inspiration for my own home though.
Yes, nothing strange here at all.
Exactly, weird implies things that aren't useful to a majority of people.
weird were the keys when you lost electricity
@@jebise1126 i guess that there are small rechargeable buffer batteries together with the electronics of the locks,
and thus you only get problems on very extended power outages which are generally not very common in europe.
@@Anson_AKB europe is big... and very different
From the UK - I'm impressed by how sophisticated and clutter free the recycling solutions are.
That was the one thing I noticed when I visited the UK, that garbage bags and containers were out on the sidewalks where people walk.. Americans would love to see this type of recycling systems in our cities.
@@kathysyphrit5713 this was made worse with the pandemic and longer pick up times, garbage and recycling rubbish everywhere. Also, most local councils still lump all recyclables together rather than as separated. (This is available but not as widely).
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It is for us to separate waste that is recyclable, why would the local Council bother when they can get the people to do that "for free"!
I never actually saw very much that hasn't been in use somewhere in the UK over the last however many decades, apart from the sauna's which are not unheard of and the dish drainer then I can't really say I ain't seen any of these things before, the rubbish thing was great but not exactly relating to the title of the video.
@@redlioness6627 the citizens separate it, but some areas put plastic and metal together, for example. I fully expect that some areas separate the recycling for the theatre of it, then put it all in the same container to China
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And that's another thing!
Let's all be "environmentally friendly" by recycling and then ship all of the waste half way around the World.
As a Canadian, at first I was like "double glazed windows, yeah yeah we have that too...." but then I saw how the windows look, and.... that's cool, but also super weird. We have double glazing (and occasionally triple), but the two (or three) pieces of glass are like a few millimeters apart, the gap between is filled with a gas that doesn't conduct heat as well, and the two panes are sealed and mounted together and move as tho they are one thick pane. The way you Finns do it looks really cool, I wonder what the advantages/disadvantages are compared to our system. For one, we only have to clean two sides, versus your four sides, I guess that's something. You could probably put a plant or decorations in between the two panes tho, that could be neat.
We also have double doors on our old houses, back when we only had wooden doors, but now with newer insulated doors, most new houses only have one door, maybe also a screen door on the outside.
Yeah, I think the exact point what surprises foreigners about Finnish windows is that it's almost always two frames of windows with their own hinges. In this video the window has three layers: the inner frame has double-glazed gas-filled insulating window and the outer frame has a singular sheet of glass. This is probably the most common combination, but 3+1 and 2+2 combinations also exist where the inner frame has always this gas-filled insulating window. I think one benefit could be that the outer frame protects the usually more expensive inner frame from harsh weather and accidents, but this indeed means that there are 4 surfaces to clean.
Yeh I was thinking the exact same thing. In Australia we have double and triple glazed windows to help insulate against the heat, protect from fires and keep warm in the few areas that actually get cold. The glass panels, once installed, just look like extra thick windows as they are set into a single thick frame a cm or so apart.
Totally agree. I love the double layered windows and wish I had them here in the UK. Great for condensation control as the inner space I've seen had a small drain line, I have had them when staying for work up in the arctic and you really notice how much they work at -40 deg C. 2+2 is the most common I've seen.
dude, i am from canada and i am surprised you never seen windows like in the video all over the place... you never seen them in commercial buildings or homes ?????!
wooden doors? rly in old buildings wow.. fascinating.. in our buildings that are 50 years old (in west asia) we have steel doors for the entrance door & only wooden doors for room doors inside. feels weird to hear that there were wooden doors still in usage as front doors O: like ppl didnt think of safety in old houses?
the drying cabinet is so genius. i’ll def asked a carpenter to do the same thing when i build my house
Your carpenter will probably point out that the drying cabinets go where traditionally a window is located.
@@jguenther3049 yes, i noticed old houses are usually like that. my current home is the same. but my new house have the sink designed against the wall so it should be possible
ikea has them
Me too man
@@Enne- There are glasses and mugs drying on an upper rack in the video.
We hang all our clothes. We hang them in a hallway that has the furnace at the end of the hallway so it’s warm enough to dry the clothes relatively fast. We hang tension rods (shower curtain rods) across the hall and hang clothes on hangers.the only things that go in the dryer are bedding and towels. Works like a charm.
Lol. I thought I was the only person in the world that does this. It works great.
And jeans go in the dryer too?
I also take advantage of drying rods instead of using a dryer. I know that it increases the humidity in my house, as well as saving electricity. I hadn't thought about the fact that not using the dryer will make your clothes last longer, but that's another benefit from air drying laundry.
@@davebeach2343 Yes, your clothes will definitely last a lot longer. I do the same as the OP--the only things I use the dryer for are bedding & towels/washcloths. My clothes go out of style before they ever wear out :)
When I air dry some things, they just get wrinkly. Other things air dry fine, though.
Will adopt the drying cabinet and sauna. Love the recycling tubes, they should be adopted worldwide for improved recycling.!
Double doors are also for fire safety to slow down the fire and smoke from spreading
Thats a really good point Aukusti! Totally forgot to mention that. Thanks for filling in the information 👍
They usually have a sticker on the hinge side that states time in minutes that the door is rated for. In example EI30 is 30 minutes, EI60 is 60 minutea and so on. You get my point.👍
Double doors are not allowed to build for new builds anymore. New regulations are followed in building that have applied building permit beginning of 2020 or later.
Just to add to Nea's comment: apparently a fire can cause such a big difference in air pressure, that the inner door can be very difficult to pull open (easier to push open from the outside), which could cause someone to be trapped in a burning building. So, that's why double doors are not allowed anymore.
@@SamiKankaristo thank you for the explanation.👍☺️
As a real estate agent in America I love this video! The auto locking doors, dish drying cabinet and double glazed windows are awesome!!
Yes… America 🇺🇸 needs to learn a lot of things, world has to offer…. They need to keep an open mind
I have never seen a front door in the UK which did not shut "automatically". You can flick a knob to stop the door locking but every one of my relatives in the UK has a front door that you pull shut and it locks.
@@richard-riku True. There is also double glazing in UK windows.
Funny how the dish drying cabinet was invented by an american and you, together with the british, are the ones not even know about the existence of it
@@persimoncino We had a dish drying rack growing up and I have one in my house now.
Very well described. I'd add the following nice features
1) big windows (in general)
2) fresh air vents above the window
3) handheld bidet (the small shower attached to the bathroom sink)
4) the thing for washing dishes -- 5:37 hanging from the dryer cupboard
5) nametags on doors
6) coffee machines as standard everywhere
7) second-hand culture (Buy&Sell groups, Kierrätyskeskus etc.)
8) snow brush (to get the snow off the shoes quickly)
We also have all those things in Slovenia. Duble glass windows, automatic locks, drying cabinet, drying rack. New houses usually have thermopan glass windows (basically 2-3 glass with insulation gas in between).
Dober dan 😊 I live in Slovenia and have never seen the drying rack. Lep večer in lahko noč
@@hectorskmetija3015 My mother has one. But maybe is more common in Primorska region. When I was living in Kranj, nobody knew what that is. :/
Greetings Slovene lady, I am married to someone who has relatives in your beautiful country and also, his father is from Rogaska Slatina. Lovely country, would love to visit again.
Like we in Poland. Maybe except the self closing locks. I wish my landlord haven't removed the second doors 🤣
In Romania too!!
I just wanna warn you, especially in student apartments, your bike can still get stolen from the storage: tenant turnover is really high unlike in a regular building where many people own the apartments or live long term, so there can be some suspicious students living in student apartments and then disappear along with your bike. So get a damn good lock on your bike (bike theft is super common in a lot of Finnish cities in general) and if you have over a 1000€ bike just keep it in your apartment if you can. Also have a home insurance that covers bike theft.
Definitely keep an eye on the storages and their doors. In the recent weeks several doors to our building have been deliberately left open by someone - they put heavy stones between the metal doors to the cage storage and bike storage to keep them open so basically anyone could walk in. Definitely suspicious - even though it may not always be thieves but outsiders coming in to loiter and do drugs. If you see doors to these spaces left open, close them. No key, no business at all being in the bike/cage storage!
But if the bike is old and it gets stolen you wont get much back from it. I'm not saying not to get the insurance.
I've kept the bike in my apartment when I've lived in the city.
@@mariaenroth7058 Ditto
It's like that in some big city university student housing as well.
When I immigrated to Australia from Finland I couldn't believe there wasn't a drying cabinet for washed dishes in the kitchen. Something that I still don't have and miss it. :-)
I live in Australia, I've never seen one before and I already miss it!! Genius. But such an easy diy renovation.
Finns are great with woodworking - why not make one?
@@fleaniswerkhardt4647 yep - we just need to replace the window above the kitchen sink with a wall first...Here there is always a window above the sink for some reason...maybe to get more light in and to see outside. Always been wondering about that.
@@shastabare6026 yep, it would be easy to make - but if you want it above a sink, there is usually (all the places I have lived in here) a window instead a wall or a cabinet above the sink.
The only problem is that a lot of people have the kitchen sink in front of a window so, its impossible to put a cabinet on the wall above the sink! This is very common in GB
There are actually three layers of window glass on those windows. In the inside frame there is the double layer thermal glass and in the outside frame a normal one layer window glass.
Suaki näkee tääl haha :D Muistan sut ylä asteelt
He said that.
It‘s called secondary glazing supposedly cheaper than triple glazing. But from the 5th century BC.😂😂
@@amc8409 I only realized the that there were 2 actual windows when he opened it. They way he said it I thought he was speaking about one window with regular double/triple glazing, which is fairly common all over Europe.
That’s what he said
Interesting! Hanging your clothes inside your apartment also humidifies the home making breathing easier in such a dry, winter climate.
Sundrying or those drying racks are very common all across Europe. I’m from Spain and I have one of those at home.
I live in the US and have a drying rack for all my nice clothes I don't want to put in the dryer. Also good for when the dryer goes out.
@@HandsongPeople Yep. I live in Poland and use the drying racks often. In fact, I have four.
Towels are also much better dried on the rack. Yes, you’d give up the soft and plushy for a bit rougher, but it absorbs the water off your skin much better.
Really not a good thing in humid climates and in basements in moderately humid climates.
I feel you, about the cold. There are good laws where I live for new builds. The odd thing is that in truly old buildings you find 200 year old fireplaces that can truly warm an entire home. Fireplaces in the middle of the house, brick that will radiate heat, and can stay at 55-60 F all day (you weren't going to freeze! And just wear a lot of clothes!)
I love the older houses! Not only smart-placement fireplaces in the center of the house, but lots of built-in storage & amazing quality in workmanship. Real tile, real wood, even wooden ceilings! And kitchen cabinets built up to the ceiling! No dusty, greasy dead space up there.
Houses built these days are all drywall (even the bathrooms) & vinyl, with fiberglass showers, giant ugly bathtubs in all the master bathrooms, & a blank wall to look at while you wash dishes. And the ceilings are drywall with nasty popcorn mess sprayed all over them to cover the cheap & ugly.
Can you tell I've been looking at lots of houses? Lol! I've been house-shopping :)
@@JamieM470 There is much good and much bad in both new and old homes. With new homes you know what you're getting and you won't have major issues for awhile. But the better old growth woods and superb craftsmanship in old homes can't be done anymore. New homes have insulation, double-pane windows, and sealants which simply didn't exist in old times. Old homes were generally built to work with the environment instead of trying to beat it into submission. The ideal would be to incorporate the best of both old and new, but building codes prevent you from doing that.
If you're house-shopping and considering old homes too, you need some very deep knowledge of them to avoid what can be major issues, but if none of those are present you can have something really special which will endure as long as you maintain it. I've got half a lifetime in working on old houses and truly understand them whereas few modern carpenters and home inspectors do. If you can't find an old fart like me to help you, then stick with new homes- at least you'll know what you have.
It´s actually triple. double glass is so 60´s or early 70´s. outer glass is just to keep raindrops out and bit of insulation purposes cos area between glasses is ventilated. inner glass is made of 2 glass panels, special insulation gas between them.
Thanks Esa for this interesting piece of information! I actually had no idea about this but now that you mentioned it and i took a new look at our windows, i can clearly see what you are talking about 👍
its usually argon
I came across your video quite by accident, and am thoroughly enjoying learning about Finnish society and culture. Thank you!
Finally a place where they seem to care about acoustic insulation! I wonder how they build walls and ceiling slabs to provide good acoustic insulation between units/apartments! Is it any different from how they do it in other countries? I would really appreciate any info/links.
Really liked most of the other ideas as well in the video.
Thick and heavy enough walls. Heat insulation is the main reason in Finland which also helps with acoustic insulation as a side thing.
I was hoping there is something more specific (like if there is a material layer order in the walls/floors that's meant to reduce noise from a neighboring apartment or footstep noise), but thanks for the answer nonetheless!
@@9xqspx6 Apart from rare exceptions, apartment buildings in Finland are built from concrete, and walls between homes are weight-carrying concrete, with just paint on top of it. There are regulations on required sound insulation on corridor doors, walls between homes, etc. and maximum background noise levels in various spaces. I don't believe these have really changed much over the decades, but it may be that especially after less-than-stellar repairs of cheaper apartment buildings or questionable splitting of homes to house more tenants, they occasionally are not fulfilled as well as they should. Regarding walking noise from other homes, I believe there are regulations on how one should perform sound insulation of hardwood floors from the underlying concrete floor (with some sort of softer insulating material). These things definitely work in my case, I basically never hear anything from my neighbours, but I guess they just aren't noisy either.
@@foobar1500 The thing is that noise is transmitted by the walls as well - so even if there is sufficient noise dampening material under a hard wood floor for example, if that hard wood floor is attached to the walls (as it usually is) than that transmits the noise onto the walls and the walls carry it over to the neighboring floors (or even further). That's something one would not think about straight away, but it's often the walls that you hear the noise through, even if it's walking noise. That's why the stairs in stairways are often mounted to the walls through massive rubber blocks. But it's rarely done between the stories/floors of buildings.
When I saw the double doors I thought there might be something special with the walls and ceiling slabs as well. I was hoping to learn about technology that I haven't heard about before. :)
@@9xqspx6 To my understanding walls between homes rely on mass of the concrete in practice. It is entirely sufficient unless your neighbours spend their time screaming as loud as they can all the time. On buildings which have particularly large amount of environmental noise the exterior walls might have special solutions, but that's a different situation. In practice this is more than enough if implemented correctly, apart from stuff being dropped on the floor and people chatting in the corridor it is very hard to ever hear on my apartment anything which wouldn't be swamped by (quite unnoticeable) ventilation. I'm confident that any noticeable level of improvement would be overly expensive to implement considering the marginal benefit. (Also, relatively light second door probably gives an improvement of less than 10 dB, which is not necessarily noticeable in real life.) Noises which could be heard through these walls would be such that they'd pose a hearing hazard in the long term to anybody residing near their source...
I wish I was born in Finland, not in Russia. Thank you! You showed me how REAL civilization works in the same climatic conditions.
Maybe you can start implementing some of these ideas and they will spread? We all carry a lot of personal responsibility about what kind of civilization we create. After all society is just the sum of all people, and - well, people are people :)
@@thehighwayman78 There are factors in the way of living standards, unfortunately. Historical, economical, social, infrastructural, geographical, cultural.. etc. Majority still pay for the mistakes of the ruling elite, both in old times and new. The 'new-russian' business types can afford to implement what's shown here and much more.
Small minority have the capital, but most don't have means or knowledge to get to that level yet. At lest they have kept most natural habitats unspoiled. Things seem to be steadily improving overall, but in meantime..
Wrap up warm and hope next generations have more to go around.
I like the dish drying racks. An Idea that could be used in Rv's in the USA.
And a lot of apartments in less humid parts of the country. I had my share of apartments with small kitchens & no dishwasher.
But thsi requires TWO transfers- once dry you ahve to move them to designated cabinet/organization
I love the dish drying racks!!
@@johnwhite2576 The same applies to dishwashers and countertop drying racks. I had one in my apartment when I lived overseas for a decade. The most commonly used dishes tend to live on the drying rack. I miss having one!
@@user-xd6nc6rg7b ah, yes, this is what i wanted to say, those dishes live permanently there, no moving, you just wash and put them in drying cabinets, when you need them you just take them out from there 🤗
Landlord: "Do you want a finished or unfinished apartment?"
Tenant: "Yes."
No, a Finnish one please.
With an answer like that, I would refuse the rental application. Sounds like a tenant that could be trouble.
You've done such a good and thorough job at gathering and explaining all this information. Also, some of the features are awesome. Thank you!!!
In the U.S. we would do well to upgrade to the smart environmental ideas presented here. It would save energy and improve safety and livability. Something to consider.
I live in Minnesota and we need all of these things, especially the windows and doors.
@@cinemaocd1752 I live just north of you in Manitoba and I've seen a lot of these done. I've also been in a few houses with saunas in the basement which I heard was a Finnish thing too.
We'd do well to do it before it becomes an emergency too. If things get bad enough with weather extremes and fuel shortages, the devices we need will either be sold out or so expensive we can't afford them.
They don't do these things because than all the you know whos don't make their big profits.
@@cinemaocd1752 I'm in Wisconsin
As an Indian who travels to Helsinki for business meetings often, this is a really insightful video !
Thanks for the feedback!
I think cold climates are the mother of invention out of necessity. Living in a hot tropical country as I do, we still dry our clothes outside most of the time because it's so fast, about an hour. Drying clothes inside would increase already terrible humidity. Our windows are open most of the time to catch the breezes so our sinks are usually under windows. Even in winter, double glazing is not necessary. It's too hot to bike everywhere - believe me! It's really interesting.
Different climates and geographies have different issues to solve.
I live in Louisiana, and all I can think about is mold, mold, mold. Everywhere! These are great solutions to cold climate problems, but they won’t work in hotter climates. I mean, we have saunas, but it’s mostly stepping outside in August. So much moisture you can see the air, and your clothes stick to you in two seconds. This is coupled with not as much rain as the rest of the summer, but results in a massive hurricane at the end of it.
Thanks for pronouncing the Finnish words, it is appreciated! Here in the USA, we could learn an awful lot from Finland.
In general, Northern European homes are built to much higher standard than here in the USA. Our Swedish friends lent us their Stockholm apartment for a week and the windows and doors were so much better than anything I have seen here in America. We have a lot of sliding glass doors (sliders) that connect indoor and outdoor spaces. They typically have a small bit of weather stripping and a simple latch. By comparison, the balcony door in Stockholm had triple glass, triple rubber weather stripping and a cam-lock mechanism that pulled the door tightly against the seals, locking out cold and sound. It felt and operated more like an aircraft door than anything else.
I remembered using drying cupboards in Finland and thought they were brilliant but didn't feel like completely remaking my kitchen, so I bought an "over the sink" drying rack for my kitchen. You get the benefits of the drying cupboard without blocking the window and light entirely. It's much easier to use, a lot faster and can hold way more dishes than a traditional drying rack. I often leave my cutting boards and a couple other larger items in it, freeing up space in my cupboards. I'm never going back. Best of both worlds. They're $60-150 USD online and worth every penny
you don't have to remake your kitchen, just cut out or remove the bottom panel from a cupboard or two and replace with metal screening of the type in the video.
@@kmakhlouf4387 Many American homes don't have a cupboard over the sink; just a wall. Lucky people have a window there.
I have a wall, but I have a small half-cupboard over the sink.....but the light fixture for that area is on the bottom of that cupboard. I might be able to remove the bottom panel & replace with a rack, but I would probably need an electrician to change the wiring so I could put the light fixture in a different spot.
@@JamieM470 Just have the electrician remove the junction box and work it so you can install strip lighting that would be on the front/back of the open bottom cabinet. The advantage is you can easily find water resistant LED lighting that will work there. I'm sure too that the electrician will ensure you have the appropriate GFI breaker covering that circuit (hopefully it already does) so should water intrude into the wiring, it trips and prevents a shocking experience on your part. You want the shock to be from your guests seeing the cabinet, not you washing your own dishes. ;)
"This being an expensive area; roof saunas are still rare."
Bah! Your key and automatic hallway lights made me think that apartment would be 3x as much as mine! Everything there (except the lack of a dishwasher or dryer) just seems smart. Not weird, other than the fact that I've never seen it before, but smart.
Agree nothing weird, just practical and the sauna is awesome.
The homes are very practical. Except for the inconvenience of a shared laundry, still a aprectical step though to manage the cost of water
The drying cabinet above the sink is brilliant
We have this in Israel. Not 3 tier but one. It is brilliant. I love the soundproof of the apts
It's the same in Italy!
I don't really like it, I find it a bit irritating when droplets from drying plates rain on my hands when I wash dishes.
@@autumnramble that’s why you wash everything first, you wash away the soap when everything is clean, and then you put them into the drying rack, problem solved!
@@Reutviv I would need much bigger sink and counter to do it that way, so I will suffer the drops, I think.
I actually "invented" this dish drying cabinet idea 20 years ago while studying design in Chile (Where most people DON'T have a dishwasher in their homes).
"I think leaving dishes to dry obstructing work space from the kitchen and exposed to dust is stupid." I said.
"Your idea is stupid". My colleagues and teachers said.
Now I know Finns not only have one of the best educational levels in the world, they also use this same concept, BECAUSE IS A GREAT IDEA!
Thanks, I really needed this reafirmation.
I don't believe you. Finland has had those drip-dry dish cabinets for a lot more than 20 years.
I’m sorry, some teachers are really stupid.
I feel you, I grew up in a similar system.
Anything that goes out of the mediocrity is criticised by mediocrity.
Maiju Gebhard from Finland developed the dish drying cabinet in the 1940s. But you had the same kind of idea.
I get what you're saying. Progress is hard, especially when people are not open to change.
@𝐀𝐬𝐦𝐫 •𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚• Yes.
The drying rack is brilliant! If ever I build my own home it’s going in. Also love the bike storage, we need to encourage people to get out of their cars. Better for the environment and for us 🙂.
Bicycles ain't a answer for cities transportation. The public transportation is only way.
The public transportation routes should be well designed and prioritized with small transport spaces but often moving (so instead 2 wagon tram in every 20 minutes, make 1 wagon tram every 7-10 minutes). The bicycles are like cars, but just powerless. When you get enough of them, it leads to situation that is just like traffic with cars, just worse as people using bicycle doesn't know the rules so well or obey them. And that leads eventually to traffic where moving with bicycles is not any faster than it was with a car.
The real challenge is that there are people who can't use bicycles, be it their disability, age or requirement to transport stuff. This as well leads to situation where goods and other needs to be transported to stores and so on vehicles are still required.
And if you mix vehicles and bicycles, it is just cause for accidents and lots of other problems in moving.
Bicycles has their places, but larger cities ain't one. And they can't replace the cars.
A best scenario is just forget the current city designs and plans, and start making more economical and environmental smaller cities, but connect them.
These has been already designed.
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In Helsinki area it was Raimo Ilaskivi who was parlament member in 62-75 and designed a similar train network ("Helmi Rata") between smaller cities to southern Finland. The Helsinki was to be split to smaller cities, that were connected with main trainlines from the centrum, and then each smaller city was to be connected with local trains for fast movement. Each small city was to be covered with trams and busses so citizens could move easily over the city. The main city (south of Helsinki Harbor) would have the harbor for all traffic export/import and be transported with trains to these smaller cities across the area, and then with small trucks in the small cities itself.
The enemy of the economical and environmental well designed city is the free market and democracy where people are against that cities would be build with specifications and each building would have specifications for services and all. Architects do not want to be designing buildings that are just made from specifications, people don't want to live in a buildings that are all looking same, and people don't want to live with a other people that do not belong to same class as they do. Too many opinions, too many whiners, too many dreams and all is destroyed with it, where greed and competition can control everything and eventually destroy everything as no one is requiring them for teamwork or make a rules for them what they can't do.
I would love to have all of this in my condo, especially the drying rack. I also love the recycling system. It beats filling my recycling bin and hauling it out to the street one day a week. I would be able to recycle all the time and get rid of the mess immediately.
Yes, I love that idea, especially for apartments. It would free up storage if you could take the waste down on your way out. Although in my country an outdoor facility would be underused when it rains.
The clothes drying rack isn't part of the apartment (at least anywhere I've ever lived), you have to buy it yourself, it's only like 15€ though.
esp. during the winter, I dry lots of clothing overnight on a discreet pull-out line in my apartment to humidify the brutally dry air - wash in the evening, pull out the line, go to bed, bone-dry clothes the next morning. [plus the energy and garment life-span benefits, sure, but mostly the dry air]
Not necessarily weird but very interesting! I love the recycling system!
Sauna is by far the most interesting facility of any Finnish home ❤️
Saunas are incredible, ill give you that!
@@RoadtoFinnish fact's
Me:No it is not becus i live in finland
i’m finnish and almost never go to sauna. in some houses we have public saunas and most in the houses
Sauna is The best! (Btw i'm Finnish)
Hello= hei/moi
Hehe
I'd love to have the drying dish rack inside a closed cabinet.
In France its not unusual to place the drying rack above the sink to gain room at working level, but it's usually an open rack - so unless you are very organised and tidy it can become an eyesore fast.
Hiding it inside a cabinet is brilliant.
That’s why you put them away once they’re dry, which isn’t usually more than about 15 minutes.
@@dannycummings2755 yes, although were I live it's more like several hours until they are dry, so it looks messy for at least that long, and you are usually not available at the precise moment they are ready to be put away 😐
So its either the hand wiping with teatowel, or the cluttered open rack.
But I agree that in dry climate, the open rack is simple and efficient !
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@@dannycummings2755 A single person could get away with that drying rack being the storage for most of their dishes, if they did the dishes daily.
In so many US kitchens, there is a window over the sink, so there's no way to install a cabinet there. Most people I know would balk at the loss of light and their "view". In an apartment building, of course, it's a different matter, I guess.
I don’t think the keys need to be electric special keys for them to work on all different rooms, you can do that with just regular abloy keys and it is pretty common that you can access storage room, laundry room, common sauna etc. With the same key in Finnish apartment buildings.
Oh you are very much correct, they dont have to be these electric smart keys to open up multiple doors. However, the big plus about the smart keys is that these can be re-coded when the tenant moves out or if you loose the key. So no need to a) ever change any locks or b) to make new keys. As a practical example of why these are really handy not only for the tenants but also for the landlords was during the covid lockdowns. In many student apartments in Finland, we have a lot of shared spaces. Our building has e.g. a shared gym that is free to use for all the tenants. However, during the worst time in the pandemic, all of these spaces were locked to mitigate the spread. Instead of having to keep an eye out on the tenants, or perhaps even chancing locks (which Hoas would not have done anyways), they were simply able to change the code on the gym locks so that only authorised people were able to enter.
This kind of ability brings a lot of flexibility and usability to both parties - at least in my opinion 👍
Yes, but these electric keys you can not copy…
@@TheParisquadrifolia Actually you can. It only has to be done by Abloy-approved locksmiths. This way there no chance that a key is copied for robbery/other purposes.
@@TheParisquadrifolia old mechanical security keys can also not be copied without a written permission from a licence holder (usually house maintainance company or landlord)
the electric keys also stop you from going into the sauna room on someone elses turn, so it only works on your own time slot
Drying cloths inside also adds quite a bit of humidity to the air. In a cold dry climate that gets snow that helps people and pets breathe and helps avoid illnesses. In the summer it’s best to keep a window open to avoid mold.
True. I'm from the South Island of New Zealand and when l lived in ltaly l was astonished to see people had ceramic "vases" to fill with water and hang off radiators to help put some humidity back into the air. We have completely the opposite problem here and in winter we have problems with mold in houses and also need to wipe the windows dry every morning just to be able to see through them.
finnish houses are certainly dry inside. I live in Finland and some of my UK relatives who visited have had trouble breathing thanks to the air being so dry inside my house. I like how towels in the bathroom dry just by hanging them up on a hook though.
@@nikiTricoteuse haha, yes uk too in winter it's so humid,
Thanks, I love seeing how others do it. Whilst I like the dishes drying above the sink one reason it may not be adopted in Australia is because its a typical design standard to build sinks at a Window so you get lots of natural light and can see the view while washing and preparing.
Maybe buy an over-the-sink drying rack?
Just looked at some new builds in Whitehorse, Yukon and the walls were R40, and roof R80. Also, windows were quadruple glazed. I have a coded fob for my office and teaching/research rooms at the university. At home, I have web-based locks and security. Consumer reports ran the numbers, and dishwashers use less energy and water.
This sounds like great Canuck engineering. I love that trick of throwing hot water in winter and watch it turn to snow.
@@assassinlexx1993 Oh so that's where the snow comes from. I always wondered about that. :)
So if someone hacks your computer, they have access to everything?!!
U say dishwasher uses less energy..but hand dish washing uses no electrical energy !!!
@@christinestein4725 I think they were measuring energy to heat the water.
The double doors have actually been banned in new buildings because they're a fire safety hazard. They're most common in buildings from the 80's and 90's. These days the builder focus has been to make single doors as insulating as possible.
@@gypsy_haas5869 Nah, the underpressure created between the doors during a fire is a real thing. There's no point inventing conspiracy theories about it.
The second door was never a requirement, so no one in the building process would be saving money from leaving it out. On the contrary, the construction companies would be making more for every extra they put in. If they wanted to really nickle and dime the whole thing and maximize their profits, they could sell the second door as an optional extra for every residence individually. But they can't because adding them is now forbidden due to safety reasons.
@@gypsy_haas5869 No, but introducing interior doors also didn't bring them up. Again, those doors were never compulsory, builders could have them or leave them out as they pleased. They didn't need to change any laws for that. But the modern exterior doors are more expensive than they used to be to maintain the required level of insulation, so in terms of profit, I doubt that things have changed one bit.
Fire safety was the first thing I thought about seeing those double doors. Programmed keys are also dangerous. It's way too easy to override or copy those keys.
@@LoriCrabtree31 Nearly all locks in Finland are made by Abloy, which is one of the most secure consumer lock companies in the world. I'm pretty sure that these digital keys are their work, as well.
I don't know the specifics about this model, but typically Abloy keys require proprietary hardware to make or modify that is only sold to registered locksmiths. Anything can be hacked, of course, but generally Abloy locks are simpler to smash or bypass than to pick or hack.
@@Lightice1 Sounds like a challenge for the Lock Picking Lawyer.
In America, when I was young we had a portable dishwasher. It was a free standing unit that hooked up to the kitchen faucet. It was on wheels to roll away and store against a wall or in a closet.
American here. I really like the cages and bicycle rooms. I've lived in similar apartments/dorm/barracks, and instead of a bike room, there was a mud room with special faucets for cleaning dirty items like boots - and bikes. Very useful.
I love the drying rack! I have 2 of them for my home and when I lived in an apartment I even had one that hangs on the back of a door so it wouldn't take up floor space (though it was smaller than the average drying rack). I'm in the US. It's still fairly common for people here to have a clothes line outside too (or at least in rural areas where I live).
In Spain most people use drying racks since it’s always so hot here. Having a dryer isn’t really that common because of it. In my house we haven’t had one for probably almost 10 years now
How do the clothes dry on a rack that is hanging on a door? Wouldn’t they all be pressed together without room for air to circulate between them?
@@dannycummings2755 I imagine that the rack in question is built to create space between hanging items and the door.
Very interesting. Love Finnish design. My favorite is the Finnish bathrooms that I've seen. They all have real tile, with a hose type sprayer on the wall and a drain on the floor.
You can literally soap up the whole bathroom then spray it down. Impossible in most US homes because of wooden cabinets, drywall walls, & no floor drain.
I wish some of these ideas would become popular in the US.
Here in the comments and not in the video itself is the actual best idea of the bunch!
Drain in the bathroom floor is a must! I remember when I was in a hotel with friends in Latvia, one of us went to a shower in the bath. A little later someone come to complain that water was coming through their ceiling - the guy had left the shower curtain outside the bath so a lot of water flowed to the bathroom floor. Waterproof floor with a drain would have saved the day.
What do you have in the U.S.-fake tiles?
@@dannycummings2755 Yeah, usually vinyl tiles. Very different from porcelain, slate, ceramic, etc.
Many homes even have carpeting in the bathrooms. (yuck. makes no sense to me)
@@dannycummings2755 Gypsum dry wall. Maybe a tile floor, but no drain. Water on the floor can be a disaster here. Wood quarter-round molding, baseboard molding. Water runs under that into the wall cavity and then ... a mess!
Wow, the apartments are amazing and seem to be extremely efficient and practical! Would love to live in one of these
Ive really enjoyed living in these apartments during my studies. Sadly im going to have to move out once i graduate but its been a blaat so far 👌
@@RoadtoFinnish Are there these kind of apartments for non-students?
@@vriksonivanacostavelasquez7796 most Finnish story buildings look like that. Finns are famous for their practicality but not for esthetics ;)
Oh yeah??? Well good! Cause I'll never live in one of those ugly mailboxes!
I love the dish drying cabinet. Ingenious! I'm Canadian & I always dry all my clothes on a rack....well except my bed linens.
This is what I love about Finland. In the UK, everything is always just a little bit shit. Nothing work properly. But in Finland, everything is so efficient and works exactly the way it was supposed to.
I like how Finnish blinds properly block out sunlight, how some overpasses on the highway have their 'ceiling' painted light blue to mimic a blue sky, and I remember something over the doors to buildings that prevent snow build up from falling on your head.
A porch? The blue ceiling sounds wonderful.
i guess having daylight for days, or weeks or longer is a good enough reason to invest in proper blinds. Rolladen in Germany and other parts of Europe also block all light.
@@uliwehner yeah the nights in summer are so bright that it can make sleeping absolutely impossible without the blinds, on the other hand during winters some areas never shut down the lights outdoors so they also make sleeping difficult. The street lights by our house for some reason no longer turn off as they used to (all of the other streets are unlit after 10/11pm) and stay on through the entire night and the light hits me straight in the eyes on my pillow through the little holes the string goes through in the blinds, had to tape a strip of paper on the window to stop it
@@FurnitureFanNo they are special fittings/railings on roofs that prevent snow build up dropping on people 🙂. They are required by law in Finland.
Who knew that finland would lead the world? So proud of you from Canada. Finland appears to be a beautiful, intelligent design we should all follow.
I loved the storage cages and the bicycle room. Also, being able to recycle everything
Forgot to mention that many new apartments has their very own sauna for it’s residents which is normal and also that how to unlock those spring locks. Still most typical abloy ones are best way to show it. Locks here themself are something I love so much and don’t understand why no one else uses them. However a moment ago I got rid of that laundry part since I bought new machine that dries clothes same than wash which I love 🥰🥰🥰
Great video, takes me back to my Erasmus year I spent at TKK around 2009. I lived in student building managed by HUAS at Kannelmäki. What a great time it was !
Oh that sounds really cool! TKK was quite a bit different back then and im sure youd have a surprise in your hands if you visited the campus today.
Well, l learned 2 new things from your comment. Googling to learn what an Erasmus year was, (l'm not from Europe) l also learned about backronyms. 😁
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
Fascinating! Europe, or at least Finland, is so ahead of the U.S. in using common sense in constructing living accommodations, at least in urban areas! Thanks for providing such an interesting insight into field!
Tom
When I was a student (in the US) would have loved the dish drying cabinet. Great idea!
Oh yeah, its great even if not for keeping the surfaces dry but also for saving space on the kitchen surfaces. Out of sight - out of mind 👍
Hey. I just loved the way the Finns organize their housing. Super cool, organized and practical
This is definitely something that i missed when i spend a summer in Germany in 2016. Was there anything specific that stuck to your mind?
@@RoadtoFinnish The keys, the cage store and the drying rack in the kitchen were massive!
@@silviosantos6553 Oh those are. Cant live without them!
I live in Australia and I've never seen one of those dishrack cupboards in a house but I'm seriously considering making one for my kitchen now! What a wonderful idea, particularly for kitchens where there is a shortage of benchspace!
Yeah and there is no additional filling of the cupboard after drying the dishes. You just leave them there and take them out directly from the drying rack when you need them.
The dish drying thing is not a Finnish invention. I’ve seen these in Italy Spain Holland Thailand and Australia for decades. Particularly in very old kitchens from before dishwashers were invented. That’s not to say it’s not a good idea As clearly it is.
Not sure where it was invented but my MIL has had the same drying rack for over 30 years - central Europe :)
Well, these have been around here in Finland since the 1940's so the idea could have spread decades ago quite easily anyway. Officially the credit does go to a Finnish inventor and her name was Maiju Gebhard.
A Finnish lady invented them
I studied in Sweden, and they don't have drying racks there. First time I did the dishes and opened the cupboard I was like, what? Who the heck built this apartment? I ended up removing the shelves, and adding string-shelves. The landlord was perplexed when I moved out and she came to inspect but I won the argument as I claimed it was an improvement and the system before was stupid :)
I first saw dish drying shelves in Russia in Stalin-era apartments. There are some commonalities between Russia, Finland, and/or Germany, so I don't always know which was first. I think we should have dish-drying shelves in the US. I've only seen them when people build their own tiny houses.
So many smart and efficient features in your buildings! I wish that more things were standardized here in the U.S., which would lead to the adoption of many of these principles. I think my favorite thing is the recycling system where the tubes suck the various items into them. I'm ashamed to say that my apartment building in the U.S., constructed in the 1980s and meant for people with some disabilities, does not provide any kind of recycling at all.
This makes me want to move to Finland. American Premium apartments aren't even well thought out like higher end student apartments...Very spacious storages...just in general so much space!
That is because EVERY decision in the US is made by the sole thing US people have valued. Money, specifically "How can we make money ?". And THAT boils down to "What do our few billionaires demand, after all they ought to become richer !"
And that is fine, it is your choice to live that way. It certainly seems like the top ten percent tell the rest of you "We live in the best system in the world" . . . and if it suits you workers to believe that . . . well that is great for you, man needs to dream no doubt . . .
However, all the European countries have a longer history, and much deeper experience. And we decided 200 years ago to try to correct the economic imbalance that the world has.
One part of that, is deliberately and scientifically putting a different value set into place.
So our question for public policy is "How can the world be made better ?".
( It is funny, but one way of answering the question is to ask the rich, and do the opposite of what they try to say is true )
i'm gonna go out on a limb and say neither of you have ever actually lived in the states or at least not in more than one area. it varies tremendously depending on what part of the country you're talking about. making broad statements about the standards of apartments in this country is nearly impossible. comparing a luxury apt in say nyc to one in houston or seattle or sf ect is somewhat pointless. from what the apt is like (amenities, sq footage ect) to it's cost all depends on the local market. there were a few clever ideas in this vid but nothing ground breaking or really all that diff from millions of other apartments throughout the world.
@@TDC5These were student apartments! Have you found double paned windows or double doors a lot?
@@TDC5 most people are not going to read all of that BS.
@@molliestanton8457 In the midwest, or at least in the two states I've lived in (Ohio and Indiana) double paned windows are standard and we don't have double doors that are actual DOORS, but storm doors are standard.
Double paned windows are pretty much going to be standard/a necessity for any region that experiences harsh winters. My apartment was originally built in the 60's, is relatively crappy and cheap, and I have double paned windows and a heavy storm door.
I’ve been living in a HOAS apartment for almost 6 months, but I still cannot get used to a drying rack. So, after cleaning my dishes, I still wipe them with a towel, and only 3-4 sec later I realize that it’s kind of stupid 😹
😅 it takes a bit of getting used to, doesnt it. Having lived for a while in germany in a shared student flat where we had to dry the dishes for 8 people on the counter (because everyone was lazy and didnt want to dry them by hand), i would never go back to that system.
Don't worry, I do that too! And I'm from Finland myself😄
It's probably best to dry most of the water off before putting the dishes on the rack anyway to minimize dampness, the ventilation at Hoas apartments can be awful. I'm the last tenant left in one shared apartment at Hoas where it feels like the air barely gets circulated at all in the space outside my bedroom. Laundry won't dry in the kitchen for two days at least, and unless I have a window open literally 24/7, the apartment is taken over by a pungent smell that I've begun to honestly suspect is coming from some kind of mold somewhere. I couldn't be more glad about the fact that I'm going to have to move out soon anyway.
I'm short so that drying cupboard wouldn't be much use to me. I would prefer it to be a storage cupboard and have a draining board next to the sink.
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I' ve seen the video and only one adjective comes to my mind: practical 😁👍🏻. Great! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
That dish drying cabinet is brilliant! Everyone should have that.
They are in kitchens all over Europe.
When i lived in student apartment back in early 00's the building had sauna in every apartment :) it was great.
I think the double front door is a great idea, also your version of double glazing with a much greater space between the panes instead of sealed units.
We had double windows at my home and they were really pain in the ass when we had to clean them. We were so happy when we changed them to modern double glazed windows - it's maybe a third of the work now.
The funny thing is that the separate outer pane is often not completely sealed. It allows for some air to leak through in the seams, at least my windows are like that. I think it has something to do with avoiding fog buildup on the glass.
I love all the amenities. It’s all so clever and keeps everything so neat and clean. Love it
7:50 Con #3 ... the increased risk of running into your neighbours when doing laundry. ;)
😅 so true. We cant have that!
I see that as a pro... as long as they're not your typical Karens 😅
@@gilles466 For Finnish people that is a big con
@@ojl5055 i can see that
Yea, once my neighbor tried to talk to me, and I almost had a panic attack
I think, his double glazing is separated by a vacuum that stops heat escaping but also stops the noise going through.
As we learned at 6th grade Physics class, sound travels through solids, liquids and air
but it cannot travel through a vacuum.
Hence the famous saying "In Space, nobody can hear you scream."
To create vacuum in there, you need to get all the air out of there but that's not happening at all.
I am weirded out by all the likes you got. I guess you slept on your 6th grade physics class, lol.
@@Bleiser3 There is no other way to stop noise going through. If you know of any, please, let us know. Vacuum is the reason you don't see enormous double glazing as the air pressure from outside will push the glass towards the vacuum and brake it. Prove me wrong, I dare you!
The inner double glazed units are usually inert gas filled..and coated to control heat loss...
But it is the large air gap between the single glazed outer and inner double glazed that suppresses the majority of the noise.
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 That is not true.
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Ive done it with secondary glazing inside historic single glazed Edwardian progecting V bay windows.
With modern high rated double glazed units the new ones are Argon? gas filled and sealed a IR reflective coated to minimize heat loss.
But the larger air gap does reduce noise .. try it but i have a number of architecture building books that illustrate it...though the one states the optimum is 50mm to prevent conduction convection heat transfer currents developing in the air void.
Thermal bridging across frames is also a design issue, so the frame sections have to incorporate thermal breaks to prevent heat from being lost by conduction.
Fabulous! Love all the extra storage spaces. Also, the recycling 👍👍
Gets to the list at about 1:00
1) Double or triple glazing for insulation and sound proofing
2) Double doors, same
3) Door automatically closes and locks
4) Smart electric keys
5) No dishwasher
6) A cupboard is secretly a drying rack for your dishes
7) They have washing machines but drying racks.
8) Shared laundry rooms are becoming more common
9) Saunas in every Finnish Apt. building
That dish drying cabinet blew my mind, and after looking through the other cabinets, I know I'm not the only one.
Edit:
While living in China, I was introduced to the wonderful idea of drying racks with built in space heaters. These are particularly useful in cities like Hong Kong which have a very high humidity that prevents wet clothes from drying quickly.
None of these things were weird. I love the creativity of the Finns in dealing with tight spaces. Thank you!
One thing i would add is "shower curtain". Usually all showers have rack/rail for it, but it's not included to "apartment".. And everyone will buy which ever color / pattern shower curtain they like.. This seems to be topic foreigners whine about, water spreads everywhere... simply buy shower curtain..
Oh this was an interesting one! Never actually heard people complaining about this but now that you mentioned it, its actually pretty obvious 😅. Thanks for the great addition!
@Janitor Queen They are popular all over Europe....and in tropical places like Hawaii.😀Not bad when you get used to them!
Every place I have ever lived in has required the owner to purchase their own shower curtain.
Most of these things are common in Northern-hemisphere countries, apart from the sauna, double-doors and storage cages.
I've seen the double doors in Finland and Sweden several times, now I understand why. I love Sweden and Finland. Clean and functional!
Yep, its aaaaall about the functionality 👌
They really take everything into account when designing apartment buildings. I love the fact they provide storage spaces for less used items.
I friggn love Finland - and wish I could speak Finnish but it is too hard to learn. You guys have the smartest living solutions to make it desirable to live there despite the extreme weather conditions.
I don't know why they are so good but Finnish architecture is something very special. An admirer from Sweden.
I find interesting the recycling tubes and having to book an appointment for laundry machines. Like Double windows and doors are energy/heat saving. Cupboard dish racks are wider than sink, I noticed, and water would fall on counter and then floor. Overall video very interesting. Thank you. I am from Toronto Canada. Condominiums her have dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer but apartments don't. Cannot buy and have someone install dishwasher in apartment. We have a laundry room for tenants to put coins in machines and are first come first serve.
In Canada, you can buy portable dishwashers that attach to the kitchen faucet and drain into the sink. There are countertop and wheeled models.
water does fall on the counter a bit but it's only a few dishes that are drying so not nearly enough water to be noticeable let alone to get on the floor
@@kiiturii Yeah, I would have you would only put the dripping dishes on the bit of rack that is over the sink area.
So I’m not the only one who thought it sounded odd to have to make an appointment to do my laundry? I’ve always seen “if there’s an open machine, use it.”
And US apartments won’t let you install something, either. I had to ask permission to hang pictures on my wall and still got docked during the move-out inspection. I would never install an appliance!
@@forgeustiss6667 but are you allowed to use in rented apartments. I don't think so cause of flooding possibilities.
Living in a very old section of my town any of these would be luxuries. The building I live in is about a century old but I would love to see a remodel with a drying rack over the sink. Counter space is a premium and that would make cleanup so much easier. I know it isn't as fancy as the sauna but I am a simple man.
So many great ideas that have been implemented because most of the people care about things (design, environment) and logical thinking is common, unlike here in the states. We could learn a lot from other countries and make the system better.
Great informative video, enjoyed to watch this even as a finn. :) I solved the bathroom space problem by getting a drying washing machine - a washing machine, that also dries the clothes after it has washed them! Which of course saves space but is also handy as you don't need to move wet clothes at all.
Thanks a bunch! Yeah we did the same with my gf. We still use the rack for delicates but its just much easier to dry sheets and other suitable stuff compared to drying them on a wardrobe door or something 😅. Regardless, next place we get has to have enough space for a dryer. Makes the life so much easier in the long term.
dryers are not used very much in Europe. A Washer/Dryer is more expensive, and electricity is also expensive.
I am just amazed at the dish drying rack. That is so clever. I have never seen anything like that in Canada
I’m in the US and I’ve traveled a lot and I’ve never seen it anywhere or heard of it.
@@karyndewit193 It really is clever though. But then maybe when you are doing dishes it maybe like standing in a shower with water dripping down on you.... Not sure lol
@@rhonda8231 I think it looks awesome.
Typical for all over Europe.
actually the air drying of the clothes is not only good for extending their lifespan but a really good way to gently humidify the air in the room that can get really dry when the heating is on in the room.
Finland is a clean country 👌
Half my family lives there. I never saw any trash on the streets. LARGE American cities can learn a lesson.
I like the heated floors and the vacuum in the wall. They recycle the water for watering the yard. I found Finns to be very, very practical.
The cabinet for drying and storing dishes, is not a Finnish "invention." I have one in my home in Tuscany which has been there for possibly a century and a half or more. It is called a piattaia. There is no door but the modern ones do have one. Otherwise, lots of great innovations for multiple dwellers.
No door = better air circulation 🙂👍
Of course, we know that everything originates from Italy. :))
It just creates another job in a way because the water dripping down into the sink will cause limescale stains
@@sapphire22011 only if you live in an area with hard water
@@mjlim6610 Not necessarily. Also if those cupboards are made of wood, then the wood will eventually swell with water from the dishes. Even with woods tgat are supposedly treated so as to be water resistant it's still an issue
The drying cabinet on top of the sink is widespread in Spain (at least since the 1970s). When I moved to the UK I was so puzzled not to find one!
I LOVE Finland and would move to live there in a heartbeat. I am in Australia.
Clever ideas that think ahead for environment, good living and climate. Tax-payer dollars are not wasted on ideas that fail once put into practice. In Australia, we have uninsulated houses, electric or wood heating where the heat escapes the buildings. It is freezing indoors in winter and like and oven in summer. Many people here opt for heat pumps but they malfunction in freezing conditions.
Australia is a beautiful country but I prefer Finland, I think my genes are made in Europe.
The drying racks for clothes are also common in germany, as well as double/triple windows. The difference: the glass is in one frame.
Same in North America - re windows
in Finland it's usually 1 frame with double glass and then the outer frame with one glass. So 3 glasses total.
Awesome set up for drying dishes...I have a dishwasher but I never use it and your recycling tubes..GENIUS that is something that we need in all the new apartment complexes being built here..ty for the tour
Oh the recycling tubes are excellent! I just wish they were more common. Its a rather new technology so it is being implemented mostly in new neighbourhoods where the entire infrastructure is being built from ground-up. However, i really wish this could be built into older neighbourhoods as well. It is not only convenient for the tenants but its also great because we are not reliant on garbage trucks emptying overflowing bins.
Awwww... you have a doggie! You should bring it on the show, I guarantee you'd get even more positive comments. (My BF was from Iceland, and while I know it's not Finland, there's something about the Nordic cultures that is so attractive. :D )
Turnerat, dansband, i Finland. Besöker vänner i Finland. Älskar Finland och dess människor. Ogillar att jag alltid lämnar bastun före mina finska vänner. Övar/tränar.
For my US home, built in 1986, we installed an outdoor clothes drying line. Although it fell apart 3 years ago, & hasn't been replaced, I still dry my clothes on plastic hangers, etc & only dry sheets and towels in a dryer. My clothes last longer and don't shrink. Love the dish dry cabinet and the recycle tubes. Thanks for sharing!
What I remember about (out-side) clothes-line dried clothes is how fresh it smelled. This was in the 60's. It may smell differently today what with all the pollutants in the air but back then it was nice.
@@karenscarselli3395 no, even in recent decades it has that fresh smell. However, I live in a rural area, could be different in NYC. I remember that my MIL was so "proud" of me for having sweet smelling air-dried sheets on the guest bed, when she visited. I grew up with not only a dryer, but a "maid" who did the laundry & cleaned, etc. MIL was always pleased by my frugal ways, despite my "wealthier" upbringing.
I love the Japanese washer/dryers where the single unit that takes up the space of only a washer will both wash and dry your clothes for you. It save space and time!
The main reason you don't need a drying machine in Finland is that almost all homes/apartments built since the 50's have some kind of fan based ventilation system. The clothes will dry and moisture is drawn out of the house by a fan. This makes the inside of the house/apartment incredibly dry. You never see condensation on the inside of people's windows in Finland, unlike in the UK where their houses are really damp inside (and hanging up wet clothes will make things even worse).
Aye, I like them too. Had one.
But now I have separate units - takes more spaces, but you can dry clothes while washing another load.
It is important if you have three children. Also dedicated dryers work better (my observation).
I HATE having drying racks in apartment. It is ugly and takes too much space.
The weird thing about the lack of dryers is that the dryer takes up less space than the drying rack, especially given that the drying rack he showed wouldn't even hold a single load of laundry.
@@ctrlz4439 Yeah a single unit wouldn't work well for all the laundry kids create. I'm not against drying racks but they are very hard to find and buy in my country (US) so I only use my shower rod to hang dry delicates that can't be in a dryer. It's really helpful to know condenser dryers don't work as well as the normal kind!
Here in Queensland Australia no-one uses a dryer, we hang out washing on a clothes line outside. It takes about 5 minutes to hang and costs nothing.