Swedish Homes Vs American Homes Part 2 (What I Missed)
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Carpets went out of style here in the late 70’s and ceiling fans went out of style in the early 90s. 😂😂😂 Carpets are so nasty so I understand why no one wants them. Grime that you can’t get clean. Yuk. 🤮
Very easy to clean with a carpet cleaner, which deep cleans them. But I suspect you've never cleaned a carpet in your life? Btw, I'm Swedish, just so you know-
Modern carpets are mostly made of plastic which leaves a lot of small plastic fibers floating around in the room.. Not exactly healthy for you.
@@readeh Beter than plastic floors you use chemicals on and get plastic vapours....
It's quite common nowadays (well for the last 20(?) years) to have a heat inverter as heat source for the house, that can also be set to be used as AC in the summer, but given the swedish climate, there is rarely need for AC (and even when it's hot, people quite often don't want to waste power to cool the house)
Osthyvel actually translates to cheese plane (like a woodworking handplane, but for cheese :) )
I've lived in Sweden for 19 years and have never seen anyone use a shoehorn to take OFF their shoes... only to put them on. Plus, neither have I ever been in a Swedish home with wall-to-wall carpeting. Always fun watching your videos!
Yeah I confused some people I just ment people take off their shoes so they need something to put them on. When I explained it, it came out the wrong way.
@@AndrewAustin As a Swede, I don't have a shoehorn in my home as I've never used or really needed one. But it is true that a lot of Swedish homes do have shoehorns as almost everyone I know uses them.
But a shoehorn protect your socks and shoes from wear too.
Me that have a bit hard to get to the Floor i need that Shohorn to get my Shoes on.
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Skoknekt används för att ta av skor. Inte så vanligt i svenska hem nu, men jag har en 🙂
Förr fick alla barn snickra en skoknekt på träslöjden, så många föräldrar har nog fått det i julklapp.
Swedes use heat pumps, ceiling fans went out of fashion in 89, carpets disappeared with the rise of allergy and never returned.
I installed a new ceiling fan this summer in aluminium. Nice as hell during summer. /Swede
the heat pumps is justeble in degres and if you sett them on lo you will gett Cooler in the room you have it.
C-town me to😁
Ceiling fans, 80 to late 90
Carpets 70 and like frisno say, cuz allergy 🙂
The rise of allergies is partly due to the removal of all carpeting among other things like the overuse of antibiotics, vacuum cleaners, and even cars fitted with hepa filters as standard et.c. Look at todays kids. Half of them have allergies, still none of them brought up in a home where there were any carpeting what so ever. Where as those of us growing up in the seventies and 80's had carpeting everywhere, even in shops and banks. And very few of us had allergies. As it turns out, kids need to be exposed to a little dirt and dust, or they will get oversensitive or allergic if you will.
Homes should not be cleaned like hospital wards. And if you get a vacuum cleaner with a hepa filter without someone in your house already having dust allergy. You are undermining their wellbeing further down the line, by depriving them of stuff they need to get used to, to live comfortably on this planet. Remember, when people lived on dirt floors, allergies were almost none existent.
In my observation traveling to Sweden, the Swedes seem very serious about their cheese. 2 things I bought there and brought home because they were so different were a cheese slicer and a sugar dispenser. I love the way the sugar dispenser pours 😊
The shoehorn actually doubles as a battery tester for the smokedetector! To reach the test button easier :)
The doors usually has a lock but you need a very basic key or something flat like a screwdriver.
Carpets (heltäckningsmatta) was fairly common in the '70s. But already in '80s people started to get rid of them. Mostly because they found them not hygienic, I suppose. When the carpets where thrown out, the ceiling fans came in. Very popular in the '80s. They went out in the '90s. Dunno why, and what came in?
Spotlights maybe or was that later?
I don't care, I put up 2 ceiling fans in my appartment last summer. They are quiet and work well when it it is hot and the air is not moving. Best thing I have done. The one in the bedroom was on 24/7 :D
I have never seen a swede use a shoehorn to take of their shoes I thought it was to put them on
If you take your shoes off you will eventually have to put them back on before you leave.
It's made for putting them on.
Too take them off you use a skoknäckt, on skohorn
a shoehorn is for on and off... people don't get this but after a muddy day it's a nice tool to stick down your boots and chip them off without ruining them back of the boot.
after a cold and muddy day, and you get inside, using it to get out of the boots is a must. I'm not 5 years old anymore and my back is hurting.
@@AmrothPalantir offcourse you can use a shoehorn to take off your shoes, but a better tool for this is a "skoknægt", which is designed to perform this task. Using a "skoknægt" to take off your shoes, does not need your hands. You simply use one foot to hold the Tool, while placing the other foot (with the shoe on) in the Grips, and pull your foot away. Then you repeat with the other foot/shoe.
That's so cool,I'm brazilian and we do use the cheese cutter too.
Im swede and use my knife to get big chunks of cheese
@Dulce Wilcox cheese cutter bros from brazil to sa to sweden😂
You do. That I would not expect. The world are smaller than one thinks. Cool. They are very useful.
In most areas of life, the US is about 30 years behind Europe. US houses are like scandinavian houses were in the 70s and 80s.. ceiling fans are ugly, only hillbillies have em. Heat pumps both heat and chill your home, no need for ac. Carpets a filthy and conducive to allergies. The on thing houses always have had though is the entrance hall, were you leave jackets and shoes etc. In Norwegian this room is called "vindfang", and means "Wind catcher". It's like an airlock in spaceships :p to prevent the cold to slip into the rest of the building.
Watching tv show about house building in america as a swede im always surprised how behind usa is. Just a simple thing as workers wearing jeans, tshirt and some flippflops/sandals..
Like for real if i hired a carpenter/electrian and he would show up dressed like that i would close the door and call another firm.
Most indoor doors in sweden have loocks, but the keys are usually misplaced :) There area few standards of indoor keys though that fit for alot of doors.
Electric garbage disposal (grinder) under the sink is another one. Never seen one in Sweden
in sweden we prepare our homes for the winter, thats why then short summer doesnt get manyn AC's
When I first got to Stockholm I had a furnished apartment and that was almost the only thing in the kitchen drawer, a cheese slicer.
I like the fact you point out the differences without judgement. Living in the northern part of the U.S. I find some similarities between the two countries (could be because we have a lot of scandiavian heritage here). The shoe horn is a new one for me.🤟🏻👍🏻
In the northern parts of Sweden you can find air conditioning units, but they're being used for heating rather than cooling.
Though most of them could be used for it.
Carpeting was very common in the 80's. But they have been replaced and after 2000 I have not seen any. They are extremely unhygienic. Ceiling fans were popular in the 80s and 90s, but they were more of a fad.
Given the Swedish climate, it is a waste of money to have air conditioning, if you do not want it as a status symbol.
Glöm inte att heltäckningsmatta va väldigt populärt på 70 talet
That explains why I have only ever seen those things in old houses/apartments. Good thing the carpets went out of fashion, they are disgusting in my opinion😂
Funny thing is that I talked to a guy that worked with renovating houses and clearing out mold and moisture. He said that the best thing you could ever put in your basement was the old style wall to wall carpets. Laminate floors was among the worst things in regard to mould and moisture. The old type capets breaths enough to let moisture out.
@@secularnevrosis beror på underlaget. Aldrig laminatgolv på betong för de suger upp fukt som en svamp.
@@DetStoraMisstaget Jo. Det blir väldigt tätt. Även om man har varit nogrann med underlaget.
My mother have a ceiling fan, but it is unusual to find in Swedish homes. And yes during the 70 - 90s wall to wall carpets was really popular in Sweden, almost every apartment had it back then. In the end of the 80s people started to remove it or it got removed during renovation. But it was often only the living room and the bedrooms that had wall to wall carpeting.
I would say most apartments have locks on bedroom doors, but it's simple locks that have very generic keys. The same key will open pretty much any bedroom door and you can usually ask your landlord for a few of those if they're missing. Most people only really lock the bathroom door anyway :)
As a swede i HATE carpeting... on he whole floor. I mean hello DUST.
Yeah, carpet floors was a thing in the eighties, but has completely dissapeared in the Scandinavian countries. Since there are almost no house wives here, nobody has the time to clean them, so hard wood floor are much more popular.
We had horrible brown carpeting with white lines in it in my family home which was built in 1979. We removed it in the 90's never looked back xD
I grew up with a ceiling fan here in Sweden. And when my parents removed it I got it painted and put it in my apartment and I would be dead in summer without it
I lived overseas as well and I have continued to always take my shoes off when coming into the home, it’s a courtesy thing there, but I also enjoy not tracking outside dirt into my home. I wished more people did it in the US and also have an entry section for removing jacket and shoes as well as the back door. I think the entry coat closet has been removed from many hones. Thanks for sharing!
I’m American, born & raised here in the states and I’ve always taken my shoes off when entering into a home. It always feels weird to me when I go to someone’s house & they tell me I don’t have to take my shoes off. My German/Irish/British American parents raised me to always take my shoes off when going into a house.
Swedish front doors open outwards, American inwards. Trying to kick in a front door here, out of 99% are reinforced, would result in serious injuries. Also Swedish homes don't have screen doors , but we seriosly need them. They're great.
Many people here in Sweden do not only use the cheese slicer to slice cheese. You can also use it to slice cucumber, liver paste, carrots and potatoes ect. It can come in handy for many other stuff. Great video. Love your channel 👍
There is also the plastic variant that actually works better as it tends to get less cheese sticking to it and it's not like the edge wont cut, despite being plastic.
It's a good way to cut butter too.
the locks for the inside doors are standardised, you can buy the keys at most locksmiths really cheap (50 :- or so). and they come 9/10 times with the apartment, never moved into a apartment it was missing in. ( you dont get one for every door tho usually )
rugs for the floors was more popular in the 60s to 80s, ceiling fans is more used in rooms with High ceilings to get the heat from the top down to mix it with the cold air
Great video man!!
3:45 Carpets were popular a couple of decades ago, my parents had it until I started developing allergic reactions as a small child and they removed them, also they were dirt and dog-hair magnets and if you spill on them it's pretty much there forever. I think the only place you might find them today is old buildings that haven't been renovated since the 70's or 80's.
I can only speak for my family, but we go by if the door is closed, you’re not going in that room, or at least you knock first or ask the owner of the house if you are visiting. I don’t even lock the bathroom door in my own home unless I have guests over. If the door is open, it’s free, if not, it’s occupied, don’t go in then
Another swede here. When my parents bought a semi detached house (radhus) in the 90s it had carpeted hallways and stairwell. It was one of the first things that was renovated to wooden floors in the hallways but the stairwell (U-shaped of course) still has the carpet.
The hallway is an old thing. older houses were less insulated, as well as poorer heating. then it was common with two doors in the hall, because in the winter you did not want to let the cold directly into the house. they opened the front door, went in and took off all wet outerwear and shoes. then they went in through the inner door and closed it. then not much cold air entered the house.
well air conditioning is pretty useless here, i live in north in sweden, and we have like a couple of days in the summer with extreme heatwaves, so out of 365 days of year u have use for it maybe 20 days xD just not worth it. a simple fan will do the trick for those days.
i am swede and my old childhood room had carpet and so did our spiral staircase was carpet covered that did lead do the top floor hall (which also was carpet) and the hall/stair was red carpet and my room was dark blue
When I grew up we had a ceiling-fan in our livingroom and I'm from Sweden!
was very common with a hallway on older houses. the houses were not so well insulated at that time and they had two doors. in the foyer they took off dirty shoes and wet outerwear because they did not want to get it into the house, they only opened one door at a time in the winter so that cold air and snow did not blow into the house.
Yeah, carpeting as many has said, went out of style. My grandparents put one in their bedroom in the 60´s or 70´s and it stayed for as long as they lived there but it was the first thing to go when my uncle took over their old house! As for fans, we used it to spread the heat from our furnace (I grew up in northern sweden were we more often use fire to heat the home up) but when we installed a more effectiv heat pump the need for the fan went away. There is already fairly good ventilation in most homes or people are fine with open windows. Rarely get as hot as many american areas neither, both regarding fans but AC as well.
We had carpets in the stairs and rooms on the second floor of the house I grew up in. Now it's just in the stairs which is good so the steps are not as slippry. Carpets is nice for the feets but not for much else ^^
Hey! Found you on here too 😁 Must start to say that I used to have carpeting in the house I grew up in AND ceiling fan! 😅 I think it’s just “outdated” here in Sweden. Maybe the states just need to update their game 😉
Looking at many homesites here in the US it appears newer homes have generally replaced carpets with tile and wood. I got rid of all my carpets 15 yrs ago or the same reasons many cited below. I still see a lot of ceiling fans which I never liked.
Yep, my entire house is tiled. The only bit of 'carpet' that I have is about two foot square that I step on when I get out of the shower.
Hi! An Aussie nere living in Sweden! The house i live in is a 60’s built house and also my partners Brother also lives in a 70s built house - they both have a lot of carpet (we took out all the carpet here, it was in the hallway, bedrooms). There are 2 or 3 sections that dont have it but i think carpet was a trend around this time! :)
Really loved this video. Right on the spot. Wonder though if cheese slicer could be ok to say than cutter??
Nice to see you back...and nice haircut🙋♂️
Cheese plane har jag sett den heta utomlands - direkt översatt.
the reason for the cheese slicer, is it's natural ability to stop people from getting all them health problems... 😂
shoehorn is a must... for slipping on them winter boots easily on and off. After a muddy day, using it to get out of the boots is also nice not just getting them on.
Actually, "osthyvel" cheese plane. As in a carpenter's tool.
We take our shoes/boths off, because it is impolite to drag in snow. The shoes get a chance to dry too.
If you go to a party, dinner, you bring along indoor shoes. Many people, especially older people, keep slippers for guests. Floors can be quite cold in winter.
Not having nailed in place, wall to wall carpeting is because snow, dirt does get dragged in. Cleaning a carpet/rug that you can take up is much easier.
What you need in Sweden is keeping your home warm.
Central heating.
Thanks for the video.
Not sure about the rest of sweden, but in my social circle in Gothenburg use "shoe horns" mainly to put shoes on.
What is great about being Swedish is that you can find the things you miss from home at IKEA (like the cheese cutter or ost hyvel asit is in Swedish)... I visit IKEA at least a couple of times a year, especially at Christmas (for Christmas smorgas bord) and when I need to get some descent quality kitchen utensils for cheap (I can buy cheap utensils at other places... but if I want something that have the same quality or better than IKEA, then I have to pay 4-5 times what I pay at IKEA!).
I had carpet in my first apartment, I didn't put that darn thing there, the previous owner did, I removed it, it was disgusting lol
There are standard locks on the doors inside the apartment, you can buy the keys you want in any hardware store...
Visste inte jag 😆
Yeah, i even got a key for the locks in my 60´s apartment at a small key and shoe service shop at the local shopping center.
I think that older homes with older doors have the locks, but newer ones don't.
It's good to walk on carpets when it's cold. When smart home heating became available, the carpets were removed.
Ceiling fans replace modern air conditioning systems that appeared in the 90s
I'm from Ukraine
I'm as a swede pretty sure that the increase in AC is due to the increased interest in Air-Air heatpumps as a supplement to a boiler. You thereby get the AC for free since you can run it in reverse. Standalone AC units have never been big here.
Most swedish homes have locks on all doors, but usually no one knows were the key is, because nobody has ever used them (except for the bathroom, but there it's just lockable from the inside, and no key is needed).
In the 70's there was carpeting in ALL homes that was build. In the bedrooms and the "gillestuga" at least.
Up to 1985 most people had carpets but it totaly disapeared after 1990. Like youre videos. Im born in sweden and some of the stuff Ive never thought of like the hallway in every home :)
Electric outlets are reversable in sweden vs us. You can put a grounded (3 wire) coord up or down.
It was very common and popular in the end of the 60s and whole of the 70s with carpeting in Sweden.
We tore out most of them later in the 80s due to hygiene and allergies.
In the house i grew up in we had both carpets and ceiling fans. But the house was a build in -79 and a bit outdated.
my childhood friend's house had one room with full carpet (old house too from like the 40s or something, probably put the carpet in a few decades after that), but it's extremely rare.
carpets where pretty common in the 80s.. but they are so hard to keep clean compared to hardwood floors etc..
I used to have a ceilingfan when i was younger 😄. It was very popular back in the 80’s early 90’s. Also wall to wall carpet went out of fashion in the 80’s. Easier to clean a floor i guess.
I've lived in Sweden my entire life, and growing up we lived in a house. We had wall to wall carpeting in our living room and a ceiling fan. The interesting thing is, my dad's from the states, so maybe he had an influence on those things. Also, I can't recall ever being in another home in sweden with wall to wall carpeting or a ceiling fan. 😀
Woho. Finally part 2. Had a cealing fan in my first apartment. It was ugly, helt together with duct tape and it only had one speed working. But damn it coult circulate the air :D Have rather been missing it these past couple of years. Need to get an AC
I have never owned a shoehorn and im almost 50, but we had some when i grew up, but not that jumbo size, they were like 20 cm long or so. I have locks on all the doors in my apartment from the 60´s.
I lived in Washington State for 16.5 years and most homes and apartments don't have air conditioning there either. Thr weather is always nice and cool. They do have central heating though because it gets cold in the winter. My bills were like $ 30.00 over there.
No more buddy! After this summer, everyone wants ac
Sounded a bit like you said "Ostjävel!" 😂 I applaud your effort though! 😁👍
That cheese cutter is the most annoying thing in my house... my family use it, but I prefer to cut cheese with a knife. That shoe horn is the Ikea classic lol! Almost every Swedish home has them. Toilets and bathrooms in Swedish homes usually have locks. We have a thing called knocking before entering ;) Houses in Sweden also have airconditioners. They double up as heaters and conditioners and are usually found high up on a wall int he house, with a large fan/condenser system attached to the outside of the house. Very very common. In fact in my home, the only room heating we have is this system and a fire place... our home is open plan so both these systems are way more efficient than radiators.
Spot on!
Carpets were popular in Swedish homes during the 60-70s, but were later considered unhygienic and bad for allergies. They are starting to come back now that “hypoallergenic” carpets are available (but only in bedrooms and walk in closets).
In Sweden, light fixtures and ceiling fans are seen as interior decoration and are therefore often replaced depending on trends. Ceiling fans were removed from Swedish homes in the late 80s because they were “out of fashion”. Unlike other trends this one has not made a come back (yet).
Carpeting was a common thing in the 70s. I had a ceiling fan in the 90s
When I grew up in the seventies there was a craze to install wall to wall carpets. Everyone did it. Ten years later the carpets were worn out and everyone tore them out and installed wood flooring instead.
As to ceiling fans, they were never all that popular here even when they were as most popular in the late eighties and now they are quite uncommon. This is strange since a ceiling fan is all that is needed to handle almost all the hot Swedish nights (we do not get that many). I have one installed in my bedroom and it is going nowhere.
My grandfather had a carpet in his living room a real ugly brown thing. I still have my ceeling fan very useful in this brick house, it gets very hot in the summer time.
The house I grew up in in Sweden in the 80's had carpet in the master bedroom.
The first is a Osthyvel and i have 3 of them 😄 second shoehorn (skohorn) and yes i have 2 ceiling fan one in my Livingroom and one in my bedroom (Takfläkt) ... in the summer here it gets so hot so i am glad my father helped me with the ceiling fan 💙
A takfläkt. How 80th of you :D
Carpeting and ceiling fans were popular during the 70s and 80s. Everyone were smoking inside and i remember homes where the carpet, wallpapers and ceiling had the same nikontingula colour. Nasty! 😝🤣🤎🧡👌
And that's probably why they haven't come back, although i think the ceiling fan is about to have a revival. 🤔
Hallways is a necissity in Sweden because the hard weather winter times, when a lot of clothes are needed and to keep the dirty shoes. On the county side, in old cabins and houses you always have had this vestibules to leave shoes, clothes, (and in old times rifles) and so on. It was common with two doors, so the heat in the house could keep the warmth inside, and don´t sip out the door.
I don't think I've ever been in a house or apartment in Scotland which had no hallway, I've seen one or two in England. Sounds like a peculiarity of America, we don't have locks in bedrooms either.
I reinstalled an old ceiling fan this summer that I’d kept since the 80-ties for some reason. Realised that they actually are useful when it’s hot, they are quiet although quite ugly. Less power consuming than an AC of course. AC is a bit overrated, especially in a nordic climate.
I installed a wall-to-wall carpet in my hobby room this year. They are allergy-proof nowadays. And they are super nice to walk on.
they are not really - the glue they used was made from grind out corpses like roadkill ( 1980s maybe later ) and the protein which they still use can decompose and smell really really bad and in moist mold - So maybe they dont tell the truth is usa ?
the protein is called kasein as i remember
@@jari2018 Kasein was used as ingredient in float putty during the 70’s and really 80’s. It’s not used anymore.
Some more differences: 1. Garbage disposal grinder in the sink. Very common in the US, and super rare in Sweden. 2. En suite bathrooms, very common in the US and rare in Sweden.
Celingfan was a thing that some more posh-homes had in the 80’s. Usually in the gillestuga or bedroom. But the type of material was like dark wood and rotting. So when the 90’s came they got dated and unmodern
In Australia ceiling fans are everywhere. In New Zealand quite rare, we are a bit colder
Hallways/foyer is specified in the building statutes, as is (or was at least) the rule that the toilet door can't be visible from the entrance.
My grandparents house have carpets on the 1st floor and in the ground floor bedrooms but not in kitchen and living room. I think that house was built in the 60s when it probably was fairly common. However I have never seen it in any newer home since they are generally considered hard to keep clean and not that stylish in general. Just to be clear im swedish.
As already mentioned.... In Sweden we used to have both fixed carpets and ceiling fans but they have come and gone in periods because of health issues, quality and trends.
The house my mother lives in had carpeting on the second floor when she moved in but we ripped it up and threw it out. She still has carpeting on the stairs going up to the second floor, though.
My grandparents had an old house where there was one big carpet that covered every single room, except for the kitchen and bathroom of course, even on the staircase. And in the living room, they also hade special fabric wallpaper, wish I could show a picture :D Nowadays carpets are more common in offices than in homes.
And am I the only one that doesn't have a shoehorn because I use a boot jack (stövelknäckt) instead? It's so cute, looks like a bug.
The carpets and ceiling fans were popular in the 80s in Sweden.
We put in carpet in my daughters room. But we tore it out within 3 years because it was so hard to keep clean.
I lived in Stockholm for many years. You're spot on. Don't listen to this trolls in the chat. You're explaining very well
We had a ceiling fan in the uppstairs living room in the house where I grew up. Probably because in the summer the entire second floor turned in to an oven😝
Its common having a fan above the stairs to push heat down again during winter aswell.
wall to wall carpet (heltäckningsmatta) was common in Sweden in the 70's
My nana, bless her heart has both carpeting and a ceiling fan😁
Most of the time when you see an AC in a house in Sweden, itts an air source heat pump, that often cant be used as an AC, but may not be used as that, since thwe electrisity is expensive and its not often that hot that you actually needv one
Was thinking this too. We installed an air-air heatpump a few years ago for heating our house. It's on 24/7 november to march and off most of the spring, summer and autumn, but it's really nice to have the ability to chill down the inside air a few degrees on the hottest days of summer. Especially before bedtime. When I visited the states I noticed they use their air conditioners A LOT more than we do, like all the time.
@@carlkolthoff5402 Quite a few people use the air-to-air heat pumps for cooling in the summer, even though they where installed for heating during the good months.
The ability to use it for cooling is a nice bonus.
US houses are generally buildt to much lower quality, so they heat up a lot faster in the sun. That means they are horrible in warm months without A/C.
I guess it was a lot to do with electricity prices. Low prices makes it cheaper than building a more expensive house.
Yeah, very uncommon with locks on "inside" doors, it's common with keyholes, but there never exists any key lol.
My in-laws used to have carpet in their livingroom (a green one from the ~70s) they got rid of it durikg renovation a few years back. It's very uncommon in general.
Growing up in Sweden my family from I was born for 11 years to 1989 had a carpet ( heltäckningsmatta) in the livingroom , ( I think my dad put it in ,in the 60s when it was populaire.)
It was redbrown and it was so ugly and ( äcklig ) I hated it I remember spilling milk on it My parents never really deep cleaned it.😆 We moved to a new apartment 1989 No more carpet😅😀I was so happy.
Ost - Cheese, Hyvel - Plane tool: They are as common as knifes and forks.
Wall-to-wall carpets: Nah, they feel impractical and unhygienic.
Shoe horn: Reduces wear-and-tear of back-lining from putting shoes on.
I'm not sure, but I think you missed one other common difference, the front door, in US it usally opens in to the building while in Sweden almost always it opens out.
I think that building codes in Sweden even requires them to open outwards.
@@SirIdot Yup, you are right. It is a fire emergency requirement. In case of a fire people might get trapped behind doors going inwards if a lot of people try to evacuate the building at the same time.
@@dvogonen I believe that is same reasoning, but opposite in the USA, the doors open inwards, so firemen easily can breach a house on fire.
I oz öppnar man inåt o släpper in solen här öppnar man utåt o puttar bort snön😂
@@dvogonen I guess that's correct, but I've heard that most old houses in Norrland (the northern half of Sweden) have doors opening inwards because they won't be trapped inside if there has been snowing heavily during the night. I've almost never been to Norrland so I can't confirm though.
I've lived in Sweden now for 9 years. Everywhere I have lived here, the floor of the shower stall is continuous and open to the rest of the bathroom floor ,that is , there i s no barrier between them. After the shower, you use a long-handled squeegee to get the water from the bathroom floor into the shower drain. I cannot understand why this is so. Tack.
I still have several wall-to-wall carpets in my (Swedish) home. They were very popular in the '70s and I guess most Swedes do more home renovation than I do...
Air conditioning is rarely needed here, as Sweden roughly covers the same latitudes as Alaska. Are they common in Anchorage?
carpets on the floors where common in the70s aswell as the fan
Thankfully the only carpet I've ever seen in Sweden was at my grandma's. She put it in during the 60's or 70's and it was still there when I grew up in the 90's.
If you ever see a ceiling fan in Sweden you'll probably scream "omg, that's so retro!".
About the locks though, I've lived in Sweden all my life and have never seen a bedroom without them. 🥴 It's not the same kind of lock as in the bathroom, but there's a lock with a little key. The key is probably lost by a previous owner though, and most people don't bother getting a new one, but the lock is there.
But the key is a dirt cheap standard bedroom key. You can buy the keys at any hardware store.
With some manners you never need to lock the bedroom door. Closed door = knock and wait for response.
Ceiling fans were more popular in Sweden during the 80's and 90's. Me and my partner bought one for each room now and I love them during the summer.
What about window screens to keep the bugs out?