yes but also as a general reminder these regional definitions aren't some kind of god given truth or geographical fact but a convention. similar to number of continents which we have a pretty poor definition of and just picked some areas for historical reasons (many countries teach model where they either combine the americas or eurasia), denmark is in scandinavia but is not on the scandinavian peninsula while part of finland is on the peninsula but isn't part of scandinavia. just to say go easy on people who say scandinavia when they mean nordics, it'll take time to correct past habits and it's not that big of a deal in grand scheme of things
@@snooks5607 People have had a lot of time to learn the facts. RUclips alone is full of videos about the said topic yet people are too lazy to check them and learn. It is not about habits. It is the same for me to use word Northern America instead of USA when speaking of USA. Or using the word Ireland when speaking of both North and South Ireland. Keep spreading wrong terminology and it will never go away. So yeah. There is no excuse to not use the correct terminology after years of option to learn the correct terminology.
@@SlendisFi_Universe that's different usa is a country, scandinavian isn't a nationality or a country it's a region. iberian region also includes vague parts of southern france although some people claim no part of france is iberian while historically it was defined by river Ebro which would make even Barcelona not Iberian. it's vague but for some reason people of that area don't seem to care much about this particular distinction even though otherwise they are famously fiercely protective of other cultural distinctions. I agree that people should say nordic for the wider region when that's what they're talking about, I simply disagree that the distinction is so important as to have to read comments about it in every video I see either one mentioned even when they're used correctly.
@@snooks5607 As said. Many opportunities to learn the difference. And I will keep correcting this issue until I see people use the correct terminology. Just like I keep telling people how sauna is pronounced correctly.
Yes, the clas A plywood is a verry high end material with exeptional qualities, it coulden't even be compared with shippboard when it comes to quality and strength. in Sweeden birtsh plywood are mainly used as instalattion wall under wettwalls in toilet and shower walls. But these in genneral thick boards (upp to 32mm) are verry expensive and you can go around the rools here by gluing two thinner plywoodboards together with a special glue to aquire the same measurments, you can also glue the wet wall plasterboards onto the wall and onto eatsh other for a super steardy and water tollerant construktion with no pockets of air and therefor limited oxygen thath can help mold-growth if the water sealant film is broken.
You should watch the video about Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process. It is how they used to build log houses before electric tools, using mainly axes and such. The oldest log building in US was built by Finns, C. A. Nothnagle Log House.
yes, it can be very very dangerous if made even the slightest error .. the problem is usually one of the components is uneven spread troug the material that never fully cure, wich can lead to chemicals being leaked out for a very very long time (even years) .. u may not even notice it until its to late, it can create a number of problems, allergic reactions, sthma, rashes that will never go away, reproduction system damages etc ..
Asbestos has been banned in Sweden since 1975 .. and been stripped from older buildings since .. i think there still may exist some cultural heritage buidings when its planned to be removed when its time to renovate by special ppl certified to do so safely ..
No. You are dangerously mistaken if you believe asbestos has been stripped from old buildings. It is still there and allowed to remain there and if you renovate old bathroom tiles or something you must check for it.
I’m an Swedish carpenter, and this is how we build houses in Sweden…🙂. We even ” passiv” houses, that does’nt need radiators to keep warm, bodyheat vill do the jobb.. But thats another story…
OSB, or striling board in the uK to a lay man is similar to ply wood, but in many ways its very different. Ply is built up of different layers rotated at 90 degrees to each other, giving strength and rigidity in both directions. OSC is different, in many ways its more like chip board. it is built up of compressed thin pieces of wood, glued and pressurised, but in random directions. Thing about an area of ground that in the fall gets covered by many large leaves, and you are most of the way there to understanding OSB. It doesnt respond well to moinsture, much worst than non marine ply. its benifit is that itsa much cheaper than the equlivalent thickness ply sheet
34:21 In Sweden it's not legal to do water and power without certification, if you do it and are found out the house will become uninsurable. If you sold the house to some one else and they did that through a mortgage the bank could legaly foreclose and you could get sued. So if you would do this it wouldn't be a great idea to put it in a video on RUclips.
Basically, anyone can do water and electricity but before connecting it has to be certified... and good luck finding anyone to sign a cert they didn't actually see how it was done.. They would have to go thru EVERY join and junction.. Or risk losing their license if they sign it and the house burns down. It is illegal to connect non certified circuits to the power grid. Same with water, you can do anything you like with it but can't connect it to the mains.. That is straight up illegal. Illegally connecting to a mains or grid comes with hefty fines and possible prison sentence.
@@squidcaps4308 That is what I meant. Hire a guy checking all the things. If you know how to do it, it cheaper even it takes time for the pro to carefully go everything trough. If you dont know how do to it, then it is just waste of time and money. Basic house-electricity is not a rocket science, but must always be evaluated with someone with proper licence. there's lot of potential hazards what layman might not see. e: Finn here, but I think we have about hte same rules.
I live in Norway. My father built, and drew this house himself. I moved back here because both my parents are very ill and in a care home about 5 km away. So I'm helping them out. Point being. Here there is a basement, with concrete walls making out the fundation of the house. I shall not go into detail. But we dug out the basement, filled it with about a feet of gravel and made a floor of cement about 20 cm thick. Exept for the basement walls (the foundation) the rest is wood.
@McJibbin: interesting video for me to watch - I have building houses all my life, 1st. as a Carpenter, then 2nd. As a Construction Engineer - - all over western Europe and Greenland - theres so many aspects you have to take into account, like weather, - ground, - housetype, - location, - groundwater high, - Radon, - ect. And I did build my own house back in 1980 (every evening after 8 hours of "carpenter-work"), a completly diff. type/way than shown in this video, - the reason was that my place was in Northern Jutland/DK - a vary different weather type, and soil. Good luck with your project.
About the vapor barrier in the wall: It definately needs to be on the inside, since the the condensation is due to temperature loss in the warm, moist inside air rather than the outside air. The vapor barrier is also important for the inside climate, as it makes the house "air tight" and therefor the supply air can be properly planned and executed (in Sweden we also always aim for a slight underpreassure in the house, so that no airflow can go outwards into the building envelope where the vapor barrier might be damaged or such). There are also regulations about the supply and exhaust air flow, and that in itself goes into the energy calculations which are also important since energy requirements for heating are also highly regulated to be as low as possible.
He raises the floor trusses just like my dad. Who also learned it from the "elders". But dad also tauht to put down sheets for standing and not walk on the floor beams if you don't have to... Even two sheets that you move along makes a TON of difference. Just being able to sit for 2 minutes, place down tools and the boxes of screw/nail boxes.
I've never seen anything but solid copper wire in installations, in Europe. I don't even think braided wires are legal. In Denmark, we use solid copper wires, in conduits. There's no issues pulling the wires through, as long as the conduits were properly fastened. Cables are also allowed (because of EU), but I'm glad this was approved after I stopped working as a house electrician (basically after I graduated). I would never personally buy a house with cables. There's no chance of replacing the wires.
@@darkiee69 What I understand as braided cable, is like the cable you use in appliances, speaker wires, the cable from your washing machine to the wall, etc. We have two words in Danish, "kabel", which is stiff cable for installation, and "ledning", which is flexible wire. Although a "kabel" can also be a soft cable, like for industrial machines, a "ledning" can never describe a cable.
@@akyhneI was under the impression that "ledning" describes only a single insulated wire for phase or ground for example. While "kabel" consists of several single insulated wires which are also insulated so it become double insulated .
Hi, i had both of electric heat cable, inside the water pipe and on the outside. Roof tiles is made of clay or concrete. Building a wall its more common to not use plywood/OSB on the outside of the wall bec Tyvek/asfaboard let the wall breathe better, we use it on the inside. The moisture comes from the inside of the house and we do not want it to go in to the constructions. Notice that we do not need to crawl under the floor joists, we can install the 1x4 in the joist before w install the joists, then we can do every thing from inside the house. What happend if you not use a preinstall tube for wireing and you get a nail hitting the wire. Then you must install a new wire on the outside of the wall or open the hole wall. We also want our floor to be inside the house and not under the wall connect to the outside. The wooden planks we normal use on the roof comes pre installed like a board sheet with different C/C lenght so its easy and quick to install.
In Canada the latest insulation standards came out not too long ago and because of it I have a feeling they will be building houses very much to this standard with the 6 inch walls to get 20R insulation. We don't usually heat our pipes but they do bury them below frost depth to counteract this.
Vapour barrier on the warm side is the latest and most modern way to build a wall or create a warm space. It prevents leaks and air movement feom the outside as well as preventing moisture from collecting slong the drywall level where you have the warm and cold temps meeting. When insulsting walls it is also the latest and greatest to use a method called breaking... Where you have the ordinary insulation layer in between the studs and then a 5R insulstion layer overtop of it on the outside of the house. This method is also very effective for sound proofing.
@@jaripukki267 And yet, I have installed several kilometers of freeze prevention cables to water pipes, sewers and rainwater systems in southern Finland. Insulation is not enough, if the water isn't running constantly. I have seen frozen water pipe with 30 mm glued flexible foam and 200 mm rockwool around it, with a bit too weak trace heat cable. -20C and 2 week vacation, when there wasn't anyone using the water was too much for it. The cable used there was 10 W/m and only went straight through one time. We added another 18/36 W self limiting cable beside it. Those trace heating cables are everywhere around here, if you know where to look.
As for cables being and electrician I can fill in that cables here in Finland are all solid wire double insulated cables and electrical piping was and is used only when you don't have double insulated cable available (then you have to use single strands of solid insulated wire) or if there is a risk for cable damage from abrasion or other reasons. I've never seen flex cables used in a construction except as low voltage cables, flex for 240v is used only in commercial / industrial settings.
in skandinavia, we use corigated pipes for electrics, and we have plastic boxes ( as you would see in another video he made ) the cables comes either pre pulled or you can pull them your self. lets say you was going for a higher gauge on the said outputs you already have you just pull the existing cables and re pull new ones. there is either 2 or 3 cables ( 2 live and 1 ground ( and no not braid'ed ( as you braid hair ) as stated in the video but twisted ) in the conduit, you can buy them in 50mtr or 100meters boxes. the water lines are pipe in pipe setup, if inner pipe burst's, the outer pipe holds the water so it dont ruin the floors or walls or roofs ( depending on where it burst's ), just pull out the bursted inner line and replace it with a new inner one and your up and running again and you dont have to take down walls or roofs ( or where ever it goes ). on the roof we use either clay tiles or metal roofing, most of the old houses use slate tiles either in droplet or squares ( you can buy for new houses too but not same quality ). for wallboxes for power outlets google elko wall box ( one of menny ), so if you get a box that is grounded ( well you have metal boxes in the US ) you dont get shocked.
heating cable in the waterpipe is not uncommon at all if you have your own well, we have a 25 meter cable in our pipe,the well is about 30 meters from the house, and the pipe is laying pretty shallow,so to prevent it from freezing in the wintertime,this heatcable is on a timer, 15 minutes every 6 hours, whitstands negative 30 C whit ease
Wood has low thermal conductivity and therefore high heat-insulating capacity. Wooden houses stay warm easier than stone buildings that get colder and colder as the winter goes on and the stone cools down. Makes sense why Nordic houses have traditionally been all wood.
Yes. Scandinavian houses are better. So much better. Thats because we start building even under the house. And all stuff is high guality. One median size (150m2) house takes usualluy at least 2 years to build and cost 3-400000€,and its only basic, not so fancy.
There are diffrent wite types for post installation in conduits. Nk =one fk=like 5 strands mk =many more strands Standard cable area for max 13 amp is 1.5 square mm. 2400w 16 amp is 2.5 square mm. 3600w If there is need for more power like stoves ,waterheaters and electric heating ,heat pumps. They use 3 phase 400 v power The conduits are 16 0r 22 mm diameter, but there is bigger (like 50mm) and smaller pipes the smaller is mostly used for floorheat censors . (like 10 mm) There is pvc free plastic without flame redarder and softner additives Or pvc insulated with these additives to choose from , Both i cabels and conduit. The installation boxes for electricity goes on installation wall wood inside the plastic layer there is a telescopic ring in the box that goes through the hole that is cut in the inside wall layers ,the ele equipment is fastened to the ring.
My dad and I built my house in rural Sweden when I was in my late twenties. I basically made the floor plans and the overall design and he, being an engineer, provided the nessecary know-how. To make things less expensive we also made most of the wood boards (he has a very small saw mill) so first we spent a lot of time cutting down trees and pulling them home on sleds on the snow, then cutting the logs up and letting them dry. The house is about 1000sqf and mostly constructed in the same way as shown in this video.
Not sure if I misunderstood, but the normal way of installing electric cables are through plastic tubes, with a line lying there to pull the cable. And the voltage doesn't really matter, the reason for thicker cords is for safety in general. And is it standard in th US to have grounded electriciy? That makes for an extra cord inside the cable, which makes it bigger
1kW machine takes 4A at 225V and 8A at 112V. With higher voltage the current will be in general lower. Lower current = less thickness of the power cable. To my 105m2 home (4 people) I just have a 16A fuse. But because its 3 faze and 400V we never have had a power failure. Even if we both run the electric oven, micro, tumble dryer and dishwasher at the same time. Its heated by central heating system pipe from the government. Also one nice thing to see in Sweden. You now days more or less newer see any power cables in the sky. It just those transmitting lines between cities that have them. All other ones are in the ground instead.
I'm currently following my brother's process of building a countryside/summer house (we're in Sweden) on his own, so this is very interesting to me. The old house on the property my brother bought is no longer fit to live in or renovate, so it'll be torn down. He's going to check with fire department if they want to use it for practice and torch it. Fun times :)
People building houses by them self is not that uncommon, I helped my father out building a house 20 years ago, he's built an other one by him self after that. He wasn't even a carpenter but had dreamt of being a furniture carpenter in his youth. His day job was a telecom executive and the second house was built in his retired years. My grand father on my mothers side also built him self a house, he was a mansion by trade and when around demolition sites and requested spare brick that he cleaned and laid into a new house. So at least in my family this is the thing you do.
I've heard screws can't be used in certain applications because they are not good with sheer forces and tend to snap and break unexpectedly where nails are very good at preventing this. I use screws for everything I can because it forces to surfaces together and keeps them there. When doing flooring an additional measure is carpenters glue with screws. They best way would still be screwless with joints being interlocking, but it is too time consuming.
electric heated waterline is usaly done in 2 ways a single heat element running the lenght inside the pipe, or a dual pipe with a heatelement wrapped around the inner pipe with a second cover pipe outside, it usaly comes with 2 powersettings, defrost and continous opperating power. and ofcorse off. This video is only 1 option for nordic house building, 1 floor and 2 floor houses are pretty common, usaly with basement as the 1 floor, often also a 3 floor under the sealing for bedroms or a second livingroom or both. it just all depends on cost.
I used to work as a diamond driller and borer, I COMPLETELY understand your fear of big blades.. Try working with a bonghead, a meter in diameter blade, to cut through concrete, dude got stuck and the damn machine ran away from him... luckily noone got hurt.. But that kind of blade scare the shit out of me...!!
31:55 a screw gun is really quite fast. Takes less than a second to screw one in. The main issue is you only have like 50 screws in the magazine so you need to reload all the time.
Building permits in Sweden wasn't always this way. But in the 1960's the government overbuilt housing in the "million programme" where they built a million houses and apartments in a rent controlled environment. When rent control was relaxed there was a massive surplus of housing so the government in it's wisdom made building permits harder to get. Before that you didn't really need building permits for a lot of things especially in the countryside. And municipalities had area planning not specific house planning.
27:45 In the USA, it is common to use various agents and additives in all materials, so also in foodstuffs, which for a reason are prohibited in the EU.
29:40 the tung and grew.board is not very rain sensetive. So if its exposed to rain a few days is not really a issue. It just need to be dry when the surface layer is put on. This is a problem with osb or plywood that really dont like rain.
OSB is wood chips compressed and glued together to form plywood. Regular plywood is thin layers of wood compressed and glued together. OSB is the cheapest and worse type of plywood you can have because it is very susceptable to moisture and falls apart fast when introduced to moisture. Best plywood would be form plywood or thick plywood that is also pressure treated. Just recently used 5/8" form ply on the outside of a crawlspace i was insulating and modernizing and it is incredibly tough and strong.
Electrical conduite: Braded wires are easier to pull through the conduite because the wire i flexible and can bend easily around corners inside the conduite. A solid wire would be impossible to pull through a long conduite with many bends
The first minutes construction is typical nordic bulding style and when it comes to spacing and timber size. Basements are not allowed in sweden nowdays as sewage systems are put more shallow. In some areas you can get allowed to make a basement but often it is quite expensive due to alot of extra sewage stuff you need to make. Most commonly you make a concrete plate with water based heating integrated in it. Many countries buy swedish timber as it is better suited for house building, higher quality. Mostlty spruce and pine. 17:30 sweden uses hammer bands, stronger with less material. C-beam is hammer band on both sides, both outboard and inboard. 22:00 most common is to use floorboards (OSB) that you switch to use as wall boards. And then add other floorboards that are thicker. OSB is rough shavings that are press glued, cheap but strong. 37:40 no plywood is laminated wood with the grain rotated 90 deg in each layer. 29:30 I guess he just wanted to make as much as possible before the rain :). 32:00 yes the swedes use both nails and screws just the way you explained. 34:00 With insulation you want to have it ventilated due to moist but still important to prevent the air to move to much within the insulation. I agree that the inside plastic is better due to the natural ventilation from the outside air. 40:30 as we have an extra insulating wall 2in thick we can put the outlets on boards so they level out with the inner wall surface.
Many times basement works bad due to it get flooded to easy in many spots. And hard to get the draining work well or it's pure rock and who want to pay to blow that open for a basememt?
It's normal for people to build own house in Europe. And yes we do plumbing and electric wiring too. but you need to have a professional inspecting and connecting the electrical utility box. I'm Currently building a wood heated cabin with plumbing/ normal water toilet and 48v solar to 230v wall outlets... I have no building education..
If you have dry eyes you need to drink more water. I used to get dry eyes when i worked nights and i realised i was just not drinking enough and it made the eyes feel like i had lemon in them.
You can buy materials beforehand and add notes to the blueprint like ; not to scale. But they must obviously be of similar quality to that of the blueprints. - Dont forget, buildingcode is just the bare minimum. You can build better than "to code", and it often happens that peeps build better. Most european houses are build to last
The rock comment is strange (from the orginal channel dude I mean). You can remove rock.I remember my father doing it with something called snail dynamite. You drill holes into the rock and fill it with the compound, it will expand and break the rock.
My father was an Architect, so I know a bit of house construction. There are regulations for dimentions and how big of an angle the roof has to be, depending on where in Sweden
I was half way in, before I realized this is a Swedish guy talking with an American bot, on how he builds houses in Sweden. I thought it was an American guy, building in the US.
We acculy have earthquakes in sweden. Felt a few of them. Even big enoth to move funitures and everything vibrates. Most are not noticed. 5.4 is the biggest one so far. But that was long time ago. But a fe 3 or 4 we have here and there so yes it's calculated to hold for earthquakes to
He forgets one very important country....... Japan! They makes a lot of wooden houses and do this with out nails and screws in traditional houses!! When he talks about Scandinavian standards he is wrong in his assumptions of equal standards due to storms and wind influence! In Denmark the roof of our houses are anchored in the foundation from the load bearing beam of the roof construction every 3 - 3,5 metres (9,84 - 11,48 ft.)!! Also called the strap of roof construction! All this because of our massive coastline around of the country and we have some pretty hefty storms here with wind speeds up to 160 km/h (approx. 100 miles), so not the same exact codes in all of Scandinavia!!!!! Kindly the Danish Viking
38:00 This is chip boards(OBS) (not Play-wood), its in its name ply-wood - layered board with different grain orientations wich can take alot more than chip boards, chip boards r made of wood chips and glue pressed and baked together under high pressure Edit: unless ur planning on hanging somting weighing a tonne or so on the wall, ply-wood are not really nessesary
guys a carpenter- so am i. its not impressive to solobuild a regular home. ive done it and so have a lot of carpenters, for clients usually. at most there are 2 carpenters on building a house, but rarely more. a few details make it easier than the guy in the video did it tho, in how to build framing aso. not so much on construction, but method. we use a doble top plank tho, in norway. im pretty sure sweden does too, as ive seen a few swedish houses built here. we only use hammerbands over doors and windows aso., wherever the cc is interrupted. based on tolerances we alternatively use steel for hammerband where the width is longer than the wood supports, to avoid sagging. hammerbanding the whole structure, notching like that, is not common at all. we usually add studs for hammerbandsections. making and raising trusses onsite by hand is just stupid. its cheaper and alot faster to order then, and have the package craned onto the frame, and manually place each one. thats a few hours of work, solo. using t&g planks on roof is not common anymore. its usually just streched enviromental fabric. the structural strength is usually not required on most roofs, and the wood will be far to exposed over time. we use nailguns for places where the tortion is not high, and screws where it is higher. a modern nail with glue, like a 90 paslode, is more than a strong connection in 2 inch wood. the waporbarrier he puts in
as an electrician in Norway, the US and the UK is particularly crazy far behind in technology and standards unfortunately.. the gap between norway and the us is like 30 years, its not even a joke
You dont need to buy a head of time. Just go to a surply website. Fill in everything you need. And 2 days later a dude with a truck dumps it of in your yard.
It's a bit of a shame, but there are almost no houses built in Sweden with a basement any longer. Especially if you hire a building firm to do the job. It really requires too much work to make it to code is what I have heard. I believe the main issues would be regulations regarding radon. When building on a slope (like this guy does) there is also always the issue of drainage as the water that comes from uphill really really wants to go through your house; A crawlspace solution simply lets the water go where it always went, instead of damming it up or risking Mold problems, so I think he made the right choice for the location.. but as I said; regardless of that most homes built today do not have a basement, if you want one it's just easier to buy a home that already have one.
Actual plywood is made up of several "slices" of wood sheets glued together, but every ply turned 90 degrees to the previous. Wood is very strong in one direction but weak in the other. Imagine felling a tree with an axe, how many hits does that take? Then split the same tree with the same axe for firewood. You can easily do it with one hit as you're splitting with the grain. Plywood makes it so there's no "weak" direction. You have individual wood fibers running the length and breadth of the sheet. OSB is just glued together wood chips. The longest wood fiber in there is like 2-3 inches. There's very little structural integrity to it compared to plywood of the same dimension.
Since you are on a construction binge, here is a short video where an American steps into an Icelandic house construction and points out interesting differences. ruclips.net/video/7RuTizbnH4s/видео.html
Crawl spaces are considered "risk constructions", since the space actually can cause moisture problems and rot due to the temperature differences in the crawl space and the outside air. You have to create a good airflow in order to minimize that risk, and a common way to do that when building new houses is using mechanical ventilation in the crawl space.
@@fiskmasadventures Crawl spaces in Swedish houses are not ”sealed” there’s always outside air flowing through but at a low rate so you get both a slight insulating effect and absolutely no moisture in the building. We call this ”självdrag” roughly translated self-ventilation. In Sweden the insurance companies do not consider this any different then a concrete base plate.
@@hellmalm Yes, but fact is crawl spaces is still regarded as risk constructions in Sweden, and insurance often doesn't cover damages from moisture/mold in them. According to Anticimex, almost half of all crawl spaces develops moisture or mold problems. Ventilation is key to prevent it, and "självdrag" is often not enough.
@ That was news to me. Never actually heard anyone having issues with this, unless they didn’t heat their summer house in winter or for similar reasons?
@@hellmalm That I don't know anything about, unfortunately. But in summer the risk is higher, since the warm outside air (containing more moisture) comes in and gets cooled down in the crawl space, and condensates (at the dew point temperature). So in summer you want as little ventilation as possible when using självdrag, while during winter you want more ventilation to let cold, dry air inside the crawl space.
I can understand wood buildings in cold climates, or in remote places. I absolutely do not understand wood-frame buildings in the Southern States of the US, with such high temperatures and extreme humidity. Seems to me you are building a new home for termites, rot and mould ? I'm told that cooling those houses costs more than heating them, so why use wood, when it is difficult to find builders who work to the high specifications needed to guarantee weathertight fully protected and fully insulated houses ? Add to that the often poor quality doors and windows (too thin, sometimes double-glazed but rarely treble-glazed). And the storm/hurricane risks. In Houston I saw entire neighbourhoods that were considered old, and downgraded, at 25-30 years. But new house prices are very high. Doesn't make sense for the homeowners. Only for the builders.
Some tips regarding improving the quality of your videos, 1) No pauses without saying what you are doing- E.g. I'm searching for X, because of Y. 2) Also, keep health stuff out of your videos, hint: eyes 3) Cut stuff, where you're looking at something for a long (more than 2 to 4 seconds) time.
Nah, getting the material beforehand isn't a problem, sufficed you know what you need, the problem with most people is that they don't know or understand for example what a load bearing wall is.
@mcjibbin, most of the time, your comments seem kind of clueless, but this time, you showed that you have a brain and experience in this field! I'm so happy to be wrong! my respect for you has increased a lot. Sorry for being a dick, but that was my subjective opinion.
3:10 title says Scandinavian. Yeah, mainland Europe doesn't. Industrialization took care of that. The average forest cover in Scandinavia is 60% of the total land mass, excluding waterways. Compared to the USA which has a forest cover of 33%, 60% is a lot. Globally when ranking the forested area compared to total land mass, all of the Scandinavian (not you Iceland) rank at the top. That includes countries that have forests like Brazil with the Amazon rainforest which comes really close to countries like Sweden and Finland with total forest land area, although with Brazil, you would need to count in some of the waterways and wetlands.
If Finland is on the list with Sweden, Norway and Denmark, it is no longer Scandinavia. It is NORDICS.
Iceland also Nordic but not Scandinavia.
yes but also as a general reminder these regional definitions aren't some kind of god given truth or geographical fact but a convention. similar to number of continents which we have a pretty poor definition of and just picked some areas for historical reasons (many countries teach model where they either combine the americas or eurasia), denmark is in scandinavia but is not on the scandinavian peninsula while part of finland is on the peninsula but isn't part of scandinavia. just to say go easy on people who say scandinavia when they mean nordics, it'll take time to correct past habits and it's not that big of a deal in grand scheme of things
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People have had a lot of time to learn the facts. RUclips alone is full of videos about the said topic yet people are too lazy to check them and learn. It is not about habits. It is the same for me to use word Northern America instead of USA when speaking of USA. Or using the word Ireland when speaking of both North and South Ireland. Keep spreading wrong terminology and it will never go away.
So yeah. There is no excuse to not use the correct terminology after years of option to learn the correct terminology.
@@SlendisFi_Universe that's different usa is a country, scandinavian isn't a nationality or a country it's a region. iberian region also includes vague parts of southern france although some people claim no part of france is iberian while historically it was defined by river Ebro which would make even Barcelona not Iberian. it's vague but for some reason people of that area don't seem to care much about this particular distinction even though otherwise they are famously fiercely protective of other cultural distinctions.
I agree that people should say nordic for the wider region when that's what they're talking about, I simply disagree that the distinction is so important as to have to read comments about it in every video I see either one mentioned even when they're used correctly.
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As said. Many opportunities to learn the difference. And I will keep correcting this issue until I see people use the correct terminology. Just like I keep telling people how sauna is pronounced correctly.
OSB is made from coarse wood chips. Plywood is made from thin layers of wood.
Yes, at 38:04 he scrolls past all the actual plywood to find OSB and then says "this is plywood".
@@frankkrunkmost people don’t work with wood or in construction whatsoever, so Plywood would be the easiest comparison for most
OSB is basically the pieces that didn't make the cut for plywood.
@@ehsnils nah, the process is completely different, plywood just needs nicer wood, big logs so it's more expensive.
Yes, the clas A plywood is a verry high end material with exeptional qualities, it coulden't even be compared with shippboard when it comes to quality and strength.
in Sweeden birtsh plywood are mainly used as instalattion wall under wettwalls in toilet and shower walls. But these in genneral thick boards (upp to 32mm) are verry expensive and you can go around the rools here by gluing two thinner plywoodboards together with a special glue to aquire the same measurments, you can also glue the wet wall plasterboards onto the wall and onto eatsh other for a super steardy and water tollerant construktion with no pockets of air and therefor limited oxygen thath can help mold-growth if the water sealant film is broken.
"where do you put the outlets???? wherever the fk you want ....... lol
You should watch the video about Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process. It is how they used to build log houses before electric tools, using mainly axes and such. The oldest log building in US was built by Finns, C. A. Nothnagle Log House.
He is not talking about asbestos but about the chemicals (as isocyanates) that are used in foam insulation.
asbestos use was banned year 1989 if member right.there brofed Cansers 35 year
yes, it can be very very dangerous if made even the slightest error .. the problem is usually one of the components is uneven spread troug the material that never fully cure, wich can lead to chemicals being leaked out for a very very long time (even years) .. u may not even notice it until its to late, it can create a number of problems, allergic reactions, sthma, rashes that will never go away, reproduction system damages etc ..
Asbestos has been banned in Sweden since 1975 .. and been stripped from older buildings since .. i think there still may exist some cultural heritage buidings when its planned to be removed when its time to renovate by special ppl certified to do so safely ..
U cant use asbestos here EU. Its against to law....
No. You are dangerously mistaken if you believe asbestos has been stripped from old buildings. It is still there and allowed to remain there and if you renovate old bathroom tiles or something you must check for it.
the roof tiles are made of brick. They are strong and thick. We have roof tiles that are 124 years old on our house, so durable.
tiles def is preferable imo..to shingle if the roof is strong enough
I’m an Swedish carpenter, and this is how we build houses in Sweden…🙂. We even ” passiv” houses, that does’nt need radiators to keep warm, bodyheat vill do the jobb.. But thats another story…
Det är inte vad passivhus betyder 😂
OSB, or striling board in the uK to a lay man is similar to ply wood, but in many ways its very different. Ply is built up of different layers rotated at 90 degrees to each other, giving strength and rigidity in both directions. OSC is different, in many ways its more like chip board. it is built up of compressed thin pieces of wood, glued and pressurised, but in random directions. Thing about an area of ground that in the fall gets covered by many large leaves, and you are most of the way there to understanding OSB. It doesnt respond well to moinsture, much worst than non marine ply. its benifit is that itsa much cheaper than the equlivalent thickness ply sheet
34:21 In Sweden it's not legal to do water and power without certification, if you do it and are found out the house will become uninsurable. If you sold the house to some one else and they did that through a mortgage the bank could legaly foreclose and you could get sued. So if you would do this it wouldn't be a great idea to put it in a video on RUclips.
Also Denmark
i would not be surpised if you just need signature ;)
Yes you can do, but you just need someone with the cert to check it up and give signature to the work done?
Basically, anyone can do water and electricity but before connecting it has to be certified... and good luck finding anyone to sign a cert they didn't actually see how it was done.. They would have to go thru EVERY join and junction.. Or risk losing their license if they sign it and the house burns down. It is illegal to connect non certified circuits to the power grid. Same with water, you can do anything you like with it but can't connect it to the mains.. That is straight up illegal. Illegally connecting to a mains or grid comes with hefty fines and possible prison sentence.
@@squidcaps4308 That is what I meant. Hire a guy checking all the things. If you know how to do it, it cheaper even it takes time for the pro to carefully go everything trough. If you dont know how do to it, then it is just waste of time and money.
Basic house-electricity is not a rocket science, but must always be evaluated with someone with proper licence. there's lot of potential hazards what layman might not see.
e: Finn here, but I think we have about hte same rules.
Heating cable runs parallel with the water pipe inside a insulating coating to hinder it from freezing.
Latitude in Scandinavia is same as northern Canada and Alaska, but we got the gulf stream to warm us up
Its the winds. Not the ocean that warms it up
@@anul6801 100% gulf stream that is pumping heat up there.
I live in Norway. My father built, and drew this house himself. I moved back here because both my parents are very ill and in a care home about 5 km away. So I'm helping them out. Point being. Here there is a basement, with concrete walls making out the fundation of the house. I shall not go into detail. But we dug out the basement, filled it with about a feet of gravel and made a floor of cement about 20 cm thick. Exept for the basement walls (the foundation) the rest is wood.
@McJibbin: interesting video for me to watch - I have building houses all my life, 1st. as a Carpenter, then 2nd. As a Construction Engineer - - all over western Europe and Greenland - theres so many aspects you have to take into account, like weather, - ground, - housetype, - location, - groundwater high, - Radon, - ect.
And I did build my own house back in 1980 (every evening after 8 hours of "carpenter-work"), a completly diff. type/way than shown in this video, - the reason was that my place was in Northern Jutland/DK - a vary different weather type, and soil.
Good luck with your project.
About the vapor barrier in the wall: It definately needs to be on the inside, since the the condensation is due to temperature loss in the warm, moist inside air rather than the outside air. The vapor barrier is also important for the inside climate, as it makes the house "air tight" and therefor the supply air can be properly planned and executed (in Sweden we also always aim for a slight underpreassure in the house, so that no airflow can go outwards into the building envelope where the vapor barrier might be damaged or such). There are also regulations about the supply and exhaust air flow, and that in itself goes into the energy calculations which are also important since energy requirements for heating are also highly regulated to be as low as possible.
Plywood is made out wood sheets glued together, osb is made out of wood chips glued together.
Hi from Finland! Both my grandfathers and my father build houses by themselves like this.
He raises the floor trusses just like my dad. Who also learned it from the "elders". But dad also tauht to put down sheets for standing and not walk on the floor beams if you don't have to... Even two sheets that you move along makes a TON of difference. Just being able to sit for 2 minutes, place down tools and the boxes of screw/nail boxes.
I am from Estonia.. we are under Sweden and historically houses were built from wood.
I've never seen anything but solid copper wire in installations, in Europe. I don't even think braided wires are legal.
In Denmark, we use solid copper wires, in conduits. There's no issues pulling the wires through, as long as the conduits were properly fastened.
Cables are also allowed (because of EU), but I'm glad this was approved after I stopped working as a house electrician (basically after I graduated).
I would never personally buy a house with cables. There's no chance of replacing the wires.
Wrong. braided is used.
@baldis12 Where?
@@akyhne Everywhere. But calling it braided is wrong, it's several thinner wires twisted together then insulated.
@@darkiee69 What I understand as braided cable, is like the cable you use in appliances, speaker wires, the cable from your washing machine to the wall, etc.
We have two words in Danish, "kabel", which is stiff cable for installation, and "ledning", which is flexible wire.
Although a "kabel" can also be a soft cable, like for industrial machines, a "ledning" can never describe a cable.
@@akyhneI was under the impression that "ledning" describes only a single insulated wire for phase or ground for example. While "kabel" consists of several single insulated wires which are also insulated so it become double insulated .
Hi, i had both of electric heat cable, inside the water pipe and on the outside. Roof tiles is made of clay or concrete. Building a wall its more common to not use plywood/OSB on the outside of the wall bec Tyvek/asfaboard let the wall breathe better, we use it on the inside. The moisture comes from the inside of the house and we do not want it to go in to the constructions. Notice that we do not need to crawl under the floor joists, we can install the 1x4 in the joist before w install the joists, then we can do every thing from inside the house. What happend if you not use a preinstall tube for wireing and you get a nail hitting the wire. Then you must install a new wire on the outside of the wall or open the hole wall. We also want our floor to be inside the house and not under the wall connect to the outside. The wooden planks we normal use on the roof comes pre installed like a board sheet with different C/C lenght so its easy and quick to install.
35:30 There is like two walls. One is the insulation and then the plumber and electrician is only working in a part of the wall
In Canada the latest insulation standards came out not too long ago and because of it I have a feeling they will be building houses very much to this standard with the 6 inch walls to get 20R insulation. We don't usually heat our pipes but they do bury them below frost depth to counteract this.
6 inch? In Sweden we build like 12 inch walls.
Vapour barrier on the warm side is the latest and most modern way to build a wall or create a warm space. It prevents leaks and air movement feom the outside as well as preventing moisture from collecting slong the drywall level where you have the warm and cold temps meeting. When insulsting walls it is also the latest and greatest to use a method called breaking... Where you have the ordinary insulation layer in between the studs and then a 5R insulstion layer overtop of it on the outside of the house. This method is also very effective for sound proofing.
in Sweden we have heating cables around water pipes, so the water doesn't freeze
Or inside the pipes
No we dont, only in locations were the are suspect to freeze.
in Finland we dig them under frost layer or insulate them, no need for heating
@@jaripukki267 And yet, I have installed several kilometers of freeze prevention cables to water pipes, sewers and rainwater systems in southern Finland. Insulation is not enough, if the water isn't running constantly.
I have seen frozen water pipe with 30 mm glued flexible foam and 200 mm rockwool around it, with a bit too weak trace heat cable. -20C and 2 week vacation, when there wasn't anyone using the water was too much for it. The cable used there was 10 W/m and only went straight through one time. We added another 18/36 W self limiting cable beside it.
Those trace heating cables are everywhere around here, if you know where to look.
@@villehietala9677 badly installed then
As for cables being and electrician I can fill in that cables here in Finland are all solid wire double insulated cables and electrical piping was and is used only when you don't have double insulated cable available (then you have to use single strands of solid insulated wire) or if there is a risk for cable damage from abrasion or other reasons. I've never seen flex cables used in a construction except as low voltage cables, flex for 240v is used only in commercial / industrial settings.
in skandinavia, we use corigated pipes for electrics, and we have plastic boxes ( as you would see in another video he made ) the cables comes either pre pulled or you can pull them your self.
lets say you was going for a higher gauge on the said outputs you already have you just pull the existing cables and re pull new ones.
there is either 2 or 3 cables ( 2 live and 1 ground ( and no not braid'ed ( as you braid hair ) as stated in the video but twisted ) in the conduit,
you can buy them in 50mtr or 100meters boxes.
the water lines are pipe in pipe setup, if inner pipe burst's, the outer pipe holds the water so it dont ruin the floors or walls or roofs ( depending on where it burst's ), just pull out the bursted inner line and replace it with a new inner one and your up and running again and you dont have to take down walls or roofs ( or where ever it goes ).
on the roof we use either clay tiles or metal roofing, most of the old houses use slate tiles either in droplet or squares ( you can buy for new houses too but not same quality ).
for wallboxes for power outlets google elko wall box ( one of menny ), so if you get a box that is grounded ( well you have metal boxes in the US ) you dont get shocked.
Vapour barriers not really used in Australia, it's usually insulation bats and gyprock/dryer wall on the interior and bricks on the outside
What i would like to know, is why his previous house burned down?! 🤔
the heating cable is outside of the waterpipe, its goes around it and just keeps the pipe above freezing level in winter
Or you can have the heating inside the pipes
heating cable in the waterpipe is not uncommon at all if you have your own well, we have a 25 meter cable in our pipe,the well is about 30 meters from the house, and the pipe is laying pretty shallow,so to prevent it from freezing in the wintertime,this heatcable is on a timer, 15 minutes every 6 hours, whitstands negative 30 C whit ease
Wood has low thermal conductivity and therefore high heat-insulating capacity. Wooden houses stay warm easier than stone buildings that get colder and colder as the winter goes on and the stone cools down. Makes sense why Nordic houses have traditionally been all wood.
Yes. Scandinavian houses are better. So much better. Thats because we start building even under the house. And all stuff is high guality. One median size (150m2) house takes usualluy at least 2 years to build and cost 3-400000€,and its only basic, not so fancy.
If you build it on your spare time it takes two years. Otherwise more like a few months.
Norwegian carpenter here, we build new houses in 6 to 8 months mostly depending on the size of the house of course
From a Swedish builder, interesting video, and regarding nailguns, we always use these especially on roofing :-) - we need effiency 🙂
There are diffrent wite types for post installation in conduits.
Nk =one fk=like 5 strands
mk =many more strands
Standard cable area for max 13 amp is 1.5 square mm. 2400w
16 amp is 2.5 square mm.
3600w
If there is need for more power like stoves ,waterheaters and electric heating ,heat pumps.
They use 3 phase 400 v power
The conduits are 16 0r 22 mm diameter, but there is bigger (like 50mm) and smaller pipes the smaller is mostly used for floorheat censors . (like 10 mm)
There is pvc free plastic without flame redarder and softner additives
Or pvc insulated with these additives to choose from , Both i cabels and conduit.
The installation boxes for electricity goes on installation wall wood inside the plastic layer there is a telescopic ring in the box that goes through the hole that is cut in the inside wall layers ,the ele equipment is fastened to the ring.
My dad and I built my house in rural Sweden when I was in my late twenties.
I basically made the floor plans and the overall design and he, being an engineer, provided the nessecary know-how.
To make things less expensive we also made most of the wood boards (he has a very small saw mill) so first we spent a lot of time cutting down trees and pulling them home on sleds on the snow, then cutting the logs up and letting them dry.
The house is about 1000sqf and mostly constructed in the same way as shown in this video.
In Sweden there is a company called "Älvsbyhus" they build the house in a factory and then disassemble it and ship it anywhere to be assembled.
Det finns fler än älvsbyhus..
Not sure if I misunderstood, but the normal way of installing electric cables are through plastic tubes, with a line lying there to pull the cable.
And the voltage doesn't really matter, the reason for thicker cords is for safety in general.
And is it standard in th US to have grounded electriciy? That makes for an extra cord inside the cable, which makes it bigger
1kW machine takes 4A at 225V and 8A at 112V. With higher voltage the current will be in general lower. Lower current = less thickness of the power cable. To my 105m2 home (4 people) I just have a 16A fuse. But because its 3 faze and 400V we never have had a power failure. Even if we both run the electric oven, micro, tumble dryer and dishwasher at the same time. Its heated by central heating system pipe from the government.
Also one nice thing to see in Sweden. You now days more or less newer see any power cables in the sky. It just those transmitting lines between cities that have them. All other ones are in the ground instead.
I'm currently following my brother's process of building a countryside/summer house (we're in Sweden) on his own, so this is very interesting to me. The old house on the property my brother bought is no longer fit to live in or renovate, so it'll be torn down. He's going to check with fire department if they want to use it for practice and torch it. Fun times :)
People building houses by them self is not that uncommon, I helped my father out building a house 20 years ago, he's built an other one by him self after that. He wasn't even a carpenter but had dreamt of being a furniture carpenter in his youth. His day job was a telecom executive and the second house was built in his retired years. My grand father on my mothers side also built him self a house, he was a mansion by trade and when around demolition sites and requested spare brick that he cleaned and laid into a new house. So at least in my family this is the thing you do.
I've heard screws can't be used in certain applications because they are not good with sheer forces and tend to snap and break unexpectedly where nails are very good at preventing this. I use screws for everything I can because it forces to surfaces together and keeps them there. When doing flooring an additional measure is carpenters glue with screws. They best way would still be screwless with joints being interlocking, but it is too time consuming.
electric heated waterline is usaly done in 2 ways a single heat element running the lenght inside the pipe, or a dual pipe with a heatelement wrapped around the inner pipe with a second cover pipe outside, it usaly comes with 2 powersettings, defrost and continous opperating power. and ofcorse off. This video is only 1 option for nordic house building, 1 floor and 2 floor houses are pretty common, usaly with basement as the 1 floor, often also a 3 floor under the sealing for bedroms or a second livingroom or both. it just all depends on cost.
I have exactly that, freeze safe water and sewage pipes or it will freeze up in winter, my house is 100km south of Stockholm
I find it funny how a robot voice is telling how he is building houses and reading all the messages he receives.
In my state in Australia think they've on been using OSB in house construction for about 10 years
I used to work as a diamond driller and borer, I COMPLETELY understand your fear of big blades..
Try working with a bonghead, a meter in diameter blade, to cut through concrete, dude got stuck and the damn machine ran away from him... luckily noone got hurt..
But that kind of blade scare the shit out of me...!!
40:00 Solid copper bar vs thinner braided copper lines. Yes the thinner braided ones are more flexible.
31:55 a screw gun is really quite fast. Takes less than a second to screw one in.
The main issue is you only have like 50 screws in the magazine so you need to reload all the time.
Building permits in Sweden wasn't always this way.
But in the 1960's the government overbuilt housing in the "million programme" where they built a million houses and apartments in a rent controlled environment.
When rent control was relaxed there was a massive surplus of housing so the government in it's wisdom made building permits harder to get. Before that you didn't really need building permits for a lot of things especially in the countryside. And municipalities had area planning not specific house planning.
27:45 In the USA, it is common to use various agents and additives in all materials, so also in foodstuffs, which for a reason are prohibited in the EU.
29:40 the tung and grew.board is not very rain sensetive. So if its exposed to rain a few days is not really a issue. It just need to be dry when the surface layer is put on.
This is a problem with osb or plywood that really dont like rain.
OSB is wood chips compressed and glued together to form plywood. Regular plywood is thin layers of wood compressed and glued together. OSB is the cheapest and worse type of plywood you can have because it is very susceptable to moisture and falls apart fast when introduced to moisture. Best plywood would be form plywood or thick plywood that is also pressure treated. Just recently used 5/8" form ply on the outside of a crawlspace i was insulating and modernizing and it is incredibly tough and strong.
The water heating cable runs along the length outside of the water pipe, not inside where there is water
We are absolutly able to put heatingcabels in watertubes.
Electrical conduite: Braded wires are easier to pull through the conduite because the wire i flexible and can bend easily around corners inside the conduite. A solid wire would be impossible to pull through a long conduite with many bends
He is very skilled. If I was to build a house myself however, I would just buy a prefabricated model and nail it together.
The first minutes construction is typical nordic bulding style and when it comes to spacing and timber size.
Basements are not allowed in sweden nowdays as sewage systems are put more shallow. In some areas you can get allowed to make a basement but often it is quite expensive due to alot of extra sewage stuff you need to make.
Most commonly you make a concrete plate with water based heating integrated in it.
Many countries buy swedish timber as it is better suited for house building, higher quality. Mostlty spruce and pine.
17:30 sweden uses hammer bands, stronger with less material.
C-beam is hammer band on both sides, both outboard and inboard.
22:00 most common is to use floorboards (OSB) that you switch to use as wall boards. And then add other floorboards that are thicker.
OSB is rough shavings that are press glued, cheap but strong. 37:40 no plywood is laminated wood with the grain rotated 90 deg in each layer.
29:30 I guess he just wanted to make as much as possible before the rain :).
32:00 yes the swedes use both nails and screws just the way you explained.
34:00 With insulation you want to have it ventilated due to moist but still important to prevent the air to move to much within the insulation. I agree that the inside plastic is better due to the natural ventilation from the outside air.
40:30 as we have an extra insulating wall 2in thick we can put the outlets on boards so they level out with the inner wall surface.
Many times basement works bad due to it get flooded to easy in many spots. And hard to get the draining work well or it's pure rock and who want to pay to blow that open for a basememt?
It's normal for people to build own house in Europe. And yes we do plumbing and electric wiring too. but you need to have a professional inspecting and connecting the electrical utility box.
I'm Currently building a wood heated cabin with plumbing/ normal water toilet and 48v solar to 230v wall outlets...
I have no building education..
If you have dry eyes you need to drink more water.
I used to get dry eyes when i worked nights and i realised i was just not drinking enough and it made the eyes feel like i had lemon in them.
You can buy materials beforehand and add notes to the blueprint like ; not to scale.
But they must obviously be of similar quality to that of the blueprints.
- Dont forget, buildingcode is just the bare minimum. You can build better than "to code", and it often happens that peeps build better. Most european houses are build to last
11:34 nah; the water pipe is isulated and the heating cable is inside the insulation but outside the actual water pipe.
The rock comment is strange (from the orginal channel dude I mean). You can remove rock.I remember my father doing it with something called snail dynamite. You drill holes into the rock and fill it with the compound, it will expand and break the rock.
My father was an Architect, so I know a bit of house construction.
There are regulations for dimentions and how big of an angle the roof has to be, depending on where in Sweden
I was half way in, before I realized this is a Swedish guy talking with an American bot, on how he builds houses in Sweden. I thought it was an American guy, building in the US.
Youré right without the heating cabke there won´t be any water available in the winter
We acculy have earthquakes in sweden. Felt a few of them. Even big enoth to move funitures and everything vibrates. Most are not noticed. 5.4 is the biggest one so far. But that was long time ago. But a fe 3 or 4 we have here and there so yes it's calculated to hold for earthquakes to
He forgets one very important country....... Japan!
They makes a lot of wooden houses and do this with out nails and screws in traditional houses!!
When he talks about Scandinavian standards he is wrong in his assumptions of equal standards due to storms and wind influence!
In Denmark the roof of our houses are anchored in the foundation from the load bearing beam of the roof construction every 3 - 3,5 metres (9,84 - 11,48 ft.)!!
Also called the strap of roof construction!
All this because of our massive coastline around of the country and we have some pretty hefty storms here with wind speeds up to 160 km/h (approx. 100 miles), so not the same exact codes in all of Scandinavia!!!!!
Kindly the Danish Viking
38:00 This is chip boards(OBS) (not Play-wood), its in its name ply-wood - layered board with different grain orientations wich can take alot more than chip boards, chip boards r made of wood chips and glue pressed and baked together under high pressure
Edit: unless ur planning on hanging somting weighing a tonne or so on the wall, ply-wood are not really nessesary
guys a carpenter- so am i. its not impressive to solobuild a regular home. ive done it and so have a lot of carpenters, for clients usually. at most there are 2 carpenters on building a house, but rarely more. a few details make it easier than the guy in the video did it tho, in how to build framing aso. not so much on construction, but method.
we use a doble top plank tho, in norway. im pretty sure sweden does too, as ive seen a few swedish houses built here. we only use hammerbands over doors and windows aso., wherever the cc is interrupted. based on tolerances we alternatively use steel for hammerband where the width is longer than the wood supports, to avoid sagging. hammerbanding the whole structure, notching like that, is not common at all. we usually add studs for hammerbandsections.
making and raising trusses onsite by hand is just stupid. its cheaper and alot faster to order then, and have the package craned onto the frame, and manually place each one. thats a few hours of work, solo.
using t&g planks on roof is not common anymore. its usually just streched enviromental fabric. the structural strength is usually not required on most roofs, and the wood will be far to exposed over time.
we use nailguns for places where the tortion is not high, and screws where it is higher. a modern nail with glue, like a 90 paslode, is more than a strong connection in 2 inch wood.
the waporbarrier he puts in
the heating vire for water is outide the waterpipe not inside
Using a nail gun is quick and cheap, screws would take longer, not as cheap and probably last longer
as an electrician in Norway, the US and the UK is particularly crazy far behind in technology and standards unfortunately.. the gap between norway and the us is like 30 years, its not even a joke
You dont need to buy a head of time. Just go to a surply website. Fill in everything you need. And 2 days later a dude with a truck dumps it of in your yard.
It's a bit of a shame, but there are almost no houses built in Sweden with a basement any longer. Especially if you hire a building firm to do the job. It really requires too much work to make it to code is what I have heard. I believe the main issues would be regulations regarding radon. When building on a slope (like this guy does) there is also always the issue of drainage as the water that comes from uphill really really wants to go through your house; A crawlspace solution simply lets the water go where it always went, instead of damming it up or risking Mold problems, so I think he made the right choice for the location.. but as I said; regardless of that most homes built today do not have a basement, if you want one it's just easier to buy a home that already have one.
Actual plywood is made up of several "slices" of wood sheets glued together, but every ply turned 90 degrees to the previous. Wood is very strong in one direction but weak in the other. Imagine felling a tree with an axe, how many hits does that take? Then split the same tree with the same axe for firewood. You can easily do it with one hit as you're splitting with the grain. Plywood makes it so there's no "weak" direction. You have individual wood fibers running the length and breadth of the sheet.
OSB is just glued together wood chips. The longest wood fiber in there is like 2-3 inches. There's very little structural integrity to it compared to plywood of the same dimension.
Since you are on a construction binge, here is a short video where an American steps into an Icelandic house construction and points out interesting differences. ruclips.net/video/7RuTizbnH4s/видео.html
C-beam, as compared to U-beam or T-beam.
I would call it an L- beam though.
Vi använder oss även av spontat virke vid tak byggen det tar längre tid men blir betydligt starkare
"Crawl basement" 😂 it's large airpocket that makes houses impossible to rot.
Crawl spaces are considered "risk constructions", since the space actually can cause moisture problems and rot due to the temperature differences in the crawl space and the outside air. You have to create a good airflow in order to minimize that risk, and a common way to do that when building new houses is using mechanical ventilation in the crawl space.
@@fiskmasadventures Crawl spaces in Swedish houses are not ”sealed” there’s always outside air flowing through but at a low rate so you get both a slight insulating effect and absolutely no moisture in the building. We call this ”självdrag” roughly translated self-ventilation. In Sweden the insurance companies do not consider this any different then a concrete base plate.
@@hellmalm Yes, but fact is crawl spaces is still regarded as risk constructions in Sweden, and insurance often doesn't cover damages from moisture/mold in them. According to Anticimex, almost half of all crawl spaces develops moisture or mold problems. Ventilation is key to prevent it, and "självdrag" is often not enough.
@ That was news to me. Never actually heard anyone having issues with this, unless they didn’t heat their summer house in winter or for similar reasons?
@@hellmalm That I don't know anything about, unfortunately. But in summer the risk is higher, since the warm outside air (containing more moisture) comes in and gets cooled down in the crawl space, and condensates (at the dew point temperature). So in summer you want as little ventilation as possible when using självdrag, while during winter you want more ventilation to let cold, dry air inside the crawl space.
Answer: Resounding YES.
Insulation never gets dry.....since I live in Sweden i know this
@@swedronezswedronez3819 True, that’s why you need a ”luftspalt” so it can breathe, in closed moisture is a house killer.
I tell u one thing. If my house would burn down. I need to live somewhere, so screw any plan or inspection.
🇫🇮 My earlier comment ment building houses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, I mean north of Europe. 🇫🇮
I can understand wood buildings in cold climates, or in remote places. I absolutely do not understand wood-frame buildings in the Southern States of the US, with such high temperatures and extreme humidity. Seems to me you are building a new home for termites, rot and mould ? I'm told that cooling those houses costs more than heating them, so why use wood, when it is difficult to find builders who work to the high specifications needed to guarantee weathertight fully protected and fully insulated houses ? Add to that the often poor quality doors and windows (too thin, sometimes double-glazed but rarely treble-glazed). And the storm/hurricane risks. In Houston I saw entire neighbourhoods that were considered old, and downgraded, at 25-30 years. But new house prices are very high. Doesn't make sense for the homeowners. Only for the builders.
Plumbing and electrical work all has to be done by qualified professionals in Australia
Is Scandinavian anything better than the Us equivalent. Yes
tiles will last... shingles goes on shed
I'm a Finn and you all know what I am about to say.
Some tips regarding improving the quality of your videos,
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No pauses without saying what you are doing- E.g. I'm searching for X, because of Y.
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Cut stuff, where you're looking at something for a long (more than 2 to 4 seconds) time.
Tiles are ceramic .
Nah, getting the material beforehand isn't a problem, sufficed you know what you need, the problem with most people is that they don't know or understand for example what a load bearing wall is.
iceland uses iron and cement
If you're not in construction you should. Sounds like your dream job 😊
@mcjibbin, most of the time, your comments seem kind of clueless, but this time, you showed that you have a brain and experience in this field! I'm so happy to be wrong! my respect for you has increased a lot. Sorry for being a dick, but that was my subjective opinion.
3:10 title says Scandinavian. Yeah, mainland Europe doesn't. Industrialization took care of that. The average forest cover in Scandinavia is 60% of the total land mass, excluding waterways. Compared to the USA which has a forest cover of 33%, 60% is a lot. Globally when ranking the forested area compared to total land mass, all of the Scandinavian (not you Iceland) rank at the top. That includes countries that have forests like Brazil with the Amazon rainforest which comes really close to countries like Sweden and Finland with total forest land area, although with Brazil, you would need to count in some of the waterways and wetlands.
thermal cable
Of course they are. American build them from paper and sticks....
ALSO A shoes box is better than american houses 😅
Isoleringen vid detta bygge är av glasull den är oftast gul men även amerikanska rosa finns .
On the water pipe not in....
You can have it both ways, either in or on.
Tunnel Construction in Switzerland - ruclips.net/video/htVqxyyFoVo/видео.html company film but still interesting