Build and live healthily. Who wouldn’t want that when building a new home. Your new dream home should be a place to feel good and relax, not a source of illness or unhappiness. But in many homes, even new ones, the noise and pollutants present in the air put the health of residents at risk. Below we provide tips on how to ensure healthy living while building your home and beyond.
HEALTHY HOME PLANNING
It doesn’t have to be a diviner looking for water veins on your property before building a house. But it is worth keeping in mind some basic rules when designing your home for the future well-being of residents. The floor plan of a house should, if possible, be rectangular or square to be as usable as possible and ensure a good living feeling. The teaching of Feng Shui talks about the so-called missing areas that must be avoided. A large entrance is the business card of your home and charges guests with positive energy. Bedrooms are best placed at the back of the house, away from the street. On the other hand, the kitchen or study, for example, can also be oriented towards the street.
For the construction partners of the topic of healthy living is of great importance. When you individually plan and furnish your dream home, you attach great importance to healthy living design.
SUFFICIENT ACOUSTIC PROTECTION
Living healthy doesn’t just mean avoiding pollutants in the air. Adequate sound insulation also contributes to the feeling of well-being in your home. On the one hand it involves protection from external noise through appropriately soundproofed windows and doors. But this is also sound insulation inside the house, that is, protection from noise coming from the next room or from another floor. The decisive factor in this case is the resistance of the impact sound insulation under the screed. On the other hand, it is about the design of the interior walls. Interior walls made of solid building materials such as brick or aerated concrete contribute much better to sound insulation between rooms than, for example, plasterboard plasterboard walls.
The design of interior doors can also contribute to sound insulation inside the house and therefore to a healthy life. Doors with tubular chipboard as inserts in the door leaf, as provided in the building description are provided, they offer much better sound insulation than those with honeycomb inserts or tube strips.
HEALTHY LIVING MATERIALS
From thermal insulation to plaster, from wall colors to floor coverings: there are many building materials in the home that contribute to the living environment. It is therefore important to choose the right building materials for healthy living, so that pollutants do not spread into the air. In many houses you can tell by the smell whether healthy living played a role in the construction or not.
It is obvious and correct to draw conclusions about healthy living from natural building materials. These are building materials based on lime or clay, building materials made of wood, natural stone or ceramic, as well as plant and animal fibers. However, a healthy indoor climate can only be guaranteed if natural building materials have not been treated with chemicals such as insect repellents or wood preservatives.
Fortunately, insulation materials containing carcinogenic fibers are now a thing of the past. But even with the home insulation used today, there are better and worse alternatives. Does it have to be a prefabricated house with a wooden structure and insulating walls if a solid house with external and internal walls made of the natural raw material clay can be built for the same price?
If you use open insulation material, for example when renovating a roof, it must be covered properly so that particles do not subsequently enter the airways. In this regard, when it comes to healthy living, choosing the right construction partner with its qualified and experienced craftsmen always plays an important role. The insulating material itself should be certified and tested for safety.
For wall and ceiling coverings, building biologists recommend building materials such as plaster or lime, which do not release harmful substances and therefore contribute to a healthy indoor climate. It is important to balance the humidity between the indoor air, the paint, the plaster and the wall structure. This works best with exterior walls made of solid materials such as brick or aerated concrete, which can absorb and release water vapor. This also prevents the formation of mold, which would otherwise only be possible with an artificial film vapor barrier.
When it comes to floor coverings, it is important to also choose floor coverings that are low-emission and harmless to health. Tiles or cork are just as suitable as a wooden floor. It is important that the material required for installation, such as joint compound or adhesive, does not contain harmful substances that could subsequently escape into the room air.
ALLERGY-FRIENDLY BUILDING
If an inhabitant suffers from allergies, special requirements apply to the quality of the indoor air and thus to the choice of building materials. If you suffer from an allergy to house dust, it is not advisable to lay (long-pile) carpets. A controlled ventilation system in the living room with a pollen filter contributes significantly to improving the air quality in the home. The ventilation system extracts stale air from the kitchen, bathroom and toilet, while fresh, filtered outside air flows into the living and sleeping areas. So the pollen remains outside from the beginning, while house dust and any harmful substances that may emanate from furniture or other (furnishing) objects are systematically transported out of the house. A ventilation system effectively contributes to improving the healthiness of your home.
HEALTHY LIFE
Building healthily is one thing. Healthy living also includes time and behavior after the move. This begins with the choice of materials for the kitchen and continues with the furnishing of the house. Sofas, tables, chairs and other furniture can also cause unpleasant and unhealthy fumes. Even the old mattress, in which mites live a wonderful life, can compromise the health of your home and should be replaced.
Finally, the radiation emitted by electrical appliances can also cause health problems. Not everyone is equally sensitive to electrosmog. But healthy living requires at least adequate protection of the bedroom. This could, for example, be shielded electrical cables or a mains disconnect switch. At night, remove smartphones, tablets or televisions with constant Internet connection from the bedroom or at least put the devices in airplane mode. Furthermore, the WLAN adapter should not be placed too close to the bed.
By taking the above information into account, you can create an all-round healthy life in your dream home and lay the foundation for long-term well-being.
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