Advantages of a wooden house and a high standard of living, which it offers
The house is made of natural wood - it is a smart and safe choice. In contrast to any stone houses, wooden houses are works of art by themselves. They perfectly fit any landscape, since timber, especially our snow-white spruce timber, has an exceptionally beautiful texture, and it does not deteriorate over time, appearance of interior. This way, interiors of wooden houses, even a hundred years later, will look as nice as when the houses has been built.
The Best Way to Healthy Lifestyle
Researchers claim that the wooden house creates an atmosphere that is most comfortable to human health. Due to its natural qualities, wood helps to normalize blood pressure and lung function, improves sleep and mood, improves performance, relieves stress, and even stimulates the memory. The sunny color of walls will improve your mood.
The wooden house lives with his owners, giving them the power of the earth and the sun's energy. Wood has also mystical power. The popularity of wooden houses is growing around the world because they have a number of advantages over houses made of any other building materials.
Why it is Important to Live in Low-Rise Buildings and, Best of All, in Wooden Houses
Experts have thoroughly studied the issue and have revealed that normal functioning of the organism requires a certain level of Earth's magnetic field. When it weakens, the person gets serious health problems.
It turns out that places above the 7th floor high are affected by the Earth's magnetic field weak enough to cause negative impact on health. Sanitary standards do not regulate the attenuation factor, but Earth’s magnetic field weakened twice is harmful.
In addition, doctors considered the correlation between the level of magnetic field and construction material of the building. Thus, concrete weakens the field by about 10%, brick by 7%, and wood by only 1%. The weakened geomagnetic field harms the cardiovascular, nervous, and immune systems, which create additional stresses for the body.
The Most Durable
The wooden house is the oldest and most traditional form of human habitation. For centuries, people favored wood - a natural, warm and helpful material. The age of some wooden houses, which are still used for living, accounts for hundreds of years.
For example, there is “Royal farm” remained on the island of Streymoy, Denmark. It is a wooden house built in the XIth century, which belongs to King of Denmark and people still live there.
The Most Efficient
Comparing to any other building materials, wooden house is the most efficient housing thanks to its natural properties. Even the Projects of Fachwerk Houses, which have a large area of glazing, show that. The main advantage of the houses is that its walls have no "aisles for heat flow" and no surfaces which may condense moisture.
The Most Environment Friendly
Wood is the most environmentally building material. Ancient people worshiped the "tree of life" because they believed that the tree shares its energy and strength to the man. Not by chance, Elias Lönnrot, the collector of the famous Finnish runes "Kalevala", loved to work outdoors. He has said that the old legend says that the tree enlightens the mind and gives joy to the heart.
The Most Earthquake-Resistant
The main reason for the supply of wooden houses in Japan, Central Asia, the Caucasus and some other regions, is the seismic stability of the buildings. As you know, logs and lumber in the walls are flexible, which prevents the destruction of the wooden house, even in the case of a devastating earthquake.
The Most Fireproof and Fire-Resistant
Have you been to central Finland? Gas stations, completely built of wood, are quite common here. It may seem paradoxical, but they were built here precisely for fire safety purposes.
Some believe that wooden houses are the most flammable. In fact, it's the other way round. According to the tests carried out, wood is more reliable than brick, stone, concrete, and other materials in fire-resistant factor.
- Dense wood does not burn, but slowly chars, retaining its load-bearing capacity for a long time, unlike concrete, metal and other structures, the collapse of which happens almost immediately when ignited.
- Laminated lumber has been assigned a high level of fire resistance, R6. It is 4 times higher than that of metal! In Finland, all public buildings have beams made not of metal, but of high-quality glued lumber - the Finns do not save on this.
The Fire Resistance of a House Depends Directly on its Quality
- The lower the quality of the wood (heterogeneous structure, air voids, knots, diseases and other defects) –> the faster the house catches the fire.
- The lower the quality of the structures (uneven joints, loose fitting of structures, cracks, gaps) -> the faster the fire spreads.
- In other words, the more gaps and voids the house has, the faster the fire ignits and spreads. Therefore, old rickety houses as well as new ones, but of poor quality, burn well, although it is difficult to set fire to any wooden house.
Remember the Way You Build a Fire
Firstly, even firewood will not light up without paper and thin twigs, and here we talk about first-class laminated lumber, which cannot be set on fire as easy.
Secondly, fires do not start with burning walls. Finishing, curtains, furniture, carpets, and other “light” coverings start burning.
And thirdly, a fire is a fire. Fire burns and destroy everything in a house built with any material.
Lumi Polar Lumber Houses Credibly Resist Fires
Finnish Technical Research Center VVT regularly conducts fire resistance tests of wooden structures (SFS-EN 1361-1 standarts).
Lumi Polar houses withstand 45 min. exposure to fire until ignition, and 60 min. later, at a t° = 1 200о° С, the wall made of timber is charred only by 10 cm!
The Main Reasons for the High Fire Resistance of Lumi Polar Houses
- Wood of the highest grade (smooth uniform dense structure)
- Heavy-duty glued laminated lumber (glued seams do not apart)
- Perfect construction tightness (100% imperviousness of houses)
- 100% environmentally friendly (eco-glues, eco-lumber and other eco-materials)
It is important for lumber to be environmentally friendly for fire safety purposes, as wood that is clean and untouched by chemicals has saved people’s lives from fires multiple times.
Wood Saves People’s Life in Case of Fire
The history of fires has may cases when the walls of a wooden house burned around sleeping people while they remained alive for a long time.
In burning houses made of construction materials containing chemical compounds, a person suffocates and dies in an average of 1.5 minutes. It can be explained since the body is not poisoned from burning natural wood in the same way as from poisonous smoke coming from synthetic materials in the walls (mortar, paint, wallpaper, glue, etc.)
The Most ‘Breathing’
"Breathable" are deemed constructions, which can pass cleaned and conditioned air flows through itself. Wooden houses are the most "breathing" because they pass through a carbon dioxide and other gaseous substances that may be found in indoor air of the house.
The Ideal Humidity Level for Human Health
It is particularly important that the humidity in the house was at an optimum level because bacterial infections spread in the premises with very wet and very dry air. In moist air, mold, fungi and mites breed, and in very dry air, the risk of contracting respiratory infections increases.
In any house, even in the Finnish frame house, difference in its indoor humidity takes place, where the indoor air is always drier, especially in winter because of heating. The advantage of the wooden house is in the fact that its walls have ability to take excess moisture from inside air and give it away, if the air is dry, so helping to maintain a perfect balance.
In accordance with the recommendations for patients with allergies and asthma, optimum humidity for the human body must be at the level of 35 - 55%, so the wooden house will be the best option for sick people as well as for healthy people who care about their health.
The Cleanest Air
Due to the unique structure of wood, a constant air exchange takes place in it. It solves the important problem for the removal of toxic substances from the human dwellings.
Some studies have shown that unlike wooden houses, houses made of other construction materials, contribute to the accumulation of bacteria, fungi, and mites; those construction materials saturate indoor air with dimethylamine, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, phenol, benzene - total, more than 400 of such harmful substances, which increase a person's susceptibility to various diseases, especially allergies and asthma.
The freshest air
One of the most important properties of solid wood is its ability to bind moisture at a time when the level of humidity rises and re-allocate moisture when the humidity level drops. This natural regulation of humidity inside the wooden house allows its inhabitants always breathe in fresh air.
The Coolest Houses in Summer
In the summer, wooden houses are very cool, because structure of the wood fibers has the ability to pass the air in both directions, which promotes natural ventilation and prevents heating inside of the house. For this reason, people never install air conditioning in Finnish wooden house made of lumber.
The Warmest Houses in Winter
Because the wooden walls line the fluctuations in humidity, pleasant temperature is present in wooden houses in all seasons - it is cool in summer, and it is warm in the winter.
In winter, wooden houses are the warmest since wood has the highest thermal insulating properties due to low natural density. Even to the touch, the wood is warm, which cannot be said about any other construction materials.
