Healthy Building - What is important?

In particular, I would then consider the furnishings and their items inside. We implement it with a similar approach or thoughts, although one should keep in mind that this probably doesn’t work in the final consequence; at least not with the usual providers. For us, these are things like: screwed hardwood floor instead of glued, oil for the wooden floor, wall paints, lime plaster (clay would have been even better for me) were specifically chosen accordingly. Otherwise, your kitchen furniture off-gasses just like the foam in the sofa or bed or the bedding etc. I have a friend who recently had an analysis done in his holiday home after he had pressed too hard on the poison can for pests beforehand (he had fogged everything!!!). The problem there is that you then know the values and maybe focus on them and feel uncomfortable; that's how it is with ihmo_O. Even though I am certainly not a role model, I believe that the building materials we distribute are at a high level if applied correctly. I see the real danger more in the bag of chips or the chocolate bars, so fat & sugar, than in the harmful off-gassing of the building materials. I would also rely somewhat on my feeling about which area I want to install with "healthy" materials (floors, walls, etc.). You can then look more closely at the special products (paint, adhesive, etc.). There are also sometimes interesting tests on this, such as Stiftung Warentest, Ökotest, etc. As at the counter, I would also look more closely; not everything that says eco on it actually contains eco; Stiftung Warentest repeatedly confirms this.

In solid wood, cutouts like for windows can be worked more precisely than in stone. A sealing tape was used there.

I didn’t deal with it. Healthy living was a byproduct, as standard. Actually, many things are normal. No clay plaster, glued, lacquered parquet. Presumably, one just has to choose from the usual products the only one that forgoes something. For once very labor-intensive, easier for a general contractor. Although, for example, in 2017 there was no vinyl flooring in the range. He was still searching then. Otherwise, you have to live it. Everything inside must be selected accordingly. Otherwise, the new carpet ruins everything.

If it is important to you, you should choose your partners who can implement it. The tiler must know, when he hears [wohngesund], that he has to use the bio-eco-edible adhesive and how to apply it.

The dose makes the poison. And depending on the building material, the VOC concentrations in new buildings are by no means insignificant or harmless.

So limit values are being exceeded? When and in what cases? Who determined this? What measures are being taken by the legislature to ensure that the limit values are met again? Is it the same with interior furnishings?

What is a "healthy indoor climate"?
Serious question.
Or conversely, what is an "unhealthy indoor climate"?

I work in a company that deals exclusively with healthy nutrition. One of the many guiding principles is: a burger from MD is not healthy. But it is also not unhealthy. It is actually neutral. Of course, eating only burgers is bad. Eating only cucumbers is just as bad.

The question of healthy eating cannot be answered so easily. Let's call it "healthy nutritional climate."

So what does a healthy "indoor climate" look like?

For example, no or hardly any formaldehyde is released into the indoor air. We hardly found any in the air during a measurement.

What else, I'm out. I have it, but never really cared.

I think it’s like with sugar. Eating a piece of cake with enjoyment is not the problem. The cube in the coffee, the sugar in the muesli, the hidden sugar in the salad dressing, etc.

The pollutant released into the air from glue is minimal. Then there’s the varnish, the carpet, and suddenly it’s too much.
Can you notice it? Probably not, as long as you don’t measure. Do I get cancer from it? Maybe. But maybe it was also the packaging on the food.

Approach it with common sense and that’s it.

For example, no or hardly any formaldehyde is released into the room air.
There was hardly anything in the air during a measurement at our place.

What else, I’m out. I have it, just never cared.

I think it’s like sugar. Eating a piece of cake with enjoyment is not the problem. The cube in the coffee, the sugar in the muesli, the hidden sugar in the salad dressing, etc.

The pollutant released into the air from glue is minimal. Then there’s the varnish, the carpet, and suddenly it’s too much.
Do you notice it? Probably not, unless you measure. Will I get cancer from it? Maybe. But maybe it was also the packaging on the food.

Approach with common sense and that’s it

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