The further my construction goes, the more I am convinced that a modern house cannot be environmentally friendly. Even wooden walls won't help.
For most people, life in a private house is associated with nature, clean air, and all that natural. But only after delving into the topic, you can understand that in modern realities, it is almost impossible.
Friends, a big hello to everyone. I must say right away that this is not a "disappointing article", but just a look at some aspects of construction from the inside. Compare me, so to speak, four years ago (when my self-construction was just beginning), and me today, then these are people with completely different views on some issues related to construction.
Many people, like me once, dream of their home, seeing only a beautiful wrapper in their imaginations.
Well-groomed courtyard, beautiful facade, interesting interior. All this is a standard set of desires.
But I have never understood the commitment to sustainability.
This is a house in something like this.
Only wood and stone. No laminate or plastic, and God forbid saying the word OSB-board out loud ...
I am not saying that this is somehow wrong and unrealistic.
Everything just has its own cost. And similar wooden locks, not many can afford.
And when the next ordinary dreamer about environmentally friendly housing (remembering how his grandparents lived in a wooden house, they were healthy and happy), begins to study the issue in more detail, then adjustments begin.
- Well, I'll build a house from a bar (wooden walls are already the main part). It will be good, natural, like before!
- We will put plastic windows (well, nothing, they all have the same, but I don't have enough money already).
- I will make the ceilings stretch (it will be easier this way), and the floor will still be covered with laminate (the main thing looks like a tree).
This is how he lives and enjoys his "eco-friendly home" from a bar until the first winter.
✔ And here the warmth from the house begins to go out into all the cracks, and the owner of the windows and doors closes more tightly so that excess heat did not go away (after all, the Russian stove in the middle of the house is not worth it, like grandmother and grandfather, everything is on electricity). And it breathes with all this plastic and laminate, but in natural walls.
✔ Well, next year, there is nowhere to go. We wrap the entire timber in insulation and different membrane films, so that again we do not live on one heating.
On this, all environmental friendliness remains somewhere in the past ...
Although this little story is fictional, it will still fit the basis of many real life situations. And I am also no exception.
Although he was not obsessed with environmental friendliness, he built the house not from SIP panels, but from aerated concrete (some kind of stone, naturally). The roof is wood, natural purity itself.
But at the same time, he covered the attic overlap with OSB sheets, and poured the screed over the EPS, and insulated the slopes on the windows from it.
In general, the indicator of the environmental friendliness of my house is slowly falling, and how many more are ahead ...
But I'm not worried about this.
Not because I resigned myself, but simply understand for what purpose I used certain materials, and what function they perform in a modern home.
✅ And in the fight for your health, firstly, you need to accept reality, and secondly, find an appropriate solution.
And as for various vapors (from everything that surrounds us in the house), the best solution is normal ventilation. I'm working on it right now.
Friends, this is a very difficult question that can be discussed for a long time. I would like to hear your opinion, so be sure to continue in the comments, it will be interesting to read.
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