MagazínA brick house or a wooden building

Throughout our lives, we gain a lot of valuable experience and we are still learning. Once upon a time, the idea of ​​luxury living was an older house that we have gradually transformed into our image. But if you've ever reconstructed an old house, you surely remember how many people have said that the old house has never been more. So, after some experience, we decide on a new house, is the current topical question to solve a brick house or assembled wooden building?

28.4.2017
 
Throughout our lives, we gain a lot of valuable experience and we are still learning. Once upon a time, the idea of ​​luxury living was an older house that we have gradually transformed into our image. But if you've ever reconstructed an old house, you surely remember how many people have said that the old house has never been more. So, after some experience, we decide on a new house, is the current topical question to solve a brick house or assembled wooden building?
 

 

Classic brick house

It has no doubt its pros and cons, like any construction. Its benefits include excellent acoustic performance. However, the disadvantages include the time and financial demands. Brick houses are also more demanding for heating and the more demanding the building is more energy-intensive, there is a greater environmental burden.
 

Wooden building

Wooden buildings and prefabricated family houses have the huge advantage of being built by the so-called dry process, which significantly shortens the time of building the house. Wooden buildings have excellent thermal insulation properties and are easily recyclable, thus not burdening the environment. And although many think that timber is more demanding than a brick house, the opposite is true. Of course, these buildings also have their minuses, which is their lower resistance to natural disasters and higher demands on fire safety.
 

Wood building as a passive house

Many perceive the term passive house as something extravagant, complicated and very expensive, but passive houses save the wallets of their owners and the environment. Acquisition of wooden buildings, such as passive living, begins already in the planning stage. It is about selecting a land with a suitable orientation to the world's sides, designing the project of the house and then processing it very precisely. However, the passivity of the house goes hand in hand with the lifestyle of its inhabitants.
 

What is the lifetime of a wooden building

If you are concerned that the acquisition of a timber structure is short-sighted in terms of the lifetime of the building, you can safely take it off your head. The lifetime of a wooden building is comparable to a brick building. The lifetime of a building is influenced, in particular, by how we care about the house. And if we live in it, we ventilate, we drown, it can serve us for many years, although as a brick house it will require reconstruction from time to time. This may consist of repairing a roof or facade,