What is Energy Efficient housing?
Posted by Maarcko Crane on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Under: Home Improvement
Living in modern society you cant avoid of being facing with the facts of climate change, energy efficient (in Finnish: energiatehokkuus) living and carbon footprints.
Flying is bad, driving is bad, farming is even worse. What about building and living then - it is quite a chunk of our total footprint so people should put some effort on digging the facts.
What is energy efficient housing then? It is housing where a house consumes at least 50 percent less energy than what are the minimum requirements for the house. The environmental effects reduce on the same scale.
Building energy efficient house costs on average 3-4 percentage more than a normal house. It pays back in 6-10 years, which means that energy efficient housing really is financially reasonable and actually even profitable. The living and maintenance costs are also much lower in the energy efficient house comparing to the normal one.
Building an energy efficient house doesn’t require any special solutions. It can be done with the existing ones. You can walk into your local K-Rauta and ask about the building options. The choices you make now are critical so the staff is well trained to answer your questions regarding energy efficient housing.
Most ready made housing companies also have energy efficient houses on their listing because their advantages are proven with ever rising energy prices.
In an energy efficient house there is good quality of air and the structure of all wet area structures must be very well built. This is the one thing you can’t never be too precise.
Energy efficient house is designed by professionals. The house itself and the housing techniques have been designed to work as a whole. You will and you should pay for good planning when you are provided with a full plan because in the planning phase you decide 90% of the building costs and 80% of the future usage and energy related costs.
It is always wise to work with professionals when building your own house. You will most likely be living there for and all cost related questions will cumulate in the future if you don't do it right.
Flying is bad, driving is bad, farming is even worse. What about building and living then - it is quite a chunk of our total footprint so people should put some effort on digging the facts.
What is energy efficient housing then? It is housing where a house consumes at least 50 percent less energy than what are the minimum requirements for the house. The environmental effects reduce on the same scale.
Building energy efficient house costs on average 3-4 percentage more than a normal house. It pays back in 6-10 years, which means that energy efficient housing really is financially reasonable and actually even profitable. The living and maintenance costs are also much lower in the energy efficient house comparing to the normal one.
Building an energy efficient house doesn’t require any special solutions. It can be done with the existing ones. You can walk into your local K-Rauta and ask about the building options. The choices you make now are critical so the staff is well trained to answer your questions regarding energy efficient housing.
Most ready made housing companies also have energy efficient houses on their listing because their advantages are proven with ever rising energy prices.
In an energy efficient house there is good quality of air and the structure of all wet area structures must be very well built. This is the one thing you can’t never be too precise.
Energy efficient house is designed by professionals. The house itself and the housing techniques have been designed to work as a whole. You will and you should pay for good planning when you are provided with a full plan because in the planning phase you decide 90% of the building costs and 80% of the future usage and energy related costs.
It is always wise to work with professionals when building your own house. You will most likely be living there for and all cost related questions will cumulate in the future if you don't do it right.
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