Nostalgia through Soviet windows, or how not to turn your apartment into a "killer" during a fashionable repair

Muscovites do not spare any strength or means for the overhaul of their apartments, but these investments are not always beneficial and end safely. Belief, mold or fungus on the walls, unpleasant odors and chemical impurities in the air - this is an incomplete list of troubles that appear in the apartment after a bad “European -European Republic”. At the same time, residents receive poor sleep, allergies, chronic fatigue and incessant colds. Diseases of housing and malaise of residents are interconnected, says the Moscow Komsomolets .

The initial milestone of the communal arrangement, as a rule, the windows become: during the repair process, old frames are sent to the trash, and the coveted "double -glazed windows" take their place. More economical owners choose a plastic frame, aesthetes prefer wooden - it is believed that wooden frames "breathe".

Meanwhile, any honest window master on the fingers will explain that wooden frames pass the air in about the same way as artificial plastic - numerous impregnations and paint make this material impenetrable.

"Planned" windows and "smart" doors with cracks

The old Soviet windows with inaccurate, clumsy fittings and rough glasses of 3 mm seem an abnormal relic today - washing inconveniently, and they kindly let them down - they miss both cold and wind.

“Our old windows were really flawed - from poor, under -in -law wood,” says the window master, “but to change them without any project and coordination is a great risk. We can say that the“ Soviet ”windows were planned, that is, just designed to maintain normal air exchange in the dwellings.”

But the hermetic "double -glazed windows" radically blocked the flow of air - up to 1 cubic meter per hour: this is what is called "terrible stuffiness" in everyday life. Tests conducted at the Research Institute of Construction Physics showed that the air permeability of such windows, regardless of the material from which they are made, are not more than 6 kg/m² per hour.

Another element of the "Euro -Use" - doors to the floor, "so as not to muzzle." Such doors look thoroughly, but with ventilation they are “not friends”: the air from the room to the room occurs only if the gap of 15-25 mm remains under the door leafs or special ventilation blinds are built into the door.

The traditional hood over the stove, which, with the help of a special corrugation, is brought into the ventilation shaft, does not contribute to air exchange. The usual ventilation grill operates 24 hours a day, and the coarse cleaning filter is clogged with fat, the fan blocks the exhaust hole.

“It is better to install a regular filter in the kitchen hood over the plate, and leave the ventilation grate open,” the experts of the Moscow Inspectorate advise, “otherwise the air in the kitchen will stagnate. Some tenants are installed in the ventilation boxes, which can only be made on the upper floors of the building. In the middle of the house, the electric fans is not recommended, because the so -called air forms are formed A support, or, in other words, tipping rod. "

"Syndrome of a sick building": how to win it

Until the middle of the last century, it was believed that people pollute the air in the premises: they release carbon dioxide, moisture and a lot of other biological elements. However, in the past 40 years, scientists have discovered that in addition to the human factor, there are other sources of pollution - furniture, carpets, electronic equipment, and thousands of chemical particles "release" the building materials themselves into the air. The most common of them are formaldehyde and radon.

Doctor of Technical Sciences Yuri Tabunchikov reliably described how harmful vapors are in our apartments: “The main sources of formaldehyde in residential premises are products from chipboard, foam thermal insulation, carpets, curtains and upholstery of furniture. Usually the products emit formaldehyde while they are still new; the radioactive gas of radon is present in small concentrations. In the soils, it enters the premises through cracks at the base of the floor and walls, the cracks around the pipes, etc. ".

You can clean the apartment of harmful discharge in the only way - ventilation. If ventilation does not work, then numerous health problems begin - frequent headaches, poor concentration, memory deterioration, and reducing immunity. The "sindr of a sick building" manifests itself in people living in it in the form of breathing problems, joint pain, insomnia. Symptoms can resemble the sluggish flu, which lasts weeks, months, years. Poorly ventilated apartments destroy the body as quietly and imperceptibly as smoking, only the "pseudo -smooters" themselves do not know about this.

Experts advise: if the symptoms of the "sealed apartment" are obviously not enough in the apartment, call ventilation specialists, remove the plugs from ventilation mines, install special air water valves on the windows, and on the doors - blinds. If a little blow from the windows, this is a normal phenomenon. According to the old GOSTs and SanPins, the temperature in the room should be 20-22 degrees, acceptable deviations-18-24 degrees. If these indicators are normal, you can live and rejoice, summarizes MK.