Wood VS Concrete

Diffusion: Wood, when used in walls or floor, has the ability of “breathing”. It allows a continuous and natural ventilation of inner spaces. Most of today’s building materials used in outer surfaces exhibit severe ventilation problems.

Filtering: Wood has antitoxic characteristics.

Aroma: Wood releases a pleasant and refreshing aroma. Even in old, wooden houses, the stimulant virtue of the air inside is appreciated and credited to the natural aroma and the filtering characteristics of wood. Other materials might even produce unpleasant odors.

Air Ionization: In a wooden house, the air is enriched with deionizers that deactivate any harmful ions found in bacteria and germs.

Penetrability of radiation from space: Light, alternate fields, ultraviolet and infrared radiation and many other constituted the conditions under which the human specie developed. Like light penetrating glass and diffractions, the same happens to any type of radiation penetrating any material. Materials such as concrete or metal create abnormal diffraction and therefore unhealthy magnetic and electrical fields.

Minimum radioactive radiation: The universe releases radioactive rays in various concentrations. The average level of radiation is around 80mr per year. A concrete house concentrates around 204mr a year. A wooden house concentrates around 80mr a year.

Sound absorption: A wooden construction regulates the sound and offers a tranquil atmosphere. Wood has the attribute of sound absorption and reduction of echo production when compared to concrete or metal.

Insulation: Wood has a low level of temperature transmission. The heat-loss factor of wood is 4 times smaller than the heat-loss factor of concrete!

Humidity & Solar Energy: Healthy living environment provides well-being and reduces the risk of sickness. A healthy home has good, clean and draft-free interior air that contains just the right amount of humidity; in homes with dry air, people’s respiratory passages are forced to replace the lack of humidity. Living in an environment that is too dry makes people more susceptible to respiratory diseases.

Logs have enormous capacities for humidity. They strive to find a balanced condition that keeps the humidity at just the right level. A log house is able to breathe: the organic material allows ventilation to occur slowly through the timber grain fibres. Consequently, the air in a log house has always sufficient oxygen, and never excessive carbon dioxide; For instance, people who live in log houses never suffer from headaches as a result of excessive carbon dioxide.

Daily well-being and comfortable living is also dependent on the temperature of the house. The material of a log house is perfect in respect of temperature characteristics: the home is warm in the winter, and pleasantly cool in the heat of the summer.

This is due to the humidity and solar energy holding characteristics of the logs. The massive log structure facilitates a sort of natural energy and humidity bank that regulates the temperature of the home as and when necessary.