Among houses made of building stones (bricks and various blocks), the warmest is arbolite. Buildings from sandwich panels in terms of heat conservation are identical to skeletons. The thermal insulation characteristics of wooden houses largely depend on the quality of lumber used in the construction of housing.
When choosing a warm, reliable house, you need to pay attention to the following types of materials from which private buildings are erected: timber, building stone, sandwich panels.
What material house is warmer?
Houses made of timber are the most environmentally friendly and cost much cheaper than brick houses. In addition, the tree has a lower coefficient of thermal conductivity than this building stone: 0.09 W / (m ∙ K) versus 0.8 W / (m ∙ K). Therefore, it retains heat in the house much better. The natural structure of the tree normalizes the level of humidity in the house, so the air in such rooms is rarely dry even when using heaters. Therefore, the level of comfort of living in such a dwelling is much higher than in a brick house.
Of the building stones (brick, foam and gas block, concrete block), the warmest is arbolite. This stone is made from a mixture of concrete and sawdust. The technology for the production of wood concrete allows the use of wood chips, small chips, dry needles as a filler.
Warm blocks of sawdust concrete can be made independently. To do this, you need a formwork and a small vibrating table. Before laying in a cement-sand mortar, lime powder should be added to the sawdust. This will prevent decay of wood and the buildup of wood concrete. A house made of sawdust concrete is the warmest of those built with building stones.
Sandwich panel structures are largely identical to wireframes. They have the same type of insulation: polystyrene or its more dense modification - polyurethane foam. This material is located inside the sandwich panels and in the walls of the frame. Therefore, these two types of houses have the same thermal insulation characteristics. In frame housing construction, mineral wool can be used as insulation. But due to the high hygroscopicity, it quickly loses its heat-insulating properties: it dampens and settles. All buildings built using either of these two technologies, frame and sandwich panels, retain heat well. This fact proves that such buildings do not need regular heating in the cold season.
