In Ukraine, due to patchwork insulation of apartment buildings, mold appears in houses. In addition, the outer wall of the building is being gradually resolved.
This is stated in material OBOZREVATEL. Insulate a separate apartment from the outside of the wall prohibited by law. A “flap” of insulation in one apartment can really lead to the fact that in this particular apartment it will be several degrees warmer in winter. But on the other hand, this leads to:
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displacement of the “dew point” (the temperature at which the vapor in the air turns into water). And if such water as a result of insulation appears in the wall, this will be an ideal place for the appearance of fungi;
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as a result of temperature differences in different parts of the wall over time appear microcracks… Moisture accumulates in them, cracks expand every year;
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the house slowly begins to collapse.
OBOZREVATEL introduced himself as a potential client and phoned several companies that provide “professional services” for facade insulation. All selected firms agreed to “sheathe with foam” only one apartment. The price varies up to 900 UAH per square meter. At the same time, the consultants themselves admit that their method of warming will lead to mold in their neighbors. But the customer’s apartment supposedly will not suffer.
“You will definitely not have mold. The neighbors can get mold. It is often done in such a way that one apartment is insulated and then the neighbors begin to insulate,” said a consultant of the Kiev company Warm-house.
In fact, mold cannot infect one single apartment. Over time, she spread to the whole house, this is a time bomb. As told OBOZREVATEL Doctor of Technical Sciences, Director of the State Research Institute of Building Structures Gennady Farenyuk, there is a high probability that the whole house will be damaged.
“The consequences can be different. The house suffers. The working conditions of the wall are violated, temperature deformations begin: movement of the butt joints,” says Farenyuk. If the dew point shifts into the structure of the house, mold may develop. And no chemicals can remove such mold.
In the State energy efficiency agency on request OBOZREVATEL answered: in addition to mold and destruction, also safety precautions are violated… “With such insulation, they do not make fire belts. Patchwork insulation on panel houses is especially harmful. The insulation closes the interpanel seams. But moisture continues to enter them through the seams from the upper floors. Therefore, fungus appears, the corrosion of metal reinforcement that holds the panels accelerates.” – explained in the department.
As reported OBOZREVATEL, in Ukraine debtors on communal apartments will be fined by 20-50%, at the same time, they will be prohibited from traveling abroad. Such innovations could reduce the number of those Ukrainians who can pay their bills, but do not.
This is stated in the bill №3613, which was included in the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada. The profile committee recommends the adoption of the specified document.
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