A fresh breeze for your own four walls

These days, it’s quite trendy to redesign or revamp old rooms. In 2018, more than 8.72 mil­lion Ger­mans – that’s more than one in ten – were plan­ning to ren­ov­ate their homes with­in the next two years accord­ing to a study by IfD Allens­bach Insti­tute for Pub­lic Opin­ion Research. A healthy room cli­mate is becom­ing increas­ingly import­ant as we spend so much time indoors – time that we need to recharge our bat­ter­ies. When using low-emis­­sion build­ing products, you will be able to enjoy “clean” air after fin­ish­ing your renov­a­tion pro­ject – for the sake of your health and that of our envir­on­ment.

Floors, walls and ceil­ings account for the largest part of the liv­ing space sur­round­ing us at home. That’s why they should be free of harm­ful sub­stances. We are also sur­roun­ded by products that we hardly notice in our every­day lives. These include adhes­ives, wall pan­els, insu­lat­ing under­lays, seal­ants, primers, par­quet var­nishes, fillers and joint seal­ants.

The eco-label EMICODE^® on the product pack­aging provides reli­able guid­ance when under­tak­ing a renov­a­tion pro­ject. It is exclus­ively awar­ded to build­ing and install­a­tion products that meet the world’s strict­est emis­sion lim­its. For this reas­on, pro­fes­sion­al build­ers usu­ally opt for products that bear the EMICODE^® label. The emis­sion levels are determ­ined by inde­pend­ent labor­at­or­ies. After cer­ti­fic­a­tion, the products are reg­u­larly mon­itored by inde­pend­ent experts and test­ing insti­tutes to ensure long-term com­pli­ance with the lim­it val­ues. This is a major advant­age of EMICODE^® over oth­er cer­ti­fic­a­tion sys­tems for health and envir­on­ment­ally friendly build­ing products.