Safe playground for “little explorers”

Health is the highest good in life. Espe­cially in our own four walls, a place of safety and well-being, we should feel com­pletely at ease and not endangered by harm­ful sub­stances. Healthy liv­ing takes a high pri­or­ity for 73 per­cent of all Ger­mans. This was the res­ult of a rep­res­ent­at­ive sur­vey car­ried out by the mar­ket research insti­tute YouGov on behalf of the crafts cooper­at­ive MEGA eG. For par­ents rais­ing their off­spring, a safe nest and healthy indoor cli­mate is all the more import­ant. Apart from child-safe fur­niture and toys, “clean” build­ing mater­i­als are essen­tial – recog­niz­able by the EMICODE^® seal.

The floor plays a key role for a healthy indoor cli­mate – not only in terms of sur­face area. It’s the area of most con­tact with the res­id­ents. Many people find it dif­fi­cult to assess wheth­er the selec­ted floor cov­er­ing is really healthy for liv­ing. Accord­ing to the sur­vey by YouGov and MEGA eG, only 42 per­cent of those sur­veyed say they are aware of health risks asso­ci­ated with floor­ing mater­i­als. It is, how­ever, quite easy to identi­fy healthy floor­ing mater­i­als: Good indic­at­ors are qual­ity seals such as the Ü and CE mark or the TÜV and GuT seals for car­pets.

It is advis­able to have the par­quet or oth­er floor cov­er­ings installed by a pro­fes­sion­al floorer. He will choose full-sur­­face bond­ing because of the firm con­nec­tion to the sub­floor. This makes the floor­ing more hard-wear­ing and easi­er to main­tain, keeps the noise level low (espe­cially with resi­li­ent floor­ing and par­quet) and ensures effect­ive dis­tri­bu­tion of the heat from under­floor heat­ing sys­tems. Choos­ing a low-emis­­sion adhes­ive is of key import­ance. Products car­ry­ing the EMICODE^® seal meet the world’s most strin­gent emis­sion lim­its. The seal is clearly vis­ible on the pack­aging and iden­ti­fies low-emis­­sion adhes­ives,