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SYSTEM KAN-therm
It is not worth saving on this!
When starting to build their own house, few people pay attention to the quality of the systems hidden in the walls and floors. They focus mainly on what is visible or tangible - on final finishing elements. People mistakenly think that what cannot be seen is less important and they can save a little on it. However, as proven in practice, such an approach can cost you plenty in the end.
The temptation to seek savings most often concerns water and heating installations. This is because, with a limited budget, you are constantly being forced to make compromises to reduce costs. But this does not mean that you can opt for cheaper installation materials. Today\'s sanitary and heating installations are the same for houses or flats as bloodstreams for your body.
And just as in living organisms, the network of these life-giving lines is invisible, hidden inside the buildings, providing them with the heat and water they need to function.
"Most often, especially in case of installation distributions, water or heating pipes become a part of the building structure because they are led in floors or cemented in walls," explains Mariusz Choroszucha, Head of KAN Technical Department.
He adds that "They are invisible to the users who generally are not even aware that water is pulsating under their feet in a network of pipes. In the event of a failure, they cannot be simply replaced with new ones as you replace a lightbulb, tap or radiator." With this in mind, it is worth considering the long-term consequences of your decisions in any calculations. The cost of relevant installations is usually not more than 2% of the total investment, so the amount can hardly be considered a heavy burden that you can reduce. With the relatively low price of the installation (compared to other essential building or finishing elements), savings should rather be sought elsewhere. By choosing cheaper materials, we have little to gain and much to lose. What\'s more, if damage occurs to any component of a poor quality installation, the removal of damage caused by water
(dampness, structural repair, refurbishment of floors, walls, etc.) can account for up to 70% of the investment! Looking at the whole picture from this perspective, you can quickly conclude that it will be much easier to change, for example, furniture or decorations after a certain time, rather than hidden in walls and built-in installations. Therefore, with a limited budget, we should first invest in high-quality basic elements (such as foundations, internal installations or the roof), which are impossible, very expensive or very inconvenient to replace after the building is completed, and only then deal with the interior decoration. As research shows - one euro misspent on installation materials can generate, in the near future, as much as 20 euro in additional costs (resulting from the need to rectify faults or from higher everyday operating costs).
This is why we should opt for proven solutions, above all. "Pipe installation systems available on the market from time to time - ephemera, disappearing as unexpectedly as they appeared - can cause an unpleasant surprise for the user of a recently built house. Unclear guarantee conditions, quality unverified by a longer period of operation in installations, problems with availability - all of this signals the trouble that an uninformed user who chooses untested pipes and fittings will be exposed to in the future," finally warns Mariusz Choroszucha, Head of KAN Technical Department.
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