Home pageCompaniesglossary CURRENT COMPANIES HOUSES SERVICES MEDIA CONTACT Home pageCompaniesglossary glossary Connection lug / ring earth electrode The electrical installation of a building must be earthed via the ring earth electrode. The connection lug connects the ring earth electrode with the electrical distribution box. Reinforcement fabric The reinforcement fabric is processed under the external plaster and serves to make the plaster resistant to cracks and stability. Blower Door Test The Blower Door Test is also known as the differential pressure measurement method and is used to measure the airtightness of a building. Roof pitch The roof pitch indicates how steep the slope of a roof surface. Energiebilanz Die Energiebilanz ist das Ergebnis aus Energieverlust und Energiezufuhr. Je besser die Bilanz ist, desto weniger Energie geht verloren. Installationsebene Die Wand besitzt einen separaten Bereich, in dem alle notwendigen Installationen untergebracht werden, so wird die Wand dämmtechnisch nicht beeinträchtigt. Knee floor The low or half-height walls on the sides of the building with the sloping ceilings are known as the knee floor. If there is no knee stick, the roof sits directly on the floor of the attic. The higher the knee, the larger the living space in the attic. Purlin The purlin is part of the supporting structure of a purlin roof. Purlins are horizontal wooden beams on which the rafters are supported. A distinction is made between the ridge purlin as the upper support point of the rafters, the central purlin and the foot purlin as the lower support point. Solar collector A solar collector is a device for extracting heat from the sun's rays. The panels are usually placed on the roof of the house. Eaves An eaves is the name of the drip edge on the roof of a building. A gutter is usually installed below this edge. U-value The heat transfer coefficient is called the U-value (formerly the k-value). It describes how much heat is extracted from the building by this component. The smaller the U-value, the less heat is lost. Heat recovery Heat recovery is the term used to describe any process that recovers heat from waste products such as waste water, exhaust gas or exhaust air for reuse. Thermal insulation glazing In thermal insulation glazing, an invisible silver layer is vapor-deposited on one of the glass panes. This causes heat to enter the house, but not out. Heat exchanger In a heat exchanger, two flows, such as exhaust air and supply air from a ventilation system, meet without having direct contact. Heat is extracted from the exhaust air and fed into the supply air. Full storey A full storey is the name given to rooms without a pitched roof with a ceiling height equal to the storey below. Suckfüll Our energy saving house GmbH & Co. KG imprint data protection Alersfelde 79 33039 Nieheim Phone : 0 52 74/952 96-0 Fax: 0 52 74/952 96-50 nfsckfllhsd