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Table 1 Physical housing improvements

From: Health effects of holistic housing renovation in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in the Netherlands: a qualitative exploration among residents and professionals

Houses

Entrance, porches, storage boxes, elevator

• necessary maintenance

• improve building insulation

• replace kitchens older than 15 years

• partial renovation of entrance, new entrance door, mailboxes, intercom and doorbells

• replace bathrooms older than 25 years

• improve safety

• renew toilets and downpipes (where necessary) and sewer connection

• necessary maintenance of porches and stairwells

• replace window frames with new plastic/synthetic frames with insulating glass

• installing new elevator from ground floor to 9th floor to improve accessibility (the old one started on the second floor so people, also with prams or walkers, had to take the stairs first to access the elevator)

• insulating facades (including end facades)

• separate (bicycle)entrance to storage rooms (from the outside)

• apply improved ventilation system

• insulating the ceilings of the storage rooms

• renew / check electricity installation

• insulate the connecting corridor on the 7th floor and adapt it to an open corridor, equipped with external doors to the hall

• adjustments in the field of safety

 

• replace balcony fences

 

• installation of induction cookers to fully get rid of the gas

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