The lowest price per m² says little about what a wooden facade actually costs you.

You want wood on the facade. For good reasons, it looks great, it is biobased, it fits what you stand for. And still you hesitate, because the questions that really matter come later. How much maintenance does it need, how long will it last, and what does that mean for your long-term maintenance budget.

Those questions often get answered with an assumption, or with the experience from a previous project. Understandable, but risky. A cheap softwood facade you replace twice is more expensive than a tropical hardwood facade that stays up for forty years. Price per m² and real cost do not always point the same way. This whitepaper puts them side by side, based on figures from the daily practice of housing associations, so you can see where the costs really sit.