While you want your home to be weather tight, this leads to damp, stale air getting trapped inside.
Sure, you can open your windows - but that's not always a realistic choice when it is freezing cold, boiling hot, or pouring rain outside.
The answer to a fresh-air indoor environment is a whole-house energy recovery ventilation system that exchanges outside and indoor air to minimize its effect on your indoor heating or cooling systems. In the winter, these systems reduce the cost of heating ventilated air by transferring heat from the indoor air being exhausted to the fresh (but cold) incoming air. In the summer, the same is done in reverse.
There are two kinds of energy recovery systems available: heat recovery ventilation and enthropy recovery ventilation.The main difference between the two is that the former only transfers heat, while the latter transfers a certain amount of water vapor along with the heat, which helps the indoor humidity remain more constant and reduces the risk of the heat exchanger core freezing.
We can install a low-cost, high-quality system that will minimizes you home's energy loss by basing its usage on the number of rooms and home square footage.
We call that a "set it and forget" system. You, your friends and family will call it home that smells and feels like fresh air!
We recommend the following whole house ventilation systems:
Honeywell - Energy Recovery Ventilator (with moisture transfer), Model ER150B 2006 :
- Bring in fresh air while maintaining energy efficiency.
- Low maintenance, low energy usage solution.
- Recovers up to 80% of heating and cooling energy.
Aprilaire - Energy Recovery Ventilator, Model 8100:
- Reduces excess indoor humidity levels.
- Provides a constant, controlled supply of fresh aur to your home year round.
- Installs as part of any central heating and cooling system.
