Guide to Home Ventilation
Guide to Home Ventilation-Ventilation is the exchange of indoor and outdoor air. A home without proper ventilation can seal in harmful pollutants, such as carbon monoxide, household cleaning chemicals and moisture that can damage a house.
Why Ventilate? Homes can seal in gases from combustion appliances like stoves, furnaces, and gas water heaters. Homes can have excessive moisture that will lead to mold growth and can cause structural damage. Furthermore, some levels of humidity can make equipment work harder, leading to more costly utility bills. Exhaust fans and Energy Recovery Ventilation (EVR) can remove gases and other pollutants from the indoor air, leaving your home with a clean fresh air exchange keeping you and your family safe from dangerous toxic chemicals.
Three Types of Home Ventilation:
Natural Ventilation is uncontrolled air movement from windows, cracks and doors in your home. This is the most common method and is still found in older homes.
Spot Ventilation using localized exhaust fans to quickly remove bad air and moisture at the source. For example: range hoods over stoves, laundry room and bathroom exhaust fans. Spot ventilation is usually used in conjunction with other ventilation strategies. If spot and natural ventilation don’t meet your homes needs you should consider a whole house strategy.
Whole-House Ventilation provides controlled, uniform ventilation throughout the entire house. For example: exhaust only that relies on building leakage to supply fresh air. supply only that relies on leakage from the building to exhaust stale air or balanced systems that have both exhaust and fresh air intake components.
Other Tips to consider kitchen and bathroom vents should lead directly outside never vented into the attic; this could pose serious health problems. If you had air sealing and new insulation it could be required base on your states standards to provided more fresh air avoiding toxic build up of stale air in your home. Special whole house air-to-air heat recovery ventilators can assist in what your home needs.
- Getting a whole house energy assessment is your first step to finding out how your home ventilation is performing.
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