Tag: balanced ventilation

  • Ventilating a Home in Cold Weather

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  You need fresh air, but bringing in cold outdoor air can cause problems Images:  When I woke up Saturday morning, the temperature outdoors was -40 degrees†. The wind chill was -100 degrees! It was just unbelievably, impossibly, inhumanly cold outside. Fortunately, that was on a mountaintop in New Hampshire and not where…

  • Ventilating a Home in Cold Weather

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  You need fresh air, but bringing in cold outdoor air can cause problems Images:  When I woke up Saturday morning, the temperature outdoors was -40 degrees†. The wind chill was -100 degrees! It was just unbelievably, impossibly, inhumanly cold outside. Fortunately, that was on a mountaintop in New Hampshire and not where…

  • Should Balanced Ventilation Be Required?

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  Aspen’s new energy code requires balanced mechanical ventilation with recovery Images:  “You know where this is going, right? Codes will eventually require balanced ventilationMechanical ventilation system in which separate, balanced fans exhaust stale indoor air and bring in fresh outdoor air in equal amounts; often includes heat recovery or heat and moisture…

  • Should Balanced Ventilation Be Required?

    Prime:  prime Subtitle:  Aspen’s new energy code requires balanced mechanical ventilation with recovery Images:  “You know where this is going, right? Codes will eventually require balanced ventilationMechanical ventilation system in which separate, balanced fans exhaust stale indoor air and bring in fresh outdoor air in equal amounts; often includes heat recovery or heat and moisture…

  • Resistance May NOT Be Futile in the Residential Ventilation Wars

    Subtitle:  The Building Science Corporation has created a ventilation standard to compete against ASHRAE 62.2 Images:  “ASHRAE 62 is the only national consensus standard document there is. Follow 62.2. Resistance is futile.” So said Dr. Max Sherman last summer in a presentation for the Building America Technical Update meeting. (Download pdf official report here.) That…