Tag: HRV
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Ventilation Omission That Can Make You Sweat
Subtitle: If you connect an ERV or HRV to your heating and cooling ducts, you’ll need a way to stop the undesired inward flow of outdoor air Images: If you’re designing a ventilation system, first you have to determine how much outdoor air the house needs. You can use ASHRAE 62.2A standard for residential mechanical…