Regards, Mike. Hi, My home is 10 years old, we always have moisture on our window's, this year I put plastic on all windows with the exception of the kitchen and the patio door. We are considering replacing all of our windows as the builder installed really cheap windows. I do open the door to let the air change but I have not noticed a change in humidity. In your opinion would a venmar or air exchanger work for us?
Can you recommend a good brand and a company who can install an air exchange system in my house:2 floors and a basement in Montreal. Our Quebec based French website has a green building directory that should help you find someone. Have you checked to see if your bathroom fan is really hooked up?
I went into my attic last year to find the builder had simply left it exhausting into the attic insulation. Thus, it wasn't very efficient. With the changing era,the myths for keeping home well ventilated also changed. Prior people prefer to have airtight houses but with time they understands the importance of ventilation for keeping their family healthy.
I have an air exchanger. Mice have nested in the insulation of the 'ducts'. If I get rid of mice, should I replace the ducts. If so, how do i purchase just the duct work? Hi, in our house there is one opening in the basement,the other is at the highest point at the stairs onthe ceiling. For the air exchanger,which opening is the inlet,and which one is the outlet in this case?
Hi, I recently moves into a home with an air exchanger. Im unfirmiliar with how they work. What is a good setting to have it on? I have this idea for using ambient soil as a source for warming and cooling fresh air intake. It seems too simple and good to be true, so it probably is. Looking for feedback. I am planning on building a small house with a basement.
Bathroom fans, etc. I am imagining minus 10C air coming into the house much warmer from it journey around the foundation, while in hot summer months, the air would be cooled. I would also put an intake behind the refrigerator, thus recycling the heat produced by the fridge. I have also got intakes near the ceiling in my skylights.. We pay to heat our homes, we may as well keep the hot air circulating and mixing with the new fresh air. MI put 6 mm poly on my windows as it is a total heat escape addition of glass.
My concern is the plastic is sticking to the windows with moisture build up. Will they crack in sub zero C temperatures??? I put 6mm poly on a large windowed addition. I am concerned that the condensation exterior will crack the large panes of glass.
Every home is different , depending on how many people and style of life , how tight the house is etc I use to tell people if you see moisture on the windows turn it up enough to cut it in etc.. There is no need to have it on bust if there is no moisture in the house. I know people have problem of having it on auto and making the house to dry so night time they had in plug into a timer to shut it down for 6- 8 hours when they went to bed, but never off.
I live in Newfoundland , Canada. We get mixed season. Tried to find info in Building Code. Can't seem to find anything like ours. We are a condo corp, two stories. All upper units have same problem. All vents are installed facing down on roof overhang. There are no flap covers on any of the vents.
Condos are cold. Only heated with fireplace in living rooms, baseboard heaters in bedrooms. Middle of condo kitchen area, dining room always cold.
Back of condos face west. All vents are in back. Wind hits back wall s of condos and come in all the vents. We could use our microwave as a mini-fridge too. Condos are 4 years old. Lower units have no problems. Can anyone guide us I'm on Board of Directors as to whether this is 'normal' or how to rectify.
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer! Fran Perks, Rockland, Ontario. The fresh air in in these parts is quite cool! If you want it to go up pipe it into your return air and through the furnace, at least it has time to warm up.
I had a duct into the kitchen wall, and felt it. The make I finally decided was the best is vanEE - I had a heck of a time sourcing a "local" installer that carried the line could not source a direct purchase capability. Then presto, source was found - long story short, I had the vanEE H installed - thoroughly impressed with it's operating and performance. As I am in NB, no sense in giving you the name of the installer I had. I live in south central Saskatchewan and my house was built in a It is well insulated but I get sweat on the windows all the time.
I got a mid efficient furnace that's 7 years old. Looking at an air to air exchanger its made by Venmar its a Constructro 1. I was wondering if I could just tap into the existing heat ducts and cold air return or do I run separate lines and if that's the case do vents have to be high and low or can they all be put at floor level? And how many do I need? Do I really need 1 per room. Air exchangers are a great idea, but with existing homes its best to go on a case by case basis. If you have that much moisture I would think about a dehumidifier maybe, and with any double pane window you are bound to get humidity on the really days anyway.
All the best. Hi Michael, you might as well shut if off if you have crossflow of air anyway. The HRV and windows would be doing the same thing. What do you think would be the cheapest option to lower humidity and bring in fresh air with existing attic ductwork and doing the work myself. I have forced air and an air scrubber installed currently.
The house is cinder block so the one in this video seems like it would be pretty difficult to do. A dehumidifier upstairs, beap floor fan downstairs. A touch of one window opening in the basement and one on top floor. My old home is very dried and warm like this. I had owned two other homes before So I can tell the difference.
I have a brand new home, moved into in June. Have furned on Venmar now. It sounds like my furnace is on all the time. I use a wall control. Is this normal? Im trying to make sure we are doing it right. We always open a basement window whenever we run a bathroom fan, kitchen range hood, or the dryer.
Can we stop doing this once we install an HRV? Would running the fan during a shower, for example, draw air into the house through the HRV? Opening a window to allow a bit of makeup air when running exhaust fans is a good idea, An HRV won't really change that. If your HRV exhaust pulls air from the bathroom that's one thing, but if it is a fan vented directly outside then opening a window is still a good idea. As for making that a basement window, you may be just as well to have that an upstairs window, depending on the air quality in the basement, meaning if it is musty as many are or if it has elevated levels of radon gas, in which case, an ground floor window may be preferrable to open I think.
Our home is 14 yrs old. We had an air exchanger installed, we never use it. We had the installer come back and check what was going on, we were getting mold in the basement.
So where do the pollutants end up? They stay trapped inside the filter! Over time, filters fill up with the dirty pollutants they intercept from the air. As they fill up, filters become less effective. Eventually, they could even make the air dirtier instead of cleaner. Replace the air filter in your exchanger around once every three months to keep your exchanger as effective as possible. This one seems obvious, but you have to use your air exchanger to get anything out of it!
During the winter, your home will experience high amount of condensation due to the insulation and moisture barriers Thermo poly. You'll want to set your Air exchanger to the proper humidity level for the winter. Along with everything in this world there is some maintenance work to be done on these units. We recommend getting the filters cleaned every year by one of our trained technicians. Our technician will then take a look at the vent covers on the outside to make sure they are working proper and haven't been damaged.
We finish off by preforming a function test to ensure the thermostat is in working order. What is an Air Exchangers? How does it work? January 14, You can run your Aldes ERV intermittently depending on your wall control:. Running your ERV to get fresh air instead of opening the windows will have the added benefit that the incoming warm air will be partially pre-cooled and dehumidified thanks to the energy-recovery core.
The air conditioner will not have to work as hard to bring the fresh air to your desired temperature.
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