How to Choose the Perfect Ventilation System for Your Home
Make your home more energy efficient to protect our environment, reduce your carbon emissions and lower your energy bills!
Modern built homes have improved the levels of unwanted ventilation reducing heat loss and improving your home to be energy-efficient. A properly designed mechanical ventilation system will provide you with the correct amount of clean and fresh air which is so important for our health and home, cse.org.uk.
What is Energy Efficiency?
Energy efficiency is the use of using less energy to perform the same task or produce the same outcome. For example, in your home you want to be able to heat, cool, run electronic or appliances using less energy. Using a combination of actions and technology makes it possible to reduce the amount of energy to power your home.
Improve Your Actions
There are many things you can do at home to reduce the amount of energy that you use.
- Switching off appliances and removing from the sockets when they are not in use will affect our bills.
- Swapping over to low energy lightbulbs / Turning off your lights
- Careful when washing, using the washing machine on a lower cycle and drying clothes outside
- Swap your bath for a shower, spend less time in the shower.
- Fill the sink up when washing dishes.
Improve Your Home
There are many solutions or improvements that you can make at home to improve energy efficiency;
- Ensure your home is properly insulated. By having Insulation in place or adding extra would help to reduce heat loss and improve air flow.
- Closing windows which will retain heat, however some people may argue that we need natural ventilation. If this is the case then extract fans can be installed to prevent any condensation or mould.
- Heat recovery systems such as an MVHR as they use little energy to run and they manage the airflow which means the house will be properly ventilated.
- Where MVHR is not suitable then invest in retrofits as it will help energy performance in older buildings.
Mechanical Ventilation Systems
Traditional mechanical ventilation systems remove wet or polluted air from your property and replace it with cleaner fresh air from outside. While this creates a healthier environment in your home, the constant air flow can make it difficult to retain heat.
Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR) , on the other hand, retrieve heat from expelled air and transfer it to the new air being drawn in. This lets you improve the air quality in your property without losing warmth and comfort. MVHR systems also improve energy efficiency to help you save on energy bills. E.g. You may save 25-50% on energy bills due to reduced heating demands.
Our Aircycle 1.3 has Specific Fan Power (SFP) down to 0.42 W/l/s and a heat recovery efficiency up to 92%. The aircycle 1.3 features a streamlined, low-turbulence airflow path design coupled with state of the art EC fan technology. This ensures that it has the lowest power consumptions (W) per volume of air (l/s) outputs in its class and sets a new standard in HRV system efficiency. Check out our full range of whole house ventilation systems here
If you currently have a whole house ventilation system already installed, another important element is to ensure you are getting the unit serviced to ensure it is reclaiming the energy as it should.
Benefits of Heat Recovery Ventilation Systems
- Keeps your home well ventilated without lowering temperature.
- Saves you money by reducing the cost of heating your property.
- Improves air quality for a healthier living environment.
- Protects your home and furniture against moisture and pollutants.
- Can easily be installed in both new and existing properties.
We are residential ventilation specialists, and we will help you at every step of your project.
If you are considering a mechanical ventilation system and want to improve energy and heat in your home , Click and get in touch with Brookvent today! Or call our office on 02890616505 or email, hello@brookvent.co.uk. You can also view our range of Mechanical ventilation heat recovery systems on our Brookvent Amazon Store.
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