How to Choose the Perfect Ventilation System for Your Home
First World Ventilation Day, known as WorldVentil8Day is commencing on the 8th of November 2023. This new annual WorldVentil8Day Campaign has been created to raise awareness and highlight the importance of efficient ventilation and the impacts it has on your health and wellbeing. Let’s support this day together and celebrate ventilation! #WorldVentil8Day #CelebrateVentil8
At Brookvent we would like to educate you on this WorldVentil8Day and the importance of ventilation and why this is important on your health and wellbeing! and provide you with some tips that may help you.
What is Ventilation?
Ventilation involves removing stale air and supply fresh air in a building. Traditional ventilation always relied on natural ventilation which is the flow of air between the outside and the inside of any building, this can be done via wall vents, window trickle vents or an extract fan.
New builds are now moving on towards the mechanical means via heat recovery ventilation systems (MVHR), which is a system that is continuously supplying fresh air and extracting stale air simultaneously whilst recovering heat.
Then we have centralised mechanical extract ventilation (MEV), which is a continuously running extract system which in turn results in fresh air being drawn in from outside through a trickle vent in the window.
Why it is Ventilation Important?
Ventilation is important and if we have no ventilation, we will have no control of the airflow in a building. Some reasons are;
- It regulates air flow in your home or building, supplying fresh air in your home
- It helps control household/building temperatures.
- Removes polluted or stale air from your home.
- Reduces the risk of condensation and mould forming.
- It has positive impacts on our health and wellbeing.
Ventilation, Indoor Air Quality and Our Health
An average person spends the majority of a 24-hour period indoors, whether that is at work or in their homes. Therefore, it is vital, that the air that we are breathing is good quality air, as this is essential to our over health.
If you have poor indoor air quality, then you may be exposing yourself to health problems such as;
- Heart and Respiratory disease
- Lung cancer
- Asthma or reduced lung functions
- Headaches
- Fatigue
- Drowsiness and Dizziness
- Poor Sleep
See our blog on IQA: What is indoor air quality and how does it affect us
Tips that may be helpful to you
- If it is a nice and dry day, open the windows.
- Use an Air purifier when you can.
- Install extract fans to remove moisture in your home, which would reduce condensation and mould issues (bathroom and kitchen)
- Ventilation system installed, this could be a MEV, PIV or MVHR – See our blog: The benefits of Heat Recovery Ventilation
- If you have ventilation system installed, ensuring you get a regular service complete, to ensure that the system is operating effectively and efficiently, see our service package here: MVHR servicing and maintenance and how to change your filters if needed: Importance of replacing your Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery filters
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.
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