Ventilation

Ventilation isn’t something that comes immediately to mind when talking about energy use in your house or flat, but modern ventilation systems can really help to reduce the amount of energy that your home uses. Good ventilation is important for healthy homes. If you seal a home up too tightly, it will become unhealthy. You need fresh air but you also need to control the heat loss in this ventilation process.

Improving Ventilation in Your Home can Help Reduce Energy Use

Energy Efficient Extractor Fans

If you have an older extractor fan in your kitchen or bathroom, the chances are that it isn’t running as efficiently as it once did and may not include some of the more recent innovations in extractor fan technology that reduce energy use.

Older fan designs, particularly those in kitchen settings, can become clogged over time as dust and grease builds up on filters and fan blades.  This forces the fan to work much harder than it otherwise would need to which means higher energy use.

Simply cleaning the fan and filter can help to rejuvenate an older fan. But by taking advantage of a more modern system such as the Cyclone 7, you will benefit from smart features that adapt the power of the fan to the humidity levels to clear moisture more quickly and prevent condensation and damp.

Improved Air Flow Throughout Your Home

Most central heating systems are controlled by a central thermostat which measures the temperature in one location – usually the hallway – and then turns off the heat when the desired temperature is reached.

This can be inefficient – some rooms heat up more quickly than others. But the heating will continue to run until the desired temperature is reached centrally.  That can mean a lot of wasted energy and some rooms becoming too hot.

A modern whole house ventilation system such as PIV works in conjunction with your central heating to move air gently through your home.  This means that your home is heated more evenly as air flowing between rooms carries heat with it.

Preventing Heat Loss

Ventilation systems help prevent condensation by replacing the moist air in your home with fresh air from outdoors.  Some whole house ventilation systems include heat recovery technology. That uses the warmth in the air that  expelled from the house to warm the incoming air.  This makes the whole system much more efficient and prevents heat loss.