Buttoning Up Your Home For Winter? Have You Considered Heat-Recovery Ventilation?

Do you have a tightly sealed home? This is great for saving energy on heating costs in the winter, but how does the stale, moist indoor air escape from your home? After all, actions like washing, cooking and even breathing generate warmth and moisture. If you don’t have a ventilation system in place, chances are the warm, moist air will build up in cold areas like the attic where mold and rot can then set in. Because of this, it’s clear that sealing up your home for winter energy savings isn’t enough if you want to benefit from fresh air in your home as well.Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to your problem in the form of heat-recovery ventilation. Vents that lead to the exterior of the home are installed in prime moisture-generating locations like the kitchen and bathroom. On the way out of your home, the air passes through a metal box with multiple air channels. At the same time, fresh, cold air from outside is sucked into the building. The streams of air don’t mix, but they pass each other and a heat exchange occurs that pre-treats the inbound air with some of the warmth from the outbound air. This process allows you to ventilate fresh air into your home without paying the energy bills to heat it from scratch.Any home with a ducted heating system can have a heat-recovery ventilation system installed. With a heat-recovery ventilator, you can recover as much as 80 percent of the heat energy in outgoing air for use in heating inbound air. You also benefit from the removal of offensive odors and damaging moisture, and enjoy the comfort and health that comes with fresh air in the home. While these systems are particularly effective in northern climates, research shows that warm climates depending primarily on air conditioning can also benefit. This makes heat-recovery ventilating systems beneficial year-round.If you are interested in what heat-recovery ventilation systems have to offer, contact Air Assurance Heating, Cooling & Air Qualityin Broken Arrow for more information.Our goal is to help educate our customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). Air Assurance services Tulsa, Broken Arrow and the surrounding areas. Visit our website to see our current promotions and get started today!