Heat Recovery Ventilation

Why heat recovery ventilation?

Modern homes are built to be well insulated, air tight buildings. This brings many benefits such as lower heating costs and higher levels of comfort. However, ventilation in our homes is essential for good air quality and can directly impact on our health and wellbeing.

Even a slight decrease in air quality can cause a surprising number of problems. Pollen, dust, bacteria, VOC`s (volatile organic compounds) from construction material, radon and mildew is present in much of the indoor air that people breath, and allergies have become a big public health problem.

Heat recovery ventilation negates the need for trickle vents in windows and noisy extractor fans from wet rooms, allowing the external envelope of the building to remain intact and therefore retaining expensively produced heat inside the home.

How does it work?

A heat recovery ventilation system efficiently replaces all the air in your home at least once every two hours. The fresh incoming air is filtered through an EU 7 Pollen filter (British Allergy Foundation Approved) where fine allergens and pollens are removed and hence improve indoor air quality.

This incoming filtered fresh air passes through a high efficiency rotary heat exchanger where it picks up the heat from the warm exhausted air (up to 80% recovery) and hence the heat in the home is recycled allowing real energy savings. Our system is a Scandinavian designed and built, double-skinned steel unit controlled with a user-friendly touch panel.

What are the benefits?

The main benefits are a flow of clean air that maintains a healthy living environment in your home and the recovery of heat that would otherwise be lost through normal uncontrolled ventilation.

Other benefits include: