Heat Recovery Ventilation
Tighter more efficient homes are good news, right? Yes….and no. While you may see heat costs decrease with new construction, there will be an increase in air pollutants trapped within your new home that you won’t see. Better construction makes it easier on your wallet when buying energy, but be aware that along with containing the heat in your home, you will contain moisture, smoke, cleaning chemicals and other pollutants.
The good news is that Heat Recovery Ventilators (HRVs) can solve this problem. HRVs bring a continuous supply of fresh air into your home and exhaust contaminated air. The units are built with a special aluminum core where the heat from the air that is being exhausted, warms the fresh air as it is coming in from outside. HRVs come in different sizes designed for the square footage of your new home.
Schiavi Home Builders recognizes the added value to our clients that an HRV provides, therefore it comes as a standard feature in every Schiavi custom built home. If you would like more information on HRVs, visit http://www.fantech.net.
