Get More Healthy Air With A Home Ventilation System

If you're like most families, creating three meals a day, you could be releasing up to 4 litres of water into the air. Over a year this equates to over 18 bathtubs full of water being released into your kitchen's air. You want to extract this air immediately as it carries moisture and smells.

As your damp clothes tumble around your dryer the warm moisture is released into the air. If not ducted properly, the moisture from your clothes gets pumped straight back into the laundry. If not ventilated properly, you and your family are likely to breathe in this moist damp air, potentially causing respiratory and other health problems. You need to take this moist air out of your laundry and replace it with clean fresh air from the outside.

If you've ever woken up with condensation on your windows, you may think "what did I breathe in all night?" Condensation happens when the warm, moist air within your bedroom comes into contact with a cold surface like your windows. The solution is to extract the moisture out of the air to help minimise condensation. Now, you could use a noisy dehumidifier, but quiet ventilation may be a better solution – especially for light sleepers and children.

Every shower you take can release up to half a litre of water into your air. With a standard family of four this could be as much as 2 litres every day. For modesty reasons, the small windows in most bathrooms can make it hard to get this moisture out of the air. This warm, moist air creates condensation on your mirrors and glass, making it hard to see yourself. Extracting this air to the outside and replacing that moist air with dry air will keep your mirrors clean and the rest of your house dry.

Most Kiwis will agree that a good warm house needs good insulation. But the effectiveness of your insulation is going to depend on how dry the insulation is. If your attic is too warm, or has moisture in the air, it makes your insulation less effective, increasing your heating bills and making your family more susceptible to colds in the winter. You want to continually ventilate your attic – especially because it is the one room in your house where you can't open a window.