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Usually when we think about home insulation, we picture fibreglass or foam tucked away in walls or ceilings. While these traditional methods are important, ventilation usually gets overlooked. A well-designed ventilation system can contribute to your home’s insulation in several ways.
Proper ventilation helps to regulate levels of humidity and prevent dampness and mould. A ventilation system like an exhaust fan ensures that extra moisture is dealt with, creating a drier and thus healthier environment without compromising insulation integrity.
Effective ventilation also assists in maintaining consistent temperatures. During hot months especially, it expels warm air trapped in the roof or attic, preventing it from seeping into living spaces. In colder months, the ventilation keeps the attic cooler and helps to distribute heat more evenly.
Homes that are well-ventilated have better air quality. Poor ventilation can lead to an accumulation of pollutants, odours, allergens and many other things that could potentially affect the health of those living in the home – yourself included. By constantly exchanging inside and outside air, a ventilation system will ensure a fresh supply of clean air, reducing the number of pollutants and resulting in a healthier living environment.
The mixture of excessive heat and moisture can degrade materials over time and make them less effective. By having proper ventilation, these risks are minimised, and the lifespan of your ventilation is maximised.
As I’m sure you know by now, ventilation plays a critical role in the overall energy efficiency of a building. By maintaining balanced temperatures and humidity levels, your air conditioning or heating system doesn’t need to work as hard, reducing energy consumption AND lowering utility bills.
To summarise, a complete approach to home insulation goes beyond just the materials used in construction. By incorporating an effective ventilation system, you’re ensuring comfort and air quality – something we guarantee you’ll get here with Auckland ventilation. So whether you’re building a new home or just improving your current home, remember that proper ventilation is key in creating a comfortable living space for you and your family.
When Winter claws its way in, the last thing most of us want to do is fling open our windows and let freezing air come rushing in, even if it is fresh air! It’s more like: double-glazed windows closed, fireplace or heating on, blankets out, and Belgium hot chocolate on call.
Sounds perfect but this “battening down the hatches” is bad for our health by hampering the inflow of fresh air and the outflow of moisture, sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide, bacteria, and other serious pollutants. Without proper ventilation in Auckland, you are capturing moisture that leads to mould and fungi taking hold in your home! And it does this overnight.
Ventilating your home is important primarily for your health but also the surfaces and infrastructure of your property. Do you find someone in your family who gets more headaches in winter or has blocked sinuses? Well, your ventilation is probably unhealthy.
Over eighty per cent of New Zealanders are running the risk of upper respiratory illnesses or allergic reactions like eczema because of the poor air quality they live in. And New Zealand leads the world in respiratory illnesses, so we all need to take this far more seriously than in the past.
People living with Asthma will gain huge relief from their symptoms when they live in a correctly ventilated space. And the same goes for allergy sufferers. Proper ventilation in Auckland also assists with VOC reductions (airborne pollutants) which otherwise trigger allergies, fatigue, breathing challenges, headaches, sinusitis and other illnesses. A solution as simple as ventilation will transform lives with fresh, filtered air, reduced pollutants and the extraction of nasty health threats.
Most homeowners do not even contemplate that there is Radon gas building up in their homes directly from the ground. It is a natural emission from the ground, and its radioactive properties are a catalyst for lung cancer. Ventilation, via equipment or open doors and windows, moves the gas out of the home and makes it harder for the particles to be deposited in our lungs.
You don’t have to choose between being warm and getting fresh air in this day and age! An energy-efficient mechanical ventilation system is designed to give you a healthy interior while staying warm in winter.
The system constantly removes moisture, carbon dioxide and any undesirable elements without overdrying the air like a heater. It merely removes excess moisture.
Enjoy filtered, deliciously fresh air 24/7!
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