Proper ventilation of your home is an important part of maintaining a healthy atmosphere, it is control over clean air, temperature and humidity. We spend half our lives at home, and we just need clean air in the room, and not only for us - ventilation is able to preserve the building for many years, protecting building materials from mold, and the interior of the house from pollution and dust. We will tell you what ventilation systems are, about their use in every room of the house.

Content:

1. What is sick building syndrome?
2. Private house ventilation  video
3. Passive ventilation (natural)  video
4. Active ventilation system (artificial)
5. Supply and exhaust ventilation  video

What is sick building syndrome?

The fact is that a poorly ventilated building can be dangerous to the health of residents. This is a headache or dizziness, chronic fatigue, irritability, insomnia, dry cough, and other diseases. However, laboratory tests do not show significant changes, and cough treatment does not lead to improvements. All these signs are associated with sensitivity to the environment, including microorganisms and chemicals in the air at home without proper ventilation.

Without ventilation, your home is also sick, it is mold, fungi, the destruction of building materials - stone and wood. The appearance of insects and other pests. The ventilation of a country house with their own hands creates all the conditions for a comfortable stay. For a country house, you can use two main types of ventilation systems. More about them.

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Passive ventilation (natural)

Natural ventilation in a country house is created through open windows, doors, ventilation holes and through other openings. The size and location of the ventilation openings directly affects the ventilation efficiency. Where cooling is required, windows and other openings in the upper level of the house can be opened, so warm air will come out. In winter, well-designed passive ventilation freshens the air without creating drafts and without releasing too much heat.

In the house, in which there is only passive ventilation, in the summer all windows and doors are often open, the more openings in the room, the more air is cleaned. Natural ventilation of the house is not very special installation, openings - and there is its installation. However, you should pay attention to tips for providing through air.

• blinds built into the ventilation openings provide a low level of ventilation for a long time without creating drafts.

• a different way to open windows will help control the flow of air. For example, a full side opening of the window will increase the air breeze, and the window will decrease.

• if your house has more than one floor, make sure that the windows are open on all floors, as hot air rises and it may turn out that the air is clean and fresh only below.

• the mosquito net will not only protect your children, but also allow you to keep windows open all summer at any time of the day.

• do not forget to provide through ventilation under the floor to get rid of damp.

Active ventilation system (artificial)

  Unfortunately, the natural ventilation of a country house is limited, often a comfortable temperature is not created quickly enough, air enters with dust particles. Artificial ventilation does not have such disadvantages. Active ventilation is the mechanical ventilation of a building. Exhaust and supply fans run on electricity, the larger the system and its components, the more energy it will use.

Exhaust fans are designed to remove and clean the air from the kitchen, bathroom and laundries. It is important to choose a suitable exhaust fan, because some cannot fully remove moist air. The hood does not bring clean air, but only takes it, you have to use additional ways to get air, for example, open the windows.

Supply and exhaust ventilation

This is the most suitable way of artificial ventilation, the supply and exhaust ventilation makes it possible to fully meet all the requirements of ventilation at home. This system not only takes air, but also gives its inflow. Often used for office and residential premises.

Mechanical supply and exhaust ventilation provides constant controlled air exchange, may have the functions of cooling, heating and humidification of air. From the main unit of the supply and exhaust system, several rooms can enter the comfort zone. Doing ventilation of a country house with your own hands may seem simple, however errors often occur that cannot be made.

• installation of the recuperator in an unheated room. If you decide to use this ventilation system, make sure that the room temperature is at least 8 C above zero to ensure maximum ventilation performance.

• windows are not tightly closed. This will lead to loss of energy and warm air.

• no insulation, improper installation of ventilation ducts.

• the main conditions for the proper operation of the ventilation system are careful isolation, connection and installation of channels, otherwise the lack of stable operation is demonstrated.

• installation without a circuit. The ventilation scheme of a country house should be drawn up in advance, here the installation work for each house is calculated individually, what power the air flow is needed for each of the rooms where the ventilation points will be located.

• lack of system adjustment. For each season, its own air supply is determined, for example, in the summer the recuperator is installed in a cooling mode. The main indicator of improper adjustment is your windows. Wet windows in winter or summer are a sign of high humidity, which ventilation does not clean well enough.

So to summarize. You have learned about the basic, affordable ways to improve ventilation in the house. Perhaps this will not be enough, for this there is a video in this article, which shows how to install the supply and exhaust ventilation system.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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