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The Good, Better, Best of Tackling Indoor Air Quality
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Air quality in an indoor environment directly correlates with its occupant's health and well-being. Being exposed to poor indoor air quality often leads to fatigue, tiredness, and health issues such as asthma, allergies, and long-term illnesses. Therefore, it's vital to achieve the highest level of indoor air quality (IAQ) during your build to ensure your customer's health and comfort.
What is a Healthy Home?
A healthy home starts with a dedicated ventilation system. These systems connect to the outdoors with direct supply and extract ports to control the air quantity and quality (filtered, tempered, etc.) occupants experience.
Proper ventilation helps eliminate pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), pollen, and cooking odors while controlling humidity and temperature and preventing mold. It also keeps indoor spaces safe from threats like radon exposure, dryer fires, and garage fumes.
Read on to find the best indoor air quality solutions to your IAQ problems.
Good: Clean Filtered Air
Adding a whole-house HEPA filtration system to the HVAC system ensures a full-spectrum air cleaning by arresting pollutants and allergens in the air circulating within the home. The HEPA system installed directly on the return air plenum of the forced air heating/cooling system. The system then scrubs 10-15% of the recirculated air every minute, providing the homeowner with clean air.
A whole-house filtration system is a viable strategy to protect your clients' air in any build.
The HERO HS300® can be implemented into new or retrofit construction easily
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The HERO HS300 is designed to collect up to 90% of particles between 3–10 microns, such as pollen, dust mites, and pet dander. In addition, the HEPA filter arrests up to 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns in size, including bacteria, legionella, combustion smoke, milled flour, and mold spores.
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Better: Balanced Ventilation
Using a fresh air appliance (HRV/ERV) ensures a continual exchange of fresh outside air for stale air, providing a better option for a healthier home and balanced ventilation. Depending on your location, you can choose one of three scenarios: a fully dedicated system, a partially dedicated system, or a simplified system with additional help from HEPA filtration.
A HERO 150H-EC heat recovery ventilator (HRV) can be used with the HERO HS300 filtration system to provide better and balanced ventilation. This high-performance, ENERGY STAR®-rated HRV continuously supplies 175 cfm of outdoor, filtered air while removing moist, stale indoor air, and improves indoor air quality for occupant health. At the same time, it recovers 80% of heat from outgoing air to preserve efficiency and maintain indoor temperature.
Best: Ventilation with TVOC Sensing
The best scenario for IAQ combines a filtration system, a fresh air appliance as described above with smart, TVOC (Total Volatile Organic Compound) sensing technology added in.
This control system recognizes elevated TVOCs in the home, such as from cooking and cleaning, and automatically ramps up ventilation rates to bring more fresh air inside while removing stale air to outdoors.
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In this scenario, use the ECO-Touch IAQ along with the HERO 150H-EC Fresh Air Appliance for automated healthy home ventilation.
Depending on the location and layout of your future build, Fantech can offer you a solution to deliver clean and fresh air to your clients while maintaining comfort. Improve home comfort drastically with one of these three healthy home ventilation options and let us know how your next project turns out!
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