Air Quality - Fresh Air

Your house could be a health hazard without you knowing it! We can’t live without air. Lots of it – clean, fresh air, full of life-giving oxygen. Yet homes today are built tight to save energy and keep fresh air out. Even older homes that have been upgraded with weather stripping, caulking, new windows and increased insulation can be a sealed environment for recirculating stale air. The result: Indoor air quality deteriorates as energy efficiency rises. The solution: A Lifebreath Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV). It exhausts stale air and harmful contaminants and fills your home with fresh, clean air. What’s more, it actually helps save energy.

• The indoor air is over-loaded with carbon dioxide. You feel drowsy and find it difficult to concentrate.
• Health problems are aggravated by paint, adhesives, furnishings, plastics, cleaning compounds, carpets and underpadding fumes trapped inside your house.
• Smells from cooking, pets and bathrooms never seem to go away.
• Respiratory problems are aggravated by tobacco smoke, pollen, dust, pet dander, dust mites and combustion byproducts. These build up in winter – summer, too, if you have air-conditioning.
• Young children are especially at risk because they can be particularly prone to asthma, allergies and other respiratory problems.
• Colds seem to hang around forever.
• Molds and fungi thrive in damp conditions and are commonly found in basements, kitchens, bathrooms or any other place moisture is found.
• You suffer, and the house suffers too, from excessive humidity. In winter you’ll see it as condensation on windows and frames. You won’t see it at work inside walls, where it can eventually cause serious structural damage.

Reliable Clean Air

Our compact, electrically-powered HRV moves stale, contaminated, warm air from inside the house to the outdoors. At the same time it draws fresh, oxygen-laden air from outside and distributes it throughout the house. Stale, polluted air is constantly being replaced by an equal quantity of fresh, clean air.

HOW THE
HRV WORKS

As the two air streams pass through the HRV they do not mix. They pass on either side of an aluminum heat exchange core which transfers heat from the outgoing air to the incoming air. The efficiency of the Lifebreath HRV is so great that virtually none of the warmth collected from your house is lost to the outside. In summer, the HRV works in reverse – removing heat from the incoming air and transferring it to the outgoing air, keeping your home cool and fresh.

• Tempered fresh air is distributed throughout the house.
• The Lifebreath HRV can eliminate the need for separate exhaust fans in kitchens and bathrooms which can often be noisy and inefficient.
• The Lifebreath HRV moves stale air out, replaces it with fresh air.