Excess Moisture Can Damage Your Home

Breathing, showering and cooking are just a few ways that moisture is generated in your home (about one gallon per person, everyday). When that moisture is trapped in your home, the result can be “sweaty windows” and other moisture damage such as rust, mildew, mold and odor. Structural damage from excess moisture is often the easiest to spot - heavy condensation on windows, water damage on window sills and molds forming in cold corners of the home.

Ventilation Protects Your Home From Extremes in Humidity

Intermittent excessive humidity can be controlled with ample exhaust ventilation. Intermittent sources of humidity include bathing and showering, cooking and dish washing and clothes washing. These humidity producing activities are generally of short duration and can be controlled using ceiling mounted ventilation fans or a centrally ducted exhaust system. When air is exhausted from a home, an equal amount of outdoor air must replace it. Caution should be exercised with any exhaust-only approach to insure that associated negative pressure will not cause back drafting of combustion appliances and the introduction of uncontrolled outdoor air through building materials.

Homes in different parts of the country face a wide range of humidity conditions – from very dry to extremely wet. For over 25 years RenewAire has manufactured Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs) that moderate extremes in outdoor temperature and humidity. Since RenewAire ERVs have both an exhaust fan and a fresh air supply fan it is a pressure balanced ventilation system in one appliance. The result is ideal ventilation year-round.

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