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There are still some persistent myths about ventilation. One is that your ventilation system helps to cool or heat your home. Let us explain how ventilation works exactly so that we can get rid of this misunderstanding once and for all. Read on.
By breathing, cooking or showering, we produce polluted and damp air. If that air does not find a way out, it condenses against cold surfaces, possibly resulting in moisture and mould problems. This is not only detrimental to the state of your home, but also to your health. A ventilation system therefore has the task of discharging that humid air and providing us with fresh, clean outside air. In other words, ventilation purifies the indoor air, so we enjoy a healthy environment every day.
One of the best known ventilation solutions is a ventilation system D. This balanced ventilation is equipped with heat recovery, which means that the heat from the discharged indoor air is used to heat the drawn in outside air. The objective? You allow less heat from the inside (which, after all, costs you money) to escape. Thanks to a heat exchanger, your home does not heat up, but you just prevent it from cooling it down.
During the summer period you can also make use of summer night-time ventilation, with the aim of limiting hot, sleepless nights. But remember: this principle does not work on the basis of air conditioning. With summer night-time ventilation, you only switch off the heat recovery of a ventilation system D temporarily, so that the drawn in and discharged air no longer take over heat from each other and the incoming air has the same temperature as the outside air. As a result, the temperature difference is only 1 or 2°C.
Good news: you can heat and cool with the same system. The Vasco Niva ventilo-convector is a slatted heat exchanger, where a small, built-in fan draws warm or cool air into the room. This 2-in-1 solution is the perfect match with a heat pump because - just like underfloor heating - it uses water with a low temperature. Ideal if you need a fast-reacting system!
