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1. DESCRIPTION OF YOUR UNIT aND IT’S BENEFITS
Since the energy crisis in the early 1970’s, governments and the building
community have sponsored many programs and changed codes to foster reduced
energy requirements and create energy costs savings for the consumers. Each of
these efforts, while improving the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings,
has resulted in the loss of natural ventilation and trapped excess humidity and
pollutants indoors.
It is due to this air tightness that your dwelling or place of business will incur
humidity from everyday activities such as cooking, bathing, washing, indoor
drying of clothes and normal breathing and perspiration. Pollutants such as
smoke from cooking and fireplaces or wood burning stoves, dust, pollens,
airborne viruses and molds and radon gas can also be trapped in your residence.
Your SUMMERAIRE Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) is designed to resolve
these problems by providing fresh air into your home or building while
exhausting an equal amount of stale, humid air. This “exchange” process enables
you to remove undesirable pollutants continuously as well as excess humidity
during the heating season. The advantage offered by your HRV is that it transfers
the energy from your exhausted (inside conditioned air) to temper the incoming
fresh air system.
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