Do you choose mechanical ventilation or balanced ventilation? You don't immediately think of it, but it is an important choice when building, converting or renovating your home.
Balanced ventilation has a number of advantages when compared to mechanical ventilation. With balanced ventilation, the heat recovery system ensures that the heat already in your house is reused. So you save in heating costs. And the fresh air from outside is filtered before it enters your home, so you always have healthy air in the house. Unlike mechanical ventilation, balanced ventilation has no grills in the windows. So you won't suffer from cold or draughts in your home either.
The cost of a ventilation system strongly depends on the type of ventilation system you choose. Replacement is cheaper than a completely new system because parts are already present in the house. Often, the greater the investment, the greater your return on heating costs.
You can think of a ventilation system as the lungs of your home. They extract polluted air, allowing fresh air from outside to enter your home. By continuously ventilating, you prevent harmful substances or unpleasant odours from lingering in your home. If you want healthy living, ventilation is necessary for a healthy indoor climate. With balanced ventilation, you can also make considerable savings on your heating costs.
If there is no ventilation in your house yet, you are naturally going to add it when you start remodelling. If there is already a ventilation system in there, you can replace it. A common reason why people replace their old ventilation when remodelling or renovating is noise. Developments in ventilation in combination with living comfort go fast. As a result, new ventilation systems are often barely audible.
The choice to replace the ventilation system is also often based on sustainability. After all, a newer variant or a switch to balanced ventilation can be very attractive in order to save on energy costs.
