Creating a Better Living Environment For Your Family With HomeTech Ventilation Systems

New Zealand has one of the highest rates of respiratory illnesses in the world, so in order to create a healthy environment for our families it is vital to ensure we have adequate ventilation in our homes, and ventilation systems from HomeTech will let your home ‘breathe’.

Most New Zealand homes suffer from moisture build up that can easily be prevented and controlled, and simple mechanical extraction will take moist, foul air efficiently and quietly from your home.  Energy Recovery Systems from HomeTech will replace the foul air, creating fresher, drier air in your home.

The Building Code G4 for ventilation says ventilation to occupied spaces must be provided by natural ventilation” ie: 5% of floor area, or alternatively by ‘mechanical ventilation’. G4 1.3 Cii states: Extract ventilation shall: “ where provided to remove moisture and other contaminants from kitchens, bathrooms, toilet spaces and laundries in housing, exhaust air to the outside at flow rates given in AS 1668.2 table B1”.

All HomeTech extract ventilation options exhaust air to the outside, and improved awareness of the requirement for good ventilation in the home has also led to the additional ventilation, such as mechanical ventilation being installed in wet areas, even if these areas already comply with the Building Code under the 5% floor area rule (eg opening window). Often an opening window is not sufficient to remove moist air. Many countries insist on mechanical ventilation regardless of whether an open window is available. Although not a requirement in New Zealand, the trend to supplement open windows with mechanical ventilation is increasing.

For more information on home ventilation systems, commercial ventilation and sun tunnels please go to http://www.hometech.co.nz