Ventilation

What is It?
Ventilation is the exchange of indoor air for outdoor air. Two types of home ventilation methods include natural and mechanical ventilation. In natural ventilation, outside air enters the house through opened doors and windows. In mechanical ventilation, there are electronic devices such as fans that remove air from a single room, to whole-house systems that remove polluted indoor air and then distribute filtered and conditioned outdoor air throughout the house.

Ventilating a home by opening doors and windows may not always be feasible due to security reasons or outdoor noise levels, rain, snow or weather conditions being too hot or cold to open a window. Mechanical ventilation allows a quiet, energy efficient way to exchange stale and sometimes toxic indoor air for fresh, outside air throughout your entire home. An Aprilaire Ventilation System allows you to ventilate your whole-home’s stale, polluted indoor air with fresh air in an energy-efficient way 365 days a year.

Installed as part of your home’s heating and cooling system, the Aprilaire Ventilation Controller makes decisions regarding when—and how long—to ventilate. It does this through continuous montinoring of indoor relative humdity, outdoor temperature, and user-friendly settings.

APRILAIRE MODEL 8100 VENTILATION CONTROL SYSTEM

An Aprilaire Energy Recovery Ventilator (ERV) is among the most efficient means of exchanging the air inside your home with fresh outdoor air. In winter months, the exclusive EnergyMax® Transfer Core uses the heat of indoor air to warm the incoming cold fresh air, recovering approximately 77% of the energy.