Hi All,
My partner and I are in the process of building an air tight, timber frame house. Our house will be ventilated using airvents in the windows.
Has anyone built an airtight house and used window vents for ventilation. My concern is that this will not provide enough ventilation, and our house will be damp/smelly/mouldy or cold in the winter because we have to open the air vents.
I have heard about the mechanical ventilation units recently, but our building contractor never mentioned this to us, and seems to think the window ventilation will be enough.
bragan,
you should also look into 'passive stack ventilation' systems. these are available from richmond and also a company in cork called aereco. i haven't used these systems myself as yet, but they would seem to get around the hole-in-the-wall/windowframe problem if you dont want to go down the mechanical route.
we will have mechanical ventilation in the kitchens and bathrooms, but as that is standard in every house regradless of whether it is airtight or not, i didn't think that would be enough.
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As we are already too far along to put vents in our walls, i'll look into the other options mentioned. Thanks!
There are intumescent collars and seals that are used with pipe penetrations to maintain the fire rating and integrity of the fire stopping.
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