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HVACSort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Testing by NASA and other agencies has found that plants remove VOCs from indoor environments and contribute to better health and well-being.
- When outfitting or decorating your home, there are sensitive choices you can make if you have asthma.
- Air conditioners use the most electricity of any home appliance. Here's how to reduce energy usage in cooling your home.
- There are four basic strategies for improving air quality.
- A growing number of environmentally conscious homeowners are using a home energy system that is really down-to-earth.
- Typical duct systems lose 25 to 40 percent of the heating or cooling energy put out by the central furnace, heat pump, or air conditioner.
- To feel comfortable and healthy, people simply need clean, fresh air. Mechanical ventilation systems are specifically designed to exchange the air in a house—as well as circulate it.
- An examination of 13 common myths reveals that they should be treated with some healthy skepticism.
- The Home Ventilating Institute (HVI) offers guidelines on how to select the right ventilation system for your home, how much air it should move and why, types of ventilation systems, and where to get more information on ventilation standards.
- These terms are used somewhat interchangeably, which is confusing. HVI shows how to tell them apart.
- ASHRAE 62.2-2007 Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings is the U.S. national minimum ventilation standard. Here is the skinny on this and other standards.
- How does radiant heat, as opposed to air temperature, contribute to a proper
home comfort system?
- Designing healthy homes for the elderly.
- The majority of the balanced ventilation systems on the market are heat recovery ventilators (HRVs). Most HRVs consist of an insulated cabinet, a heat-recovery core, two fans, some ductwork, and a control. But not all HRVs are created equal.
- In a typical forced-air system with leaky ducts and an inefficient filter, the ducts are usually contaminated with a wide variety of particulates and microorganisms—all directly exposed to the air being breathed by the occupants.
- Make your home more energy efficient and save.
- EPA\'s Energy Star program now addresses indoor air quality (IAQ). Here is a summary of requirements you can use to improve your home\'s IAQ.
- EPA has added an indoor air quality component to the already well-known Energy Star program—the Energy Star Indoor Air Package (IAP).
- Viewing the whole house as an integrated system helps.
- With the ill effects of poor indoor air quality often in the news these days, it pays to
design and build a house that’s healthy from the start.
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