ᐅ Planning a Detached Single-Family Home With or Without Ventilation

Created on: 4 Jan 2016 08:57
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mathschut
Hello,

The construction of my single-family house is set to start in March. Now I have a question. The architect says that a central ventilation system is too expensive and suggests just opening the windows sometimes. My carpool partner used to work as a heating engineer and insists it definitely should be installed in a new build. What do you think, should I install ventilation or skip it? A friend told me that if I do install ventilation, I should have the intake ducts laid under the floor slab right away. What are your thoughts on that?
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Username_wahl
4 Jan 2016 18:56
We are installing a decentralized ventilation system, a fresh air heat exchanger by Marley. The costs are reasonable.
RFR4 Jan 2016 19:38
mathschut, member: 27678 schrieb:

Planning a Single-Family Home with or without Ventilation

Definitely WITH!

The reasons have been mentioned often enough. :-)

I wouldn’t want to miss my controlled mechanical ventilation with heat recovery...
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DragonyxXL
6 Jan 2016 09:59
mathschut schrieb:
Would you place the air intake under the slab foundation?

The idea is to preheat the air during the coldest winter by drawing it inside through a pipe labyrinth. I can’t say how much that helps. If you use a mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery, the intake does not need to be located under the slab foundation.

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