MVHR maintenance guide
At last a great guide to maintaining your MVHR from the excellent Passivhaus Trust
MVHR maintenance
MVHR maintenance is often overlooked and is more involved than most people realise and is critical to keeping the system low energy, quiet and long lasting. All installations really need a user guide, perhaps something like this (happy to forward file to anyone who wishes to tweek it for their own purposes)
MVHR is the best option, even in leaky buildings
The Passivhaus Trust have published an article dispelling the myth that mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) should only be installed in airtight properties and confirming anecdotal evidence that MVHR reduces energy consumption and improves air quality, even in more leaky buildings and retrofits.
Hove ‘Passivhaus’ is up!
The build continues a pace and is pretty much up. The timber and woodfibre insulation look fantastic in the sun. Some of the glazing panels are massive especially the two story panel to the atrium.
Victorian ‘EnerPHit’ – ventilation ducting
The ducting for the ventilation system went in today, 75mm diameter semi rigid plastic piping running down the chimney flues extracting from the kitchen and bathrooms and supplying fresh air elsewhere. 21st century meets 19th century. Hopefully the whole system will be in for the tour on Tuesday
Victorian ‘EnerPHit’ – flues
The flues are now accessible showing the route for the ventilation ducting from the loft to the other rooms in the house
