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What is Energy-efficient Ventilation?
Energy-efficient Ventilation, or a heat recovery system (HVAC) is an innovative technology that not only helps to reduce energy consumption, but also promotes a healthier and more comfortable indoor environment.
A heat recovery ventilation operates on a simple yet ingenious principle: it utilises the temperature difference between outgoing stale air and incoming fresh air.
Proper ventilation with heat recovery unit is crucial for maintaining a healthy indoor environment. Heat recovery systems ensure a continuous supply of fresh air is provided to your property, while also filtering out impurities and pollutants.
This helps to improve indoor air quality, reducing the risk of respiratory issues and creating a more comfortable living or working space.
Modern heat recovery systems with a cooper heat exchanger are designed with noise reduction in mind. The units are equipped with insulated enclosures and advanced fan technologies, ensuring that they operate quietly. This makes them suitable for various settings, including bedrooms, living rooms, bathrooms and offices, where noise levels need to be minimised!
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Heat recovery systems offer a multitude of benefits for homeowners, ranging from improved energy efficiency and enhanced indoor air quality to consistent temperature control, noise reduction, financial savings, and positive environmental impact – overall, these amount to a better quality of life!
Heat recovery systems are designed to recover and reuse the heat that is typically lost during ventilation or air extraction processes. By capturing and redistributing this wasted heat, these systems significantly improve energy efficiency in your home. This means that you can reduce your reliance on traditional heating and cooling methods, resulting in substantial energy savings and lower utility bills.
By installing a heat recovery system in your home, you can optimise your living space while contributing to a more sustainable future!
FAQ
Heat recovery is an option used in domestic dwellings, which helps to reduce the heating and cooling demands of buildings.
Heat recovery systems are a technology that capture and reuse excess heat in the air, or heat generated by various industrial processes or HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems. They help to reduce energy consumption and improve overall efficiency by recovering and transferring this heat to other areas or processes.
If the term “MVHR”, or Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery, “dMVHR”, or decentralised Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery sounds complicated, don’t worry! It’s actually a straightforward process that can be broken down into three simple steps:
- Stale air is extracted from the room while fresh air is drawn into it by the ventilation unit. This creates a continuous airflow.
- The heat recovery ventilation unit (HRV system), MVHR, decentralised MVHR recovers the heat from the extracted stale air and transfers it to the incoming fresh air.
- The clean, temperature-regulated air is distributed throughout the property.
Using an environmentally-friendly heat recovery ventilation system offers several advantages, including reduced energy costs. By reusing exhaust heat, your overall energy consumption can be significantly reduced. Heat recovery systems also help to lower greenhouse gas emissions and decrease the carbon footprint of industries and buildings.
Heat recovery systems can be used in a broad variety of sectors, including industrial or commercial buildings and residential settings; they can be implemented in manufacturing plants, hospitals, data centers, hotels, swimming pools, and more. Essentially, any process that generates surplus heat can potentially benefit from a heat recovery system.
Yes, heat recovery systems can often be retrofitted into existing buildings, even if they already have their own ventilation system fitted, provided there is sufficient space and compatibility. However, the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of retrofitting may vary depending on the specific situation and the complexity of integration.
We always recommend you consult with a qualified professional or an energy engineer to assess the suitability and design of a heat recovery system for your specific needs.
Regular maintenance is an important way to safeguard the optimal performance and longevity of a heat recovery system. This typically includes cleaning or replacing filters, inspecting heat exchangers for any grime or corrosion, checking fans and motors, and making sure that nothing is obstructing airflow.
We recommended that you follow the manufacturer’s guidelines and consult with a qualified technician or service provider for routine maintenance.
Reviews about Ecostream
Ian Graham
2023-09-12
Excellent service from the Ecostream team. Really helpful when it came to planning what was needed. Their work was superb; quick and tidy.
The units were needed to sort out damp/condensation in a flat we let. They have worked really well.
Marco Griffo
2023-07-24
Excellent experience from start to finish with Slav and his team. We installed Prana system in one of our venues 2 years ago and after the great result we decided to do the same in another venue. We are very happy with the result. Highly recommend!
Joshua Jones
2023-06-13
We have just completed our new self build. A single storey, oak frame, barn style home with high vaulted ceilings. Because the structure is so well insulated and air tight we needed an MVRH system to ventilate the property. However, because we are single storey will no loft space for ducting we were unable to install a traditional system and needed to find a decentralised option. We did a lot of research and found that the Prana system was exactly what we needed. Before it was installed our building was dripping in condensation due to the cold weather earlier this year, the fact our structure is so air tight and the fact the plastering had just been completed. Within days of the Prana system being installed the humidity levels had dropped from 90%+ to 60% and under. We have now been living in the property for the past 4 months and the Prana units provide a fresh balanced air quality with a low energy running cost. We highly recommend the Prana system and Slav and his team were highly professional and easy to communicate with throughout the entire process.
amanda parmar
2023-05-25
We’ve installed one in our new eco-extension and would highly recommend. It is quiet, works well in automatic mode and the service from the company is absolutely excellent.
It’s a really high quality and well engineered product.
We also have some basic Ventaxia continuous flow MVHRs which are absolutely bare-minimum basic - noisy, cheap and nasty plastic - the Prana is in a different class.
Crescent Moore
2023-05-16
What a fantastic product and service!! We needed to bring in additional fresh air into parts of a facility that did not have the space for ducting. The Installation of 30 decentralised MVHR systems Prana 210C ERP PRO - Did the trick !! The units work along side our existing internal AC Units to provide plenty of clean fresh air significantly improving the Air Quality in the area. Plus with the heat exchange it means we are able to maintain the temperatures required. The fitting was carried out in a safe and efficient manner and the after care and servicing has also been excellent.
Philip G
2023-04-15
Slav and his team installed the Prana recuperator units in five flats for me in January 2023. These flats were suffering from problems with condensation and mould. The problems have now gone away and the feedback from tenants is very positive. If you are a responsible landlord looking to solve a similar issue, then I can't recommend the product highly enough. Furthermore, Slav represents old fashioned customer service and a true professional. It's an investment that I'm pleased I've made.
Adam Guy
2023-03-21
Excellent service by this company with a great product. They put 4 of the devices into our house a few weeks ago and they have been great, no problems. Both before and since having them, the company is easy to contact and gets back to you very quickly, no question is too silly to ask them.
Highly recommended for allowing fresh air into your house without the loss of heat, very positive effects for moisture/damp/mould control, saving money on heating too (as most of the potentially lost heat is recovered) and lowering carbon dioxide levels in the house which rise fast if a house is sealed up to minimise heat loss.
Have recommended to friends and would very happily use again.
Much simpler installation than a full house MVHR system (all done in one day) with barely any mess, and much quieter too as it runs (not noticeable to be honest). If there were any issues, they would be easy and quick to identify and fix, and surely cheaper, compared with a full house MVHR system.
They are easily controlled with remote controls or an App, which also allows you to assess various values over time.
GK Bhambra
2023-01-08
This is an excellent system for anyone looking for decent ventilation with heat exchange. If you're wanting to increase your insulation, it should stop any possible damp that might result. Perfect for retrofitting older houses for energy saving. The company and the team fitting it are excellent and very efficient.
Ricky
2022-12-20
We had 2 installations from Ecostream following a recommendation. Fantastic customer service, 5* friendly service from their team, professional and helpful. Couldn't have hoped for a better solution. Thank you
Sachin Shah
2022-11-15
Prana 160 ERP PRO mini amazing system to prevent damp and mould in the home
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