This was an added bonus for us too! Really I just wanted it cuz Tony suggested it as a good dehumidifier. At the time I really didn't care that it brought in nice fresh mountain air into the house. Well, after having an HRV for years now we would never own a house without one, even if I didn't have a tank. Having that nice fresh mountain air inside the house is priceless!

Our tank is smaller (55 gallon), so the hrv has no real problem handling the humidity in the winter on its low setting. In the summer months, just running the air conditioning takes care of the humidity. An interesting note, when we had the ac installed last year, the drain line was just run to a pail for the first night as they did not get finished. It filled a five gallon pail overnight!

ok yea I've looked into the HRV seems pretty good and I'm all for some fresh air as well, we have zero problems in the summer but this is the first winter with the new tank

Hard to find some prices on things if you don't mind me asking what would you think a ball park would be for one

my house is 1050 square feet

like 1500$ ish ?

My unit was about $1000.00. The installation well it cost me beer as it was installed by a friend. Costs will vary depending on access to everything. Most have four vent lines that are in the 5 to 6 inch range that have to go various places, as well as control wiring.

units alone are about a grand but had quotes an additional 3000 to get installed. Consider diy, mine.

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