Helllllllllllllllo Winter! ( Edmonton )

[bassman]

Excuse my ignorance but what is a HRV?

[Delphinus]

Sorry - Heat Recovery Ventilator. It's a heat exchanger that's increasing the inside/outside air turnover in my house (swapping inside air for outside air, but preheating in the incoming air using the heat from the outgoing air). I was having some terrible humidity issues in my house and this was my last ditch attempt to get that under control. Basically a bathroom fan to suck air out, but takes two extra steps - one to replace the air it removes, and two to preheat that air so that the furnace isn't reheating the air. So although it's a bump in energy consumption, it's not a huge waste of energy consumption to keep humidity at bay.

Originally Posted by bassman

Excuse my ignorance but what is a HRV?

[bassman]

Hmm, interesting. I have no experience with those so I have nothing intelligent to contribute LOL. Do you have a humdifier on your furnace? I used to have a sef contained de-humidifier that worked great, but it sucked power too.

[Delphinus]

Oh yeah, but I've had that thing shutoff since a few months after we moved in. I had a hardwood guy who came in to do some warrantee work on the flooring lecture me about how it was "way too humid in here." Geeez it's just a couple of aquariums in the basement!

[bassman]

I can relate, my last home was the same way.

I would definitely call a service tech about it. Being that it WILL drip on your electrical panel I would get that rectified as soon as possible.

[adidas]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Oh yeah, but I've had that thing shutoff since a few months after we moved in. I had a hardwood guy who came in to do some warrantee work on the flooring lecture me about how it was "way too humid in here." Geeez it's just a couple of aquariums in the basement!

lol surprised they did the work as high humidity usually voids the warranty.

[Delphinus]

Ah...well, luckily it wasn't humidity damage that they were supposed to be fixing. But still I was like.. "you guys make a huge stinking deal about not wanting your floors exposed too low of a humidity, and here you are lecturing me about having humidity." I sort of wonder if these place just like to whine. "Customers are so awful." ("Oh, here's the problem, you insisted on having this floor installed on a day ending in 'y'." )

[Fish Head]

Do you find the air is cleaner, less sneezing, dust, you know just feel all around better?