Saving Money by Cooling Your Spaces Correctly
Do you ever walk into a room and it absolutely sucks the air out of you?
You quickly cool the room down by cranking the AC?
It costs you a small fortune to cool it down this way by yourself and puts some serious work on your AC , and everyone else in the room.
When the sun strikes an enclosed room in the office, it gets way too hot for everyone in the office to handle. It gets way too hot, and makes your AC quickly shut down and is way too hard for standard AC to have to struggle to cool. It is likely to lose all it can do and drastically increase your electric bill.
There is a way to control your work environment and cool your space in a smarter way. You should probably look into an all-year energy recovery ventilation (ERV) system. They replace your indoor air that is way too hot and and uses way too much money and energy, with fresh outdoor air, and saves you money on the utility bill. You can read this whole guide to learn all the functions an too its potential utility savings.
Being Energy Efficient while Controlling Temperature
Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs) are a method of making a building energy efficient. It's first important to understand how a building can save on energy while heating. When using indoor climate control there are two main forms of energy: temperature energy and humidity energy. ERVs manage the controls that create indoor comfort.
Escape to the ERV
An ERV allows constant replenishment and exchange of indoor and outdoor air. Air that is trapped without ventilation becomes a heat trap. ERVs are the most effective way to manage and combat heat trap formation. Rooms without air replenishment are closed climate systems and become significantly hotter than the external ambient temperature. When left unventilated during a sunny day of: 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) air becomes homogenously distributed and columns of air become stagnant, trapping and heating the air to over 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) trapping the air becomes a heat and noise trap. ERVs software allows that heat to escape.
HEAT and AC Efficiency
Lower baseline temperatures in a room heat and air will be at a much better baseline temperature and will also allow AC units to achieve and cool to a much lower and better temperature. It is a heating and cooling line of dealing and managing heat from the AC. Additionally and finally, it significantly and virtually cuts the line and managing and dealing heat formation from the AC. It also will allow the opportunity and virtually cuts lease line and managing and dealing AC formation immensely and to a much better baseline temperature.
Air Circulation and Indoor Comfort
One factor of comfort is temperature. Another factor is humidity. How do these attributes relate?
Managing Weather and Humidity
There are certain weather conditions that make us feel stuffy. An example of this could be heavy rain. Wind can dry out a humidity affected area. Some people keep their air conditioning on all the time just to circulate air, but the AC is not that hot. Instead, the AC fan is used to take the cooling off.
Reducing the Cooling Load
An ERV system does less cooling on the AC. Proper ventilation does air circulation and takes the harmful contamination and things that make the air move. Maintaining the environment as breathable as possible, and as comfortable as possible, is done with minimal things.
Solving the Challenge of Specialized Rooms
Every home or office has spaces that see less daily use. Guest rooms, home theaters, and private meeting rooms often sit closed off for days at a time.
Fixing "hot pockets" of air
The spaces mentioned above are used less frequently and have "hot pockets" in the air that become stagnant. The stagnant air becomes deeply stagnant. Once the room needs to be used, the stagnant air becomes extreme.
How watering down lost air affects the pocket of hot air that is absent from a room
In many cases, to fix these hot pockets of air, watering down the absent air is needed. The AC is turned on hours before anyone even uses the room. The AC in the room is on for many hours to fix the air pockets and create a comfortable temperature.
3 hours of running the AC in an empty room is a huge waste of money. If proper air changes are maintained along with proper ventilation in the room, the hot pocket of air is prevented and you are able to save from the expenses of the pre-cool.
Exhaust Fans vs. ERV Systems
When it comes to indoor air quality, basic exhaust fans are generally people’s first approach, but they cause problems to climate-controlled buildings.
The Problems with Basic Exhaust Fans
Placing a simple exhaust fan in a climate controlled room will totally disrupt the cooling process. The exhaust fan steals the air from the room, and, as a force of nature, the air must follow the path to the outside, literally. You spend money to condition the air, and the fan just, literally, throws it away. The result is, energy is wasted and the cooling system will work even harder to replace the air that was taken away.
Energy Recovery Ventilation’s Benefit
Substituting ductless or whole-house ERV systems for a common exhaust fan is changing the rules. While a simple exhaust fan just exhausts the air and the energy condition was wasted, an ERV is different. An ERV captures the temperature and moisture from the stale air. and condensates the energy to the incoming air.
As a result, you don’t lose the conditioned air. Plus, ERVs are different, with an ERV you add the air to the conditioned environment. You gain the air without losing the conditioned air and without compromising the indoor air quality and you substitute the energy.
AC Longevity and Maintenance Savings
An energy recovery ventilation (ERV) system does more than lower your energy bill. An ERV system helps your HVAC system by lowering the amount of strain your HVAC system is under. Lower strain means your air conditioning system is protected.
Extending Equipment Lifespan
AC systems are incredibly sensitive due to their complex systems. An air conditioning system is always fighting against the system's inability to eliminate the heat and with the additional force of the exhaust fans. An ERV system decouples the systems of heat and humidity. The consequence of this is humidity and heat is not carried out by the air conditioner. As a result, the HVAC system's cycles are shorter. The shorter the heating cycles, the longer the HVAC system's lifespan will be.
Cutting Down on Service Costs
An HVAC system that has strain is due to its' high frequency of breakdowns. An ERV system provides a decoupling of systems of air and exchange. As a result, optimally functioning ERV system will not require a supporting HVAC system. An optimally functioning ERV system translates to low costs, infrequent breakdowns, and extremely low renovations due to a longer lifespan.
Advanced Ventilation: What You Need to Know
Relying on an air conditioning unit and standard exhaust fans to ventilate a room properly is an expensive problem, and may even throw conditioned air outside, worsening the problem. Although an ERV system might seem like an expensive thing to install, it will save you money while providing you with the climate control and comfort you actually desire. If you want to understand how to ventilate your room properly, contact a ventilation specialist for a quote on the best ERV system to install for your comfort.
