Whether heating your home in the winter or cooling it down during the long, hot summer season, you want to be able to keep your living space comfortable in an effective, yet efficient, manner. You also must be able to maintain great indoor air quality in your home, though, and that can be difficult when your home is very tightly sealed in an effort to heat and cool it efficiently. If it sounds like a problem without a solution, you are clearly unfamiliar with the concept of the ERV. By using an energy recovery ventilator in Fort Collins, CO, you ensure that your indoor air quality is high, without your heating and cooling costs following suit.

What Is an ERV?

An energy recovery ventilator is a pretty ingenious device that facilitates the ventilation of one’s home while also eliminating the risk of unwanted energy loss. Essentially, the ERV uses a heat transfer process in order to precondition the fresh air coming into a home. During the summer, the system will use the stale, but cool, outgoing air in order to cool down the incoming fresh, but hot, air. In the winter, the process is reversed, with the outgoing warm air being used to warm the incoming cold, fresh air. Additionally, the ERV is used to balance humidity between the incoming and outgoing air streams as well.

This benefits you in a few ways. First of all, it means that you won’t have to worry about subpar indoor air quality as the air within your home is conditioned over and over again, going stale. Also, you are able to keep indoor air quality high by ventilating your home sufficiently, but without wasting the energy that you’ve already paid for in the process. If this all sounds like a good deal to you, dial our number today to get started.

Contact Fort Collins Heating & Air Conditioning to learn more.