The frame house with plastic windows and vapor barrier film on the walls and ceilings is completely isolated from the influx or outflow of air to the outside. Ventilation ducts, sometimes installed in bathrooms and kitchens, work effectively only in multi-storey buildings (from 4 floors). That is why it is necessary to organize artificial ventilation in a frame house.
How to create an airflow in a frame house
By installing the ventilation of the frame house with your own hands, you can ensure a natural influx. For example, an exhaust fan expels air, and in its place comes fresh from the street through the valves on the windows or ajar windows. Valves can also be mounted on walls. If the house has a ducted air conditioning system, it is possible to equip ventilation in a frame house using air conditioning ducts. In this case, the inflow is carried out by force. It is especially important to provide fresh air for sleeping and resting.
How to create an outflow of air in a frame house
The ventilation system of the frame house also needs an outflow of air. But here you can not do without a forced method. Fans are installed in the exhaust pipes: in the kitchen, in the bathroom and in the toilet. Mounted only here, the fans, however, will work on living rooms, drawing air through the door slits. The simplest fans are turned on and off manually. More advanced models independently measure the humidity level in the room, “detect” the presence of people in the bathroom or toilet. The equipment of the ventilation system of a frame house with an area of two hundred square meters requires from 6 to 8 ventilation ducts into which the fans are mounted.
The ventilation ducts are most conveniently mounted in plastic; the joints are coated with silicone. According to experts, round-section plastic pipes show themselves better in operation. Before going out, the plastic channels are combined into one metal box.
To ensure that the ventilation of the frame house with your own hands was installed quietly, all pipes are laid together with the supporting beams and hidden by the finish. The size of the fans also needs to be selected so that they disappear between the lags. That is, you need to design the work in advance. A detailed video of ventilation in a frame house can be found on the network and used as a step-by-step instruction.
By the way, the installation of an additional kitchen hood can completely violate all the calculations of engineers who designed the ventilation system. Therefore, it is preferable to install hoods with a carbon filter, which does not affect the flow or outflow of air. After installing the pipes, a vapor barrier film is attached, as can be seen on the ventilation video in the frame house.
The main consumer of electricity in the system is exhaust fans.
