Services - Air Conditioning - Ventilation

For many years certain aspects of ventilation - or more often the results of inadequate ventilation - have made newspaper headlines, attracting considerable public comment and interest. Both the heating and the ventilation industry have an obvious vested interest in ensuring public awareness of its products.

Why is this?
The climate in the UK means that there is a defined heating season, and, during this period, the comfort factor has a very high profile. The ventilation aspect has only secondary emphasis, despite the fact that ventilation is a year round requirement and is essential to health.

What is Ventilation?

Ventilation can be simply described as air circulation. This is the extraction of stale, overheated, humid and/or contaminated air, and the supply and distribution of fresh air in amounts necessary to provide healthy and comfortable conditions for the occupants of the space being ventilated.

As applied to homes, offices and workshops, ventilation also means the creation of a comfortable environment that can stimulate the worker to higher efficiency.

Although natural ventilation is often relied upon to dissipate the heat from factory and office buildings, its effects are uncertain, unreliable and difficult to control. It may be satisfactory in some cases, but fans have become an essential part of good ventilating systems for the following reasons:

They operate irrespective of internal temperature and external winds.

They can be more easily and accurately controlled.

Natural ventilation, with open windows in summer, may suffice for the living rooms and bedrooms in our homes, where there is plenty of space per person and no generation of steam or cooking fumes. However natural ventilation is unpredictable, and will fail altogether in unfavourable conditions of wind and weather. In many areas within a building, mechanical ventilation powered by fans, is a practical - and often a legal - requirement.

We are happy to advise and provide a free, no obligation survey and quotation.