Maintenance Matters 16 - Maintaining Your Heat Recovery Ventilation System

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Maintenance Matters 16 - Maintaining Your Heat Recovery Ventilation System

New homes are built to be airtight to reduce heat loss and potential moisture damage to the building envelope. This bulletin explains the basics of heat recovery ventilator (HRV) based systems along with operation and maintenance guidelines to help ensure they operate as intended. Most of the information is also applicable to energy recovery ventilators (ERVs).