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Airtight Home Ventilation for the 21st Century with Fantech: Kitchen Exhaust, Make Up Air, Radon etc

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There's a lot of mythology and misinformation about how to ventilate homes, and here Corbett shows, with the assistance of Phil Rivas from Fantech, how a perfect ventilation system gets built with 5 classes of HVI-certified equipment. More on these products at: http://Fantech.net More on HVI (Home Ventilating Institute): http://HVI.org More on this build at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv Phil Rivas - Fantech 0:07 1:26 Overview Exhaust ventilation. Purification and filtration. Air exchange and whole house ventilation. Pressure balancing 1:47 Radon System (in-line fan, EC) 2:57 Kitchen Exhaust - remote-mount (noise outside) fan with duct sound dampener, hood liner. 5:14 Dryer Booster. 6:18 Auxiliary Lint Trap 7:21 HEPA Filters, taking particles out of the air. Pre-filter, activated carbon filter, two year HEPA filter (traps 99.97% of particles larger than 0.3 micrometers) 10:05 Whole Home Ventilation 10:43 ERV Core 11:52 Ports in/out 13:41 Fittings 15:21 Make-Up Air System 16:02 Controller 17:00 Intake Vent w/ screen 17:12 motor-controlled variable Damper 18:08 Fan (EC, infinitely variable) 18:25 Filter Box 19:17 Homeowner Maintenance 20:11 Duct Dampener/Silencer 20:47 Heater & Controller 23:27 Verification Testing later On average, women and men need to consume about 11 & 15 cups of water from all sources each day. Probably 8 or less cups is from glasses of treated water. On average, we breathe the equivalent of about 2000 gallon bottles of unfiltered air each day. 0:53

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