If you are eligible for funding for any insulation measure and have it installed after the 1st of July 2021, you are required to have additional ventilation installed at the same time.
Effective ventilation helps keep your home energy-efficient, safe, and healthy as it helps to control the air flow.
Here are just a few of the benefits of improved ventilation in your home:
- Regulates air flow in your home
- Positive impact on health and wellbeing
- Helps to control household temperature
- Reduces risk of condensation, residue and mould
- Expels air impurities and odours
Ventilation Guidance
Under the New Government driven standards and as a part of Building Regulations (Approved Document F), installers will assess whether any additional ventilation requirements are needed in your home during your survey. As well as assessing your homes ventilation needs, they will fit them and fund through the Energy Company Obligation.
There are different types of ventilation that householders may benefit from:
Background Ventilation
Background ventilators are vents that can be opened and closed to let fresh air into your home. The most common are trickle vents fitted in your window frames.
Occasionally, wall vents are alternative options where trickle vents cannot be fitted.
Trickle vents:
- Two-piece window frame ventilator for habitable rooms and wet rooms
- Quickly and easily fitted
- Have an internal vent which can easily be adjusted to control the amount of air flow into a given room
- Allows the introduction of fresh air into the room to disperse moisture, odours and other airborne pollutants
Mechanical Ventilation
Extractor fans may need to be installed into wet rooms within your home.
Extractor fans:
- Designed to comply with the latest Building Regulations
- Allows the introduction of fresh air into the room to disperse moisture, odours and other airborne pollutants
- Quiet and efficient
- Maintenance free
Cross Flow Ventilation:
In the unlikely event that there is no 10mm gap under each of your internal doors, installers may need to undercut each door to aid airflow. The exception to this is for any fire doors within your home
