Building a Healthy Home Part 1 - Breaking Ground Episode 6

[@JoanneDiSaia-q4p]

Looks awesome!

[@cameronlevett8641]

Wow! This is my favorite episode yet!!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Ours Too!!

[@katepiquette]

Love it! Great episode!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Thanks Kate we love it too!

[@ErinCampbell-e4j]

Great information for clients building new construction or renovating!!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

We agree!!

[@MorganMartin-w8l]

So awesome to see the project come together so well!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

We couldn't agree more!

[@AnthonyRogers-c3m]

The expertise involved is really something to marvel, another great episode!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Steve is a book of knowledge, always good to learn from the best!

[@gabriel-alc]

Great job on this episode!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Thanks Gabe!!

[@GraysView]

Nice job!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Thanks Pat!

[@johnmurano6112]

Very interesting episode, the efficiency is amazing.

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Well said !!

[@chelseaboisclair4634]

Great episode!

[@arnoldlumber4049]

We appreciate it Chelsea !!

[@DeniseGabriele-f8n]

great information

[@arnoldlumber4049]

Steve is truly the best

[@tealkerberus748]

If you're filtering the air from your rangehood so it doesn't leave smoke and grease and steam on the inside of your exhaust duct, you can run that through a heat exchange or energy exchange box so the make-up air for that device is heated and humidity conditioned for your house. Using a heater on your make-up air while pumping heated air out at that rate seems rather wasteful.

[@tealkerberus748]

"too much ventilation" creating a too-low humidity problem is a design fail. The air being brought into your house should be humidity conditioned, not just dehumidified. If it needs more moisture to be healthy to breathe, your system should add that.

[@tealkerberus748]

Such a shame though, on an otherwise well designed and engineered system, to have plastic ducts all over it. When microplastic particles are being found in the human body everywhere from the testes to inside the brain, expecting to breathe air that's been blown through a plastic tube and not be inhaling microplastics with that air is just unrealistic. You're filtering the air coming into your house .. and then adding new pollutants to it between the filter and your lungs.

[@stephendemetrick636]

The ducts are not plastic, they are a woven fiberglass with wire reinforcement. Both of the duct materials used are Greenguard gold certified, a UL program that certifies produces to be low or zero emissions to ensure healthier indoor air environments. They are also cleared to be used in a Living Buildings Challenge project which is a program that certifies buildings to the highest standards to be chemical free, healthy and sustainable