Ventilating your home in winter + 5 tips
Winter time has already arrived and the new lockdown measures have been introduced, which means we will spend much more time at home again. We often make the mistake of opening the heating in cold weather and closing the windows and grilles in the home, this causes a major deterioration in indoor air quality. Are you curious about how you can ensure that you achieve a healthy indoor climate in your own home in winter? Read on quickly!
Why ventilate in winter?
Ventilating your home in winter? But isn't that a waste of energy? This question often comes up when we talk about ventilation in winter. But ventilating your home in winter is necessary. If you do not ventilate your house sufficiently, you will suffer from health complaints such as headaches and respiratory problems due to high CO2 levels, the risk of mould in the house increases many times over and your house will heat up worse if the indoor climate is too humid. The latter is caused by activities such as cooking, showering and simply breathing. Do you have a pet? Then the humidity level is even higher. Ventilating properly brings in fresh air and removes waste products and moisture. So always ventilate, even in winter.
Ventilating without energy loss
In times of rising energy prices, many people are very afraid to ventilate while they have the heating on. If you are concerned about losing energy in the home, we have listed a lot of tips in this blog that will help you save on your energy bill!
Difference between airing and ventilating
We often think that opening a window for half an hour will ensure that your home is ventilated. This is not the case. When you close the window again, poor air quality will rise again and you will again be at risk of various health complaints. To achieve a constant flow of air, you need a ventilation system. Want to know more about ventilation? Read it here
How can you best ventilate your home?
in this blog, you will read all about the different ventilation systems.
Ventilation and corona
Ventilation can greatly reduce airborne coronavirus infections, RIVM writes in a report sent to the House of Representatives. However, ventilation cannot completely prevent infections. In a room that is ventilated according to the minimum requirements of the Building Decree, the chance of airborne contamination is already considerably lower than in a non-ventilated room. Research by RIVM shows that especially in a nightclub or concert hall, where many people congregate, ventilation reduces the number of infections by up to 70%. The number of expected cases of illness in a nightclub where one infected person spends three hours decreases from 8.4 in an unventilated club to 2.4 infections if ventilation is provided according to the minimum requirements of the Building Decree. Better ventilation, as prescribed by the WHO, can reduce that to 0.82.
Aerogenic route
Aerogenic transmission is the infection of the virus via aerosols (small droplets created when talking and singing, for example) over a distance greater than 1.5m and floating in the air for a longer time. "Incredibly nice that RIVM is taking the aerogenic route seriously," responds aerosol researcher Daniel Bonn of University of Amsterdam. "It just should have been done much earlier. People have become ill through the air and perhaps that should not have happened."
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