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> I have to contend with Canadian winters, which means opening the window is a valid strategy for a minority of the year unless I buy an expensive heat recovery
by p1mrx 6y ago
> I have to contend with Canadian winters, which means opening the window is a valid strategy for a minority of the year unless I buy an expensive heat recovery ventilator. I don’t have a good solution for mitigating carbon dioxide buildup in the winter.
Why describe the solution to a problem, and then say there is no good solution? Do we need to make HRVs more popular, and hope that economies of scale can drive costs down, or are most of the costs already due to unavoidable labor?
> Noise issues are happily easy to control: earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones will generally do the trick. It would be utopic to eliminate bothersome noise from the environment altogether, but it’s not necessary.
Another option is to raise the noise floor of your environment. Copy some brown noise onto an MP3 player, run it through a decent set of speakers, and raise the volume until you can't hear the interfering source.
- taylorlunt 6y ago> Why describe the solution to a problem, and then say there is no good solution? Because the solution I described is not good. Too expensive for me, anyway.
- p1mrx 6y ago$1100 doesn't seem exorbitant on the scale of HVAC equipment: https://foursevenfive.com/lunos-e/ https://foursevenfive.com/lunos-e/
- taylorlunt 6y agoIt is, however, exorbitant on the scale of my wallet.
- KozmoNau7 6y agoAiring out 2-3 times per day for 5-10 minutes is perfectly viable, even in the dead of winter. All windows and interior doors open, get a good flow through the entire house to replace the stale air. Airing out heavily for a relatively short duration keeps the walls and furniture from cooling off, so normal indoor temperature will be restablished in just a couple of minutes, and is vastly superior to leaving a window cracked for hours.
- taylorlunt 6y agoUnfortunately, from what I've heard at least, it takes less than an hour to again return to your carbon dioxide equilibrium.
- p1mrx 6y agoData > hearsay. Get a meter. I've found that running my bathroom exhaust fan for ~30 minutes per day keeps CO₂ levels well under 1000, but you'll never know unless you measure it.