Archive of posts from November 2015

• Ventilator Retrofit

  Nov 28, 2015

  

  Last week our HVAC folks uninstalled our UltimateAir RecoupAerator ERV, and installed our new Zehnder HRV ComfoAir 350.

  This is part 2 of our recent ventilator struggles. Read part 1, Problems persist with our UltimateAir ERV.

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• Problems persist with our UltimateAir ERV

  Nov 7, 2015

  I don’t generally like to write negative reviews. I tend to do my research and pick the best technology I can afford.

  But sometimes crap happens. It might be an isolated event, like our window snafu, or it might be part of a larger occurrence such as our experience with spray foam. In the former experience, the company provided a full solution at no cost to me, in the later I was just a number in a long line.

  In the case of our ventilator, I initially leaned toward thinking this was an isolated event since at the time I hadn’t found any reports online about similar experiences. But now that we are on our second unit and continue to have problems. This tells me that the design or manufacture of the product is defective. I also found someone else that has had similar problems.

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