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Retrofit step 2: Ventilation

If your home is properly insulated, ensuring effective ventilation is the next important step for your retrofit. 

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Proper ventilation for your home

After adding a warm layer of insulation to your home, moisture will build in the property. To avoid this, you should look to install effective ventilation to allow your home to breathe.

This is because by adding a warm insulation layer to your home, moisture from daily household activities, such as breathing, bathing, drying clothes and cooking, is now trapped inside 

By installing effective ventilation, it ensures airflow through the home to remove this excess moisture. This excess moisture could cause condensation in any cooler area of the home, which has the potential to lead to damp, mould and health problems.   

Additionally, any odours and in-door pollution, such as a gas cooker, will linger and concentrate if not ventilated properly.  

Retrofit step 1: Insulation

The first step of your retrofit journey is to ensure your home has proper insulation.

Insulation

Retrofit step 3: Electrification

Decarbonise your heating by using a carbon-free source of heating like an air source heat pump.

Electrification

Retrofit step 4: Generation

By generating your own energy you can power your home, your heating and even your electric vehicle.

Generation

The importance of ventilation

The below pages have more information on how to ventilate your home, and how to avoid issues like damp and condensation: 

Damp

The different types of damp and how to treat them.

Damp

Condensation

Although not always a problem by itself, condensation can lead to black mould growth. Find out how to avoid it.

Condensation

Air Exchange

Air flow is important for keeping your home healthy.

Air exchange 

Register your interest in our retrofit service

Register your interest in EcoCosi from Changeworks to find out more about how to retrofit your home and to be sent information about the service.

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