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MEV for small house

  • 11-08-2017 9:04am
    #1
    stiofan85
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    @Mods, unsure if this is the best forum, so please move if needed.

    Bought a 1950s end of terrace house in Dublin this year and have slowly gotten through renovating it, nearly finished thankfully. When we bought it there was a lot of mold in the bathroom and even worse in the north facing corner of the main bedroom (see photo attached). I would like to avoid this situation!

    There is no extractor fan in the bathroom, nor is there a vent in the main bedroom but there is a vent in the second bedroom. There was originally a fireplace in the main bedroom, which I believe was the means of ventilation, but that was blocked up before we owned the house and we did not re-instate it.

    For the past 6 months we've kept the upstairs windows open for ventilation and have had no problems thankfully. I internally insulated the walls with 38mm warmboards and added lots of insulation in the attic with a new boiler and some new rads so heating should not be a problem but getting rid of water vapour is on my mind as we enter the colder months.

    My original plan was to put an inline extractor unit in the bathroom but given the lack of ventilation in the main bedroom I started thinking about a multiroom MEV up in the attic. This would solve steam from the shower and also be on trickle to extract vapour around the clock. I like this idea as I was going to install an extractor fan in the attic anyway, and will save me having to bore a vent in the bedroom wall.

    The only limitation I can see is that it would be upstairs only but that seems to have been where any mold problems were before.

    Does anyone have any advice or experience in this type of installation?

    Thanks!


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