Your home’s roof vent provides a weatherproof air outlet; it helps cool the attic and to cool the whole house off at night. It also removes excess humidity, moisture and odors from your home environment. With modern home’s emphasis on energy efficiency, construction is tighter, walls, windows and doors breathe less air in and out of the house, and adequate ventilation has become more important.

Home ventilation is one of those things that homeowners never think about until it is too late because they are trying to solve a problem relating to damp or mould. This is largely because ventilation is not something you can see and is often not something that you can improve on without replacing ventilation bricks because it is an integral part of your home’s structure.

However, you absolutely need to assess the state of your ventilation bricks from time to time to make sure that the flow of air is as efficient as possible around your home so that you can keep nasty little dampness out.

What Are Ventilation Bricks?

Residential boilers are home heating devices with a heat exchanger that generally have an energy input of 40,000 to 300,000 BTU and run on a single phase electricity supply. They work by exchanging the heat from the combustible gas or fuel to water which then heats the home via a hot water or steam distribution system.

Types of Residential Boilers

Knowing the recommended attic insulation R value for the area in which you live could well save you a considerable sum of money and make you a more eco-friendly home owner. If you don’t already know - an R-value is simply a measure of the resistance of a material to allow heat to flow through it; and the higher the R value the less heat the material allows to flow through it, hence the better the material is as an insulator.

Insulating Materials and R Values

With more and more people having heat exchanger systems to heat the water in garden swimming pools, cleaning heat exchanger tubes is another maintenance routine that a DIY enthusiast can do for themselves. Apart from the obvious advantage of protecting against an unexpected and sudden failure in the heat exchanger system, regular and effective cleaning of the heat exchanger tubes will prolong the life of the whole unit and make sure it’s working to its maximum efficiency.