HVAC Ventilation System Services for Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita, CA Homeowners

The ventilation system - consisting of the ductwork, air handler, return vents, and blower - is often an underappreciated component of a home’s HVAC system. However, it plays a number of crucial roles. One of the most important roles it plays is maintaining good indoor air quality (IAQ). It does this by circulating fresh air into your home while minimizing the loss of conditioned air. Properly optimized ventilation also enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of HVAC systems by allowing for consistent temperature distribution and airflow, ensuring uniform comfort throughout the home. Particularly during the warmer months, the ventilation system should provide significant energy savings by simply removing excess heat from your home.

“Ventilate Right” with a Whole-Home Ventilation System

There’s a saying amongst energy experts in our field: Seal tight, ventilate right. For your home to be as energy efficient as possible, you want your home to be as tight as possible to minimize the loss of cooled or heated air. However, you also want to allow adequate ventilation throughout your home to reduce indoor moisture, odors, and pollutants. The best way to manage both goals is by installing a whole-house ventilation system that can provide fresh air and remove pollutants when and where needed in a controlled manner. You could also consider a whole-home air purifier, humidifier, dehumidifier, or UV lamp to improve indoor air quality further.

Call Zion Custom Air for Ventilation System Upgrades, Repairs, Replacements & More

If you’re interested in upgrading your home’s ventilation system, are considering integrating an air purifier, or need to have one of our technicians take a look at your ventilation system, give us a call today. We’re dedicated to helping our Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita customers achieve optimal indoor comfort all year long and do our best to personalize our services to each customer’s needs.

ATTIC FAN VS. WHOLE HOUSE FAN VS. RESIDENTIAL ECONOMIZER...WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

ATTIC FAN:

The function of these units is to ventilate your attic by exhausting the hot air out of the attic using a mechanical fan. The temperature in your attic can reach a boiling 65ºF higher than the temperature outside. If it's 95º outside, your attic temperature (including the lumber itself) can reach 160ºF. When your attic reaches temperatures like these, the radiant heat can build up and heat the ceiling in your home and your HVAC ductwork. This lowers the efficiency of your air conditioning system and, as a result, increases your energy consumption because you need to use your air conditioning unit longer to reach the desired temperature inside your home. Attic fans are meant to be used in conjunction with your air conditioning system, allowing it to run in shorter, more efficient cycles. So, depending on the size and insulation of your home, you may need one or two attic fans. Attic fans need to be installed properly to avoid creating negative pressure to build up in your attic. This negative pressure forces expensive cooled air from your air-conditioned home to be sucked up and out through the attic. Zion Custom Air are the professionals you can trust to keep your attic cool. Call us today for your free estimate on attic fan installation or to schedule an appointment to check the pressure on your current attic fan.

WHOLE-HOUSE FAN:

Whole-house fans work to cool your home when the outside temperature is lower than your inside temperature. Some of you may be familiar with using a box fan in your window sill to draw the cool air from outside your window into the room. The whole-house fan works similarly but on a larger, more technical, and efficient scale. In the day during summer months, homeowners typically use their air conditioning units when they are home and turn them off or program their thermostats on a higher temperature while away. The whole-house fan reduces the time your air conditioning unit stays on (if it needs to come on at all). As the temperature drops, the homeowner opens the windows and doors and then turns on the whole-house fan. The whole-house fan, mounted in the attic, would then suck the cool fresh air from outside while at the same time exhausting the hot air up and out through installed attic vents. So, it ventilates the attic while drawing massive amounts of cool air in. This cycle continues, effectively cooling your home through the night. As a result, the homeowner would only have to turn the air conditioner on later in the day (if home) or for only a short period of time in the evening. These savings would be exponentially higher during the spring and fall months. As Southern Californians know, the drop in temperature between night and day is significant during these seasons. You could cool your home all day without turning the air conditioner on. Zion Custom Air has the expert technical knowledge to properly build and customize a whole- house fan system according to the specifications of your home and comfort level needs. Give us a call today for a free estimate or to check the efficiency of your current whole-house fan system.

RESIDENTIAL ECONOMIZER:

A residential economizer works in a similar fashion as a whole-house fan; however, it is a better choice for those individuals who do not like unfiltered air blowing in their home (we're looking at you, allergy sufferers) or are in a climate where they are typically in bed before the temperatures outside reach the optimal level to properly cool your home. The residential economizer works in conjunction with your home air handler and during the operation of your air conditioning unit. The economizer supplies the air conditioner with filtered outdoor air when the air conditioner is on and the outside temperature is lower than the indoor temperature. Therefore, the load on your air conditioner is reduced, and your energy savings are increased. You will use cooler outdoor air to cool your Lancaster, Palmdale, or Santa Clarita home, but with filtered conditioned air. Zion Custom Air builds comfort systems that last. If you think the residential economizer suits you or need help deciding which ventilation system would work best for your needs, call Zion Custom Air and get a free quote.