HVAC Upgrades

An energy recovery ventilator brings fresh air in from outside, which helps remove CO2 and keeps levels healthy while sleeping. It recovers energy from the outgoing air, so it does this without throwing away the heating or cooling already paid for.

A dedicated upstairs unit and a dedicated downstairs unit, so the two floors are conditioned independently.

2 Ecobee smart thermostats for the two separate HVAC units, one upstairs and one downstairs. They also tie together the presence detectors and the door sensors throughout the home.

Front door, backdoor, and garage door have door sensors to alert when a door is opened or closed. This happens through Ecobee, so it works alongside the thermostats and presence detectors rather than as a separate app.

Almost all the interior walls, where allowed, are insulated for sound and for heating and cooling efficiency. It is a large part of why the house is quiet room to room.

A dedicated mini-split heats and cools the garage independently of the house, controllable from a phone.

Every wall in the garage is insulated, interior and exterior. This holds the space at a comfortable temperature and keeps garage noise and temperature swings out of the rooms next to it.

Plumbing was completed to the attic by the furnace to allow a humidifier to be installed for the downstairs HVAC.

This allows the air to stay circulated when the doors are closed in the room by pushing the air out into the common space where the return duct is. It also acts as a sound dampener. With the variable speeds of the fan, the room is well suited to calls and meetings.

Detects occupancy in the room to determine when to run the HVAC, so conditioning follows where people actually are rather than heating and cooling an empty room.

Detects occupancy in the room to determine when to run the HVAC, so this room is conditioned when it is being used.