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 "I have a Park Home I live in/use as a holiday property - can SolarVenti keep it free of damp?"
Park homes, lodges and cabins whether used as holiday homes or lived in full time suffer from over-wintering problems caused by persistent damp air. If you live in your Park Home all year round you will be acutely aware of the damp and condensation problems that derive purely as a result of air borne moisture coming from normal every day living such as cooking, boiling the kettle, breathing and drying clothes. You may also be aware that 'normal' dehumidifiers (see dehumidifier questions ) barely touch the damp problem and are anyway merely cycling the same stale air round and round.
When visiting a park home holiday residence in the new season the first priority is to get rid of the horrible stale and musty smell that developed in the stale and damp atmosphere. You may then find that you've also got mildew growing up the wall in the kitchen and shower areas, and that the damp has caused all your blankets and quilts stored in the cupboards to develop a foul, musty and unhealthy smell.
If this sounds familiar to you or even if the damp problem in your park home is less severe, a SolarVenti dehumidifier provides you with a simple and free to run solution to resolve damp and condensation problems. The issue is one of controlling ventilation so that it only takes place on dry sunny days. SolarVenti dehumidifiers are designed to do just that and pre-warm the air to enable it to dry your property out. Poor ventilation or ventilation on damp or wet days allows the humidity inside a property to increase encouraging ever greater dampness and condensation in the fabric of the property. This provides ideal breeding conditions for the moulds and mildews that thrive on damp, which in turn leads to the musty stale, odours that can penetrate a park home and it's contents.
A single SV3 dehumidifier unit (see picture above right, unit to right of park home door) provides air changes of up to 25m³/hour on dry days, ie any time that the sun shines when the air is drier. The incoming air is also warmed and dried and is input with a temperature increase of up to 15°C. i.e. If it is only 5°C outside, the incoming air is at up to 20°C. The upshot is that your park home will be kept damp and mould free and you won't have to replace the curtains and bedding every year. So what are the running costs? The running cost is NIL! SolarVenti dehumidifiers are entirely self-sufficient and powered purely by the sun.
I live in my park home all year round - can a SolarVenti dehumidifier help me?
Definitely!! The day to day activities of living in a park home directly promote a damp and unhealthy atmosphere. Water vapour is introduced into your home all year round from the moisture in your breath to the steam from the kettle and cooking. In Summer it is not a problem but in the cooler months when doors and windows are shut to keep out the elements and the cold the moisture builds up in the fabric of your home until it condenses out or promotes damp based decay. Conventional dehumidifiers do little to solve this problem. Dry fresh air can fix it but who wants to open a window in winter or in a cold autumn or spring? Fortunately there is no need to. By fitting a SolarVenti dehumidifier unit you will dramatically improve your park home's ventilation in a warmer acceptable way and in so doing solve the inherent damp problem. The significantly reduced internal humidity levels are beneficial to your health. We know that a SolarVenti dehumidifier dries out the fabric of your park home and its contents by displacing the stale, moist air. This makes it an ideal long term solution that permanently turns a park home into a pleasant place to live.
The sceptics always ask; "What happens if the sun doesn't shine?" We do occasionally get periods when we don't see the sun for 3 or (rarely) more days but this is infrequent and the drier living conditions mean that the now dry fabric of the building acts as a temporary sponge to bridge these infrequent happenings. Read the testimonial letter below for further evidence of this.
If you own a large park home, then not only can you get rid of damp but fitting a larger SolarVenti unit will additionally help to reduce your space heating costs too!
To fit a SolarVenti dehumidifier unit to you park home could not be simpler. The skills required are the same as those for fitting a tumble drier and will take a good DIY man less than two hours. It involves drilling one circular vent hole and eight screw holes all located via the template provided. instructions are here
See what one Park Home owner says about his Solarventi unit in our Customer Feedback section.
The image shown is an SV3 on a Park Home in Staffordshire.
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There are six products in the SolarVenti range. Under ideal sunny conditions the smallest unit, the SV2 has a minimum airflow of 20m³/Hour whilst the largest, the SV30 unit has a minimum airflow of 120m³/Hour.
The newest product, the SV30H Plus, is a hybrid version of the SV30 which additionally provides Solar Water Heating. |
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