It takes all three. The aspect that we can control is moisture and we know how to do that. All subcontractors are licensed and insured businesses. Since our designs and installations exceed the building, mechanical and energy codes, typical bid and spec projects don't achieve the performance that our systems provide and are generally a bit less expensive.
When other air conditioning contractors that don't have our High Performance ideals are bidding a job to see who can get the cheapest, the only entity that loses in the deal is the client. We opt out of this environment as we cannot produce our level of work in an environment that is, by its nature, designed to be adversarial and cheap. We elect to compete with our ideas, our character and the performance of our systems.
Every aspect of our business, our people, our product and our services is for the purpose of creating high performance indoor environments that are efficient, comfortable and healthy.
By High Performance, the homes that we help produce are more comfortable indoors and have better indoor air quality, as well as lower energy costs. Typical homes have one ton of air conditioning for every to square feet of conditioned space.
Engineered Comfort High Performance Homes typically have one ton of air conditioning for every to square feet of conditioned space. That's 1, square feet of conditioned space per ton of air conditioning. A High Performance Indoor Environment is more comfortable, durable, efficient and healthy by design. High Performance Homes are obtained by first meeting, then exceeding the requirements of the local building, mechanical and energy codes.
Every room is engineered for comfort, efficiency and health. The building envelope that which separates indoors from outdoors is sealed and properly insulated with insulation that actually works. We do NOT use fiberglass as insulation. The HVAC Systems are engineered by a Licensed Mechanical Engineer to work with the building envelope that we can create, to include walls, ceilings, orientations, windows, etc. With an existing home, an initial blower door test is the essential starting point to determining the system design.
Once the system is designed, the implementation of the construction process is monitored and managed to meet the design and tight specification standards. One of our competitors once told a potential client of ours, "if you are going to let Engineered Comfort do the job, then everything has to be right". We took his comment as a complement for us as well as an indictment of our industry.
When the construction is near completion, the home is tested by blower door testing, visual inspection and thermal imaging to insure that the design standards have been met. Once the new or existing home construction is completed, Engineered Comfort, Inc.
When we speak of Efficiency, it is in context of the entire indoor environment that we are creating to separate us from the outdoor environment.
Efficiency of the homes and buildings that we are constructing is becoming ever more important. As the United States has limited resources in the production of energy, the impact we are having in the environment needs to be better managed, and the economics of the inefficient home are just going to cost too much to afford in the future.
The aspect of comfort and health must influence the decisions around Efficiency. For example, one could make a home extremely efficient by not installing a mechanical air conditioning system at all. That would save A LOT of money. However, the home would then be uncomfortable and would not provide the desired balance of Efficiency, Comfort and Health. To obtain Efficiency, the building envelope must be as tight as possible and a superior insulation system must be attached to this tight air barrier that separates indoors from outdoors.
If fresh air is needed, then it is mechanically provided to the air conditioning system and filtered before it is introduced into the indoor air space. At this point, the home or building is an efficient home and the selection of the equipment efficiency can then be made. Equipment Efficiency has some degree of impact on the performance of the home as a system, but less of an impact than sealing the home and duct systems and properly insulating the building envelope.
The payback is in excess of 15 years, which is the life of the appliance. Our philosophy is to make the home and duct system efficient first, then select which equipment efficiency best fits your budget and investment strategies. Now, what is the reason that people even install air conditioning and heating systems in their homes? We all want to go inside and have a comfortable living space to live in with our families. Though efficiency is important, our view is, 'What is the optimal energy use to achieve the desired comfort level.
So, if you are going to keep an indoor environment comfortable, how can it be installed to minimize the energy required while also keeping the indoor environment healthy? Sealing the house up, sealing the duct up, properly sizing the air conditioning systems and installing better filters will prevent both low and high humidity conditions and make your home more comfortable.
One key element of this statement is 'Properly Sized Air Conditioners. If your contractor approaches your design in this fashion, find another contractor immediately. These calculations are key to the design and comfort control as over-sized air conditioning units can create bad indoor air environments and make you uncomfortable. The purpose of the systems we install is to make you comfortable. Most of the time, less capacity will make your indoor environment more comfortable.
Though Engineered Comfort, Inc. Humidity - Most 'Heat and Air Guys' don't really understand how to properly control temperature within a home, much less how to control the humidity.
Their approach is to install bandages such as humidifiers and dehumidifiers in the home to try to cover up the mistakes that they make in the installation process. If the humidity in the home gets too high in the summer, molds can grow. If the humidity in the home gets too low in the winter, then viruses flourish.
Both conditions are bad for your health and both conditions are specifically created by poor installation of the air conditioning and heating systems and the insulation. The summer of exacerbated these installation flaws, and mold was growing in homes everywhere. Sealing the house up, sealing the duct up, properly sizing the air conditioning systems and installing better filters will prevent both low and high humidity conditions and will make your home more comfortable.
Dust - In order to have an air leak that brings duct into a home, there must be a hole and either a temperature or a pressure difference. We can't control the temperature and pressure differences as they are ever changing. We can, however, control the hole. Sealing the house up, sealing the duct up, properly sizing the air conditioning systems and installing better filters will prevent dust and pollen conditions within the home and will make your home more comfortable.
This is an efficient filter that removes most of the dust that can travel in the air stream. If further filtration or air treatment is needed, MERV 16 filters, air purifying filters and HEPA filter systems are available as options to any system.
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