What Healthy Ventilation Really Means For Your Home And Your Health
09/02/2026
Jason Ratcliffe
We talk about ventilation as if it is a product. A fan. A grille. A setting on a control panel.
In reality, ventilation is a living process. It is the quiet movement of air through a home that determines whether chemistry settles or circulates, whether moisture lingers or leaves, whether a space supports recovery or quietly erodes health over time.
Most homes are not under ventilated or over ventilated. They are mis ventilated. Air moves, but not in the way the building or the body needs.
Understanding what healthy ventilation really looks like requires us to stop thinking in terms of rates and regulations alone, and start thinking in terms of systems, behaviour, materials and time.
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