Spring is often associated with a thorough clean-up: washing windows, dusting, tidying up, airing out rooms… Yet one essential part of the home is still too often overlooked: the ventilation system.
Air inlets and exhaust vents nevertheless play a key role in Indoor Air Quality and occupant comfort. Like any equipment used daily, they require regular maintenance to retain their full efficiency.
Spring cleaning is therefore the perfect opportunity to adopt the right maintenance habits.
Why maintain your ventilation system?
Over time, dust, particles, and impurities can accumulate on ventilation components. Without proper maintenance, this can affect air circulation and reduce system performance.
Regular cleaning helps to:
- Preserve Indoor Air Quality: by limiting the build-up of dust and impurities while ensuring efficient air renewal throughout the home.
- Maintain optimal airflow: clean equipment ensures proper air circulation and allows the system to operate under the intended conditions.
- Reduce discomfort caused by humidity: a properly maintained ventilation system helps remove moisture more effectively and reduces the feeling of stale or stuffy air.
- Ensure long-term equipment performance: regular maintenance helps preserve system efficiency and extend the lifespan of the equipment.
Which equipment is concerned?
Maintenance applies to all components involved in air renewal within the home, including:
- Self-regulating air inlets and extract vents
- Humidity-controlled air inlets and extract vents
Each piece of equipment requires specific maintenance actions to preserve its proper operation and long-term performance.
Best practices to remember
Air inlets
Annual maintenance of air inlets is recommended.
Maintenance steps:
- Remove the cover
- Clean the components with a damp cloth
- Reassemble the unit correctly
Precautions to follow:
- Do not immerse components containing foam in water
- Do not disassemble the regulation systems
- Do not disassemble the flap or the humidity-controlled operating system
- Clean certain base units without removing them from the framework
These precautions help maintain the proper operation and performance of the equipment.
Extract vents
Extract vents require more regular maintenance, ideally twice a year.
Maintenance steps:
- Remove the grille and the regulation module
- Clean the various components
- Rinse and then correctly reposition the components
Precautions to follow:
- Ensure that electrically connected vents are not live before any intervention
- Ensure correct positioning of flaps and actuators during reassembly to guarantee the proper functioning of the humidity-controlled system
Download our Maintenance Guide
To assist professionals and occupants with the maintenance of ventilation systems, we provide an illustrated practical guide dedicated to air inlets and extract vents.
You will find:
- Cleaning steps
- Recommended maintenance frequencies
- Precautions to observe
- Tips for long-term preservation of equipment performance
Take advantage of spring cleaning to adopt good habits and ensure the long-term care of your ventilation system.
