Airmove for healthy homes and healthy people

Airmove knows that healthy homes lead to healthy people. When the house feels good, so do the people who live in the house.

A constant question led to innovation

Lars Östlin founder of Airmove. He then worked, among other things, with wood-burning stoves and explains what it was that triggered Airmove's innovative journey:

- We got tired of always being asked if it was possible to get the heat to other rooms. Wood stoves make great heat, but only in a specific room and it was not possible to get the heat around the house, as we wanted it. This has been a problem for ages and no one has done anything about it.

When you fire in your fireplace, it gets hot in the room where the stove is. Many times it even gets too hot, while other rooms in the house do not get enough heat. What Lars wanted to solve was the problem of spreading the heat to other rooms.

A private testing facility in a closed ICA store

This was a dilemma, without a solution, so Lars and his colleagues began to test their way. They bought a defunct ICA store and built a test house inside the store. In the test house you can run smoke machines and there are temperature sensors in the walls, floor and ceiling. The house enables you to test yourself and develop new products.

- This house is the core of what we are doing. It is that part that allows us to really produce the products we want within Airmove, points out Lars.

With the test house in place, the Arimove team began testing. They tested all existing solutions and tested new ones of their own. What was realized was that everyone is trying to move the heat out of the hot room, but all tests of this technique gave the same poor results. Certainly the heat spread from the room with the wood stove, but far from as well as desired.

- Then the idea came that you could try turning the construction around - that where you want the heat in, there you suck out the cold, says Lars.

It was a simple yet ingenious solution. They turned the grill and sent cold air down from the upper floor, and then the warm air was pushed up through the stairs. There and then, Airmove and the first product were born Airmove 2.0 .

A successful first installation

And already at the first real installation in a typical Swedish house, it turned out that all the tests were correct:

- The first live house we ran was a house in Fagersta, which had very big problems. They had a great wood stove in their living room, but only the living room was warm. Kitchen, hall, upstairs were very cold. Upstairs, there was even ice on the balcony door and there was ice on the window in the room where we mounted the Airmove. 30 minutes after installation, we took a new measurement, then we had exactly the same temperature in the whole house. The ice that was on the balcony door and in the room where we mounted the Airmove was completely gone; it was completely dry on the windows. So right then and there we started to understand that this could be really fun to do, explains Lars.

Solutions to new problems

The problem with circulating the air in the house was now solved, but quite soon Lars and the team at Airmove discovered that there were more problems in the Swedish houses. In order to get energy-efficient houses, we have added insulation and we have changed the windows, and of course we get energy-efficient houses, but they are too tight, with the risk of mold and bad air in the house. To solve that problem, there is the fully automatic product Airmove 3.0 , so you can now both ventilate the house and circulate the air in it. Over time, Airmove 3.0 has been joined by the basement vent Airmove 3.5 .

Over time, they have also developed the Airmove Flow bathroom fan, as another building block in getting good air in the house. Airmove Flow helps to ventilate air via the house's wet areas, so that a good air flow is achieved through the house. When air is vented out, new fresh air comes in via the house's fresh air vents. Airmove Flow is available in two versions with different dimensions Airmove Flow 100 and Airmove Flow 250 .

Although with Airmove 2.0 you can equalize the temperature between different floors, you may have problems with temperature differences between different rooms. This problem has led to the innovation Airmove 1.1 , which improves circulation between rooms in the home and thus evens out temperature differences between different rooms.

Central to Airmove is also a constant consideration of energy efficiency. When you additionally insulate and change windows, the idea is often to save energy. At the same time, the house needs good ventilation to feel good. Airmove works so that you don't have to choose between an energy-efficient and a well-being house. With smart innovations, you can have both.

Incredibly positive response

Lars thinks it's funny with all the positive response to Airmove's products over the years:

- The response when we present our products from Airmove has also been overwhelming. We try to find a way to make people in the house feel good. Healthy houses, healthy people. And we work very hard to solve all the problems with circulation and ventilation and at that also with humane prices. It shouldn't have to cost a couple of hundred thousand to rebuild, to get a good home.

And the journey continues. Airmove continues to take on the challenge of helping Swedish homes, so that those who live there feel good.