The Secret Behind The Invention
The extreme energy savings with the Omnicrete system resides in the tightness of the wall and roof. The secret of the protective and thermal benefit of the Omnicrete system is that our walls DO NOT freely breathe. 99.9% of all builders and engineers will preach on breathe ability of the wall; that the wall MUST breathe to prevent mold and moisture problems. That is 180 degrees off base. In fact, free breathe ability is what CAUSES moisture problems and mold.
When air travels through the wall of most building systems it brings with it moisture. In fact, as most people understand water is part of air. In Florida, and any moist climate, air contains extreme amounts of moisture. One of the principal features of an air condition system is to flow untreated moist air across cool tubes causing the air to drop a great portion of its moisture because cooler air cannot hold heavy amounts of moisture.
The same principal is true with air freely coming through the wall from the outside of a building. When the hot moist air travels through the wall, the closer it gets to the cool air inside the home the more moisture that is dropped (condensation). After months of moisture buildup against the backside of the drywall the process of mold begins. However, Omnicrete blocks the mold and keeps the moisture loaded hot air from the “cool” part of the wall, preventing any mold or moisture issues. The AAC outer wall actually “breaths” and allows any potential moisture to escape back out to the outside of the building. As water seeks its own level so does excessively moist condensed air seek to balance to the outside dryer air. Even though the outside air contains high amounts of water as vapor it is less moist then the actual water inside the AAC outer wall.
At this point of the explanation, almost everyone says that if fresh air is not introduced into the building moisture will build up due to people adding moisture from their breath and a number of other factors. They would be absolutely correct in that assumption. So what Omnicrete does to keep the air fresh and dry in its building is to properly control and treat the air being exchanged through a ventilated air conditioning system.
From 10% to 30% of air circulating through the air conditioning system gets “exchanged” to the outside. The incoming air runs through the air exchanger equipped with a high efficiency filtration system capable of filtering out pollen, mold, voc's, odors and particulates from incoming fresh oxygenated air. The air then goes directly into the“mixture” box of the air conditioning system for the removal of moisture and finally circulation. In summary, does the Omnicrete building breathe? Yes but not freely, and not with untreated air but with fresh, filtered, clean, re-oxygenated dry air. This occurs through an air“EXCHANGE” unit connected to the air conditioning system.
