The Healthy Homes Ventilation Solution
Perfect for First Nation homes to protect the health of our children with proper ventilation.
Mold & Radon Exposure
During EnerGuide audits performed in a northern Ontario First Nation:
- More than 85% of the homes tested cited signs of mold or moisture or leakage where mold was a concern.
- More than 90% of the homes tested indicated risk of radon.
Mold & Radon Exposure Symptoms
Mold toxicity:
- Muscle weakness, numbness and tingling, dizziness, anxiety and depression, joint and muscle pain, headaches, coughing, and shortness of breath.
Radon gas:
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that can accumulate to high concentrations under your house and lower floors of your homes.
Exposure to increased levels of radon may cause lung cancer and ultimately death.
‘Our people are sick’: AFN says mold in First Nation communities must be addressed immediately.
APTN News, Feb 5, 2019
The iSolar Solution
Cool your home, reduce your risk!
iSolar offers a patented, retrofit, Proactive ventilation solution that lowers attic heat, especially at the attic floor.
Converts sunlight to energy to power the ventilation fan when needed most to cool the attic and eliminate humidity.
- Keeps hot attic air from radiating into home, increasing home comfort, and stops mold and mildew.
- Extracts hot, stale, humid air and harmful gases (mold and radon) from under your house.
Test Results have shown:
- Up to 10 degrees C attic temperature reduction
- 16% reduction in average Air Conditioning runtime
- This all results in an average of 20% less energy usage from Air Conditioning
- Moisture and water can be significantly reduced under the house between the ground and the floor.
- The movement of air reduces the dangerous growth of mold and mildew.
- Intense attic heat is significantly reduced between the ceiling and the attic floor, causing the house AC to operate much less during the daily cycle and reducing dangerous mold and mildew that causes rot.
The Healthy Homes Ventilation Solution
Off-grid attic & crawlspace ventilation:
Each fan unit has design specification to ventilate 615 CFM of air movement in each of attic and crawl spaces…
Perfect for First Nation homes.
The Healthy Homes Ventilation Solution
The iSolar Fully Installed Solution
Reduce Your Health Risk! Cool Your Home.
Off-grid attic & crawlspace ventilation:
Each fan unit has design specification to ventilate 615 CFM of air movement in each of attic and crawl spaces.
Perfect for First Nation homes.
Anti-Gust Air Dampener prevents ice cold air penetration into crawlspace.
Metal mesh cage prevents animal intrusion.
Metal coated corrosion resistant aluminum construction.
Off-grid in-home ventilation & lighting:
1 x 120W panel
41-inch ceiling fan
LED light
Battery backup
An Option for Your Community Buildings
Why iSolar
This simple Healthy Homes Ventilation Solution is an enabler to a healthier home by reducing the possibility of mildew, mold and harmful gases in the attic, crawlspaces and in-home living space. The attic fan increases home comfort in summer months and health security for residents by balancing out the AC and air quality breathing environment.
The iSolar-powered ventilation solution being deployed is backed by 10 years of research and testing. The research results specifically address energy efficiency and carbon emissions, amongst many other critical environmental and health benefits to the First Nation residents, including mold and radon prevention (noted as a crisis for Indigenous communities across Canada in the 2024 Auditor General report).
A sustainable solution that helps extend life of building materials and home structure.
In winter months attic ventilation solution helps to prevent ice damming.
Helps to support industry standard of proper air exchange rates of 6-10 times per hour for healthy level of air circulation / ventilation.
Helps meet environmental objectives and healthier living opportunities.
Electricity ratepayers will benefit from reduced residential peak-time electricity costs.
iSolar is working together with community leaders and commits to creating job opportunities for local First Nation people in installation, operations and management.
Our Healthy Homes Solution is a fully installed solution. We take care of everything!
Our solution is maintenance free and 100% solar-powered with 20-year limited warranty.
Greenhouse Gas/Carbon emissions savings from direct peak-demand energy savings plus benefits to the environment from extending the life of, and reducing waste from, building materials such as shingles, insulation, and air conditioners, simply by increasing the ventilation with this 100% solar powered solution, and therefore eliminating moisture and rot and reductions in landfill from carbon-based shingles.
A Note from Rita Middleton, CEO
Dear Community Leaders and Members,
At iSolar, we believe that everyone deserves a safe, healthy, and energy-efficient home. That’s why we’re proud to introduce the Healthy Homes Ventilation Solution — A 100% solar powered attic & crawlspace solution uses natural solar power to fight serious environmental issues in homes. These fans circulate & extract hot, humid air, preventing mold and dangerous gases (such as radon) from entering the living space. This energy-saving solution can help improve comfort and indoor air quality by reducing temperature and humidity in the attic and crawlspace, as well as in the home! Keeping attics & crawlspaces free from mildew helps to prevent building material damage and helps extend the life of insulation. iSolar only uses high performance fans with quiet brushless motors, that are easily retrofit onto the exterior of the home, with a two-piece mount & vent cover. We are supplementing this solution with one in-home solar powered ceiling fan with light and built-in backup battery to provide some critical in-home air circulation and essential off-grid power.
Our solution is simple, sustainable, and backed by over 10 years of research. It not only helps prevent structural damage caused by moisture, ice damming, and poor ventilation — it also improves indoor air quality and comfort year-round. And because it’s powered entirely by the sun, it operates without increasing energy bills, reduces peak-time electricity demand, and extends the life of your home’s materials.
We are deeply committed to working alongside community leaders to ensure this initiative brings lasting value — including creating local job opportunities in installation and support. Our team can provide a fully-installed solution, where we handle everything from start to finish, including assistance with funding applications and product installation by an experienced First Nation installation contractor, or we can customize if you have your own resources. Our FLEXLine attic and crawlspace solutions come with a 20-year limited warranty and have zero maintenance requirements.
Together, we can take one more step toward healthier homes, lower emissions, and a more sustainable future — for today and the next seven generations.
With respect and commitment,
Rita Middleton
CEO, iSolar
Industry Partners and Supporters
Land Acknowledgement
A Land Acknowledgement is a formal statement that recognizes our relationship between Indigenous peoples and their traditional territories.
Acknowledging the land is an Indigenous practice that has been happening for thousands of years. It recognizes and respects the legal and spiritual relationship Indigenous peoples have with their territories. Today, a land acknowledgement remains a way of recognizing and expressing gratitude to the Indigenous peoples whose land we reside on.
We would like to start by acknowledging that the Anishinaabe lands on which we live and work are the traditional and Treaty #20 territories of the Chippewas of Georgina Island. As a Municipality, Grimsby and Stratford has shared responsibility for the stewardship of this land, while recognizing the many other Nations, whose presence here continues to this day.
We further acknowledge that Grimsby and Stratford are part of the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, recognized through Treaty #13 as well as the Williams Treaties of 1923.
A shared understanding of how the rich cultural heritage that has existed for centuries and of how our collective past brought us to where we are today, will help us walk together into a better future.
The land acknowledgement is our first step to bringing attention and showing respect to the Indigenous peoples who first lived – and currently live – on the land where we live and work.