It’s All About The Ventilation.
Why is proper attic ventilation important?
Attic ventilation is an important element of a home’s design and construction. Without effective ventilation, excess heat and humidity can cause serious problems with costly consequences. Summer and winter your home will benefit from ventilation.
Proper Roof Ventilation
Proper roof ventilation keeps your living areas cooler and more comfortable, helps reduce air conditioning costs and helps prevent premature roof shingle deterioration. The major shingle manufacturers require proper roof ventilation to validate the shingle warranty.
In the winter, attic ventilation helps prevent moisture build-up, which in-turn will help prevent wood rot, mold, mildew and poor indoor air quality.
Keeps the roof deck uniformly cool in the winter, can help prevent the uneven freeze-thaw cycle associated with snow on your roof that often leads to ice dams which can backup water under shingles causing roof deck and interior sheathing damage.
In the summer, proper ventilation reduces heat build-up, making your living areas cooler and more comfortable.
Did you know? The average family of four generates 2 to 4 gallons of moisture a day through activities such as cooking, cleaning, showering, laundry and breathing. Some of this moisture rises into your attic. Attic ventilation helps remove it before it causes problems.
Your Attic Needs Equal Intake And Exhaust Ventilation
Research has shown that the best way to ventilate an attic is with a balanced system of intake vents at the soffit or eaves and exhaust vents high on the roof at or near the ridge. This allows cool, dry air at the eaves to flush out any warm, moist air through the exhaust vents.
Be sure your attic has enough intake vents. These are crucial to the attic ventilation system and are often overlooked. Your roofing contractor can help you select intake vents to balance the system including continuous soffit vents, rectangular under eave vents or vented drip edge products.
Ridge vents are the most efficient exhaust vent for your attic
External Baffle ridge vent’s special baffle deflects wind-even the slightest breeze-up and over the vent, creating an area of low pressure on both sides of the ridge vent. This low pressure actually pulls stale air from your attic, while deflecting rain and snow.
From wind-driven rain, snow, dust and insect infiltration.
Built-in End Plugs seal the end of the vent, helping to protect attic from weather damage
Unique Internal Weather Filter ridge vent’s internal weather filter acts as an added barrier Shingle-over Design matching roof shingles are placed over the ridge vent, making Shingle Vent II almost undetectable on your roof.
The Ideal Solution
The Ridge Vents combined with under-eave venting, are the most efficient and effective system you can install. This balanced system of intake and exhaust through the attic provides greater airflow than any other fixed vent. Compare Ridge Vents with other options and you’ll agree that Ridge Venting is the Ideal Solution.
Ridge Vents
Located precisely where they do the most good, at the peak of the roof, ridge vents are virtually invisible from ground level. And they provide greater airflow than other vents.
Roof Vents
Located precisely where they do the most good, at the peak of the roof, ridge vents are virtually invisible from ground level. And they provide greater airflow than other vents.
Turbine Vents
To ventilate the same area, 5 turbine vents would be necessary – resulting in an unattractive roof line.
Your Roof-Line Will Look Best if Ridge Vents Are Installed End-to-End .
Did you know? Indications that your attic might have a ventilation problem include wet or compressed insulation, rusty nails or rust spots that dripped onto your insulation, blackened plywood, mold or mildew inside your attic, curling or cracking shingles, uneven snow melt, and icicles at the roof edge.