Just got back from Portland Or. I live in North West Pa. Noticed that builders out there don’t use ridge vents on their roofs. Just what we call “turtle back” vents. Around here just about all new construction and reroofs use shingle over ridge vents. It looked odd to me with all those things stuck on the roof rather than a cleaner line that a ridge vent gives. I wonder if someone from Or. could tell me why? Maybe we are doing something wrong.
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I still do not see how roof ridge/shingle vents can stop say 50 MPH wind blown rain. Maybe they dont. I put in the metal seperate vents whatever they are called
we has gusts to 120 down here on the oregon coast this winter and the house just down the streets ridge vent held up fine and it got hammered by the wind
i saw more houses with missing roofs than missing vents...or ridgevents
maybe its the same reason people here dont use ERV units either..
we tend to do the cheepest way or the way we know rather than research somthing
thats just down around here and that dont go for everyone
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